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drill_sarge

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    Comment #7664597

    Weren't the launch codes set to 0000000 or something because for convenience for decades? So no need to upgrade to larger storage for this. edit: found it http://gizmodo.com/for-20…

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    Comment #7585098

    The moment they start to integrate somekind of ads (yes, I heard the rumor/plans) in Firefox they are dead. It doesn't even matter if they don't track, aren't intrusive or whatever…

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    Comment #7585023

    Who moved to Java? Write once - debug everywhere.

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    Comment #7584676

    As an attacker I care only about the data and don't give a a shit if it is a real machine or a virtual one. If I can sniff the passwords in your browser or just have a keylogger in…

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    Comment #7584655

    how about these: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Leitpfos... also road paint is mixed with glass fragments and is highly reflective. ok, it does not glow at nig…

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    Comment #7344579

    If you want some 100% no issues working, just get something with Intel CPu and GPU. Although the free Radeon drivers are pretty good now too. Avoid some kind of integrated GPU+extr…

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    Comment #6946317

    I don't know why media is circle jerking about this. I am not a fan of Putin and I can see that he wanted simply to get rid of Chodorkowski and that he may or may not got a real fa…

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    Comment #6921062

    The price model of the rail company doesn't make much sense here (germany). I can travel from Berlin to Paris cheaper, than I can from Frankfurt to Munich for example. But then the…

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    Comment #6921026

    I only see low res shadow maps with an awful filter. Joke aside, I find it always fascinating what detail or references are put in movies which nobody notices.

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    Comment #6920807

    This is how SSL works if you use Cloudflare. You have to hand them your private key. Also the article doesn't state this, I would guess they mean that everyone on their service sho…

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    Comment #6920769

    >give secret ssl key to cloudflare meh

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    Comment #6920474

    It reminds me of AMD Athlon64 period. Everyone claimed 64bit to be responsible for everything. In fact the majority of the performance came from the improvements over the k7 archit…

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    Comment #6920272

    Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/ More mirrors here, but not all servers are synced with 20 yet: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fed…

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    Fedora 20 released

    Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/ More mirrors here, but not all servers are synced with 20 yet: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fed…

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    Comment #6913511

    sorry, meant 10.04

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    Comment #6913440

    Yes. To clarify: dist-upgrade upgrades everything, including installing or removing new dependencies. Upgrade upgrades the installed packages, but doesn't add or remove new package…

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    Comment #6913358

    It's no custom distro. It's Ubuntu 10.10 LTS. Only thing which they added was WollMux: http://www.wollmux.net/wiki/Hauptseite Also they switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice

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    Comment #6913292

    I'd recommend using Debian testing instead of stable for that. (testing is preferred in most personal use cases if you don't run in a corporate environment/server or similar) http:…

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    Comment #6908632

    If you get a laptop with mostly Intel (especially gpu) components it is pretty much guaranteed that any major Linux distribution will work out of the box just fine. The thing with …

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    Comment #6905560

    It does not state on what drivers/other stuff they are contributing. It sounds they work together with the vendors to improve the proprietary drivers, I think. That would be zero b…

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    Comment #6905505

    Debian with EULA? Hell no...

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    Comment #6905100

    Call of Duty isn't even a good shooter. The franchise has become the example of a dull, repetitive and undemanding interactive experience - I don't even say game because most of it…

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    Comment #6900059

    I doubt it's a serious project

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    Comment #6899686

    What is e-mail marketing? this is a serious question. As someone who has nothing to do with marketing, advertising and all that stuff for me "e-mail marketing" is just spam. or wha…