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cholmdomsky

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    Comment #48789993

    I suppose what I meant to have asked was, can an external magnetic field intersect with a black hole's event horizon and then escape? For instance, with these theoretical tiny blac…

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    Comment #48787007

    Can magnetic fields escape, if their lines intersect the event horizon of a black hole?

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    Comment #48765387

    How do you respond when others use that information to instead assert "well of course they're incarcerated at a higher rate; they commit more, and worse crimes than -we- do!"

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    Comment #48714377

    Jfc, this is a solved problem at the community college near me. All of the computers in the testing room are thin clients that effectively remote into a vm, and you get checked wit…

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    Comment #48703454

    Lazy manufacturers and ignorant users are responsible for the existence of those unsecured devices. Assholes and criminals are responsible for accessing, recording, and distributin…

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    Comment #48700104

    My first thought

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    Comment #48329449

    Gotta feed both, so...

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    Comment #48253843

    Seriously. Plus, what is the problem that some websites are 'fixing' by denying me a choice in how the website loads?

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    Comment #48031152

    I'm fairly certain that exact thing existed on Windows XP and earlier. It was a question mark in the top right of the window, added a "?" next to your cursor. You could then click …

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    Comment #47929624

    That makes a lot of sense to me, thank you. I was probably projecting a lot of my own fears and feelings into the interpretation of a lot of what some of my courses are trying to t…

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    Comment #47924468

    I'm taking some college courses, and one of them explicitly suggests to keep maybe-not-okay communications off of email so that "you don't expose your company to risks of litigatio…