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by uxp 14y ago
A Torrent file's hash is representative of the movie or music's binary data, much like a synopsis or summary is representative of the plot line. You can't recreate a movie 100% from a summary, and it's even more difficult to recreate a movi
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by uxp 14y ago
Isn't that basically what Righthaven was doing, on the other side of the legal courtroom? Taking control of the copyrighted work and suing infringers on behalf of content owners?
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by uxp 14y ago
> If you have (at some point) linked your credit card to a PayPal, then PayPal forces you to log in to pay. This is not true. I have a long unused PayPal account that hasn't been canceled, and on the occasion that I do end up buying som
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by uxp 14y ago
Someone sniffing my line, while is of much greater concern, is also much less likely to occur. GoDaddy (or any other whois website frontend for that matter) automating registrations if a whois lookup purchase isn't made immediately is much
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by uxp 14y ago
I've read that when the MSL Rover Relays through the MRO (which seems to be the LIDAR communications) the link is about 2Mb/s, but a constant direct link to Earth over UHF is only 500 bits/s
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by uxp 14y ago
I don't agree with that at all. In theory if a product never sees the light of day, one can assume it is a bad product, but that's still a textbook example of a converse fallacy. I am a man with 10 fingers, thus all men have 10 fingers. The
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by uxp 14y ago
I have this problem with paying for Utilities in the States. Both my Electric and Internet allow for auto-pay against my checking account without a fee, but my Natural Gas company uses Western Union for their payment processing, which charg
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by uxp 14y ago
It depends on how one defines slow. Curiosity's onboard computer is 100x faster than the previous two Mars rovers, and has twice as much ram. But that's only 200MHz and 256MB respectively. With the exception of Sojourner, the first rover su
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by uxp 14y ago
I would argue that yes, they have. They removed the copy on their website that claimed that "Macs don't get PC Viruses"[1]. They disabled automatic execution of Java Applets in response to Flashback[2]. The introduction of Gatekeeper and th
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by uxp 14y ago
Google's 2-factor auth comes with a list of onetime disposable keys one can use in place of not having their smartphone. I've had to use one specifically because I flashed a new Rom onto the Android device I was using before I thought about
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by uxp 14y ago
The dates in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, and the dates of when California and then the US banned the use of LSD in the article align to the fact that MKUltra was cut down in 1967. It did stop "them".
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by uxp 14y ago
I just checked. Gives me the same "Not in the UK" error message as trying from my IP in the states.
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by uxp 14y ago
For the more curious, here are the video lectures on the First Edition of SICP presented by Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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by uxp 14y ago
If this actually fixes a legitimate problem (which is what?), I don't think anyone thinks that it shouldn't be fixed, just not at a x.12 release. This changes breaks rgrep, thus it should be held until a full version (3.0). edit: my FreeBSD
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by uxp 14y ago
An older version of TRIM Enabler did that same thing to be with a Crucial M4. Updating it to the latest version (as of 3 weeks ago) and trying again solved that problem.
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by uxp 14y ago
They come from legal documents submitted to the courts, so they were probably greyscale PDFs that had been printed, scanned and printed. If someone could have screenshotted the PDF and included it in a Word document I'm sure they would have
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by uxp 14y ago
Bare repositories cannot have a working tree. fatal: core.bare and core.worktree do not make sense
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by uxp 14y ago
I've actually started learning Clojure and finally started understanding Lisp (like) languages because of this. Clojure is quite the shift from my normal toolkit of Ruby, Obj-C and PHP, but it's extremely enjoyable (though light in online d
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by uxp 14y ago
Except that Chrome has never really changed it's UI. The presentation at the end of Google's 2012 IO Day 2 keynote actually timelapses through the UI. The only change is the removal of the home button outside of general micro-tweaks. http:
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by uxp 14y ago
AT&T has a whitelist feature. It's $4.99 per month per subscriber and can allow up to 30 approved numbers to send SMS messages to your phone. Careful what you wish for. It might end up being implemented as an expensive and useless marke
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by uxp 14y ago
Off Topic: Twice in this thread he/she asked the same condescending question if the person he/she was replying to had actually read the article, with this one in particular showing indication he failed to read a portion of the article also.
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by uxp 14y ago
Reading through your comment history makes you appear to be a rather unfriendly commenter. We like to maintain civil discussions here on HN, so please try to contribute accordingly. The entire article revolves around a bug that came about f
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by uxp 14y ago
> It has yet to be shown that code signing helps significantly to improve security. Hah! I needed a good laugh today. No, Apple has not blacklisted a developer's certificate that we know of to the extent that pre-existing apps on an arb
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by uxp 14y ago
gem install sinatra && echo "require 'sinatra';get '/' do 'Hello, world!';end" > hi.rb && ruby hi.rb 100 characters.
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by uxp 14y ago
No shirt, No shoes, No Piracy, No Service. > it is not within Google's right to fsck up the economy that everyone depends on. I shut down a non-technology brick and mortar store almost a year ago, partly because of dwindling sales due t
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by uxp 14y ago
In the US, one could argue some churches do the same. They get a lot of breaks for government outreach contracts and are generally non-profit entities. I'm a non-mormon living in Salt Lake City, Utah, so I might be biased against churches t
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by uxp 14y ago
No, they didn't. Also, these are just applications, not registrations. Nothing is finalized yet.
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by uxp 14y ago
donuts.co is a domain registrar (and/or holding company). They're probably a broker for a large number of other companies, because various other @donut.co email addresses for a multitude of other custom TLDs are present on this list, with t
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by uxp 14y ago
Yep. This article links to the paginated story, the previous one links to the single page article.
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by uxp 14y ago
A warranty is just a contract, much like the contract put in place that allows Rogue Amoeba to sell software on the iOS and Mac platforms. Adding in support for AirPlay to an app and selling that won't void your or my iPhone's Warranty if w

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