runningdogx

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by runningdogx 14y ago
There is no place for humor or overly subjective terms like "evil" in a software license or other legal document, and the problem with Douglas Crockford's license is that he fails to understand that. That is, unless his intent is to keep ev
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by runningdogx 14y ago
This makes no sense. Is Stallman so focused on software that he isn't considering the implications of continuing to apply broken software patents to hardware? FPGAs? Is an algorithm implemented on a FPGA a software or hardware implementat
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by runningdogx 14y ago
A very nice networking feature has landed in 3.5: CODEL AQM packet scheduler to fight bufferbloat. It is mainly relevant for routers. http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
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by runningdogx 14y ago
With a modern pcre library version and nginx, instead of location ~ ^/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ { set $username $1; you can use named captures location ~ ^/(?<username>[a-zA-Z0-9_]+)/ {
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by runningdogx 14y ago
Yeah, I think me_myselft meant rights in terms of social justice, and not "fundamental rights" in the sense of abstract political philosophy. So many arguments get caught up over semantics and not what people are trying to say.
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by runningdogx 14y ago
Government doesn't create the principles of nuclear physics that allow fission and fusion to occur. We can't get rid of the nuclear threat as long as the knowledge of nuclear physics exists and someone somewhere wants to conquer the world (
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by runningdogx 14y ago
This is another attempt at segmenting a market for goods depending on the price that can be extracted for that good in a particular market, while keeping the cheap versions from being marketable in countries with higher discretionary income
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by runningdogx 14y ago
Over-achievement also fits into the clueless tier. The clueless can't get rich or into upper management except by accident, but they can have successful careers as long as the psychopath upper tier sees them as useful. In the GP corporate
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by runningdogx 14y ago
I think Oracle has gone round the bend, but does the anti-Oracle view of APIs mean basically that all GPL software is LGPL? When you call a function, why should that function's copyright status have any bearing on the copyright status of yo
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by runningdogx 14y ago
Maybe this will light a fire under the registrars and DNS hosting companies, because some of them still don't support IPv6 glue records (for registrars) or AAAA records (for DNS hosters). http://www.sixxs.net/faq/dns/?faq=ipv6glue
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Hint to law enforcement: It doesn't matter whether copyright infringement is ethically good or bad. It doesn't matter whether these sites are legally liable for copyright infringement that goes on using them. You look like complete morons
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by runningdogx 15y ago
This is not about some new vulnerability. It is a survey of collected public keys. The main security-relevant conclusion is that some key generators are not using enough entropy. Dr. Lenstra is a co-author of the paper (so it shouldn't be
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by runningdogx 15y ago
One aspect I've never thought about before is the selection of representatives for parliament/legislature. In the U.S., they're pre-selected in primary elections per party, but the national elections are single-winner per seat, so the cand
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by runningdogx 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands#UMTS-FDD (scroll up slightly from there to see the five "major" UMTS bands identified. NOTE: GSM/EDGE band support is different from UMTS band support. Except where explicitly stated, th
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by runningdogx 15y ago
I've followed the discussion of the AF447 investigation on several flight discussion forums. The PF (Bonin) apparently never became aware of his angle of attack (once the airplane fully stalled, AOA was absurdly high). He did not seem to b
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by runningdogx 15y ago
(tl;dw for the video: it's about the dramatically improved detection of breast cancer particularly in dense breast tissue (where mammographies often fail to visibly differentiate tumors) by injecting a radiotracer and using small gamma dete
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Could google vary the crawling rate on each site and see what effects that has on response times, and develop an algorithm to adjust crawl speed so as not to affect site performance too much? If google starts crawling a site and notices se
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by runningdogx 15y ago
By casual observation, probably 90% or more of the driving population violates speed laws regularly; only the people who exceed the limit by 10-15mph or more, or who get caught in small town speed traps, get ticketed for it. Why do you cons
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The Asus Transformer Prime might be disqualified because it's not chromeos and it doesn't have a built in hardware keyboard, but it's a quad-core tegra tablet running gingerbread and soon ICS (keyboard optional). http://www.engadget.com/20
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by runningdogx 15y ago
I didn't know what skyrim was, beyond a vague awareness that it was a game, so I went to elderscrolls.com, only to encounter a flash-wrapped video with no volume control . I see this particular usability faux pas way too often. If you rol
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by runningdogx 15y ago
The capsule could have been from some industrial entity that should have protected the capsule until it was handed off to a recycler (one who knew what they were getting), but didn't (maybe to cut disposal costs, or by accident/laziness).
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by runningdogx 15y ago
I absolutely hate that. Google needs to introduce a www.google.com/adv interface that doesn't respond, "I think you meant salt water, Dave," when you query for [sat water].
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by runningdogx 15y ago
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=firefox+7&b2=chrome+16 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3251 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6606 No, Chrome still does not have mathml.
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Fell out of usage with the advent of industrial printing presses, it looks like?
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Still no native epub support. What is Amazon waiting for?
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Sort of. I sleep for 9 hours if I've been up for more than about 14 hours prior and there's no alarm. If I've been awake for more than 24 hours it goes up to 12hrs. If I've had several drinks (alcohol), I never sleep for 9 hrs, it's alway
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by runningdogx 15y ago
$13 isn't a lot to pay. However, if it takes an hour to save and itemize out of state invoices, in order to pay taxes on them, I'm going to guess that's less than you make per hour, so the entire exercise represents a net loss (other than
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by runningdogx 15y ago
On one thing we agree. There is rarely if ever a place for calculators when doing real math, for which I have a healthy interest and appreciation. But that's not because advanced calculators offer an advantage; rather, it's because they a
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by runningdogx 15y ago
With a one-line segmented lcd display, I wouldn't care that it's flashable even if it ran linux. There's no way I'd get one. The 12c I can somewhat understand. It has a niche; it's accepted on a bunch of financial-related exams where othe
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by runningdogx 15y ago
Really? I think the n-spires are going in the wrong direction for post-academic users, trying to approach the input (full alphabetic keyboard) and UI of a computer on a severely size-constrained piece of hardware, rather than focusing on w

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