seanica

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by seanica 12y ago
Press F11 then refresh. Reminds of screensavers I wrote in the 90s/early 2000s. Very nice.
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by seanica 13y ago
It sounds like an expensive drug habit to have. To start with, imagine the withdrawal symptoms.
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by seanica 13y ago
The Wikileaks Party does a good job of summarizing some of the agenda. http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/why-australians-should-be-w...
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by seanica 13y ago
There's one problem I have with it. This afternoon it triggered a migraine. I just came back just now, just in case it was a co-incidence, and yep, it was not a co-incidence.
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by seanica 13y ago
"tea-party style paranoid right-wing anti big evil government organization". ...is hardly nuanced parlance.
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by seanica 14y ago
> It's just something that needs to be thought through. Your statement is what I mean. "Thinking things through" should be done during design. Once you have built system, its much harder to compensate for design flaws. Programming is no
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by seanica 14y ago
I disagree that this would be a bug. It's a design flaw that cannot be corrected by fixing bugs. It's analogous to security flaws. If there is a flaw in the design, no amount of bug fixing will make the system secure, unless that 'bug fixin
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by seanica 14y ago
One thing that mustn't be over-looked with interfaces that 'learn about your behavior' is they can lock into a 'local maxima' and can be difficult to retrain without resetting to factory defaults. - If your lifestyle changes, can the inter
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by seanica 14y ago
> A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. That sounds like they would be proving a negative, which is impossible to do.
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by seanica 14y ago
It was fun, but sometimes _really_ hard to determine if I was actually participating in the game or just spectating!
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by seanica 14y ago
> oh I missed you are in the EU, not USA That won't stop them from trying. I hope there's a nearby friendly embassy. 8)
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by seanica 14y ago
I hope he's changed his password. In one of the vids it's fairly easy to workout what he was typing to login.
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by seanica 14y ago
The same could be said about your comment. Touché.
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by seanica 14y ago
> How is that propaganda? defn: "Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view" http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda 2: the spreading of
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by seanica 14y ago
Good observation. I stand corrected. I wonder how Zachary Harris would defend the lack of neutrality of that quote, if he was asked to do so.
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by seanica 14y ago
The article up to that point was great. However, that sentence "But the government of Iran probably could" made the preceding paragraphs appear to be a vehicle to deliver a meme (like a shaggy-dog story). The rest of the article could have
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by seanica 14y ago
What's not true? (what's 'it' that you talk about)
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by seanica 14y ago
“A 384-bit key I can factor on my laptop in 24 hours,” he says. “The 512-bit keys I can factor in about 72 hours using Amazon Web Services for $75. And I did do a number of those. Then there are the 768-bit keys. Those are not factorable by
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by seanica 14y ago
They look really good. Hoever, on iOS5, especially when zoomed in - page just scrolls. On the demo page, when not zoomed in, it hard to tell if it actually slides or not because the button is completely covered by my finger tip.
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by seanica 14y ago
I've always liked retort, "If I have nothing to hide, why do you chase me?"
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by seanica 14y ago
"you don't have to worry about Anti-Virus and Firewall software management, admin permissions" Are you sure about that? "Flashback" is just one example. Apple has also approached an av vendor to help harden OSX.
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by seanica 14y ago
I was expecting a punchline such as, "The troll, on seeing the implementation of our feature set has notified our lawyers that we are infringing on his patent"
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by seanica 14y ago
>> When someone buys an iPad they are escaping the hangover of using Microsoft Windows for two decades. ... form factor is irrelevant Form factor is incredibly relevant. For me it's not about escaping from vendor X, or operating sys
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by seanica 14y ago
Or DDOS
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by seanica 15y ago
That's true, but sometimes 1) you don't have access to that type of information because either it is unknown, or it is unpublished. 2) you have no choice because the people selling your product have already made a promise to the customer.
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Why don't modern browsers include precompiled js libraries?
9 points by seanica 15y ago|6 comments
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by seanica 15y ago
It will have to be all-or-none: Last May, Texas tried to pass a bill to ban 'groping patdowns'. The bill was passed by the Texan House of Representative, but then the federal government, approx 1-2 weeks later, threatened to shutdown all Te
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by seanica 15y ago
101% Yes. I'm always gutted when I read "currently only available in the USA".
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by seanica 15y ago
I think Adam's write up is missing this link to ICANN's 'Thick vs. Thin Whois for New gTLDs' Explanatory Memorandum : http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/thick-thin-whois-30... (PDF warning) On paragraph states: "Proponents of requir