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571.
by zorked 11y ago
May you never have to call someone to give them your mother's maiden name to unlock your account.
572.
by zorked 11y ago
Very interesting list, but perhaps it is meant to include some hardline former members of the SED?
573.
by zorked 11y ago
That description matches dozens of persons I know ;)
574.
by zorked 11y ago
And that's how the CA system is actually supposed to work. You add to the trust store those entities you trust rather than those that are trusted by the browser makers...
575.
by zorked 11y ago
To be fair that is exactly how the Internet itself was treated by the media in the 90s.
576.
Bitcoin Classic release announcement(github.com)
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577.
by zorked 11y ago
That's why I can get away with selling my home-made "cocacola" without legal issues.
578.
by zorked 11y ago
Diplomatic status can be revoked in probably every country.
579.
by zorked 11y ago
According to legend, the 1-second gap was patent-protected, so that's why not every manufacturer implemented it. Arguably became more of a problem after the Internet since on BBS you were mostly navigating "trusted" menus and
580.
by zorked 11y ago
... and for $40/mo + $5/hour you can watch any movie while traveling with Netflix's special roaming plan!
581.
by zorked 11y ago
Nit: You have to provision the VPS by peak usage, not dividing monthly usage evenly across the month. So if your peak is 13x the average (very easy, specially if you don't have a worldwide audience) the VPS starts to look bad, and we&#
582.
by zorked 11y ago
Their legit review probably also fit that profile (same IP, same domain, etc.)
583.
by zorked 11y ago
I used to complain about IPv6 until I got it. It just works, and per-byte 93% of my data traffic is IPv6 now.
584.
by zorked 11y ago
That describes so much of the history of Chomsky's theories...
585.
by zorked 11y ago
No.
586.
by zorked 11y ago
Tar does not implement decompression. If you don't have xz installed it won't work.
587.
by zorked 11y ago
Yup, I don't know what GP is talking about. English literature would still be the most amazing national literature in scope and depth and popularity even if it didn't have Shakespeare. But it does.
588.
by zorked 11y ago
Brasilia, the capital of Brazil (mentioned in the article) was built by disciples of Le Corbusier. It is a horrible place, a totalitarian technocracy modeled as a city, a place that forgot that humans exist. But it is also a very interestin
589.
by zorked 11y ago
Let's not forget that while the official excuse for the closed market was to (somehow) foster the country's industry, the real reason was that Brazil was a dictatorship and the dictator was giving control of a large booming indust
590.
by zorked 11y ago
We can figure out Paxos but can't figure out how to order a server in Europe.
591.
by zorked 11y ago
That's something that is little understood about gaming culture - from inviting friends over to take turns playing single-player games on the NES to Let's Play/Twitch/speed runs, games have always had this component of w
592.
by zorked 11y ago
Supposedly the general feeling was of relief when you heard a V2 rocket strike. Because you knew you were still alive.
593.
by zorked 11y ago
And in other news, for some reason, .horse is a top-level domain.
594.
by zorked 11y ago
I think that adding the "probably" is probably being overly careful. Red Hat is an amazing company.
595.
by zorked 11y ago
I wish building laptops was easy.
596.
by zorked 11y ago
Having only seen him in fortune files I assumed he was some sort of Usenet celebrity of the past until now.
597.
by zorked 11y ago
Good,a while ago it was the contrarian, underground cult, then it was all the rage, then you were not a professional if you didn't worship it, then the cracks started to show, now it's failed and passé. When should we expect the r
598.
by zorked 11y ago
The ANSI driver that came with MS-DOS, ANSI.SYS, also allowed keys to be rebound to small macros. So you could TYPE (cat) a file and then later press a harmless key like D and ANSI.SYS could output something like whatever the DOS equivalent
599.
by zorked 11y ago
Well, CPUs don't grow on trees. We got to the point of predictability through the same rocky, unpredictable process of eliminating randomness (a.k.a. science).
600.
by zorked 11y ago
There's a difference between a claim that a country is unique for some reason (everyone has one of these) versus thinking that this makes them superior or entitled. American Exceptionalism even has a creation myth and a pantheon of god

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