piguy314

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by piguy314 16y ago
"(40 of 50 answers)" What an impressive sample size they have there.
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by piguy314 16y ago
He's a fossil of a bygone era who should probably just get it over with and die already, that movie was hilarious.
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by piguy314 16y ago
Eh this is the classic guns kill people vs. people kill people argument. Not having guns or bombs isn't going to stop a war. Some of the bloodiest wars in history were fought using swords and spears.
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by piguy314 16y ago
How about cheap, nearly unlimited electricity (nuclear), medical scanning devices that use radio isotopes, radiation therapy to treat cancer, or a variety of other technologies based on the early work of physicists.
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by piguy314 16y ago
I was under the impression wireless bandwidth is always one generation behind cable bandwidth. Are they doing this because they are too lazy to upgrade their network and maintain their competitive edge over wireless? I can't imagine a state
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by piguy314 16y ago
This article had great perspective. We tend to believe our current fiat money is something "new" and "modern" when in reality metal/virtual currency seems to move in cycles (as the author points out). We also tend to believe this most recen
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by piguy314 16y ago
The anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been extremely damaging to innovation and research in the US. There was a great lecture at defcon 17 about the specifics of the laws regarding jailbreaking and reverse engineering (when rev
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by piguy314 16y ago
If I'm not mistaken, and I may very well be, this new facebook paradigm shift is just friend feed on steroids, and since facebook didn't create friend feed, they bought it, can't somebody come a long and just make a new version of friend fe
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by piguy314 16y ago
I wonder if they would accept a pre-paid credit card at the Apple store. These technically use the credit network the same as a regular credit card...
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by piguy314 16y ago
The law on this matter is, as I understand it-IANAL, that a password is a product of the mind and so it would be a violation of your fifth amendment rights to compel you to give up the password, as it would be "testimony against yourself."
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by piguy314 16y ago
Nobody disputes, or should dispute, the right of a sovereign nation to perform invasive searches at international borders. What is most serious and egregious in the DHS/CBP behavior is the slippery slope of trying to change the definition o
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by piguy314 16y ago
While your statement is most likely true, the study controlled for this effect by comparing students with comparable SAT scores.
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by piguy314 16y ago
Other than the warrant being furnished "under seal" everything here seems to be above board.
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by piguy314 16y ago
I think it would be a mistake to apply the Pareto principle to time distribution as the author seems to want to do here: "so putting 20% into any one thing and reaping 80% of the benefits is a very time-maximizing way to live." The Pareto p
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by piguy314 16y ago
I was addicted to world of warcraft for about 18 months and I finally came to the conclusion that I was mostly using it as a "success surrogate." It was much easier for me to be successful in game than in real life, and the cycle time was m