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pigDisgusting
12y ago
I'm on the fence about those semantics. I think we're splitting hairs here. Is there honestly a profound difference between the two? If prostitution were legal, yet regulated, failure to adhere to the proper regulations could stil
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Because cell phones are discrete fashionable accessories that serve as status symbols displaying varying wealth and disposable income, while Google Glass is a lopsided glowing deformity on the side of your head.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Equally obnoxious and unnerving.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
...or perhaps it's an astro-turfed propaganda campaign inspired by "scared straight" programs.</tinfoil-hat> But still, don't take everything posted on the internet at face value.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Well, the non-cutesy response is to cull local IMEI's (with false base station attacks) and spoof random IMEI's that spam local base stations with control channel traffic, and swamp normal signal data with noise. (not quite "
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Except last time I checked, possession of a mobile device is not required by law? So, what the fuck. Not to mention: [ "the battery's dead and the proprietary charger is stuck in checked baggage", &quo
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
This kind of idea is something that can only be pulled off after gaining a threshold level of fame and media attention. It's not like this would work for anyone other than Wu-Tang. Critics and Journalists are desperate to proclaim that
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Dependency Hell. And oh yeah, Make. I fucking hate Make. Not as much as I hate pay-to-play ecosystems like Microsoft Visual Studio, but yeah, fuck Make.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Ha ha ha! I did know all of the male words, thanks to AD&D and the History channel. Meanwhile, on the feminine side I was shocked to be confronted by 7 out of 12 words, that I would be hard-pressed to use correctly in a sentence. But se
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
The minute I've heard Trillian all I can think of was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
C# isn't particularly new. It's almost 15 years old. You might be more interested in Microsoft's as-yet-unreleased new language, which seems to be codenamed "Oslo"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Actually, to be more accurate, it's a victory for due process and Great Justice.
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
Sir, your response is well-reasoned and satisfactory. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
First Question: Does an endorsement also provide one karma point in favor of the user that posted the comment? If yes, why not just bind endorsements to the upvote link? So that it becomes a natural behavior, in keeping with existing norms
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pigDisgusting
12y ago
My god. Those faces are like something out of my worst nightmares.
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
No, the enemy is institutionalized secrecy. A form of institutionalized secrecy concealed and locked away behind a highly-trained, tightly-regimented, hierarchical, ideological organization of indoctrinated, unquestioning personnel (recruit
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
I'd be curious to know how you think pictograms such as these might honestly impact someone's job. I've worked in some pretty uptight places, and anywhere that I might've encountered petty flak for something like this wa
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
Well played, Tohhou, well played. Now if you'll please excuse me, I've just stepped in some of my own doggy doo, and I need scrape off my shoe.
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
You forgot "creepy stalker", you closed-minded male chauvinist ape.
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13y ago
The third world is utterly fucking doomed to an eternity of indentured servitude if people in the first world don't stand up against those who might implement a global electronic panopticon. The second world, meanwhile, is likely to co
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
...do you mean ??? That's the numeric entity for a non-breakng space. is the named entity for the same character.
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pigDisgusting
13y ago
That's because it isn't. Or at least not in the traditional sense. It's not just some old bullshit, scripted in PHP, running on an array of scrappy LAMP boxen. They run their PHP on HHVM for one: https://en.m.wikip
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13y ago
I mean thank god we destroyed communism in Soviet Russia. Those rotten pieces of shit wanted to redistribute wealth to the people. Fuck THAT shit. Everyone knows is just corruption in disguise. Is always better to keep your corruption unp