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getsaf

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    Comment #8653179

    Morning dew is not enough to consider your lawn watered. Typically you want a few inches of saturated soil for watering. As for why it's not "ideal" to run sprinklers in the middle…

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    Comment #8564104

    I'm not sure how this helps the issue but here's a great windows clipboard manager. http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

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    Comment #8556681

    Looks nearly identical to http://planetpayment.com this kind of thing has been around since the 90's.

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    Comment #8321219

    Is it just me or is 5k minified an immense amount of JS for a menu. Here's a quick POC with most (if not all) of the same functionality. http://jsfiddle.net/vysrtjh6/1/ JS Minifies…

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    Comment #8320645

    Definitely not this. HBO has written an app specifically for the Roku. As far as I can tell, Comcast is the only provider who disallows access to the Roku version of the app. I can…

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    Comment #8186247

    Not much perspective to be had here unless you are assuming a single photon's distance traveled. The analogy breaks down when you consider thousands or millions/billions of photons…

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    Comment #8182830

    I've experience the exact same process you do while trying to recall events and event order. I attributed the difficult to a diagnosis of mild dyslexia and ADHD (if you believe in …

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    Comment #8153001

    Due to the fact that the site only links to the iTunes App Store, I can't even see what the app does. I have an apple device but I'm at work and don't have iTunes on my work pc. I'…

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    Comment #7970663

    I can't help but think that these things cannot be too accurate. Even in the cheese example given in the article, the outer layer of many cheeses are slightly (some more than other…

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    Comment #7772556

    I'm guessing they are using Visa's lesser known Money Transfer features. This stuff has been around for a little while. The company I work for recently started supporting this for …

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    Comment #7749871

    http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx "... Oh, and by the way ASP.NET vNext (and Rosyln) runs on Mono, on both Mac and Linux today. While Mono isn't a project f…

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    Comment #7515432

    Thanks for that bit of info, I learned something new today. edit: It's not really back yet.

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    Comment #6438908

    I noticed just this morning that Comcast had switched cable modem to be IPV6 only. Last week it was IPV4. There have been a couple of outages lately so I've occasionally been pingi…

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    Comment #5068055

    "Petitions do work. What a lobbyist does is petition the government. They're just professional at it, and why we presume that a developer or a plumber or a chicken farmer should be…

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    Comment #5029689

    1. Plug the camera into a computer. 2. Use any of the any free undelete app available and undelete the video from the camera. 3. Profit?

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    Comment #4879586

    The article describes the "sophisticated" attack * Phish the users. The user must fall for this attack. * Prompt the user to MANUALLY download AND install an application on their p…

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    Comment #4688928

    "Successful reexaminations should be a rare, exceptional case in a properly functioning patent system." Unfortunately some 70% of reexaminations are confirmed to have some sort of …

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    Comment #4688872

    If they can (and do) I fear that this will discourage the USPTO from invalidating any other patent review cases for fear of being sued out the yang. If there is a plus side, this m…

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    SVN repository for laws? Someone kickstart this quick

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/0221216/hacking-the-law Saw this top comment on Slashdot and began thinking, "Why hasn't someone done this already?" It seems relatively str…

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