harrystone

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by harrystone 9y ago
Never suggests anything on linux Chrome 57.0.2987.133
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by harrystone 11y ago
Absolutely the nicest way to say "join my cult or get out" that I've ever heard of.
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by harrystone 12y ago
It is not astonishing that a company that would do this would also lie about it. They knew what they were doing.
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by harrystone 12y ago
This is how cynical I've become about this kind of stuff, I see it as a small victory that AT&T admits they're doing it.
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by harrystone 12y ago
This will continue as long as so many people want linux to be a free version of Windows or Mac OS X, instead of a free PC unix.
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by harrystone 12y ago
Still using it, at home and at work.
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by harrystone 12y ago
You know attorney and police officer are really different jobs, right?
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by harrystone 12y ago
Good. When I have a problem, I can get a hold of a human at Zillow and they're nice to work with. As far as I know Trulia is just a very complicated cron job.
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by harrystone 12y ago
I've been using Slackware for years now both at home and at work. It's a great distro and that's because of Pat!
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by harrystone 12y ago
I appreciate what Alexis is trying to do here but I hope he isn't assuming that the FCC just doesn't understand the problem. That's how this reads to me. Maybe the idea is to be diplomatic. I don't think the FCC cares
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by harrystone 12y ago
Offhand I can't think of any of my friends who haven't been arrested.
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by harrystone 12y ago
"Today we also lost extensive online forums for a community of sex workers to keep each other safe, screen clients, and blacklist predators." I'm hopelessly cynical at this point in my life, so I'm not surprised at all t
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by harrystone 12y ago
Same here, I checked it every day for many years. It was one of those fundamental parts of the linux experience in the late 90s. It surprised me how much emotional impact this announcement had for me. I hate to see freshmeat go, even if i
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by harrystone 12y ago
At my first real admin job I had root on an E6500 machine and really thought I was the shit.
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by harrystone 12y ago
Call me paranoid but this just looks like really good evidence that Truecrypt was secure.
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by harrystone 12y ago
Obviously, what happened to metafilter isn't right. But it should also be obvious why Google doesn't say what needs to be done to remove a penalty. The sites that should receive a penalty will just use that information to furth
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by harrystone 12y ago
Same here, running the latest version of Firefox on Slackware.
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by harrystone 12y ago
It is impressive. I can't imagine dealing with that kind of nightmare. I once worked as an admin on Solaris boxes at a big pharma company. There were ~77,000 users in their LDAP directory. I was very careful.
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by harrystone 12y ago
Coda is a great editor and although I didn't really use it for what it was designed for, I really liked it.
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by harrystone 12y ago
This seems like the rube goldberg version of chroot to me.
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by harrystone 12y ago
The business world needs more of these kinds of no bullshit, no footnotes, no qualifier statements.
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by harrystone 12y ago
I wonder if this will finally replace WindowMaker on my desktops. Don't laugh, it works.
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by harrystone 12y ago
Are people really serious when they talk about the fabled Hacker News of old? What could it possibly have been like? I'm imagining something like zombo.com, only with lower contrast text.
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by harrystone 12y ago
>There's a very real danger of businesses clamouring to deliver cheap, quick experiences using iBeacon technology without putting much thought behind them. There's no way this won't turn into the ow-my-balls of advertising
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by harrystone 12y ago
This was done to a friend-of-a-friend of mine. When he was diagnosed he was given 90 days. He lived 2 years so it was a win in my opinion. I believe he thought so too.
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by harrystone 12y ago
They're really re-inventing the wheel here, there's nothing there that fldigi or soundmodem doesn't do better. AX.25 is built into linux. With that, soundmodem, and a radio you can route whatever traffic want over a radio l
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by harrystone 12y ago
I agree. Most people aren't smart enough to put down their phone even to save their own life. The guy has good intentions but some people just can't be saved.
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by harrystone 12y ago
I appreciate this guy's intent but he doesn't need to do this. Texting while driving is the leading cause of death for teens. The problem is fixing itself.
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by harrystone 12y ago
>Less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor's degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010. There's your problem right there. I have a hard time believing that there is a systematic effort to keep wome
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by harrystone 12y ago
It doesn't matter if we care or not. What would we do that would make any difference?

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