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asudosandwich

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    Comment #41355315

    Right on. People complained about the camera in my bathroom so I told them the same thing. If you’ve done nothing wrong you should have nothing to hide.

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    Comment #41349531

    I treated my family’s copy of a copy of Spaceballs the same way. But Ghostbusters could easily have been my babysitter of choice if we’d owned it. Narrowing the question to more re…

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    Comment #40947913

    Madeleine Clare Elish described AI as providing “moral crumple zones” ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757236 ) where it can serve as a buffer of plausible de…

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    Comment #40947559

    Lots of already established names sound kind of goofy absent their familiarity. Panaphonics? Unilever.. Toyota.. Sorny Trinitron..

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    Comment #39664606

    The terms changed for a device already paid for up front, not a monthly subscription. That’s the particular rub here.

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    Comment #39509389

    Totally need that SiriusXM though.

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    Comment #36697495

    “Sean Connery” also misread it on a SNL Celebrity Jeopardy spoof.

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    Comment #36641846

    Indeed, AI is called out directly. Google’s laying groundwork for their own version of a regulatory moat.

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    Comment #35383459

    The punctuated green site from yesteryear had a special moderation carve-out for funny comments distinct from the insightful contributors to keep things on track and interesting. B…

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    Comment #33258252

    Try tapping with three fingers to bring up a set of editing operations including undo & redo.

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    Comment #32363719

    A quarter century ago Leno and Letterman were asking people on the street who was buried in Grant’s Tomb. It’s not a trend.

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    Comment #29413338

    Or Baby's tape recorded remix https://youtu.be/Dtb_8Y5bHww

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    Comment #28824874

    IIRC it was indicated as the motivation behind convicted spy Christopher John Boyce in the movie The Falcon and the Snowman . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowm…

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    Comment #26234466

    Iron horses. I like that.

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    Comment #25907131

    This showed up here six minutes after the issue was opened. Kudos for being proactive I guess.

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    Comment #25742078

    That depends, are you a hobbyist or lobbyist?

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    Comment #23746380

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

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    Comment #23247284

    >> There are legitimate reasons for port scanning Such as?

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    Comment #23193126

    Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff talked about this too, with the Mercury astronauts being called spam in a can.

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    Comment #23087100

    Yeah young children are pretty bad drivers, I can attest to that. Sometime around age 4 I swiped my dad’s car keys from the kitchen table (I recall I had to climb a chair to reach …

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    Comment #22917031

    That’s a reason for the sympathy.

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    Comment #22810339

    >> a little corner where the 'webmaster' had a page that mentioned the server, or his cat, or some silly pic. Or a “links” page. I haven’t seen that in a long while. No affiliate g…

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    Comment #22486926

    Could be a new hobby for the author. Like https://xkcd.com/148/

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    Comment #22447700

    What if he’s not meant to be read in good faith?