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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…