tux1968

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Napster No More (thelatesttech-news.blogspot.com)
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Russian Mars probe still unresponsive(cbsnews.com)
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Universities rush to claim .xxx domains(dailydot.com)
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AT&T, Sprint Sued by Customers Over Tracking(bloomberg.com)
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by tux1968 15y ago
Hey... thanks for mentioning Pentadactyl... nice addition to the bag of Firefox tricks.
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by tux1968 15y ago
This is a really well thought out and argued essay outlining the realities of teaching writing. There were quite a few lucid appraisals of students and the skills they lack which keep them from writing a "Real Essay". After reading each o
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by tux1968 15y ago
RMS is likely to be judged very kindly by future historians for fighting the good fight. But let's hope that it's not because his worst fears have come to fruition.
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by tux1968 15y ago
Teaching people to use Git incorrectly is a bad UI design decision.
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by tux1968 15y ago
Time to get a Swiss proxy account. ;o)
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by tux1968 15y ago
The age of pedestrians killed in accidents was surprising to me. Of course I didn't do an exhaustive scan, but everywhere I looked they were much older than I imagined they'd be. Many seniors.
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by tux1968 15y ago
There are a ton of things that could be said on this topic. But one basic issue is that most IT departments are built from the ground up on diametrically opposed goals. The first being to equip the company with the tools it needs to funct
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by tux1968 15y ago
From your description it sounds like you're talking about self-hosted repo's not Github. For that you have a couple of options, you can use a gatekeeper such as Gitosis and assign permissions. Or, simply have people pull through a read on
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by tux1968 15y ago
We're likely to hear more and more of this over the next few decades as workers in China retrace the steps of the labour movement in the west. Here's hoping them speedy success.
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by tux1968 15y ago
It's not a separate issue. The original point was that Amazon benefited from customers who avoided sales tax. It was an option those customers didn't have when shopping locally and definitely made Amazon more attractive than it would have
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by tux1968 15y ago
Social norms fluctuate. Things that our forefathers took offence at seem inconsequential to us now, and vice versa. Perhaps someday as a group we will get beyond taking offence over how someone unmaliciously manipulates their vocal chords
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by tux1968 15y ago
Indeed, but there is a place for fun even at serious conferences. Some of my favourite talks at conferences have been filled with humour. Usually they're informative at the same time, which the talk in question apparently lacked, but such
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by tux1968 15y ago
Open letter to open-letter writers. If you're not the kind of person who has empathy for people with different tastes in humour, there's no need to write anything further.
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by tux1968 15y ago
"... will respond to You promptly, but You will be charged a support fee of $10.00." ... How long until someone writes a script for kicks and giggles to generate support request emails on behalf of thousands of RW customers costing them eac
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by tux1968 15y ago
Not sure I proved your point unless it was that current legal precedents are ridiculous. It's ludicrous to think that posting someones street address would make you guilty of anything going on inside that house. Otherwise the publisher of
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by tux1968 15y ago
But you have no control of the content provided by the party to which you link. Nobody can get the illegal content from you. They can only get it from the party you reference. Recently some people in my home town started putting up flyers a