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Holmes

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    Comment #23765826

    But not every man truly lives.

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    Comment #23034069

    See anyone trying to get a loan vs anyone paying taxes. Duh!

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    Comment #22940659

    What they should do is come up with a trade pact for countries outside China and increase production there. Sort of like a Pacific-wide partnership...

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    Comment #22890599

    Sony Xperia compact series are the best versions of this.

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    Comment #22881305

    Can this guy be president?

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    Comment #22876799

    Mainly the grammar.

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    Comment #22823232

    More of this--mercantilism for all!

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    Comment #22646976

    I'm optimistic, but can see the case for pessimism as well.

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    Comment #22646960

    People had gigabytes of free music on their computers and wanted a place to store them that enabled easy playback, hence the iPod. iTunes removed the friction necessary in piracy a…

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    Comment #22646909

    One way this coronavirus situation forces people to consider universal coverage is that the less fortunate, without health care and means for testing, become an attack vector for t…

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    Comment #22604930

    Can you recommend a good VPN for this use case?

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    Comment #22604828

    Apple built iTunes on the success of Kazaa.

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    Comment #22526724

    5 GHz band wifi? Or 5G wireless?

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    Comment #22174182

    Any Android burner phone with LineageOS.

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    Comment #22170053

    If you have an old router with USB 2.0 ports lying around it's fairly straightforward to install OpenWRT and Zerotier and make a VPN with a private cloud attached if you mount a HD…

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    Comment #13933274

    Was it a known issue that you were sending scans of everyone's mail to everyone else who had a PO box at same address?

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    Comment #13933262

    Yep. Sounds like USPS!

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    Comment #13932650

    Good to know. Thanks.

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    Comment #13932300

    Former. PO box at a post office.

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    Comment #13932276

    They shut down the test after I pointed this out to them, but had I not they were completely unconcerned. At the time it was called "Real Mail Notification", so hopefully they have…

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    Comment #13932093

    Was asked to participate in an early test for this last year. It was terrible. I have a PO box and as that address includes the post office address you would receive notification a…

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    Comment #6524289

    As with most consumer prducts, the limitation isn't technical, it's what will drive sales and increase profit. If you figure out a slick new way to mirror a phone's display, congra…

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    Comment #6498040

    The problem I've always had with OpenVPN is that it seems to break down when you are behind the router running the OpenVPN server. I can get an 10.0.0.1 IP on the WAN but not on th…

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    Comment #6486096

    Have looked at it but configuration behind NAT router is a bear. Guess there is a reason LogMeIn bought Hamachi. Not trivial to authenticate and tunnel behind NAT.