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by vonskippy 12y ago
Rolling your own firewall is almost always a bad idea. Hardening a full blown distro is a terrible place to start, and no place for a novice to "guess" that they have it locked down "enough". There are numerous open sou
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by vonskippy 13y ago
According to DynDNS it's a malware site. www.csie.ntu.edu.tw is blocked in your Defense Plan Content Blocked This is a known Spyware? website, which is blocked as specified in your Defense Plan?.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Why is this on HN? Trolling the Wikipedia site might be an interesting hobby, but I don't see in any way how it fits HN.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Cutting the cord, in Comcast’s universe, just doesn’t save you very much money." And this is why (in general) Americans are in debt. They don't understand that ANY savings, is savings. And that "just" saving 20,3
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Easy solution, setup company name, use company name for all package shipments, wire transfers, checks, etc. Should solve everything but the travel.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
I guess will see if that strategy works or not - Logmein will be a perfect case study. Years of free service - now its paid or use something else.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
OMG not this again. This has to be the most overinflated topic in tech. Just do your thing, if you're good, nobody cares what sex you are, if you're bad, don't use your sex as an excuse.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Two 4TB Ext USB3 HD's and a Safety Deposit box at your Bank. Cheap, more or less convenient (get four drives and rotate your backup drives), and secure. Easier yet if you can pair the amount of crucial stuff to under 4TB, then it'
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by vonskippy 13y ago
If the only value your website offers is to bring eyeballs to ad's, then it's time for you to find a new vice. If you want to serve up ads on you site, make sure they're relevant, they're absolutely 110% malware free, an
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by vonskippy 13y ago
How long until Ads start showing up on your thermostat? Or on your smartphone controller app - want to change the temperature, please watch these short commercials and then we'll allow you to change your temperature settings. "Fe
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Never take legal threats via email. If they can't have a lawyer, send via certified mail (yes, snail mail) specifying the actual complaint, and the legal justification behind said complain, then just ignore them.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Guess he can't let Bezos and his dorky drones get all the media attention.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Just another whiny rich person trying to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Google is NOTHING like Bell Labs. Bell did real research, not research that had a ROI counter tied to it. Google researches what makes Google money - period. If this is the current generations "hero", then we're doomed.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Ummm...hate to break the bad news, but floppy disks (and the rest of the removable storage ilk) was killed off years ago by the Cloud. Better luck next idea.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
How awful, Apple breaks the law and then whines about the pocket change ($70K x 52wks x 2years = $7.3M) charge for enforcing it's own compliance. If Apple thinks $70K/week is high for lawyers, wait until they get the overage bills
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by vonskippy 13y ago
So rushing to stand on the cutting edge might result in bloody feet - whoda thunk it?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
His reasoning can be applied to all free social media, which is a valid reason, and why smart people should avoid the step back in time to a central AOL-esque media hub. He has his own domain, what more does he need? Why feed the social m
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by vonskippy 13y ago
So Dell Laptops stink? Hasn't that been common knowledge for at least a decade?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Probably not the best criteria to judge a posture perfect chair - but boy is that thing fugly. Throw in the outrageous retail price and I'm guessing it will be a hard sell.
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Um... maybe get a real life and real friends instead of being addicted to social media? It's surprisingly doable - no one has ever died from not have a facebook account. No one has never not climbed the corporate ladder from not have
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Must be a Gen Y thing (or whatever you call 20 somethings these days). I'm afraid to me, it seems exceedingly childish to need something like a chain of Red X's in order to get something as simple as "workout" or "
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by vonskippy 13y ago
T-Mobile (should be crushed by) Rocks. Here on the Western slope they have the worst service of the big four. Here, only people shopping strictly on price choose T-Mobile. They want your business, they just don't want to spend any mo
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Huh? Since Gamers are only a tiny fraction of the PC User space that statement makes zero sense. Linux on the Desktop is dead because most of it's common apps either suck, or are already available (with a much better UI) on Windows&#
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by vonskippy 13y ago
location-service-type-number accting-ws-01 email-server-01 building1-upstairs-switch-01 eastgroup-noc-router-01 Why go cutesy when you can actually define what they do and where they are?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
So is this really just another rant about PayPal - which would be hardly unique or unusual. Or.... Is this just a ploy to get yet another stupid social media site some visibility traction on HN? Hmmmmmmm?
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Like antibiotic resistance bacteria, if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests (no matter what the cause or how worthy they might be).
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by vonskippy 13y ago
Brings back memories - I ground a 30 cm reflector back in my teens. Was interesting to read how they no longer use two glass blanks, instead use one blank and one tile grinding tool. Took me most of the summer to get the mirror ready for
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by vonskippy 13y ago
The hype on this movie is unbelievable. If it was a true science fiction movie, perhaps suspending belief would be possible. Instead it's about current technology, and basic orbital mechanics and simple physics. The number of errors
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by vonskippy 13y ago
"Rene Duignan is passionate about life" No, he's passionate about control. Where do people get off telling others what they can and can't do with their life. Who better then the ACTUAL PERSON to decide when and if it&#x

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