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by ulysses 12y ago
I'm sure the name is from a much earlier movie (mid-80s), The Last Starfighter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter
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by ulysses 12y ago
Yes, this is known as a "lie".
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Developer: Publishers didn’t want a female lead in our video game(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 12y ago|0 comments
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by ulysses 12y ago
Actually, from RFC 1035, section 5.1: "If an entry for an RR begins with a blank, then the RR is assumed to be owned by the last stated owner." https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt
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by ulysses 12y ago
"Blank Name - A record that has nothing in the name slot gets used for all requests made to the base/naked form of the domain." No, a blank name uses whatever name was used on the previous record. Near the top of the zone fi
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by ulysses 12y ago
No, it is trivially easy to put non-DRMed books onto a kindle. One publisher who I find particularly reader-friendly is Baen. If I buy a book from them, it goes into my account there so I can download it at any time (and any number of time
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by ulysses 12y ago
Having an emergency button to shut it down seems not too bad, though I wonder how it handles being pressed while driving at 60 miles an hour in traffic. Not being able to immediately restart afterward is pretty crazy.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton ‘kills’ driverless car(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by ulysses 12y ago|2 comments
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by ulysses 13y ago
Alternately, to protect the public and support innovation, Seattle passed legislation to license and legalize taxi alternatives such as Uber. Also, Microsoft is not a Seattle-based company.
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Can We Avoid a Surveillance State Dystopia?(antipope.org)
79 points by ulysses 13y ago|76 comments
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Dutch police recruit rat detectives to sniff out crime(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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Gibraltar might be the beginning of the end for the Atlantic Ocean(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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How cabinet rentals could save the flagging arcade game market(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 13y ago|1 comments
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As DefCon asks Feds to take “time-out,” Black Hat welcomes NSA chief(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ulysses 13y ago|1 comments
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First arrest captured on Google Glass points to a “Little Brother” future(arstechnica.com)
162 points by ulysses 13y ago|136 comments
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by ulysses 13y ago
The San Diego Reader has a little more background, it's also clearer that he was writing with chalk on city sidewalk: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2013/jun/2...
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Filmmaker picks a copyright fight with “Happy Birthday”(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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To kill, cheetahs use agility and acceleration, not top speed(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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Yahoo Mail reportedly loses key customer following mass hack attack(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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Court gives green light for Craigslist lawsuit against competitors(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ulysses 13y ago|0 comments
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Google forces a new Swedish word out of (official) existence(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ulysses 14y ago|0 comments
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Plants make bees remember them fondly with a jolt of caffeine(arstechnica.com)
17 points by ulysses 14y ago|1 comments
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by ulysses 14y ago
So far, the best thing I've found for my Transformer TF300T is Better Terminal Emulator Pro. It's four bucks, and comes with ssh and vi. The ctrl, tab, and arrow keys all work, and the back key (upper left of keyboard) is remapped to esc.
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Google, Microsoft, PayPal, other Romanian sites hijacked by DNS hackers(arstechnica.com)
5 points by ulysses 14y ago|0 comments
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Hotel room burglars exploit critical flaw in electronic door locks(arstechnica.com)
3 points by ulysses 14y ago|0 comments
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by ulysses 14y ago
So Hyperic started with PostgreSQL, added MySQL and Oracle, dropped PostgreSQL, and now have dropped MySQL and Oracle and have gone back to PostgreSQL. Why would I go with a product that's going to require me to change the backend database
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Raspberry Pi smart glasses (real-time subtitles)(raspberrypi.org)
3 points by ulysses 14y ago|0 comments
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Inside the DOJ's ebook price-fixing case against Apple: an analysis(theverge.com)
1 points by ulysses 15y ago|0 comments
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GPS ruling is "hard" on the FBI—and that's a feature, not a bug(arstechnica.com)
123 points by ulysses 15y ago|38 comments
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Hornet-killing honeybees’ brain activity measured(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ulysses 15y ago|0 comments

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