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by waiwai933 15y ago
I can't believe that the launch is scheduled for April 30th; in my mind, commercial spaceflight was at least another year away. Either way, if all goes well, I think this marks the beginning of yet another era, and the milestone is, quite f
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by waiwai933 15y ago
In criminal court? I can't think of any jurisdiction that charges a fee for pleading not guilty, going to trial, and being convicted. In civil court outside the US, the loser pays attorney's fees. I don't know about court fees, since those
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Google using Street View house numbers in reCAPTCHAs(telegraph.co.uk)
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by waiwai933 15y ago
If you try to replicate the route from Los Angeles to New York on Google Maps 8-bit Quest mode, it's not nearly the same route as the one in the video. Curious they missed that.
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by waiwai933 15y ago
This particular crash was in 1971 in the middle of the Peruvian rainforest. I'm not sure when portable infrared cameras became available, but I doubt they were widely had around this time, and doesn't seem like it crashed near any major cit
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Interesting how MLA chose Tweet over Twitter at the end, as well as the fact that the entire tweet is in the bibliography. I wonder at what limit that including the entire content of something is reasonable (from the bibliographic persp
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Just a small note—US customs and immigration is handled by the Customs and Border Patrol, not the TSA (which handles security screening only).
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Dr. Norvig is no doubt a genius in computer science, and Udacity is certainly looking promising considering that it's able to hire such influential people... but that said, it doesn't look like he has any actual teaching experience, and edu
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by waiwai933 15y ago
> At the same time you are not allowed to be elected into Office as an Athist. Not true at all. For one, the Constitution and various Federal and State laws allow elected persons to take an affirmation instead of an oath, and Article Si
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by waiwai933 15y ago
The article says the statement was in response to audience questions, so this may have been in planning before Bitcoin was even released in 2009 (for all we know, Satoshi Nakamoto could be a Google employee who decided to take up the projec
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Forgive me if I've misread the article, but isn't the Project Evaluation essentially just a spec, with the option to actually implement the spec or not?
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Not that I know anything about this, but isn't it possible that having this segmented sleep could possibly be bad for you? Just because our ancestors slept as such doesn't mean it's necessarily good for you, does it? (That's not to say it
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by waiwai933 15y ago
The general public is not going to know what a "text stream" is, what a "host" computer is, or what you mean by getting into a computer "manually". And I'd be willing to bet that "interprets" in this context is also going to be difficult. E
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by waiwai933 15y ago
The major problem I have with this is with "Education". Education does not solely consist of listening to lectures; it's a process that takes place between the educator and the student, and sometimes, you need a faculty member to talk to, s
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by waiwai933 15y ago
Private prosecution in the US only appears to be permitted in the state of Virginia, and although IANAL, I think that even there, it would only apply to state statues and not federal ones. But you could petition the Attorney General's offic
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by waiwai933 15y ago
If I encrypt a letter by hand using, say, Caesar's cipher (despite how weak it is), could a court compel me (i.e. is there common law precedent in the US or elsewhere) to decrypt said letter? Surely there must be some precedent before we ha
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by waiwai933 15y ago
If you remove the "s" from the "https" in the URL (not the protocol, but there's one in the URL itself), it should work.
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by waiwai933 15y ago
"It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information and use their services." You (i.e. Mr. Dodds and cohorts) are more than welcome to support the book industry, who, like you, are having some diffic
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by waiwai933 15y ago
There's a bright highlighted warning that says "STOP! Only proceed if you arrived this page by scanning a login barcode at google.com. Otherwise, do not proceed!" Will users read the warning? I would—and did—it really grabs your attention g
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by waiwai933 15y ago
It (i.e. the book) was more utopian than dystopian, but neither "utopian" nor "dystopian" are really appropriate terms here. The Earth-wide government wasn't much more than an UN (that changed after Peter got put in charge), but there was i