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    It's the FF 70 Beta Dev Edition. It was released yesterday.

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    Comment #20376328

    All of the popular interpreted languages we use now were dog slow when they originally came out and we still had to deal with many the quirks of low level languages back then but h…

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    So out of curiosity I Googled it. Either it's a really common mistake or a regional thing. "Colleauge" has 857k results. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22colleauge%22

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    Comment #20355686

    But at the same time you can't really admonish someone for not doing something you won't do either.

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    Comment #20348547

    Cool guide but I'd change one thing: echo mynewuser:mynewpassword | sudo chpasswd If you set the password using echo like this it will log the plaintext password in the current use…

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    Comment #20343645

    http://thedoghousediaries.com/4685

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    Comment #20340663

    Exactly. If someone else gets wrongly convicted for the crime then the actual perpetrator now has no fear of ever being prosecuted for what they did. The fear of being caught for a…

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    Comment #20340448

    It's all fun and games until you're the one in prison and sometimes executed for a crime you didn't commit. Why do I doubt the author would just accept their fate for the greater g…

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    Comment #20340166

    There's a key difference though. In Linux and other UNIX inspired OS's /etc is only accessible by root but the Windows registry holds config data for users too. Any userspace progr…

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    Comment #20340095

    I understand the point you're making but according to the fancy chart you posted it did reach a peak in '95 but your statement implies that it's been in decline since then. Accordi…

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    Comment #20321008

    That's an oddly specific response to something that was never said. My point and the overall arch of what I think Kubrick was implying in EWS is that these people exist and people …

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    Comment #20320652

    I understand what you and OP are getting at and I'm saying it's wrong but it misses the broader point that others posters were positing. The exact same point I came to make but fou…

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    Comment #20316214

    Regardless of what the article posits, the movie was based on actual secret societies. I'm pretty sure Kubrick was trying to tell us something. Anthony Frewin (assistant to Stanley…

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    Comment #20315871

    OP here. Yes, the article itself it somewhat vague but I found the implications relevant and thought others would also. We tend to view and focus on the use of cryptographic privac…

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    Comment #20315760

    Minus someone or in this case everyone looking over your shoulder the entire time while doing something that's pretty much never been done before. I don't care where you work, this…

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    Comment #20315234

    To be fair, most products and practices in the 1950's would be considered wildly dangerous by today's standards. Hell, we were still using leaded gasoline (gasoline with tetraethyl…

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    Comment #20313708

    Now the old Powerbook 5300's actually did catch fire. My 1st tech job was a hardware technician at an Apple production facility mostly building and refurbishing Powerbooks, can con…

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