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by waitwhat 15y ago
Too bad Jon Stewart's writers didn't bother to "skewer" unsupervised pre-teens. The writers simply don't have time to skewer everything that might deserve it in a single 4-minute spot. I'm sure that they aren't particularly in favour of u
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by waitwhat 15y ago
"Most likely the software is there". Do you have any actual evidence for this? Or do you just enjoy throwing around wild accusations?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
phones are exported with that code in place They are? (I hadn't been following this that closely but...) My understanding was that the issue was American carriers customising the OEM software and selling that kit to their own users. See,
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Your choice of words seems poor. Many of the words sound similar, even words next to each other in the list such as "winner"/"winter", "march"/"mars" and "six"+"ten"/"sixteen". You might want to look at e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PG
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users. The problem is that this 1% aren't evenly distributed -- some websites are inevitably going to have more Adblock users than others, and I wouldn't be surprised to find that some large sit
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The Advertising Standards Agency referred Groupon to the Office of Fair Trading last week. http://www.asa.org.uk/Media-Centre/2011/ASA-to-refer-complai... Groupon has breached the ASA's code 50 times so far this year. http://www.guardian
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by waitwhat 15y ago
just imagine everything that is done in the IT is only allowed to do by graduates. That's a terrible idea (and doesn't appear to be the solution that is being proposed in Malaysia.)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Certification actually would allow many to do exactly that legally. I meant qualified/certified not qualified/competent.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I'm curious how you stand on the regulation of insurance companies. Do you think this is something that the free market should also take care of? And what about (retail) banks?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It's not that long ago that people were wondering how to "define 'qualified' when it comes to medicine", and even less when it comes to architecture. Just because something is difficult does not in and of itself make that thing not worth do
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Why do you believe that there will be a single certification?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
How about question 7? Abdul plans schedules for several biologists who are researching the manatee. One biologist must travel from Newport to Russell Key. Later the biologist has a meeting in Islamorada. Abdul must use the map below to ﬁnd
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I was shocked what a weak effort had been to make the questions appear relevant to real life. The entire test reads as if the math problem was written first (20+2n=30+1.5n; n=?), then a story concocted to fit, with a few names awkwardly spr
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by waitwhat 15y ago
If the majority of the people in the industry are idiots [...] The majority of people in the industry aren't idiots. Imagine if you couldn't advise your friends on how to clean up their registry, or write a script for them because you we
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The degree issue is a bit of a red herring, to be honest: it is not obvious that a particular degree would be either necessary or sufficient for certification (either in general, or the specific case of Malaysia.) For example, in the UK a t
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by waitwhat 15y ago
But an Act just like we have for engineers/architects/lawyers/doctors only shows that there is monopoly coming soon. I know very little about Malaysia, so I can't say for sure whether licensing engineers/architects/lawyers/doctors has bee
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by waitwhat 15y ago
iOS doesn't really have specific podcast support at all (just a category in the Music app and that's it) -- the magic is all baked into iTunes. Unfortunately, as Apple are making iOS devices less and less reliant on iTunes, the entire eco-s
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Android has one killer feature for me: widgets. Having my upcoming calendar on screen at the same time as the phone/sms/mail/web buttons just works well for me. I imagine others would get similar value out of a music and facebook widget com
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by waitwhat 15y ago
ob_start() basically is string concatenation.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Sadly, their "attention to detail on their download page" doesn't extend to the actual screenshots on that page: they reference Dropbox.exe (which is incorrect -- the downloaded filename actually includes a version number), and sometimes Dr
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Regular users have no way to reliably identify the software producer's website. Advising them to "just google it" is likely to end up with them clicking a scammy AdWords link where paying $40 to download some freeware counts as getting off
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by waitwhat 15y ago
filehippo is excellent, and they have a pretty good update checker (although that is obviously not as comprehensive as, say, sumo.)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Why? What is so special about the browser? (or is my sarcasm detector failing again?)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
In the US you cannot run that company: if you accept money in exchange for goods (or even sometimes services), and are not a registered non-profit, you need to pay sales taxes on the sales, must declare any residual as income, and the peop
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by waitwhat 15y ago
And because you didn't post it either, I had to go to wikipedia as well: Low-Level Virtual Machine.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I do hope he split it with the janitor.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It wasn't me but... Don't overthink a single downvote: the up and down arrows are awfully close, and it's easy to misclick, particularly on a tablet.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-goog...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
That's not as universally true as it used to be. Chrome has introduced certificate-pinning [1] which covers googleapis.com [2]. [1] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html [2] http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Polish are migrating to UK - since new generations apparently speak better English than German, No. The Poles migrated to the UK because only three pre-2004 EU members (the UK, Ireland, and Sweden) would actually let them in. (All other p

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