Ergomane

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by Ergomane 12y ago
Windows 8 Pro comes with Bitlocker and is fairly cheap.
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by Ergomane 12y ago
It appears so. Many sites that were vulnerable earlier today haven't even inactivated sessions.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
That depends on what is downloaded. Downloading copyrighted software is illegal in NL, downloading movies, music and books is not.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Iceland was not obliged to ensure payment of a minimum compensation to the depositors. See the EFTA court ruling at http://www.eftacourt.int/uploads/tx_nvcases/16_11_Judgment_E...
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Ubuntu and Windows 8 have the same amount of "orange" and "green", but because the latter is grouped with Windows 7 it disappears from the table.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
It is only a simple feature if you don't care about DOS against the user account and do not have an adversary with a large botnet.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Transcription is the process where RNA is generated from a DNA template. The observed error rate is about 10^-5 per nt. This is the error rate after nucleolytic proofreading.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
> It can easily be extended. Indeed. Just like the Netherlands where 2013 saw the introduction of the "one time crisis tax" (eenmalige crisisheffing) which constitutes a 16% tax on wages, including bonus, over EUR 150K. Now, fo
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Is _a_ commercial company behind the development. The most important, for sure, but not the only one.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
That would be Windows Store vs Windows, right?
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by Ergomane 13y ago
> Bacteria both evolve resistance quickly, they also lose it just as quick. Alas, experiments have shown that it is possible for resistant strains to strongly reduce the cost of resistance maintenance. If there are no naive invaders, thi
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Even purified phages are not without possible side-effects. Several phages even encode for bacterial virulence factors such as exotoxins (stx, diphteria toxin). Fortunately, we are much better equipped in the molecular biology department to
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Why do so many commenters on tech sites believe "mum" or "grandpa" only run a browser?
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by Ergomane 13y ago
The center of gravity of the entire solar system (the solar barycenter) wanders around and is currently located inside the star. It will be outside of the sun in 2017. Jupiter, Neptune (edit: and Uranus) serve to create a giant spirograph.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
The suit alleges that "false statements and misleading information" increased the risk to the population. I'm not sure that is plausible. At the start of the epidemic investigation on Oct 19, dissemination into communities on
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by Ergomane 13y ago
The Debian OpenSSL snafu showed that even rather blatant changes get missed. Anything in the leaked docs on that particular incident?
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by Ergomane 13y ago
> The container format itself is really just a giant mathematical mess -- there really isn't anything to backdoor there. The container itself can actually be 'backdoored' by a malicious client by eg saving a duplicate of t
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by Ergomane 13y ago
It's also silly because many blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), including those in rice paddies, already fix nitrogen in their heterocysts.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
An entity controlling traffic at your internet connection can force node selection during circuit building by failing requests to uncontrolled nodes. The path bias warning is informational only AFAIK (was added in 2012?) and is not perfect.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Samsung hires lots of small companies, usually on a per-project basis.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
If you hear hoof-beats, you'd expect a horse, not a zebra (unless you are on a Safari). It's not that uncommon that 35 year old people die at home. Common causes are suicide, unintentional overdose, aneurysm (brain, AAA), arrhythm
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by Ergomane 13y ago
While it is called the 'sheep tick' around here, Ixodes ricinus has a number of hosts, including mice, deer and birds (eg black birds, robins) that contribute to the spread and maintenance of the species in forests and woodlands.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Explaining grievances to the public by making a site may not be legal in certain countries at all (NL to name one) if there's no clear need to do so for the common good.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
The "one-click to activate one time" links should always lead to a page where the user has to perform a POST to prevent "smart" applications from using the token when trying to show a thumbnail / preview or offer other services. eg KDE (old
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Serious Wordpress, Joomla! or Drupal vulnerabilities and exploits can still get you a few thousand dollars. Quite a high ROI because the vulnerabilities are easier to find than in Chrome.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
You can still buy a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu via dell.nl or an OS-less laptop via BTO. > http://linuxcomputers.nl/ They don't appear to even mention secure boot as the reason, but pricing, margin and lack of interest, both from consume
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by Ergomane 13y ago
Near misses must be analysed and acted upon to be a useful force in accident or disaster prevention. Such actions can include changes to the facility, changes to protocol, but also educating or punishing workers. As an example: Misconduct c
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by Ergomane 13y ago
They already came a long way. I recently got an i5 with a HD4000 and was blown away by the fact that it runs Mass Effect 3 smoothly at 1600 x 900. Having good hopes for the Haswells.
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by Ergomane 13y ago
The materials and methods section should contain such steps. Washing and peeling was not indicated.
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by Ergomane 14y ago
Unless you have low income, you pay more than that in the Netherlands. Payment for health care is composed of two parts: You pay about EUR 867 to 1,140 directly to an insurance company PER ADULT depending on how much you want to pay yoursel

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