SageRaven

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by SageRaven 13y ago
Sometimes a David makes a bigger impression than a Goliath. It's been years since I've worked with Ladar. However, he's a man of great intelligence and principle. It's not unheard of for "the little guy" to t
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by SageRaven 13y ago
What does the code actually deliver in the HTTP request, and what path does the request travel? Is the exploit that the request is made outside of the TOR proxy (thus revealing the true origin IP) or that it gathers information about the
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by SageRaven 13y ago
I believe the state law is that in any county where the population is under 400,000 residents, prostitution is legal, which rules out the main large cities in Nevada. I live in neighboring Utah, so I learn some interesting factoids about o
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by SageRaven 13y ago
> We have systemic trillion dollar annual deficits, so tax collection efforts are being ramped up. Funny. In renewable energy circles, the first, and most efficient, optimization is "conservation". Converting the 50 incandescent bulbs
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Point taken. But it still seems he had a direct relationship (the license). My point still stands. If I, having no relation whatsoever with Monsanto, buy random soybeans as feed, then plant them, then spray them with Roundup to weed out t
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Many folks are stating this was a clear-cut case of violation of contract law: the guy at one time signed something with Monsanto stating his exclusive source of RR soybeans would be Monsanto. However, if I buy 160 acres of land, and plant
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by SageRaven 13y ago
People begging for money online (see those "please donate cash so I can get breast implants" sorts of things from a few years ago and on various sub-reddits) are probably a more honest way to earn money than the start-up cashing out method.
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by SageRaven 13y ago
> We were building roads and services before taxes. That's all I need: Paying to use Verizon Interstate Highway in order to traverse my state. Infrastructure is one of the few things that taxes are pretty good for, as most everyone bene
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Well, whatever works for them. I've been using gmail since my '04 invite, but a few weeks ago I migrated to mail.com for web mail and bing for search. Google lured me in with the sparse simplicity of their search and webmail. If everythi
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by SageRaven 13y ago
One of the first couple of episodes of Cosmos (maybe the first?) has a similar thing to convey the scale of time in our existence in the universe. Pretty cool.
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Good, entertaining read. I get the impression it was sanitized a great deal, because I was sorely disappointed with the lack of technical meat-n-potatoes. For instance, the author totally glossed over how they recovered the data from his e
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Have a Coke and a smile?
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by SageRaven 13y ago
One summer in college, I sub-rented an apartment from a friend who was away for the summer. It was the first time in my life I had lived alone. I was working grounds crew at a dorm (relatively strenuous/active job). I'd get home around 4
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Intentional contamination or no, patenting genes and extorting royalties from people propagating self-replicating organisms is very much evil. If farmers want to pay for seed stock of known features and quality, that's great. What they do
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by SageRaven 13y ago
How many rural villages in China were polluted from a nearby factory producing components of the computer you used to make this post? Every single person posting in this thread is guilty of consuming far more resources than a majority of gl
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by SageRaven 13y ago
That's kinda like saying the MPAA ratings systems is ok because my beef is really with large theater chains that refuse to carry non-rated films. Large, entrenched authorities who provide ratings about [insert noun here] have historically
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by SageRaven 13y ago
I thought it was statistical filtering and crowd-sourced spam tagging (like Google's spam filter). I maintain a mail server for a client and Spam Assassin (edit: and greylisting) works well enough without blacklists enabled. Throw in a co
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by SageRaven 13y ago
How disappointing. I thought it was going to be the story of a fed-up email admin breaking down and DoS'ing one of the scourges of the internet. Blacklists are pure evil, and nothing will ever change my opinion of that. They cause far mor
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by SageRaven 13y ago
Time for everyone to order teddy bears, propane bottles, and a copy of the Quran from Amazon whenever they book a plane ticket. Bring back the "spook fodder" concept from the heydays of USENET.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
My make-a-wish request would be some standard protocol to translate threaded discussions such as from here and Reddit into an NNTP feed. Back in my early 90s college days, I could rip through an amazing amount of content in a short amount
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Ever since these small devices have been in production, I've always wondered about their potential use in clandestine installations. Obviously things like the Shiva Plug are almost capable of hiding in plain site, so long as there's a plug
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I know of at least one sub-division where non-potable water is connected to yard irrigation systems, so the concept is not totally unheard of. Nothing as sensible as the system you outline in Paris, though.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
This is my thought on the modern flush toilette: http://makeameme.org/media/created/skeptical-third-world-kid... I lived in what was essentially a rural cabin for 5 years. We had no indoor plumbing and stored water for cooking and bathin
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by SageRaven 14y ago
For shits and giggles, I snagged a vinyl rip of Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 24-bit 96KHz FLAC format online, just to see what all the fuss was about. Some guys who do serious vinyl rips spare no expense, using pri
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by SageRaven 14y ago
I totally agree with you. I use dirt-cheap VPS servers to tunnel web traffic over SSH socks proxies. Why? For fun. Because I can. To thwart ISP packet inspection and Google profiling my IP. To screw up IP-based ad targeting. Whatever.
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by SageRaven 14y ago
If it is any indicator, current versions of FreeBSD and some Linux distros have "xz" as part of the base system, along with their gzip and bzip2 counterparts, including xzcat/xzless/etc., newsyslog/logrotate compression options for xz, xz-c
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by SageRaven 14y ago
The most useful take-away from the article: "In other words, it appeared that pushing people’s emotional buttons, through derogatory comments, made them double down on their preexisting beliefs." Sounds like politics, doesn't it?
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by SageRaven 14y ago
There's a difference between doing something harmful to yourself repeatedly for shits and giggles, and at your own discretion, and voluntarily following something through to its conclusion when somebody else plans the exercise for you. Per
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Why so dismissive? Religious or feel-good benefits aside from the 100-hour regimen, the guys deserves kudos merely for sticking with the exercise to its conclusion. Even without the discomfort, sitting/standing/whatever for 10 hours a day
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by SageRaven 14y ago
Anybody know how big robots.txt can be and if anyone has ever given a spider grief by screwing with the size or download rate of robots.txt?

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