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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I was at a garage sale and I was perusing a bunch of Wrox books. The seller offered me a ridiculous price and then I noticed he was on the cover of one of them. I asked him about it and I think he'd rather have the latter benefits than
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
That doesn't mean it's not illegal. For banks that don't encrypt everything, changing an advertised rate from another would probably run afoul of all sorts of illegal.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Or a Dell Precision 'mobile workstation'
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I was a tad disappointed that the keyboard wasn't functional.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
You didn't. I don't think you did. It was just a reverse moving goalposts argument to suggest that both propositions were wrong. But "if men are 3x as likely to interrupt women" is literally an example of sexism... the l
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I was countering one strawman argument with another. Please realize that the bar to meet here isn't violence, it's professional and courtesy.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
If men are 3x as likely to engage in violent behaviour, is it sexism or simply a biological tendency? And if it is a biological tendency, is it not sexist to shame men for their more assertive tendencies? /sarcasm
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I applied at a company that I assumed had at least 40+ people (assuming normal turnover) because of the frequency of job postings. Turned out they had 4 employees. And they wanted me to create a full application before I was given a second
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Your comment reminded me of a old Outer Limits episode, "Think Like A Dinosaur" where the teleportation "equation had to be balanced." After a delayed confirmation, the technician had to kill the original woman. https:&
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Given BBC's coverage as of late, I assume BBC will contact your boss if you make a pro-Corbyn statement. This story reminded me of Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen trying to get an anti-Trumper fired from her position at a bank by outing her
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
This should tell you everything you need to know: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/788489976266780672
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
"The U.S. Coast Guard has estimated that human error accounts for up to 96 percent of all marine casualties." But if we somehow manage to account for 90% of all eventualities when programming, how are we going to be safer?
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
So if someone just happens to distribute the source code for Hancom Office before this is resolved in the courts, would he or she be in the free and clear?
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
"And route all supply runs to alternative locations for the next two days. Order cake to be delivered to supply closet in 47 hours."
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I'd rather see an assortment of different products in schools. Web functionality is pretty much the only thing that has to be common for all. Teachers should be taught the principles of connecting to Wi-Fi, just like the students. How
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
$13.60 Kindle. That's a lot of variation.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Not entirely true. I've seen issues with Google's G Suite / Google Apps for Work and Google+. Things like your co-workers avatar being displayed instead of your own.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Microsoft Mouse (software release 9.00) from 1993 was a coveted driver back in it's day. If I remember correctly I think it only took 2K of conventional memory and the rest shunted into upper memory. After discovering that on a BBS I r
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Just an offshoot thought, but some random art major writing one of these guides giving a bird's eye overview of the entire process is something most businesses should be able to do themselves. But they don't.
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
Didn't it change the web page on your computer browser after you successfully added it into Google Authenticator? I suppose you could always take a photo of the QR code and then rescan that. Text seems simpler. edit: Anyone else rememb
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
The HyperFIDO Mini (U2F Security Key) is the cheapest and smallest key I've found so far for $10. (Amazon) The Yubico are probably the best key chain candidate. No one wants to trust their key to a weak nylon thread. You can also set u
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
The new Rickrolling. "OK Google. Sell all Burger King stock."
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
What about COPPA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I haven't seen any mention of COPPA here. I would think that selling a child's internet habits would constitute a violation . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
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by orbitingpluto 9y ago
I've said this before, but the last time Skype worked reliably for me was on the Nokia n800, circa 2008. I had a subscription for several years 2012-2015ish and didn't have an acceptable quality call once.
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
To get a members' discount at a grocer, I once signed up as Mickey Mouse and put my address as Disneyland. "Thank you for shopping with <store>, Mister Mouse."
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Hey, it's all part of the "sharing economy". Driver satisfaction will improve once it's composed entirely of autonomous vehicles. As for the real drivers, who are paid less than taxi drivers, I'm wondering how that
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
This. The UI in Windows 10 is inconsistent and ever changing. Do you have to do something in the flat design portion or in the older Win7 style? It's akin to having to attempt to plug a USB2.0 cable into your computer three times. I&#x
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
Poor Gustave Whitehead. Overlooked yet again... maybe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead
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by orbitingpluto 10y ago
"You think the guys designing prosthetics should be administering SAP systems for UCSF?" Strawman your favourite argument? Of course I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that a medical academic institution shouldn't pr

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