dotrob

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by dotrob 12y ago
I'd love to read his account of how he interpreted the increasingly digital and electronic items he encountered during his burglaries: flat screen TVs; computers; ever smaller radios, flashlights, calculators; thermostats; microwave ov
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by dotrob 12y ago
In the puzzle statement, "A six inch high cylindrical hole is drilled through the center of a sphere," through is the keyword, rather than into . I made the same initial mistake of misreading through as into.
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by dotrob 12y ago
"Theranos" reads very similar to "thanatos" to me, which is unfortunate. I had to force myself to read it as "thERaNos."
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by dotrob 12y ago
Scalia's dissent is informative on many of the questions being raised in the comments (starting on page 23 of the ruling here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-461_l537.pdf ). He compares Aereo to
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by dotrob 12y ago
I liked your article -- I appreciated the different perspective it presents (kind of outside-looking-in on the coding/startup job). The article also led me on to "Invisible Burden" and "Why Stories Are So Important"
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by dotrob 13y ago
Twenty years ago, those major ISPs were using the telephone system (via dial-up), which was designated a common carrier. If ISPs had to convince everyone to buy into a new cable or dish transmission system because the tel-cos could block th
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by dotrob 15y ago
I find this whole thing a tempest in a teacup. The original claim that the scanners are flawed doesn't strike me as explosive a revelation as it's being made out to be. My guess is the machines could be modified to change the background col
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by dotrob 15y ago
I'll make the seemingly-obvious argument that is made every time this issue comes up in Internet forums: "natural" scrolling is fine for a single user of a single computer, but if you use multiple computers -- particularly multiple OSes -