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by thoth 8y ago
US Agencies don't need a Constitutional Amendment to come into existence - the usual method is simply a law that Congress passes that the President then signs. E.g. Dept of Energy, Dept of Education, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of
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by thoth 8y ago
Huh? Stocks (shares) were invented to raise capital for businesses.
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by thoth 8y ago
There probably are beneficial areas to reduce grocery plastic, but some of that plastic packaging is how/why food stays fresh on shelves longer. Cutting that back means increasing preservatives, throwing stuff out more often, shopping
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by thoth 8y ago
Someone with a masters in education may or may not have the knowledge required for a particular subject, say a math or science. Or another way, just because someone has a masters in education doesn’t mean they can teach any specific class.
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by thoth 8y ago
Well, the more difficult/specialized the subject, the fewer available teachers. Plus, someone that knows calculus well enough to teach it likely has other job prospects (competitive pay).
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by thoth 9y ago
>The 17th amendment[1] is another, which allowed for the direct election (and thus hyper politicization) of Senators. The time before the 17th Amendment wasn't exactly all roses, that was the age of outright bribery of state legisla
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by thoth 9y ago
If you take into account inflation, there is an argument for previous heists being larger... IIRC. Check out http://nosygamer.blogspot.com/2017/09/did-judge-really-pull-...
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by thoth 9y ago
I switched from UE to ST entirely because of UE's licensing/activation model. Maybe it is different now, but UE used to require an internet connection for the registration... or you had to email your info for offline codes. I have
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by thoth 9y ago
Same here. I'm on Facebook because of events. Years ago, a club I was in was using Yahoo Groups, and over time more and more events were posted to Facebook. People complained, and eventually the organizer wrote back "I've bee
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by thoth 9y ago
Their budget is sizeable but less than the annual profits of Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. And NSA pays for tons of stuff that those corporations don't have to deal with like having thousands of linguists. Where is the responsibility
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by thoth 9y ago
Defense may be the only game worth playing, but how will that work? Unlike the real military where civilians simply don't own the hardware, in computer security they do. NSA isn't a hardware or software vendor, and the corporation
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by thoth 9y ago
Call them "bugchecks" instead - that's the actual Windows kernel API that produces these blue/red/green/whatever-color screens: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/ha
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by thoth 9y ago
Whatever logic currently used to print the 'Use quit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit' message could also... quit the REPL in the first place, right? I don't program Python much but do its users constantly type "quit&quot
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by thoth 9y ago
No kidding. What about US customers that want "to manage all telemetry and updates"?
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by thoth 9y ago
You could say the same thing about chat apps (What's App) and picture sharing (Instagram)... >Is there much left? You might want to look at the Netflix tech blog - lots of interesting posts covering all kinds of topics.
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by thoth 9y ago
So: A makes a product with flaws, B makes an exploit, C leaks that exploit, D adds a harmful payload to the exploit and goes on to extort/profit from E, who has computers systems they failed to patch in time... and somehow B and only B
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by thoth 9y ago
>infix operators do have upsides What you are also glossing over are the precedence rules for operators. In this case it works in favor of your point and LISP indeed needs more parens. However in other situations, you might need to re-pa
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by thoth 9y ago
Not sure it is the same game, but I played one my Apple //e in that era, named Telengard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telengard ). I remember doing exactly as you describe: teleporting very deep and looting
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by thoth 9y ago
>Really free markets would have solved this. How do you figure that? Wouldn't a free market solution require United to honor its contracts and the legal system in the first place? Which they provably already ignored when they remove
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by thoth 10y ago
Others have mentioned games... plenty of those. I have some minor apps I run like Zone Five Software's "Sports Tracks" (exercise logger), gaming helper utilities, etc.
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by thoth 10y ago
> * Greater than: 8 -gt 6 ( why isn't this 8 > 6 ?) Wouldn't that be ambiguous with ">" when used for redirecting IO?
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by thoth 10y ago
So basically your perception is that an insider with access (Snowden, Manning) can leak more info than hackers? That's the most obvious and difficult security threat anywhere, something even Google/Gmail is susceptible to.
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by thoth 10y ago
You assume incorrectly and should read the Information Assurance section on their page: "NSA to secure National Security Systems, which includes systems that handle classified information or are otherwise critical to military or intell
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by thoth 10y ago
Windows support for the touch bar gizmo will depend on Apple updating their bootcamp drivers. As for Linux... I guess somebody will need to reverse engineer and write a driver for it.
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by thoth 10y ago
>Being required to use my pinky to try and hit CTRL I use Windows, OSX, and Linux fairly often (mostly Windows, then OSX, Linux here and there). For me, the most frustrating thing about Windows, a minor point but it bugs me, is that you
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by thoth 10y ago
To me, "binge-watching" is along the lines of watching a season of a TV show over a weekend. I don't think of watching several movies in a row as binging them, I'd call that a "movie marathon" especially if the
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by thoth 10y ago
Koan about the radio?! Try nearly 2000 years old, also known as the Ship of Theseus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus ).
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by thoth 10y ago
The FAQ says: What's the actual laptop being used for HacBook Elite? It's a like-new refurbished HP EliteBook, the business class version of the HP ProBook.
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by thoth 10y ago
>forgot who it was at the time, Raikes? It was Allchin when I was there... about that era.
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by thoth 10y ago
I'm not sure Microsoft gives an official name for "\\?\". The closest I can find is " To specify an extended-length path, use the "\\?\" prefix. " (from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us&#x2

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