lightknight

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by lightknight 13y ago
We seem to have created many of the problems that we now need the Defense industry to bail us out of.
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by lightknight 13y ago
How does owning a gun provide protection against meteors? It doesn't; the question itself is invalid. If you think the US military will deploy against even one million Americans on American ground, for the sake of shredding the US Cons
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by lightknight 13y ago
Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn't. See, that's part of the problem in terms of economic calculation when dealing with a surveillance society -> since it's largely impossible to quantify the amount of lost business due to
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by lightknight 13y ago
The fundamental problem with that saying is that it for it to be formed, for it to even exist, as a thought, the reality in which you are currently cohabiting must be terribly skewed off the truth axis. Black must be white, up must be down,
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by lightknight 13y ago
Good. If they're not going to play by the rules, then I shall feel no regret by in abiding by their lead.
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by lightknight 13y ago
So...on the off-chance that the default SDKs for Java / .Net do not implement this natively, anyone have a link to some (preferably free) libraries that do make use of this implementation?
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by lightknight 13y ago
If I ever find a rootkit on my system, that OS gets binned permanently, no questions asked. I have a zero tolerance policy for who's system my computer is: it's mine. Not the US's, not Law Enforcement's, not the MPAA's, not MS's. If it achi
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by lightknight 13y ago
Hey, look, it's time for me to try linux again...
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by lightknight 13y ago
So...launch some floating cities, send them to Venus, send the astronauts later on. There's more than enough energy in the atmosphere to run machinery, and unless there are some truly violent lightning storms, the cities should stay afloat.
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by lightknight 13y ago
Hmm. The problem is that self-replicating machinery, like all robots, would get a little squirrely when exposed to that much ionizing radiation. You'd basically need several humans, hiding out in a radiation-hardened shelter, to run out eve
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by lightknight 13y ago
Depends entirely on what you're doing. If you're just saving large sets of data to the disk, and doing nothing else with them, then yeah, don't use a DB. If you're running lots of random queries on piece-mail parts of several dozen sets of
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by lightknight 13y ago
Bah, PC makers have done this to themselves. Look at their starting lineup...compare it to your average tablet. The tablet is, surprisingly, a better experience. Why? Because it has a solid state drive. It's kind of like what would happen t