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Finnish Ministry of Defence has reported five airspace violations by Russian airplanes this year, and there were three in 2013.

Taiichi Ohno published the original "Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Manufacturing" in 1978 (the English translation was published in 1988), while Goldratt's "The Goal…

How about using diff and sed -i? # This version is obviously unsafe verbose_sed() { sed -i.old -e "$1" "$2" diff -u "$2.old" "$2" rm "$2.old" } verbose_sed s/vim/emacs/g rant.txt Y…

It is my understanding that artificial insemination is a very common procedure in modern livestock farming, and therefore one could argue that livestock farming for human consumpti…

At least Chrome 24 has the option to disable images. See Settings / Show advanced settings... / Content settings... / Do not show any images.

At least some books mention that "At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied." in the book description field. For…

How about ddshttpd ( http://dd-sh.intercal.org.uk/web-server/ )? A web server written using only sh(1), dd(1), and echo(1). It even supports running server side scripts ("ddsh-bin"…

That Wikipedia article mentions that "According to author Adam Gollner, some fruitarians eat only fallen fruit."

According to rubygems.org stats page[1], there are 39411 gems available. I think the number 2560 on "all gems" page[2] is the number of gems starting with letter "a". 1. http://rub…

I assume goodweeds refers to this http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Noirin_Shirley_ApacheCon_... . That page classifies the incident as sexual assault instead of attempted rape, b…

/foo c`` may be what you're looking for (see :help ``)

While it doesn't invalidate your general point, Twitter has 600+ employees: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/08/your-world-more-connected.ht...

It would appear to me that multiple commits in a branch can have the same generation number (see the diagram in http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg161165.html ). So unless your hi…

Linus has a few: tracker[1], pesconvert[2], and a fork of uemacs[3]. 1. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/tracker.g... 2. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git…

This seems to be a straightforward wiki, however, wiki-orgmode and VimOrganizer strive for something closer to org-mode.

What fascinates me in this article (and in other similar efforts), is the ambient nature of these new senses. While it is true that you can look at a compass in order to find the m…

Redis 2.0.0+ has built-in support for pub/sub: http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/PublishSubscribe

Stockdale's "Stockdale on Stoicism II: Master of My Fate" is mostly about his time as a POW: http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/Publications/Stoicism2.pdf

While I think you're right in that VPN setups make a lot of things smoother, SSH actually compares pretty well with the first two of your examples. "Yeah, there is. First, doing it…

Most of the plastic bottles sold in Finland were reusable up until 2008 or so, but now that the tax levied on non-reusable containers has been removed, most of the bottles appear t…

Tivo has released sources for the GPL covered portions of its software ( http://www.tivo.com/linux/index.html ). At least some router manufacturers have also released source code a…

I think that Ubuntu enables hinting on default. According to FreeType's docs/TRUETYPE the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro should be defined, should you want to enable p…

It's doesn't seem to be that common, but not it's not unheard of either. For example, Amazon Payments prohibits "occult materials"[1], and according to an old Boing Boing article, …

> All else held equal, that is simply not true in modern America. There are very powerful incentives to hire the equivalently qualified black guy in order to avoid lawsuits. What a…

Qt is also available under LGPL 2.1. See http://qt.nokia.com/products/licensing for details.