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seanica

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    Comment #7644650

    Press F11 then refresh. Reminds of screensavers I wrote in the 90s/early 2000s. Very nice.

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    Comment #6951545

    It sounds like an expensive drug habit to have. To start with, imagine the withdrawal symptoms.

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    Comment #6502646

    The Wikileaks Party does a good job of summarizing some of the agenda. http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/why-australians-should-be-w...

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    Comment #6338673

    There's one problem I have with it. This afternoon it triggered a migraine. I just came back just now, just in case it was a co-incidence, and yep, it was not a co-incidence.

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    Comment #5612935

    "tea-party style paranoid right-wing anti big evil government organization". ...is hardly nuanced parlance.

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    Comment #4961214

    > It's just something that needs to be thought through. Your statement is what I mean. "Thinking things through" should be done during design. Once you have built system, its much …

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    Comment #4960816

    I disagree that this would be a bug. It's a design flaw that cannot be corrected by fixing bugs. It's analogous to security flaws. If there is a flaw in the design, no amount of bu…

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    Comment #4959712

    One thing that mustn't be over-looked with interfaces that 'learn about your behavior' is they can lock into a 'local maxima' and can be difficult to retrain without resetting to f…

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    Comment #4903008

    > A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. That sounds like they would be proving a negative, which is impossi…

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    Comment #4799888

    It was fun, but sometimes _really_ hard to determine if I was actually participating in the game or just spectating!

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    Comment #4712175

    > oh I missed you are in the EU, not USA That won't stop them from trying. I hope there's a nearby friendly embassy. 8)

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    Comment #4706676

    I hope he's changed his password. In one of the vids it's fairly easy to workout what he was typing to login.

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    Comment #4696094

    The same could be said about your comment. Touché.

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    Comment #4693543

    > How is that propaganda? defn: "Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view" http://mw1.merriam-…

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    Comment #4693463

    Good observation. I stand corrected. I wonder how Zachary Harris would defend the lack of neutrality of that quote, if he was asked to do so.

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    Comment #4693012

    The article up to that point was great. However, that sentence "But the government of Iran probably could" made the preceding paragraphs appear to be a vehicle to deliver a meme (l…

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    Comment #4692849

    What's not true? (what's 'it' that you talk about)

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    Comment #4692714

    “A 384-bit key I can factor on my laptop in 24 hours,” he says. “The 512-bit keys I can factor in about 72 hours using Amazon Web Services for $75. And I did do a number of those. …

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    Comment #4594659

    They look really good. Hoever, on iOS5, especially when zoomed in - page just scrolls. On the demo page, when not zoomed in, it hard to tell if it actually slides or not because th…

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    Comment #4105889

    I've always liked retort, "If I have nothing to hide, why do you chase me?"

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    Comment #4097488

    "you don't have to worry about Anti-Virus and Firewall software management, admin permissions" Are you sure about that? "Flashback" is just one example. Apple has also approached a…

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    Comment #3949915

    I was expecting a punchline such as, "The troll, on seeing the implementation of our feature set has notified our lawyers that we are infringing on his patent"

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    Comment #3902726

    >> When someone buys an iPad they are escaping the hangover of using Microsoft Windows for two decades. ... form factor is irrelevant Form factor is incredibly relevant. For me it'…

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