olssy

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by olssy 9y ago
No idea why the website offers so little information but here is the project: https://github.com/solid/
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by olssy 9y ago
I actually appreciated the article offering another conclusion as the author did clearly indicate the originals papers conclusion. This isn't the first time papers using data from this study( https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz&
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by olssy 10y ago
That's my bet also.
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by olssy 12y ago
It is worth noting that McGill has over 60% of students coming from outside of Quebec so this doesn't have much to do with Quebec's education system. http://www.mcgill.ca/about/quickfacts/students
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by olssy 12y ago
Google was hacked by the NSA years ago according to the Snowden leaks: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821
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by olssy 12y ago
I first heard a variant of this story about 30 years ago, either a lot of kids killed themselves jumping out of windows on acid or it's an urban legend.
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by olssy 12y ago
From what I can tell one of the exploits allows for code execution with root privileges, another for accessing kernel-space memory and the third will crash the machine. Are any of these things not already doable when someone has physical a
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by olssy 12y ago
If only humans could agree on what makes things beneficial to themselves. Are self-driving cars and rockets to Mars beneficial to humanity? Depending on how you look at it the answer is both yes and no.
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by olssy 12y ago
It shouldn't be a struggle at all just be conscious that freeBSD does not try and protect the user from him/her self. Case in point, "kill 1" won't do anything on linux but in freeBSD it will kill the init process.
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by olssy 12y ago
HTTP is too flexible not to theoretically break but in practice it can be used and abused and still deliver.
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by olssy 12y ago
As long as the horse is in the house, has Mozilla ever given any thought to creating its own search service?
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by olssy 12y ago
At least this way large corporations will start paying more for their bounties.
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by olssy 12y ago
You can order it in North America from the 2600 store: http://store.2600.com/clubmate.html Funny there was no mention in the article that they are the eastern distributor what with them being a hacker organization with deep
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by olssy 12y ago
A lot more than that is wrong with capitalism like the fact that no value is given to anything you can't sell.
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by olssy 12y ago
This company was a client where I used to work and seemed very knowledgable and friendly: http://www.cartika.com Not really the same as DigitalOcean but they offer VPS hosting with data centers in Canada(and US) and they are bas
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by olssy 12y ago
A monitor that outputs wavelengths of light that are therapeutic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy Been thinking about this since Asus came out with a laptop with an air ionizer in 2008.
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by olssy 12y ago
I use :Ex(plore) It's not great but it gets the job done.
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by olssy 12y ago
It might be because when you live in paradise money does not have the same value and productivity does not limited to renumerated work.
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by olssy 12y ago
There's something to hate in all programming languages but hate can almost be seen as a popularity metric.
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by olssy 12y ago
If you are expecting faster speeds you will likely be disappointed, you're still going through the network you're on.
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by olssy 12y ago
Designers like sexy, developers like geeky, that's always been my reasoning behind it. It's a shame too because end users don't seem very interested to use a product if there isn't a sexy interface. I also think the mone
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by olssy 12y ago
Nope, but it sure is fun trying!
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by olssy 12y ago
The broken window fallacy only works if the funds being spent can and will be spent in a more productive way.
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by olssy 12y ago
400 million saved is 400 million removed from the economy, isn't it?
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by olssy 12y ago
I think Eich was also on the board which would have made it 4-3. Not sure though.
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by olssy 12y ago
Did anyone else notice a screw coming detached from the titanium underbody shield after the impact of the three ball tow hitch, you can also see the shield bend on the impact of the concrete block and the hole where the screw was. It would
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by olssy 12y ago
Whatever kind of hacker you are there's a great convention for us all this summer in NYC, Hackers On Planet Earth: hope.net
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by olssy 13y ago
I think it's actually CESU-8 encoding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr26/ I'm guessing it's implemented like this for performance reasons and calling it utf-8 was just a marketing ploy as everyone
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by olssy 13y ago
Cool story but I read the date was added afterwards and was removed from wikipedia in 2005 when this was realized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ABlack_Monday_(1987)#Link...