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byandrewd18
011 @12:14PM
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Attached to: Microsoft Suggests Heating Homes With "Data Furnaces"
During my freshman year in college, I was running Gentoo. On cold nights I would set Portage to recompile OpenOffice six times and then I would turn the CPU fan up before going to bed. It kept my abysmal little dorm room quite warm. :)
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byandrewd18
11 @08:43AM
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Attached to: Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous
From the comments in TFA, as written by one of the authors:
We don't set out to to de-anonymise the thief - we are researchers, not law enforcement, and we are just using that as an example to show its possible to trace the flow of Bitcoins around the network.
It is possible to use Bitcoin in a way that is almost certainly anonymous, in the same way it is possible to get almost certain anonymity on the Internet, by using encryption, onion routing, and never associating your identity with your actions.
Our point is that you don't get this anonymity automatically, and that most casual users of Bitcoin may not be anonymous, even though many of them may believe they are.
The system looks more anonymous than it is.
This, of course, is something we've already discussed ad nauseum here. :)
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byandrewd18
011 @09:52AM
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Attached to: Google Acquires G.co Domain
Sometimes a man needs a little G.
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byandrewd18
011 @09:44AM
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Attached to: Borders Books, Dead At 40
Wait, Pequod's and Queequeg's are owned by the same company? Mind. Blown.
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byandrewd18
11 @04:25PM
(#36780344)
Attached to: Ford Demonstrates Networked Cars
range may be to long
and overload
on the wifi
on the cpu
on the software.
Burma Shave!
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byandrewd18
2011 @12:26PM
(#36764834)
Attached to: Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo
Wouldn't you want someone to notify you of this horrible transgression so that you can fix it and go to heaven?
I see that exact rationale used all the time. It makes me sad.
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byandrewd18
2011 @10:47AM
(#36683750)
Attached to: Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10
Yes and no. Yes, in that it sends and receives e-mails just fine. No, in that Exchange calendar support (which we use heavily here at my office) is still ridiculously fubar, even with the Lightning addon. [comments based on Thunderbird 3.5 & Lightning about 3 months ago]
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byandrewd18
11 @02:50PM
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Attached to: X-Men: First Class
... Marvel doesn't give a shit about doing faithful comic book movies as much as they care about making movies that people actually want to see.
Agreed. As nerdy as I am, I'd rather see a fun comic book movie with a new canon than a faithful retelling of old canon that produces a movie I regret watching.
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byandrewd18
11 @01:26PM
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Attached to: X-Men: First Class
See, I just made the assumption that Bryan Singer said, "I wasn't involved in X-3 so I'm ignoring everything it did." Considering how awful I thought X-3 was, I was more than happy to accept that premise.
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byandrewd18
2011 @08:51AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS??
I'm not the only one who's encountered people who are experts in their field, yet lack the ability to coherently explain even the basis because they don't have the skills to do so.
I work with them. *sob*
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byandrewd18
2011 @07:55AM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS??
As someone who was homeschooled for 8 years, I can confidently say that it did not hamper my people skills in any way. There are plenty of opportunities for homeschooled kids to socialize. Most locales have homeschool meet-ups and coordinated events. Mine had over 50 kids; plenty of opportunity to learn about bullies, idiots, and especially know-it-alls. :)
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byandrewd18
011 @10:10AM
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Attached to: Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days"
Get prescribed amount of work done, then do whatever you want for the rest of the day.
I was homeschooled from fourth grade through twelfth. This is pretty much what I did, except I did it in week chunks. My mother would plan out the school year in advance then hand me my workload for a given week. I would then crank through as much as I could, often getting my work done on Wednesday, leaving Thursday and Friday for leisure time.
That schedule allowed me to start up my own computer repair business when I was 16. It was great - I could schedule clients during normal business hours when I might have been in school wasting time for the slower kids to catch up.
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byandrewd18
011 @10:05AM
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Attached to: Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days"
If only the submitter hadn't spent so many snow days at home instead of in school learning proper grammar! Oh, the humanity!
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byandrewd18
1 @09:28AM
(#36139980)
Attached to: BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever?
http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/
That article made a lot more sense to me and had significantly less amounts of fanaticism.
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byandrewd18
2011 @08:43AM
(#35744030)
Attached to: Pandora App Sends Private Data To Advertisers
If you're willing to assume that all companies are going to keep your data safe, you're awfully naive. Whether or not they should is one thing... whether or not they will is another.
Besides, it's not like you couldn't have seen this coming. When you install the app to your Android phone, you get the following screen:
This application has access to the following:
* Network communication (create Bluetooth connections, full Internet access, view network state, view Wi-Fi state)
* Your personal information (add or modify calendar events and send email to guests, read contact data)
* Phone calls (read phone state and identity)
* System tools (Bluetooth administration, change network connectivity, change Wi-Fi state, modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping, automatically start at boot)
If that doesn't scream "We are going to take data about you and sell it", I don't know what does.
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