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by x1798DE 10y ago
In markdown I think a blockquote is indicated by >, so: > This is a quote > it is rendered as a blockquote.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Who wants to maintain several old versions of software? I know I don't. No one is forcing you to. Just advertise that you only support the latest version and don't force people to upgrade. You can even put it in your support
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by x1798DE 10y ago
They don't invite you to nominate books, you get to vote if you are a member of the World Science Fiction Convention: http://www.thehugoawards.org/i-want-to-vote/
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Assuming most of this is dead air, don't you think this would be a highly compressible data set (even lossless)?
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by x1798DE 10y ago
@evilsocket FYI, the <pre> blocks on that page are really hard to read on mobile because the line breaks are enforced, requiring left-right scrolling. Seems like a blockquote would be a better choice here.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
No, this is the same problem as key escrow.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This may be a bit OT, but I feel like it's unfortunate that "watts" (i.e. power consumption) is the default unit used in lighting. It's like measuring the speed of a car in miles per gallon. Seems like it's changin
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't think I'd even sign a medical hippocratic oath if I were a doctor. I consider oaths of that sort to be cheap talk nonsense. I would not, however, be willing to work on anything that I thought was directly harmful, e.g. I w
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by x1798DE 10y ago
GP only has around 2000 karma, so assuming he's not mistaken about being able to vouch, maybe you haven't been in a situation where vouching was necessary?
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I find it kind upsetting that it doesn't seem that this guy has actually been to the US, and yet he's being extradited there and charged by the US. I can just imagine China arresting me for acknowledging the existence of Taiwan.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> There are so many annoying if not dangerous default settings (like hiding known file extensions, virus.pdf.exe appears as "virus.pdf") that like many people I have scripts to do that. Are they still doing that? I would have t
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think most companies would contract for a home built solution rather than risk bankruptcy, assuming that term was even enforceable.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
No, the metaphor is more like with a line/queue. You move can move an event "up" or "forward" in the same way you move something to the front of a line. The opposite is to push something back (i.e. away from you).
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by x1798DE 10y ago
MIT's press office is master of the clickbait-overhype one-two punch, but in this case "MIT Scientists" is a justified because this is a release from the MIT press office. It's standard form for institutions, local new
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This is a somewhat compelling reason why people don't use URLs like they do addresses (that plus the fact that physical locations are "discoverable", so if you know something is in the general vicinity of 40th street you ca
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I'll I'm surprised "those who can't stand media viewer" isn't everyone. Thankfully, Wikipedia falls back really gracefully without JS, and if you block JS you don't get MediaViewer or modal dialog during t
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't plug my USB devices into strange USB ports (because I don't own a USB condom): See: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/08/beware-of-juice-jacking/
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by x1798DE 10y ago
So you're thinking something like this? Author: <fiddles with headphone jack> Author: <fiddles with headphone jack some more> Author: "Hey, can I borrow some tweezers? I think this headphone jack is busted and I want t
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by x1798DE 10y ago
It's headphones, not some wire hidden behind anything, or anything carrying a significant current. He stripped the wires on the headphones they gave him to listen to the in-flight audio.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Man, I was thinking that would be such a pain to use because whenever I hack something together like that it's super sensitive to jostling, but tying it off like that is just brilliant! I'm going to use that. Also: > The finish
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I would certainly hope a madam doesn't make a query to some sort of license database. That seems like a remarkable operational risk. Frankly, this whole thing seems like a perfect recipe for blackmail. "Just give me an incontrover
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by x1798DE 10y ago
The "perfect method for keeping people honest online" is to require that you verify your identity. The opening paragraph of this article mentions a mandatory driver's license scan and a call to you through the switchboard at
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This is a mailing list post about the values (and costs) of submitting "trivial" patches to the Linux kernel, particularly from new contributors (in case this headline wasn't sufficient to give you any idea whatsoever what
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think the lesson is that you only have to trick people into authorizing your malicious app once.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think this really only applies for signatures you can trust. A frightening number of keys used to sign software are not signed by anyone, so they're effectively the equivalent of a self signed certificate. I've also found some p
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For events in the future, the mapping between local wall time and UTC is not fixed (consider that Egypt recently cancelled DST on three days' notice), so if the time that matters is local wall time, you should not store your days as a
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Another consideration is that people's costs are strongly related to where they live. I think what's more important is that their competing offers from local companies will necessarily be higher, so assuming they're wort
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't think DMCA can be used for trademark infringement, just copyright.
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Only if you physically go there.
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> The cases where an upstanding citizen will decide to disobey the Man exist, though they are rare in a functioning society. How does your contention account for speeding, jaywalking and marijuana use? Those are three examples that jump

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