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It's DRM-free, but visibly tagged with your name and email address on each page like other Manning ebooks. Edit: This applies to the PDF version, the ePub and Mobi just put your name in the metadata, I believe.
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You're not wrong. The article is (intentionally?) confusing the two AdBlocks. The Android app is the one that got removed, not the Chrome extension.
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The Xbox version lost that capability with an update a few years ago, unfortunately. I think that's a bad sign for it getting a wider release.
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Absolutely. It's like hiring a tour guide rather than wandering around. If you wander around, you have absolute freedom to discover anything and you'll almost certainly find things that a tour guide wouldn't show you. However, unless you
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I'm pretty unhappy with O'Reilly's trend towards tiny books as well. I realize that 80 page books are easier to iterate rapidly on and get out the door while they're still relevant, but they're so short that they feel like glorified (and e
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No, I feel the same way. I've been using Win8 since release day, and I've had essentially no problems adjusting. My daily workflow is identical, and I haven't found myself fighting with the Start screen. I don't use the Metro apps consta
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I was a Firefox user since the Phoenix/Firebird days, but I switched to Chrome about a year ago. On two separate occasions recently, I tried to switch back to Firefox for daily use. In both cases, I was back on Chrome within a week. Fire
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Breitbart.com is a hyper-partisan political news site. "Awful journalism" is a very charitable way to describe it. I'm quite disappointed that this is on the front page, it's pure politicized bullshit.
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Check out "Monadic Design Patterns for the Web"[1]. I haven't read it yet, but the description sounds like exactly what you're looking for. I don't think you're going to find an escape from the theory, though... the abstractions that are n
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Pepper is NOT a "Google maintained version of Flash." Pepper is Google's newer plugin API, and Chrome bundles a version of Flash that uses that uses Pepper/PPAPI rather than Netscape/Firefox's NPAPI. For more info, check out the Wiki page
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Uninstall it. I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting with your last line, but I have never heard of Acrobat Reader "re-installing itself" when upgrading Flash. Edit: Just gave it a shot, installed and uninstalled Acrobat Reader 11, th
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Sure, straight from their FAQ[1]: "Can this system see what sites I visit online? No. There is no monitoring of any Internet traffic by ISPs. The identification of alleged infringement is done by Content Owners on peer-to-peer networks only
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The headline is a flat-out lie. The monitoring is being done by content owners, using publicly-available information from torrent trackers and other peer-to-peer networks.
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What's the impact of this kind of thinking on intentionally "misconfigured" DNS resolvers like Google Public DNS, OpenDNS, etc? Is CloudFlare pushing for a world where I have no choice but my ISP's DNS servers, which return their advertisi
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They didn't talk specifically about processor architecture during the event, but the leaked specs were showing that it (as well as the next Xbox) will have a 8-core AMD x86-64 chip. I can almost guarantee that it will not be plain 32-bit x
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ExtremeTech reporting on a Phoronix rumor is basically the perfect storm of over-hyped under-sourced tech journalism.
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Jail sentences are not speed limits. The maximums are set high so that a judge determining sentencing has flexibility in extreme cases, not because they expect most sentences to actually be that high. Yes, he could've gotten more than 35
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This is all speculation, since the only person who can answer authoritatively is dead. I think that he honestly believed that it would be no big deal. If you read comments here on HN, you can see the same attitude - that since there was n
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There are two separate issues here, adultery as a crime and adultery as a breach of contract. I'll talk about US laws, since they're the ones I'm most familiar with. Adultery as a crime is still surprisingly common, but going away fast. P
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The OP is using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to go directly to the first result. You can tell from the "&btnI=745" at the end of their link.
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1) Math, specifically calculus and linear algebra. I studied enough of it in college to pass the classes, completely forgot about it for 10 years, and now I'm finding myself needing it for some of my coding work. I'm hoping to work throug
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As a fairly experienced programmer, I spent about the same amount of time on assignments for Algorithms, Part 1 and Odersky's Scala class. I think the main difference was the lack of standalone quizzes in the Scala class, but at the same t
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IntelliJ IDEA has the functionality of all of their other products except appCode available as plugins, but the plugins aren't necessarily as up-to-date as the standalone products. The plugin version usually gets updated a couple months af
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Sorry for the late response, I completely forgot about this post! Looks like you're on the right track though, "Think Stats" and Udacity's stats class were the main things I was going to recommend. I'd also recommend checking out IPython's
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iOS 6 appears to have dropped the password check for all updates.
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I took that course when it was running on Coursera, and I honestly can't recommend it (in its current state, at least) to anyone looking to learn basic statistics. It covered a lot of material, but the quality and order of coverage was very
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I have no experience whatsoever in forensics, but here's why I would want all the hardware if someone asked me to analyze a system as a generally tech-savvy guy: 1) Some raids take PCs while they're still on, in order to preserve things lik
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I absolutely agree that seizure rules need to be SEVERELY reformed, and that the way that seizures are currently carried out is unacceptable. However, I don't think that it fundamentally changes the situation in this case. Until seizure r
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So given that attitude, how do you deal with the problem of exit node operators possibly performing illegal activities themselves? Should running an exit node give you blanket protection from any kind of investigation due to traffic coming
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I agree on the general point, and don't think that he should be found guilty if he was just relaying traffic. However, I think that you have to be very careful about analogies like that because there's a wealth of subtleties. I'd like to

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