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bycapnchicken
ry 20, 2013 @03:38PM
(#42958641)
Attached to: Derek Khanna Answers Your Questions
>During the labor unrest of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, to supply guards to keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and sometimes to recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.
Great example ...
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bycapnchicken
ry 13, 2013 @05:52PM
(#42889183)
Attached to: Punkbuster Service Goes Down, Hundreds of Online Game Servers Affected
Looks like it was last updated in '09, what's the over/under on that not being current with the production code?
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bycapnchicken
30, 2012 @11:08AM
(#42142277)
Attached to: Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail
The point is a declaration of war and a state of war ISan anachronism to the point that summary execution during wartime isn't done because there is no war time anymore, there are extended military actions under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, usually, but not always, accompanied by a UN Security Council Resolution. So just like declaration of war is an anachronism, so is summary execution during wartime is an anachronism.
Trying to use a semantics argument against a legal framework argument by saying that semantics don't matter, except in the case where the semantics say you get to feel justified by ending another human beings life (a fellow American citizen, no less) is also completely irrational and held only by clueless, non-worldly people who can't muster the energy and attention span to actually understand consequences.
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bycapnchicken
ber 19, 2012 @10:35AM
(#41387643)
Attached to: Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP
MS has been frequently under 30 a share since about 2002, and besides a dividend payout of about 2.5% (which didn't start until 2003 after their last 2:1 split, and was much less than 2.5%, though the dividend is growing every quarter), there has been really no growth of the stock, which means investing in Microsoft is barely fighting inflation off. The share price might not be in decline but there has been no reason to invest in them since the 90's, except to buy it up in '09, along with every other company that had a real product and could reasonably survive the crash.
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bycapnchicken
02, 2012 @04:50PM
(#40861691)
Attached to: NASA's Bolden Speaks On Future Mars Mission, Chinese Moon Landing
Well we could, yeah... but what for? Other than bragging rights and planting the flag?
Mining for Helium-3 for the also underfunded, and therefor non-existent, fusion projects.
A smaller gravity well launchpad for said robotic probes.
The technological breakthroughs that would come with trying to sustain life long term in a harsh unforgiving environment.
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bycapnchicken
2012 @04:08PM
(#40557121)
Attached to: Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks
That sounds scalable. /sarcasm
The big thing all these leaks really proves is that there are too many secrets and the US govt's clearance and need to know mechanisms are wholly broken. Some info really does need to be secret, but instead of vetting everything its just way easier to sweep it all under the its a secret rug and call it a day.
Just another pentagon project to treat the symptoms and totally disregard the main cause.
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bycapnchicken
2012 @04:21PM
(#40458445)
Attached to: Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie
Perhaps one of Carnegie’s most successful marketing moves was to change the spelling of his last name from “Carnagey” to Carnegie, at a time when Andrew Carnegie (unrelated) was a widely revered and recognized name.
One hundred years later and I still fall for this marketing ploy. Color me embarrassed ...
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bycapnchicken
2012 @03:35PM
(#40457643)
Attached to: Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education
Probably because he's a smart guy that made more money than he knows what to do with and is trying to save is legacy Dale Carnegie style by educating himself on many of man kinds most daunting challenges and attempting to solve them. But don't let that stop you from hating on him for bundling IE with Windows 95 almost 20 years ago or whatever somesuch you need to still hate on the guy for.
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bycapnchicken
2012 @11:59AM
(#40297521)
Attached to: Gamer Keeps Civilization II Game Going for 10 Years
Yes, the future of slashdot stories are links to reddit comments. Truly a frightening visage.
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bycapnchicken
6, 2012 @02:38PM
(#40236345)
Attached to: LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online
The forum text before it was blown away
From reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/unt92/russian_hackers_claim_to_have_65m_linkedin/
"dwdm"
Guys need you help again.
[2] link to hash
it's about 118Mb.
"M@LIK"
Alright, looks like no one wants to help here...
100 449 found
6 358 928 left
Can't upload left due to poor internet connection, use my founds as a dict instead.
More will be here soon! Already hit 15k more.
"charlie"
30077 new
"M@LIK"
+163 267 found : [3] http://www.mediafire.com/?bq8bd5iojp50zci
6 165 604 left (After importing all charlies' founds)
"CyberLord"
Hi guys
Where is last left list ? Anybody,Would you mind adding the left list please
POLIMO
Ok here my stuff !
236 578 Cracked one ( propably more to come if i have time...)
cracked pass come from the start post, cause no left....
The join file is on pass format ( no hashe:pass cause i use JTR & on heavy file is taking to much time to past, so feel free to load my pass & past them)
Here the patern i find :
*linkedin *
*link *
"alotdv"
55120 found after all
left : [4] http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n307hutksjstow3
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bycapnchicken
2012 @09:32AM
(#39781617)
Attached to: C/C++ Back On Top of the Programming Heap?
Python was ahead of C# , what's listed in the summary is the 2008 index, the 2012 index has C# about three and a half points ahead of python.
Ruby is a hype machine, you can tell by the huge spikes and valleys when you see its popularity graphed out individually over the years. It's seemed to have relegated itself now to about a point and a half now.
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Ruby.html
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bycapnchicken
2012 @02:56PM
(#39749615)
Attached to: Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For <em>DOTA 2</em>
The real jerks will make sure they game whatever reporting tool there is in order to make other people look like jerks.
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bycapnchicken
2012 @12:32PM
(#39747855)
Attached to: NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process
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bycapnchicken
9, 2012 @04:22PM
(#39739077)
Attached to: Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth?
I'm not saying whether it is a worthy consideration or not, I just had a problem with their "It's anyone's guess". All things being equal, you can certainly calculate it at scale too, but if you're in the "it's worthy thing to do" camp you also have to be honest about all things being equal (time spent reading web pages, time spent on computers making web pages conform to usability/marketing/business and energy guidelines, etc...).
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bycapnchicken
9, 2012 @03:54PM
(#39738687)
Attached to: Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth?
the difference is just 17.7W and 3.8W for CRT and LCD respectively. What that adds up to over the course of a year, for every second you spend doing a search on Google is anyone's guess.
That was my favorite part. I'm guessing they just hooked up a some kind of Kill-A-Watt given that:
PCSTATS has an electronic power meter which can actually measure the amount of energy it takes a monitor (LCD and CRT) to display any given website, we've actually got a valid set of criteria to look at.
Never mind the nomenclature, there is cost forecasting on those devices, and given a few basic parameters you could figure out the cost per year searching Blackle rather than Google on the back of a napkin, so its not "anyone's guess".
price_per_killowatt_hour: $0.10
hours_searching_google_per_day: 2 hrs
watts_saved: 17.7
hours_searching_google_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_day * 365
kilowatthours_saved_per_year = hours_searching_google_per_year * (watts_saved / 1000)
price_saved_per_year = kilowatthours_saved_per_year * price_per_killowatt_hour
Which comes out a little over a buck twenty five for a CRT and more than a quarter per year on an LCD using those parameters for one person.
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