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by uxp 12y ago
From what I understand, they mean that the "east" and "west" poles were, at that time, north and south. The something big flipped the earth so the solidified iron was east west, and then the rest of the core started soli
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by uxp 12y ago
I doubt Google-esque companies would store a users table with foreign keys to social security numbers, street addresses and phone numbers unencrypted (FDE does not count as it's for hardware loss, not data loss) or at least without som
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by uxp 12y ago
In the US, all public sector employees have their salaries/income reported regardless of how much they make. My wife is a nurse at a public university hospital and has her salary published for anyone to see.
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by uxp 12y ago
Here's a heavily sourced study that found that Utah women are paid about 69 cents for every dollar a man in Utah makes: http://go.nationalpartnership.org/site/DocServer/wf.epd.fact... It's not a national
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by uxp 12y ago
I saw this same remark during the particle experiments at the LHC. If they discovered the Higgs, then we learn that our guess was right. If they can't find any evidence of the Higgs, then we learn that we might not be right. In any cas
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by uxp 12y ago
Additionally, the court is not asking for the schedule and routes of the vans to be released. Knowing where a security guard is at any given time is much more useful than knowing that security guard's name. I don't think that real
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by uxp 12y ago
They've also been tested and licensed to do that. If GE, LG, et al. decide to come out with a new Microwave oven that leaks so badly it effectively is a jamming device then it won't be licensed and it can't be legally sold.
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by uxp 12y ago
> But the whole thing is too ridiculous to be plausible. This is my take as well. State sponsored attacks, or at least the attacks that have allegedly been state sponsored up until now, have been quiet little things that go on for months
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by uxp 12y ago
I just saw this new recaptcha implementation on another site and spent about a full minute playing with it. If you mouse over the checkbox and click it, if you move your mouse while the spinner is "working" it magically confirms t
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by uxp 12y ago
I somewhat feel for many of the theater owners in this case. After the Dark Knight, some tried to sue the theater because they "didn't prevent it" from happening, so something like that. The theater's defense was that th
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by uxp 12y ago
In my job, and even more so in some previous, the ability to search and retrieve historical emails has been my legal requirement .
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by uxp 12y ago
But his concrete argument (while being factually correct) is irrelevant. No one was tortured, but was threatened with torture In the case of Abu Zubaydah, in his first 2 months of capture he provided more information than at any other t
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by uxp 12y ago
Agreed, actually. None of that was an outright lie. I spoke impulsively. It's a lie in the sense that it takes all the benefits out of the fact. The ACA will cost many people more money, especially if they were not paying for any healt
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by uxp 12y ago
It's interesting reading some of the form letters in opposition. Here's an excerpt. Regulating the Internet would be a job killer. All those who are employed as tech support, companies that make and deploy servers, routers, coax
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by uxp 12y ago
I've honestly thought from the very beginning that the hackers had absolutely zero ties to the DPRK. Early on when people were curious on who did this and there was very little communication from the perpetrators I feel that the the on
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by uxp 12y ago
Texas agrees with you: > Do I need a license to play music in my establishment? > Yes! When you purchase a CD, MP3 or similar product, you are granted the right to non-public performance of the material, such as at home or in your car
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by uxp 12y ago
The sentence before the quote is: > Spaltro offers a hypothetical example of a company that relies on legacy systems to store and manage credit card transactions for its customers. The full quote: > Although Spaltro declines to talk a
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by uxp 12y ago
> What Keurig is doing also doesn't prevent another manufacturer from competing with an unencumbered alternative Not sure if this fits the definition of irony, but Keurig is the company that came up with the unencumbered 1.0 coffee
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by uxp 12y ago
Or quit thinking of them as resources or machines that were advertised to you as 100% efficient for 8 hours 5 days a week and realize that the 2 hours in a given 8 hour day spent reading HN or browsing YouTube _are_ part of the 100%. No one
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by uxp 12y ago
Torture is a loaded word that directly implies guilt, where as "enhanced interrogation" is a fairly neutral term. Despite the reports narrative of pointing out all the failures of the CIA in allowing these techniques to be perform
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by uxp 12y ago
The problem with things like pthreads in PHP is that 98% of the time your runtime is via mod_php5, and spinning threads off of an Apache worker instance is one of the worst ideas imaginable. I (once, ignorantly) tried to do some kind of sup
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by uxp 12y ago
Every once in a while I'll wake up, unplug my iPhone from it's charger and go to work, doing my normal planned routine, and have it die before I'm able to get back home to recharge it. Does that mean that my iPhone is a failu
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by uxp 12y ago
Lets go back and look at the history of human knowledge about comets for a moment. 1) The composition of comets were largely unknown until ~1950 when Fred Whipple hypothesized that they were largely icy objects instead of rocky objects, whi
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by uxp 12y ago
> For most people, "better compatibility" sounds like a pretty convincing excuse. Security has always been a compromise between protection and convenience. The most secure computer is one that is turned off and stored in a safe
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by uxp 12y ago
This is precisely the struggle that I've been having to deal with lately. Though, does anyone know if this works with OpenDirectory?
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by uxp 12y ago
Yes, that's precisely what I mean. To take his example, if I carelessly left my laptop in a Starbucks, I have not given anyone the right to use, transport or otherwise inspect my laptop. I can assume some right to privacy over the cont
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by uxp 12y ago
FedEx and UPS (and DHL, OnTrac, et al.) are private companies. They have the authority to open your package at any time for any reason, with few exceptions. If I gave you a box and asked you to give it to someone else, you have the legal ri
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by uxp 12y ago
Considering there are people sitting in Guantanamo and elsewhere who haven't been charged with a crime, "after the investigation is complete" could be decades.
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by uxp 12y ago
They aren't using CVS over Git. They're keeping CVS instead of spending months on a migration path to move to a new system that, while has some benefits over their current solution, does essentially the same thing as their current
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by uxp 12y ago
National elections have become such a farce anyways. A single senator or representative can change the political landscape, yet a single citizen cannot. I cannot vote for Senator Wyden, nor can I vote against Feinstein. Rubio is unfazed wit

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