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hyborg787

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    Comment #8154332

    Train a small animal such as a ferret to hit the WPS button on any popular access point and let it loose in their home?

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    Comment #8136889

    The '1920 law' aka 'Jones Act' is not limited to natural gas. It deals with transport of goods where both the source and destination are American ports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

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    Comment #7991069

    consecutive lines from the same sender are collapsed into a single message, double spaces are where new lines should be.

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    Comment #7918326

    For television, addic7ed.com

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    Comment #7818940

    Someone not familiar with him might see one of stranger posts and wonder why that kind of post is allowed to be on HN. Can we leave it to the community to upvote his better posts?

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    Comment #7791512

    How do you avoid the chilling effects of patents existing then without getting into patent pools or cross-licensing arrangements? People will be hesitant to put any time into R&D i…

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    Comment #7745152

    Brandon Sanderson has some videos up on youtube that show how he writes his stories, including writing notes and referring to them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxFySrqdi8E

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    Comment #7723439

    The FCC's solution was to mandate Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) in consumer devices. http://www.fcc.gov/document/5-ghz-unlicensed-spectrum-unii

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    Comment #7586181

    It's short for transmogrify: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transmogrify Calvin & Hobbes may have played a part in popularizing the term? http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.co…

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    Comment #7573479

    Does double jeopardy not apply here?

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    Comment #7277385

    Exercise for the reader, make a quine that still works even if any one character is mutated (by 1 bit or 8?), rather than deleted.

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    Comment #7253139

    http://www.reddit.com/r/halleberry Maybe if you spelled her name correctly?

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    Comment #7110891

    Article is from May 2013 FYI, currently not reflected in the title with a (2013).

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    Comment #6715574

    I'm curious, if sales tax applies, how do you apply it to the sale and remit it to the city? Do you send them USD or BTC?

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    Comment #6686288

    Things can be in the public domain, but have restricted usage - example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_insignia#Usage

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    Comment #6650590

    Heavy regulations & requirements on the insurers.

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    Comment #6202922

    http://www.topcoder.com/

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    Comment #6168216

    This has nothing to do with OCR. It's an issue with the JBIG2 compression re-using similar patches as substitutes for certain areas of the images if they're "close enough". This is…

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    Comment #6093226

    Did you not have a lawyer to represent you?

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    Comment #6093223

    The end of the report says something along the lines that Facebook can expect to win an opposition if the Face* thing can be argued to be related to something Facebook actually doe…

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    Comment #6093020

    "Facebook wins right to police “face-” trademark prefix" is a misleading headline.

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    Comment #5985777

    Perfect for making me click the back button when your landing page performs abysmally slow.

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    Comment #5920207

    From my relative who was a Boat & Water Safety person in Minnesota regarding this article: This is a song I have been singing for years. Drowning is silent, fast, and deadly. One o…