For_Iconoclasm

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by For_Iconoclasm 10y ago
This is false if you're only using Fios for internet service. Verizon asked me if I was providing my own router, and I said yes. The tech who "installed" and activated my ONT confirmed that I was using my own router so that h
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by For_Iconoclasm 13y ago
There is an extremely simple logical construct surrounding this: consent is not the default state of the other party. What is not easy to understand is how people don't understand this. :\
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
Most people that I know use foobar2000.
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
I use LastPass, but also use generated passwords to answer security questions. For these questions, one can enable the options for only using alphanumeric, unambiguous characters.
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
Sorry, but it's the website for git. Things have websites. How difficult is that to reason, really? The top of the page explains what git is. Isn't it obvious that the site is git's website? It then lists things which one would expect to fi
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
Oh, it is absolutely a problem! But, having people not knowing what they're talking about has always been a problem. Nothing short of a strictly-enforced policy mandating that HR departments need to have decent knowledge in a certain area w
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
I would answer that rhetorical question with no, HR departments have not have heard of social engineering attacks in computer security. Almost any company asking for a password will have a brain-dead HR department in charge of that policy
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
> defining "evil" would be a good start I think the best way to tackle this would be defining specific tenets the way that the FSF does with freedoms 0-4. They don't just say "You have to be free!" ... there is the legally-binding licen
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by For_Iconoclasm 14y ago
> I see a lot of votes for python, but a disproportionately small representation of python fans in the comments. This is probably because describing the virtues of Python (clean & simple syntax, one right way to do everything, easy-
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State of State Science Standards [pdf](edexcellencemedia.net)
1 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|0 comments
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
Or, if all of the engineers quit instead of building the tools, then those websites cease to be for lack of workers.
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
I'm not going to argue with your opinion like others are doing, but I find it very interesting that you have this viewpoint. It would sort of be like a car enthusiast preferring an automatic car for its smooth, self-maintained shifting, or
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
> programming, ultimately, is thinking. I very rarely feel slowed down by my environment. It's possible for it to happen, but most of my time is spent thinking about a problem, not typing.
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
Duly noted! Although, I was not praising Jobs nor Apple in post. I was drawing a comparison (showing similarity) between the ideals of RMS and the ideals he was against. He is hypocritically fighting oppression in one field with oppression
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
My biggest gripe with Stallman is his "I know what's best for you" mentality. His moral standards are more important than whatever you can come up with. During a question & answer session somewhere, someone asked him a question about vi
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
I worked on a natural language processing project as my required directed study in college. We focused on language generation and took an extremely naïve approach to the problem since it turns out that literature on alternative types of lan
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
Well, it got me on the pointer arithmetic questions. I remembered that C automatically handles pointer arithmetic (multiplying by sizeof(type)), however: Question 2: I didn't think that x+1 would be interpreted as a pointer for some reason,
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
That is also true. You can use that version for as long as you want! The company I work for uses a newer stable version of nginx in production, but I think I actually make use of a directive that was introduced after the 0.7 series. Even so
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
I feel the same way. Nginx has been the little ngin that could, supported by a bunch of talented hackers dedicated to bringing something to the table that the big-time servers, even the open source ones, couldn't. Nginx's history of being t
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Physicists map spiraling light to harness untapped data capacity(physorg.com)
1 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|0 comments
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
They're also probably the ones that type "google" into the Bing search bar to get to Google. :)
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Students : Game AI vs Traditional AI(altdevblogaday.com)
6 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|0 comments
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
Facebook Notes support simple HTML. You can't use bold or italics anywhere else, to my knowledge.
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
This site looks pretty cool. I'd like to see some more cities listed.
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
I got robbed in Brooklyn the exact same way a few weeks ago, but nobody was watching over my car. :(
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PEP 3151 -- Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy(python.org)
1 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|0 comments
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by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago
There tends to be a lot confusion, with newcomers to any field, over which tools should be used. The truth is that 95% (made-up statistic... I mean a large majority) of the effectiveness of a tool comes from the user's proficiency, not the
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit(messenger.jhuapl.edu)
49 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|7 comments
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15 more sites that forbid you from linking to them(malcolmcoles.co.uk)
4 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|0 comments
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The real story behind Arch Linux package signing(toofishes.net)
67 points by For_Iconoclasm 15y ago|30 comments

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