jgeorge

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by jgeorge 11y ago
Appreciating civil liberties and appreciating civil servants are two unrelated things. If I appreciate one, there's no reason why that should force me to appreciate the other. More specifically, civil servants like the president who ch
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Oh, I hesitate to get into this discussion but... :-) Almost by definition though child pornography requires the exploitation of someone who can't consent to it - that's really the crux of the illegal part (the non-consentuality),
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I still have a Mt. Xinu poster they put out in the mid 80s with a BSD X-Wing fighter attacking the AT&T System V Death Star. A more elegant poster, from a more civilized time.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
The title makes me immediately think of Robert McElwaine. "REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED"
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I remember being an FE at the time and having to work on these beasts. FE uniform at the time was a dress shirt and tie, and working inside one of these things resulted being covered in a cloud of toner dust in most cases. I'd buy oxfo
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Great. It's not like politics in the US doesn't already have a critical issue with being an echo chamber, here now you can ensure your avoidance of co-workers with scary political opinions that don't match yours. As a society
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by jgeorge 11y ago
9.0.2 does indeed fix it. I don't have a watch; I almost electrocuted myself a number of years ago wearing a watch with a metal band, so I don't wear one anymore. :)
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by jgeorge 11y ago
My iPhone clock is 2 minutes fast. My project is with network timing, so I'm acutely aware of clocks being off, and its driving me crazy.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Why do I get the feeling that secure, easy-to-set-up wifi includes some friendly and numerous connections to google's analytics backends? I don't like google sniffing my search terms much less every packet traversing their router
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I refuse to be made to feel quilty because Amazon treats their employees like crap. If Amazon charged more for their products, they wouldn't treat their employees any better than they do now. It's a cultural problem (or a bad mana
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Same here. The Episode IV laserdisc is almost as close as you can easily get to unedited, and even that version has edits. But the two biggies, "Han Shot First" and the stormtrooper that whacks his head walking through a doorway
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by jgeorge 11y ago
86% of my business calls are unanswered because I don't want to talk to you. So no, I don't want you texting me instead. :)
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Tell me where to vote and I will.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I was asking myself the same question. Windows is by far not my primary OS, and I used to know what those variants were, but I don't remember anymore.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Too busy rebundling all the application installers to post updates.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I was super excited when the Leap Motion was announced, and I jumped at the preorder for one. That was however long ago it was, and it's been stored in it's box since. It's very cool technology but I have yet to find a proble
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by jgeorge 11y ago
It can't, without meaningless anecdotes the article wouldn't have anything at all to say.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
No. Don't waste their time, energy, and money to "network" if you have no intention of taking their offer (if they even make one at all). Arrangements "made and paid for" can be reused, it's not like they'
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I don't expect much from Politico, but this is pretty low even for them.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I've met him a couple of times at gaming/pinball events. He's definitely one who suffers from being told one too many times that he's a genius. Walter Day is as guilty of that as anyone else is. If you get him talking ab
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by jgeorge 11y ago
At the time I was a hardware engineer and I installed and upgraded so many System/34/36/38s I couldn't count them all. It was, by modern standards, dinosaur-era hardware but I loved working on them every time. To add the
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by jgeorge 11y ago
A whole new build for a wallpaper?
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by jgeorge 11y ago
I sometimes lie awake at night asking myself that very same question.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Have you looked at the Intel Galileo? It's a singleboard computer, and can run something Debian-ish. The stock Intel software is very scaled down busybox, but I'm pretty sure there's a full Debian variant for it, I haven&#x27
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by jgeorge 11y ago
> Publicly shaming someone on twitter isn't necessarily trying to start a witch hunt. "Trying", no. But Twitter is (and has been for a while) The Great Internet Outrage Machine, so I think someone with any level of Twitter
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by jgeorge 11y ago
The biggest issue last time around is that there was a bug in a number of Linux kernel versions that threw things for a loop - they'd spin the CPU 100% busy, or some other issue, and that's largely what caused the issues last time
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Do you analytics show where the installs are coming from? As soon as an app goes paid, piracy kicks in big time. That seems high for piracy, but I don't have any good data to compare it to.
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Astroturfing, really?
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by jgeorge 11y ago
Perfect for... "white people"

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