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by younata 15y ago
"I wasn't trying to hack you, I was giving you guys a free impromptu penetration test!"
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by younata 15y ago
well, looking at the cost of going out to eat every night, vs. buying the ingredients at your local grocery store, it makes sense to learn to cook - cheaper food, you know what's in it, etc.
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by younata 15y ago
scooters: because cars and motorcycles exist. Why waste human power when we can waste gas? motorcycles have the whole "one accident and you pretty much die" thing going against them. Of course, this changes around places like mountain view,
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by younata 15y ago
I second that. The BeagleBoard is amazing. It can do real time (the original one can handle roughly 25 fps) computer vision, thanks to its built in DSP. The newer one should be even better (but I've not heard as much about it).
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by younata 15y ago
Archduke was incredibly disliked by the people he was governing. Why none pulled out is a mystery to me. The terms basically crippled Germany until they decided to call the allies' bluff. I have yet to take a college level history course, s
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by younata 15y ago
From the guidelines: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." So far, the only device (that I'm aware of) from Apple that had a wait between the product launch and the sdk launch was
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by younata 15y ago
The entire reason acts like the PROTECT IP act even get this far is because NO ONE understands the internet, and the potential of it. Yeah, we're slightly more enlightened than the politicians, but that's not really saying much. All we know
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by younata 15y ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's back up and take a deep breath. Ok. These politicians get "elected" because they, quite simply, can buy their elections. When you can tell your constituents "look! I got you <latest bill of pork>! I'm doing g
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by younata 15y ago
Sure! starts off with <Topiary> telling everyone to get off this network, ED IRC (it could be a server in their own network, but if that were the case their network would already be breached) <pwnsauce> calls for a new opera
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by younata 15y ago
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation." [1] There are many places for insulting others, HN is not one of those places. [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by younata 15y ago
oh, gods, BASIC. my first programming experience was in unstructured BASIC. I think I've managed to reverse the brain damage from that, but I can't be too sure.
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by younata 15y ago
Indeed. I implemented a linked list in C the other day, and it's the most fun I've had programming in years. as an aside, I feel old being able to talk about having programmed for years.
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by younata 15y ago
I thought that calling patent infringement based on a patent you applied for is illegal. I thought you have to have been awarded the actual patent. My understanding of patent laws is near non-existant, though. I wouldn't be surprised if I w
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by younata 15y ago
In a month, we may see a new headline: The Police Stole my MacBook.
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by younata 15y ago
just convince them that patent trolls support the "homosexual agenda". Doing that is the hard part. Good luck.
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by younata 15y ago
incorrect, watson was fed a text of the question over ethernet right after Trebek finished reading the question.
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by younata 15y ago
Imagine, in about 20-30 years time, humans land on Mars. If Spirit still has its data stored to disk, and we can retrieve it, then that would mean that the most expensive rescue operation in human history was made to rescue... a robot that
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by younata 15y ago
I wasn't going for the legality of the issue, I was going for it's overall more dangerous to drive while using the phone.
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by younata 15y ago
This looks to be a ton of fun. Thanks!
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by younata 15y ago
If you're in your car (which implies you're driving, since it's YOUR car), you shouldn't be using a phone.
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by younata 15y ago
Even though these aren't really obscure, but they're worth mentioning as some of the best unix "tools" I've seen: Irssi - irc client Mutt - email client These are mentioned mostly because he included the newsbeuter rss client
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by younata 15y ago
USAA is also available only to members of the military and their families (they've been getting more lax over the years, though).
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by younata 15y ago
There's been serious malware on the mac for ages. You have to be doing some really stupid things to get it, e.g. illegally downloading software, several porn sites do it, etc., It looks as if it's now requiring much less stupidity to get ma
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by younata 15y ago
This is seriously awesome. It'll allow us to have hard data on where corruption is most concentrated. Maybe, we'll be able to focus on fixing those areas, to make the world a better place.
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by younata 15y ago
"hoisting the red and black"? Google doesn't help (suggests maybe resorting to piracy, but that wouldn't result in you getting kidnapped/murdered), so would you explain that idiom?
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by younata 15y ago
s/bay/state of California/ Sadly, it's true.
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by younata 15y ago
children have always had less rights than adults. One of the things I've learned in the year I've been a legal adult is the amount of rights I suddenly was granted. It took a while for me to adjust to both the freedom, and the idea that I c
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by younata 15y ago
why do they need to enter the console market? They already dominate the handheld market, which is a better thing to dominate. It may just be me, but I play games on my iphone far more often than I play stuff on any of my consoles.
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by younata 15y ago
You know what? I was born after the 8/16 bit era (well, born just as the 16 bit was closing). My choices for playing these games are: ebay, emulators, and virtual consoles. ebay can get too expensive REALLY quickly. emulators are legal, but
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by younata 15y ago
Oh, thanks. Signed up!

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