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by flatulent1 10y ago
> So eliminating it from the New World can't do that much damage given that the ecosystem got along fine before it arrived. I wonder what kind of South American bug pollinates Cherimoya blooms? The Cherimoya fruit is exceptional, b
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by flatulent1 10y ago
Don't forget the possibility of data being repeated by your electric meter even if you don't provide WiFi. They're generally dual band, operating at WiFi frequencies for local interaction and with more power at a lower frequ
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by flatulent1 15y ago
But what of value was actually produced by that "computational effort"? What is the current total worth of the results for all of that computational effort? If effort produces nothing of lasting value, is it a valid basis for value? Machin
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by flatulent1 15y ago
"Giving someone coins is similar to Bitcoin." It is quite a stretch to compare bitcoin to gold or other useful metals. Gold has significant inherent value, bitcoin is inherently worthless. The value of gold can't fall to very low levels s
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by flatulent1 15y ago
"The above equation is also why lights in your house dim when you turn on a motor (= inductor). There is a significant current change, and the voltage changes even more, so the lights dim." Uh, no. Most of the voltage drop in the source oc
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by flatulent1 15y ago
"But the problem is living spaces being separate from working spaces." Some companies have closely integrated living and working. Foxconn is one such company. (some have suggested that Foxconn employee depression problems may be partly due
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by flatulent1 15y ago
I think people are missing the point. Apple is actually moving in the direction of less lock-in as far as the consumer goes. They've basically said that in the latest generation many people won't need to buy any one device to use as a hub
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by flatulent1 15y ago
Foxconn has had some problems, but didn't rank that poorly. It seems to be more a case of what life is like in China. "In a survey published in 2010 by Oxfam Hong Kong, Foxconn ranked sixth for corporate social responsibility out of the 42
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by flatulent1 15y ago
MobileMe accounts are being extended to a year from now for free, before the service is shut off. If the phone no longer meets her needs at that time, she can sell it to help fund a new one (or perhaps you will have yet another leftover fro
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by flatulent1 15y ago
' "Search" is not a vertical market.' Search alone isn't vertical, search alone isn't even a market if people don't pay for it. You misunderstand the (Google) business and who the customers are. Those doing the searches are not the custom
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by flatulent1 15y ago
Yes. It is also worth mentioning that GNUnet is designed to be a secure framework, making it more than just the core of another P2P program. For instance it potentially might be used as the basis for other functions such as chat or VoIP w
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by flatulent1 15y ago
Ballmer pretty much acknowledged the state of things "the world's going html5" back in late 2010. (Ballmer interview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI47b3a9cEI http://www.osnews.com/story/23966/Microsoft_Changes_Silverli...
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by flatulent1 15y ago
It must be a parallel project. When 4.0 was released to the public, the next update provided 40 b13 nightly users was a 4.2 alpha. (some plug-ins break)
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by flatulent1 15y ago
It's too bad there apparently aren't any robots ready to put into service in Fukushima. They might have robotic arms or cranes for doing things like shuffling fuel rods, but what can help with doing improvised welding or wiring in a hostil
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by flatulent1 16y ago
There's quite a bit of misleading info in some news reporting making numeric comparisons between numbers representing different types of data (activity totals versus exposure rates) and in some cases mismatching units too. At least there s
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by flatulent1 16y ago
It strikes me as a site for scamming people, http://bit.ly/fgGX3a sure doesn't sound like a normal way to access the Red Cross. The retailing links are fishy too.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
>Capitalism and free enterprise produced everything good. >National parks were not created either. National Parks consist of isolated bits of something good that was there long before man. They're definitely not something good prod
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Now to see something like this work with a net-enabled 3D television.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
It's okay to be the quiet one. That improves the chances of you being a good listener, someone that really listens instead of being tuned-out while composing your next line. It's important for many reasons to strike a balance between work
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by flatulent1 16y ago
That would be an improvement over something some cable tv systems once did in small communities. If a town had one nearby full-power analog tv station, analog signals carried on the same channel on cable would often get interference. Even
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by flatulent1 16y ago
In some cases those profiting from the earlier higher priced sale of a property, and the commissions, were committing fraud. One of the story links indicates that Toxie was connected to a known case. A realtor flipped a property back and f
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by flatulent1 16y ago
The original Crystal Quest of the mid to late 80's on monochrome Macs and the early color version on the Mac II were great (but not MultiFinder compatible). Very addictive and fast/smooth which was a feat on the 8 and 16 MHz machines of the
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Crosby had an important role in the history of the magnetic recording industry. Crosby was an early investor in Ampex corporation, the U.S. company that adapted WWII German wire-recorder technology (which used an A.C. bias signal to improve
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by flatulent1 16y ago
This technology clear goes way too far. It might be a good idea to remind employers of when the state of Texas sued doubleclick for stalking. Knowing how to do something doesn't mean that you should do it. There will be some backlash to t
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Or tell them an evil twin tied you up and decided to try a prank.
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by flatulent1 16y ago
It seems like the tech sites that end up with mega-publisher owners are a bit soft in articles that cover products from major potential advertisers. Conde Nast owns Wired, arstechnica, webmonkey, and reddit Tabs to the side of the address b
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by flatulent1 16y ago
>Apple or HTC could easily come out with a similar device before MS hits the market. Sure, but that is if they see it as viable. Unless it's just an add-on secondary input device and display, it'll require that the OS and apps all work
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by flatulent1 16y ago
Note - The title is misleading. It's a zero day vulnerability on all platforms, but the exploits hit XP Vista and W7. It's still prudent to kill Flash on all though. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/13/adobe_flash_0day_vul... It is
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by flatulent1 16y ago
And how does this relate to VirtualBox (open-source)?
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by flatulent1 16y ago
There was another article recently that looked at gender issues and concluded that the differences weren't so much women being better or worse off, but the men being more extreme and greater risk takers. So men see more of both the highs a

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