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modsiw

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    Comment #21078960

    Our forefathers put their tooth fairy money in a trust to maintain the sum total of human knowledge. Ever notice how people back in the day all had missing teeth? Like Washington a…

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    Comment #21066079

    I wonder if the ads are now targeted more toward the idiot end of the spectrum as the only people without ad blockers...

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    Comment #21033323

    Can’t tell if this is about ethically hacking the government for the good of the people or about making four cylinder Japanese cars sound like a dying mouse.

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    Comment #21017366

    “You can only use your toys so much before they get boring.” This has yet to be proven. We need an experiment.

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    Comment #20896906

    I don’t think this is a blind person thing. Ask any nerd about something they’re into, and you stand a pretty good chance of receiving a firehouse of words representing their steam…

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    Comment #20896801

    Isn’t this Apple’s entire business model?

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    Comment #20692630

    Aren’t we trying to prevent an attacker with physical access? They could simply unplug everything first.

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    Comment #20678731

    Are you the reason why my office water dispenser has a touch screen?

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    Comment #20578926

    It’s disputed, but shouldn’t be. The third investigation pretty conclusively showed it was a bomb placed under the wash basin in the rear lavatory. The missing body parts near the …

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    Comment #20578194

    Idk where you live, but it ain’t Boston.

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    Comment #20560658

    Oh oh oh. Can I play? Everyone is entitled to enter a restroom or no one is. I can get behind that. No more multi-toilet rooms with stall gaps.

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    Comment #20560633

    Everyone enjoys the right that if you are unable to fulfill your job due to a disability, and a reasonable accommodation could be provided which would allow you to fulfill your job…

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    Comment #20308236

    That requires execution. The adversary can prevent execution.

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    Comment #20301363

    But if it is circumvented then it wasn’t effectively controlling access; therefore, this isn’t applicable. A savvy lawyer might argue that’s not what’s meant by effectively, but it…

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    Comment #20301012

    Ebooks can appreciate. You could have originally bought it on sell and that sell is no longer available. You could have added value to the ebook by way of adding annotations. The e…

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    Comment #20300945

    Have you found a solution to piracy that does involve DRM?

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    Comment #20300222

    I’m guessing an inter library loan wasn’t possible? What are you looking for? There’s a decent chance someone here lives near a copy.

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    Comment #20274526

    Because they first chose the result they wanted — age of universe and worked backwards to derive that result. Is it true? Sure, probably. The method flys in the face of the foundat…

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    Comment #20065967

    Did you change anything to help get traction? Seems to me that’s just a verbose way of saying you spammed it.

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    Comment #19993149

    If you accept premise of unlimited budget and outsourcing, sending something to space is about as difficult as saying “Hey Elon, I want this thing to go to space.” The point here i…