JonSkeptic

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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
> in a few months time it might be too much of a risk to have an XP machine with internet access. It's been too much of a risk for several years now. If security is truly a deep concern of your, you wouldn't still be running XP
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
In order to avoid confusion, I feel it necessary to point out that it is "Joe Gratz, a San Francisco-based patent lawyer who is representing Twitter in a patent dispute" who said the above quote and not the President of the United
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
My favorite part of the article: >From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-called Riemann sphere, which is where we take a space shuttle and use it to fly over and drop a cow on top of a biodome
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
That's remarkably cheap.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>Mt. Gox login is back In other news: I have a bear trap that is back and ready for anyone to stick their hand in.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
The Zimbabwean dollar analogy is appropriate. Throughout its wild swings and hyperinflation, it was backed by a government. Bitcoin is backed by nothing at all. One is a currency, the other is a commodity.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Even if Gox didn't lose the money, or at least not as much as we're hearing, who's going to 'bank' with them now? Who would leave their money with someone who will, at any time, cut off access and actively refuse to
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
This article was an interesting read. It highlights a lot of the positives of American culture. Sometimes it's good to hear such things. Thank you, I needed that.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Sony also just recently had it featured as a free download for Playstation Plus members. /Sidenote On the PS3, it wasn't worth the bandwidth it took to download. The shoddy textures they used for the console version made it look h
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
[insert pun exerting parallel between science and teenager on a date] Hay-o!
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
It saddens me that I feel like every interaction with Comcast is a "process" at best and an outer circle of hell on average.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I thought this was a fairly good explanation of Bitcoins broken down into simple terms so that non-technical people can easily grasp the concepts. The Hawala parallel only helps. That said, it's not really news and doesn't bring
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
But Dogecoin is doing well.
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Nothing Keeps Apple From Making an Android Phone Except Common Sense(businessweek.com)
18 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|43 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
LaTeX was built to typeset documents. You have pages in documents and pagination is of critical importance in LaTeX. In the web you don't have pages, it's evolved to be seamless and scrollable. Natuarally, LaTeX was not designed f
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
So they all own one now...?
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I'm just not sure about the Oculus. People don't generally like having things strapped to their head (and especially their face) unless absolutely necessary i.e. glasses, goggles, helmets. Oculus may be really cool to use, but I&#
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Bitcoin's Legacy - As a payment System(bloomberg.com)
2 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|1 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Hrm.....I have to say that the technology is really cool, but the video makes it look like nothing more than a gimmick. Notice "makes it look". They picked a tower defense game to demo this? Really? Who's gonna want to have f
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I know that I use python because of how easy it is to code. I can focus wholly, totally on the logic of my code without ever worrying about if I misplaced a semi-colon or left out some weird punctuation. Python frees me to code and not worr
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
That paper is about 10 years old, or at least the research is. The most current source cited is from 2003. I like to think we've made significant progress in a decade, but in reality inflation would probably be enough by itself to thr
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
This reminds me of the Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reac
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>It is also the case that, being 'normal' takes a degree of energy and conscious thought that is instinctive for most, but to me is a significant expenditure of energy. I think it analogous to speaking a second language. Sounds
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King: Rand Paul owes Clapper an apology(politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
1 points by JonSkeptic 13y ago|0 comments
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>The notion that nation-states are allowed to run rampage and be as anarchic as they please, internationally, is stupid. A world government sounds nice in theory (let's call it 'The Federation'), but I don't think you
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Given the repetition of the phrase "you should continue to monitor your accounts"... I think it would be wise to get a new card if you can.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
I agree, but I also think the poster to whom you are responding has a valid point as well. The internet gives us access to a lot of useful information. It also gives us access to orders of magnitude more useless information. And the Preside
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
It probably won't be successful, but I'm excited. I can't stop dreaming of a future devoid of javascript.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
If you click on the timeline link provided, it pulls up links to the original publications that broke the story. If you were interested in facts, you could read them yourself. Also, if he is not a spy and is not being charged as one, then h
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>Correct me if I'm wrong You are and it would take a lot to correct that statement. I'd start at the timeline: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/multimedia/timeline-ed... Most of what Snowden reve

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