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Comment · 12 years ago
I don't know anything about how they target their victim, but I am assuming the have very little time between seeing the victim and deciding to execute him/her/them. So I suspect an algorithm makes the call.
Comment · 12 years ago
Your idea will only work if you can control the anonymous watchers. How would you know if they actually watched the footage properly? One way to do it that comes to mind is the captcha way - give the watcher two segments, one of which is know to contain a reportable incident. If they report the one with the reportable incident, then it is probable that they watched the other one properly as well.
Comment · 12 years ago
I live in Australia, work in Superannuation (aka Pension plans). Looking at the data, there will be a whole heap of suffering for people who did not take this advice when they were younger. Poverty is one thing. Poverty and old age is very bad. Add ill-health, and you will have absolute misery.
Comment · 12 years ago
From the article: "New ‘flexible grid’ infrastructure allows more efficient bundling of channels, (42.5% increase in spectral efficiency) and data speeds of up to 1.4 Terabits per second (Tb/s) achieved without deployment of more fiber". Without the deployment of more fibre? This is astounding news.
Comment · 12 years ago
Nothing to do with that. There are currently lots of drivers and OpenSSH of course, in NetBSD that came from OBSD.
Comment · 12 years ago
Haven't used OBSD in years, but I do use OpenSSH all the time. There are lots of stuff lurking in my OS of choice, NetBSD, that came from OBSD. So I would like to thank Mircea Popescu for his generosity. I can only muster $A50 I'm afraid.

Edit: suckful spelling

Just went to try to donate. Can't seem to do it at the donation page. Can't seem to enter my Australian address in any of the US and Canada links. I am certain my CC issuer will decline it. What gives?

Comment · 12 years ago
Break the problem/task down into independent pieces. Independent means that the piece can be unit tested. Finish the piece and its unit test before you stop coding. Design a good api/interface/signature etc for each piece to enable re-use. A good design and unit tests also allows you to refactor later on without blowing the whole thing up.
Comment · 12 years ago
They need to scan the NFR chip embedded in the back of your skull to ID you.
Comment · 12 years ago
Facebook has always been uncool. The uncool people are just saying this now to sound cool.
Comment · 12 years ago
Even a law in a corrupt, totalitarian country?
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
The mafia is illegal in Italy as far as I know, so that is not a valid comparison. Yes there are problems with all taxi drivers, and I do not see how Uber drivers are immune from these.
Comment · 12 years ago
Or, turning it around somewhat: "Lisp Programmers Demand Expulsion of Users of Inferior Languages".

Dude, leave them alone. If that is what they want to do, let them be. Never mind what your opinion of "improvement" is.

Comment · 12 years ago
Uber and it's ilk are nice and disruptive and all and you get a cheap ride out of it, but we must not forget that they are disrupting people's livelihood and cultural and social traditions too. I do not condone the violence, but I kind of understand it. Do we really want every country to be Americanized like this, one disruptive app at a time? To some people, these "unions" appear to be protection rackets, but I saw them as part of the French society and culture. If you don't like it, don't force your own beliefs and practices down their throats. Go somewhere else.

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