teeja

7 ms·

1.
by teeja 13y ago
Sorry, I forgot this isn't really a forum full of hackers. Just news about hackers. I'll remember not to comment without wearing my tie.
2.
by teeja 13y ago
Ah, darnit. I thought you meant the wine.
3.
by teeja 13y ago
I think that somebody is the EFF. HTTPS-Everywhere (look to the bottom of the page to DL the latest .xmi) has a LOT (certainly hundreds) in their list ... with qualifiers noted. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
4.
by teeja 13y ago
That war drove the rise of -empires- seems no surprise at all (see e.g. Alexander). But is that civilization ("An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society") ?? I'm having trouble d
5.
by teeja 13y ago
That's ok, but I was more intrigued recently by 25840^2 + 43776^2 = 2584043776 which led me to Numberopedia. https://sites.google.com/site/numberopedia/
6.
by teeja 13y ago
The benefits of modest amounts of exercise are in how you FEEL (energized) more than how you LOOK. Another benefit is that, because it takes little time, you're much more likely to do it.
7.
by teeja 13y ago
Well said!
8.
by teeja 13y ago
Absolutely. What makes (non-vocal) music "sad" is not inherent in the scales or harmonies used but in culturally-conditioned responses to them. The sad part is that some people can't enjoy truly beautiful music because of tha
9.
by teeja 13y ago
Well said. About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35 "overdraft insurance" fee. I
10.
by teeja 13y ago
Baj. Jumbug. Their hedrons are only special cases of my 42-dimensional Universahedron, which certifiably and undeniably contains everything, including all possible universes. The proof is too small to publish in this post.
11.
by teeja 13y ago
We were building things that we didn’t need to build,” Johnson said at the time. “We were harboring fears that we didn’t need to have.” Somebody needs to engrave that in huge letters on all that glass covering NSA headquarters.
12.
by teeja 13y ago
Goes back quite a ways. There's John Brunner's 1975 classic Shockwave Rider . See also early cyberpunk stuff (Gibson, Sterling et al): http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/ . More recently, Stephenson Snow Crash
13.
by teeja 13y ago
I know. It's as if (ex-CIA-case officer) Phil Agee's claim back in the mid-80s that America was about to be Latinized is true . Healthcare, education, housing ... what's next?
14.
by teeja 13y ago
One of the more sensible theories I've heard is that the fluoridation push happened at about the same time as the need to ramp-up uranium hexafluoride use for enrichment processes ... and that the sudden demand for fluoride could be ma
15.
by teeja 13y ago
I never heard Robert Young say "fucking sue me" in Father Knows Best . But then fathers don't wear fucking fedoras these days either.
16.
by teeja 13y ago
This 'code' reminds me of the gobbledy-gook exchanged between the supercomputers in Colossus - The Forbin Project .
17.
by teeja 13y ago
That's because when they do, it often sounds just like a lie.
18.
by teeja 13y ago
It's great that someone so attentive to teens is candidly exploring this subject on film. Unfortunate that it seems to be focussed primarily on negatives. Yes I spend a lot of time on the net: unlike the TV which consumed thousands of
19.
by teeja 13y ago
Health, housing, education. What's the next sector for the relentless blood funnel?
20.
by teeja 13y ago
$36,000 / 120 months = $300/mo. If it lasts 10 years, that's a pretty good ROI.
21.
by teeja 13y ago
Well, for example compare: OSM http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/51.3825/-68.5375 (I don't see anything on the St. Lawrence River either...) Mapquest http://mapq.st/18F1XnO Looking at LARG
22.
by teeja 13y ago
I guess I was thinking of this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57410234-93/wikipedia-dumps... which was a year ago April (how time flies...) IIRC before that time GM were thickly populated with WP icons, and that dim
23.
by teeja 13y ago
They're funded through our 'representatives'. And (going by Sensenbrenner's statements lately) they'll have something to say about that when Congress rejoins.
24.
by teeja 13y ago
John Gilmore (born 1955)is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. I should be such an 'idiot'.
25.
by teeja 13y ago
I noticed the WP layer missing (on the public web maps) quite a long time ago. Very disappointing. (I heard there was a disagreement between WP and Google that may have precipitated that.) Along with that, I believe that the amount of infor
26.
by teeja 13y ago
Perhaps it "was easy" because we took it for granted that it "couldn't happen here". Maybe that was because too many of the principals in the Manhattan Project were dead. Or, maybe, we don't learn from history,
27.
by teeja 13y ago
I'm pretty sure I got introduced to Fred in one of Groff Conklin's HUGE and GREAT anthologies published back in the 50s. Thanks to a great, open-minded small-town librarian I was already mainlining SF as a young teen. Fred was ver
28.
by teeja 13y ago
The end of the article says, "If you're looking for a job, any job, try North Dakota." The article that links to blames the great ND economy on oil. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013&#
29.
by teeja 13y ago
Perhaps they were rich in sanity. Unlike the 20th century. (Stalins, Hitlers, nuclear brinkmanship, massive pollution, tens of millions killed in war ...) Sanity alone explains their remarkable success. From each according to his ability, t
30.
by teeja 13y ago
Another case of overly dramatic science-journalism. The title says "comet collision". Worse yet just before the video it says "The comet appears to explode upon impact but most likely only made it to within touching distance.

More ›