Comment Re:Holy crooked election Batman! (Score 0, Offtopic) 794
I feel overly entertained
I feel overly entertained
I thought Nevada had a "none of the above" choice.
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I'm just going to sit here and giggle and point.
Opera works fine for reading HuffPo.
No tintypes either.
http://www.economist.com/node/16910031?story_id=16910031
Mining social networks
Untangling the social web
Software: From retailing to counterterrorism, the ability to analyse social connections is proving increasingly useful
It's still and interesting article.
Look at the bright side, you not only get to give away your personal info/location
you get to pay to have this done.
Cell phones are such a wonderful invention.
I find it very hard to generate much sympathy for MSFT.
Gee, someone played a dirty trick on them.
While it wasn't nice of Google , I hope they don't stop.
The can go up wind.
They can also sail faster than the wind (very much faster).
"Modern designs of iceboats are very efficient, utilizing aerodynamic designs and low friction, and can achieve speeds as high as ten times the wind speed in good conditions."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_boat
http://www.slate.com/ is running the thing.
HP contracted the thing out to Slate?
Is there a lawsuit in the future?
Sounds like somebody found a copy.
There is so much stuff alluded to in Alice that the annotations seem to go on for ever.
It is an interesting read, but slow.
It is.
"Since Mozilla has already accepted CNNIC as a trusted root CA, the burden rests with those who argue for its removal."
Yah , sure, whatever
Nailed it.
Took an online survey about a year ago from Nielsen , first thing it wanted to do was download some software, an exe IIRC.
a no-go on linux.
I tried the survey in a VM windows instance and of course the file down loaded. Never did try too hard to find out what the
exe did, really didn't care that much, just reset the VM.
I have always assumed it was to measure my video viewing habits, but who knows?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn