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gcb

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About gcb

on silent-ban since forever... or back to slowban only. who knows? i keep commenting in the wind.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #24657643

    If you care about blinding the Tel Co of your financial information, sorry to say but you are a criminal. Financial information is the ONE (single) information they cannot resell. …

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    Comment #24657622

    Sorry to be blunt, but you have no idea how "Targeting" works on Advertising/Telephone co. When Verizon/Att/Tmo/etc sells your information to Advertising companies, they will "infe…

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    Comment #5151355

    clearly universities gain from this current system. but I'm ignorant of how. why else mit would be the one pursuing punishment in this case when even the journal had given up? mit …

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    Comment #4902072

    the only issue with "Settings" on android is that some moron user experience grand master at google insists that users should not have ANY setting. so more sensible but lowly user …

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    Comment #4897847

    can't see why this is downvoted... the fact that this is true and that the author replies that he actually had to extensively prepare for it... and the fact that he would be in the…

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    Comment #4897358

    #1 result for "nylon fumes" http://www.greyops.net/2010/05/advisory-burning-nylon-thread... Dioxins HCN gas HCl gas

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    Comment #4884952

    > That only matters if you care about the web interface or price. as was the main point of this thread.

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    Comment #4877977

    Same here. But i give it to the first poster that using linux is a pain. trying to buy a new laptop for my wife and i'm going crazy trying to map the reasonably priced options with…

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    Comment #4877847

    showed me quotes of 1200 to 1600 when i'm paying 600 :( edit: that was the minimum. now with "custom" to reflect what i have it jumped to 1340 to 4800!

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    Comment #4869985

    summary: yes. but 70% of the time you have a roof over your head so that rain should not count.

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    Comment #4869760

    wait, so can't we compile, generate the same binary and use the key as the checksums would be the same?

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    Comment #4869508

    agreed. while this task is not hard, the rest may not go as planned. recently i just moved back to ubuntu instead of debian out of lazyness. tried to copy a bunch of images via dd,…

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    Comment #4855794

    This is plain dumb, you would still not have delivery per se. you have to drive to a 'store' just that store would not employ anyone. I used to live in a building that had a bunch …

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    Comment #4855772

    Most houses and apartments adhere to fire safety just fine. Comercial ones are required based on the volume of people you are serving. If you keep the rental under the reasonable n…

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    Comment #4824804

    > (Mount Weld) has high concentrations of rare earths, is a huge site, and has low levels of thorium contamination. just a guess, the thorium was not what they were extracting ther…

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    Comment #4805762

    i'm pretty sure that whole article is a troll atempt to make people go check out the "webmail" service on goatse.cx... i found muself urging to check the site out several times whi…

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    Comment #4786378

    Because most self-respecting developers do not like to work on a platform where everything is closed source in the hardware... that said, i'm glad a few of the not-so-self-respecti…

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    Comment #4785394

    the text is wrong. it's not a "brewer without a brewery". It's maybe the opposite. the brewery and it's brewer are making the beer. This is just a case of a salesman without a fact…

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    Comment #4779504

    thanks. i can actually make sense of the list using this page.

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    Comment #4779442

    I pay for netflix. They don't support Linux decently to begin with. I just watch on wii. Another sucker goes great lengths to make their crappy software works with linux, get's cal…

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    Comment #4775231

    what about nvidia competitors that actually care about linux? AMD seems to have made a lot of promises and falling short on all of them... any other? i don't really follow the grap…

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    Comment #4760440

    so, is like a santa-claus or stork lore, but totally twisted by the father... it's like explaining to her that babies comes from crows. Will not get her closer to reality, and will…

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    Comment #4750442

    that's naive. only bugs in the voting machine acts like that real, proper, election manipulation wouldn't be so obvious to the voters

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    Comment #4747210

    it's all about a crippled browser. On android, you can zoom to a size where the text and images are of a good size to read, and then double tap. and now like magic the paragraphs a…

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    Comment #4747202

    My sides hurt everytime i see a "pro webdesigner" carefully specifying his website masterpiece in em and percents because of a small amount of browsers that have a broken zoom mode…