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    Comment #2047013

    > Why would you even want to BadExit his nodes? To further malign him of course.

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    Comment #2046208

    Not even a good troll. He didn't even mention that arma was at NSA.

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    Comment #1968444

    My favorite is the cup trick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBqIRM8GiY

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    Comment #1964975

    > even a simple flashlight really does end up costing $100 Not at the army surplus store.

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    Comment #1924652

    I'll believe you when I see a warning from Facebook castigating investigators for using their service for those purposes.

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    Comment #1923999

    You'll get more sympathy if you use Facebook to track down deadbeat dads and sex offenders who haven't registered.

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    Comment #1893803

    You should almost certainly eat more fiber if you are sitting long enough to want something to read.

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    Comment #1861537

    >Netbooks just seem like a solution needing a problem to me. My kids have a netbook that I bought them for Christmas last year So then the problem is what useless gadget to get you…

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    Comment #1852789

    You can generate rules like these for arbitrary integers/primes(much easier than trying to remember them in my opinion). Take 41. Example: 1476 is divisible by 41? 147 - 4 * 6 = 12…

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    Comment #1643309

    >I get the impression that most people who recommend the Dragon book haven't read it. These days you can usually tell that they haven't read it if they refer to it as "the Dragon b…

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    Comment #1563437

    >It feels like I'm watching someone try to act out the part of a character in a spy novel. In that case we should be able to figure out his key and decrypt the file. The key in the…

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    Comment #1552077

    Do you get the oil by sucking on an actual cod liver? Note that regular unrefined cod liver oil is very high in vitamin A, so you can kill yourself by drinking enough of it(see hyp…

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    Comment #1490473

    >That's the problem with wars - they lead to arms races.... You were high when you wrote that, right?

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    Comment #1415590

    I can't wait until they announce the LLMUA.

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    Comment #1408765

    There is a "port" of the same articles to Forth/x86: http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/crenshaw/tiny.html

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    Comment #1396647

    Based on my experience I think that's easily explained by population density, amount of space available per capita, etc. If anything I see hackeresque spirit as more pronounced in …

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    Comment #1385926

    Looks more like a Huge Disaster for the credibility of Phoronix and Michael Larabel to me.

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    Comment #1330921

    They are using digital signatures(Chong Yidong's). The following files are both available from the same places as the tarballs: emacs-23.2.tar.gz.sig emacs-23.2.tar.bz2.sig

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    Comment #1173132

    gcc with the dehydra plugin is doing better and deeper static analysis than clang.

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    Comment #970285

    >Combinatorics isn't really abstract as far as math goes. Huh? Is it naturally abstract?