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> just a quarter of the $105 a month she was promised, about $0.84 a day.

It really bugs me when reporters use inconsistent units to exaggerate a point. Yes, the pay difference is horrible, but it sounds almost as bad when you say $25.20 per month, and that is a less misleading way to describe it.

Accidental time travel of my entire house, yes. I really should copy it over to my laptop, as that's a fair bit more likely to be useful if I end up in the past without a source of electricity.

The term you're looking for is tautology, not 'null statement'.

/b/'s vote manipulation lead to the selection of moot as most influential person, which is clearly correct, as moot's users influenced the voting process to ensure it.

This is only part of why my local file server has a recent wikipedia dump.

But why do we need special Ripple servers at all? Couldn't the system have been designed with a larger collection of nodes in mind and simply done without XRP?

SSL needs to be stripped from the stream at the end point to allow the application to process the data received. If the endpoint is a human reader, there's no way to man-in-the-middle the message.

Repeat several times to become a much better programmer, but possibly lose the humbleness.

It seems to me that FABIO could be massively improved upon by offloading the computation to a remote (cloud?) server, allowing the date to continue until screams of pleasure are recorded.

Additionally, the robot self destruct seems like overkill. It would be better to simply wipe them and start over. After all it, it wasn't a hardware failure that resulted in a bad date, but a software problem!

It looks like a drop-in replacement for boto's S3 interface, so if you're already using that, you can probably just change the imports to refer to MimicDB.

> then vilifying the counter attacks that end up hurting civilians

Attacking civilian targets is wrong regardless of which side is doing it. Having previously engaged in the same behavior does not make the act any less wrong, or the vilification any less deserved.

It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content.

Why should Amazon know what programs and files I'm using?

I found myself doing ~45 wpm in this, but in a normal typing test I do ~80 wpm. The non-linear word list is definitely lowering speed.

Willingness to use it doesn't affect how free (as in beer) it is. It does affect how free (as in speech) it is, but that's not what the grandparent was arguing, and there's a huge difference between the two.

No, PHP minor versions are not necessarily compatible with each other. When I worked in web hosting, we had to deal with quite a few issues resulting from changes between 5.2 and 5.3, and later 5.3 and 5.4.

At least Python has a sane versioning scheme, where breaking compatibility increments the major version number or is a bug.

Read the article again. That's not the Forum, that's the VTM Group, which handles their marketing and legal concerns. The USB Implementers Forum itself didn't make a statement.

That sounds like a great use for Bokodes[1] rather than QR codes. Bokodes can display different information depending on the angle they're viewed at.

[1]: http://web.media.mit.edu/~ankit/bokode/

"Thermal power" is a rather misleading term. It refers to power generation by steam turbines, but doesn't describe the heat source. Nuclear power plants and solar thermal electric plants are "thermal power", but don't emit CO2 in large quantities.

I see it fine with JS disabled in Firefox 23.

I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause

Take a few moments to read [1]. It should answer your question.

[1]: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

With their same logic, your software based CSPRNG isn't safe, and your browser isn't safe, and your full disk encryption isn't safe and all it requires is the trivial feat of being able to run arbitrary code as arbitrary users on your system without your knowledge.

If our SIGINT collecting organizations can't do it without breaking the most important laws of our country, yes.

In case you hadn't heard, much of "Anonymous" has been related in name only.

Here's the NIST document from their own site, in case you'd like to skip the article: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/itlbul2013_09_supp...

Well, you can't create an account for the sole purpose of being the borrower without buying at least 1 game on Steam, because you can't add a friend without making a purchase.

You probably want Dejavu Sans Mono. Check out [1] to see the Unicode characters it supports.

[1] http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/samples/DejaVuSansMono.pdf

In most parts of the US, it's cable we want an alternative to. We generally only have 2 options for internet service: cable, or DSL via the phone company (if you live in a large city and you're lucky, the phone company is Verizon and offers fiber instead of DSL). DOCSIS 3.0 is significantly faster than the DSL options generally are, so there's really only one choice if you want speeds greater than ~50 mbps. Here in northern Utah, my options are Centurylink, which offers ADSL with download speeds of up to 40 mbps, and Comcast, which offers DOCSIS 3.0 with speeds of up to 105 mbps.

I haven't dealt much with PyCUDA recently, but Continuum's wrapper is interesting in that it compiles python code (or at least a subset thereof) to run natively on the GPU, via LLVM if I'm not mistaken. As far as I'm aware, PyCUDA only allows Python code to call pre-compiled CUDA kernels.

How many of those 117 million people will HSR be transporting from LA to SF?