sandworm

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by sandworm 11y ago
Give them a couple years. After a few more "government is bad" TV spots, and under a republican president, they will try again. Whether they merge today or then doesn't really matter. They are effectively merged already. T
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by sandworm 11y ago
Give them some credit. By this they are acknowledging the concept of a proxy. Compared to most, this request does a reasonable job of describing what they have and what they want efficiently. They aren't asking for everyone connecte
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by sandworm 11y ago
They know about Tor. Five years ago it was magic to most cops and all prosecutors. Today they have been educated, to some extent by people like me. They acknowledge that the exit node is a proxy. In years past they would have tried sen
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by sandworm 11y ago
Well I probably should have said "necessary reading abilities to acquire topics through available means." They are capable of understanding the topics. They have problems with sitting down and learning the topic through reading v
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by sandworm 11y ago
I don't teach reading. I teach adults in years 3/4 of a 4-year degree program. They are all literate. That have issues when confronted with large amounts of "dry" text. Finland wants to move towards skill-based rather
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by sandworm 11y ago
That really brings back memories. That sound means all the phonecalls, parking and standing line is over and you get to actually watch a movie as it was meant to be seen. The engineering of the "noise" also had a practical purpos
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by sandworm 11y ago
As someone who teaches young adults (part time, local college) I find this approach unsettling. Being able to work in groups and bounce between topics is all well and good, but I'm running into adults who have trouble reading. I don&
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by sandworm 11y ago
5 or 6 billion? In NY that's nothing. On wall street those numbers appear and disappear every second of every day. Nobody will even notice.
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by sandworm 11y ago
The public debate has already come and gone. The law is written. The fish wins.
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by sandworm 11y ago
How much water should California spend on golf lessons for children? Or outdoor swimming pools in which nobody every swims? I can think of much greater wastes of water than trying to save an endangered species. If nothing else it allows o
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by sandworm 11y ago
Chapter 01: The linux Foundation Chapter 02: Linux Philosophy and Concepts Yup, another linux course that starts with a lesson in IP law. "Windows for dummies" doesn't start with an hour on Microsoft's corporate structu
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by sandworm 11y ago
Adblockers do not block ads. They block BANNER ads. If advertisers want to pitched their products, they should contract with websites for that website to display a relevant, clickable, ad hosted by the website. Such schemes are no differe
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by sandworm 11y ago
For those interested in what this animal looked like while alive (ie how many humps do you get when you hybrid one+two?): http://www.camelphotos.com/camel_breeds.html
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by sandworm 11y ago
Frankly, I have to dismiss this report. As Truecrypt is cross-platform and this report evaluates Truecrypt only under windows, this is at best 33% of a report. A fault in the linux/mac implementations could result failings in the win
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by sandworm 11y ago
DPRK attacks film studio = sanctions, counterattack, TO WAR! China attacks Github = nothing, silence, heads kept in sand. The attack itself is irrelevant. The scale of response is only related, inversely related, to the political size of t
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by sandworm 11y ago
That would be true if there was a "water rights law". The problem is that there is no single law. Water rights are tied to real property law, especially when farming is involved. The American legal tradition, as adopted from th
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by sandworm 11y ago
There are limits to the governor's powers here. Much of the agricultural water comes from "rights" or easements attached to specific land. Ownership of farm X comes with the right to water from river Y. This is the "f
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by sandworm 11y ago
Least skilled at skills western employers do not care about. I totally disagree that literacy and problem solving are what employers look for today. Maybe in the 80s. Today it's about non-written communication and teamwork skills. I
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by sandworm 11y ago
I hope that is the case, but I've seen far too many of these articles written by native english speakers. I've graded papers by university students (year three!) that were far worse than this article.
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by sandworm 11y ago
It will take months, years, decades to scan each cask. They are basically doing a cat scan of a large object using natural muons, cosmic rays. There aren't very many rays at the earth's surface. A cat scan will use millions, bil
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by sandworm 11y ago
I don't have the equipment to track or photograph them, but I do follow these guys. It's fun to look up and see a multi-billion dollar "classified" object whipping by. Some of them (lacrosse) are almost recognizable wi
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by sandworm 11y ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Pedestrians are not automatically to blame in every case. Today we have rules governing the movements of both pedestrians and cars. There is no default winner. Pedestrians win on crosswalks and such
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by sandworm 11y ago
He is correct. He is saying that a gram of fuel doesn't have enough energy to get itself into orbit. That is a true statement. But he ignores the fact that rockets spend many many grams of fuel to get a gram of non-fuel into orbit.
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by sandworm 11y ago
It isn't just how they die. Similar articles could be written on "How doctors loose weight", "How doctors pick their doctors" or "What do doctors do when their kids are sick". Insider knowledge and the e
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by sandworm 11y ago
I wonder whether they put as much information into the patches as the US military does. For instance, many programs operating out of a certain base incorporate some variation of the number 51 into their patches. Patches for space launch h
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by sandworm 11y ago
The real trick isn't that they get people to buy expensive rocks. The real trick is that they convinced so many of us to rebury them. Cemeteries are most certainly the richest untapped diamond fields in existence.
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by sandworm 11y ago
Imho this might be an orbital adjustment tool. The thing has solar panels and is in a low orbit. So those panels are a significant source of drag. Normally this is a problem, but perhaps they are using this drag to adjust the orbit. I&#x
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by sandworm 12y ago
"I feel so bad about Maxis closing down," Hallikainen said. "The older SimCitys were really the inspiration for us to even consider making a city builder." That is a brave statement these days. No doubt they have to tre
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by sandworm 12y ago
So what happens in a power failure? I can see the need and advantage of a system to make sure that only the appropriate doors open at certain stations, but surely this could have been done with information at the local level. Barcodes, NFC
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by sandworm 12y ago
Rare is a difficult term to nail down. I was taken aback by the statement that he had only seen two cases over 23 years. To think of how not-rare it is, think of all the heterosexual child abuse that goes on within families. Child abuse i

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