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Re:Forced Exposure on Friday August 23, 2013 @01:54PM (#6265153)
When they, or you, consider the latter issue to be greater than the former and don't form that alliance, you end up with the current situation.
Re:How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users on Thursday September 23, 2010 @01:53PM (#1720564)
I go a little bit further and also drag up the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Menu toolbar and then disable the navigation toolbar.
From the article: it "was flying at 2,000 feet".

I see no reason to assume it would have any ground-avoidance software besides flying higher if it detects it's near the ground.

Re:Email sucks. Time saving tips from Kevin Rose on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @08:03PM (#1616030)
I occasionally have ham messages caught in Gmail's spam filter. The fewer spam messages I receive, the fewer I have to skim through.
What I got from the article was not that naked roads should be everywhere, but actually that they absolutely shouldn't be everywhere. They should, however, be considered, as should a great many other possibilities, in the context of the specific environment that a traffic engineer is designing for. Instead we too often see a bias towards signs and signals and too much copy+paste of what has been done elsewhere.
Re:What is LaTeX and Why You Should Care on Thursday August 05, 2010 @12:29PM (#1578514)
Once upon a time I used some vim plugin--and that one sounds familiar--to allow me to compile from within vim and then jump to that paragraph in the dvi viewer. I think I could also click a paragraph in the dvi viewer and jump to that text in vim.
Re:Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @03:25PM (#1575547)
It seems worth pointing out that you can affect the safety of as many or more people by walking into a skyscraper, stadium, festival, &c., or by walking near train tracks when a train or two is due to come by, a major bridge during rush hour, &c. The searches may be easiest to do for air travel, but the same thing could be done nearly as easily for any tall building.
Re:What the JVM needs on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:27PM (#1561656)
These features would be most necessary for JVM languages other than Java: Scala, Clojure, etc.
Re:Python 2.7 released on Monday July 05, 2010 @06:41PM (#1489322)
Unfortunately they have non-transitive equality when used with standard dictionaries. For example, if O and R are ordered dictionaries with the same entries in different orders, and D is a standard dictionary with the same entries, then O == D == R but O != R.
Re:Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? on Monday July 05, 2010 @06:28PM (#1489285)
Sorry, but it's Iowa / the Midwest, not Southern California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American#Regional_home_...
I wonder the same thing about the search box. I personally drag all the navigation buttons and address/awesome bar up into my menu bar and eliminate the other default toolbars. (File|Edit|...|back|forward|reload|stop|awesomebar|adblockplus)
It may be hard to "prove" it's defective when Apple's stated position is that it's not.
Re:Is the world ready for the waterless urinal? on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @07:23PM (#1456782)
The traditional U-trap can fail if abandoned or isn't used regularly too. The water eventually evaporates.
Re:The Ulam Spiral of Primes on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @01:43PM (#1452560)
All the odds would look like a full checkerboard, not like these diagonals. The fact that some diagonal lines appear to be favored over other nearby diagonal lines of odd numbers is still interesting.
Re:Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery on Friday June 11, 2010 @02:03PM (#1424142)
How can I be free with no money with which to purchase food/shelter/education/materials?

Even Milton Friedman was in favor of redistributing wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

You just need to install it once, versus adjusting the settings twice a day.
Re:You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer on Friday June 04, 2010 @07:50PM (#1405966)
Walmart: "coming into towns and destroying mom and pop drugstores" = evil but Microsoft: "tried to drive their competitors out of business" = not evil ?
Sorry for not making it clear whether I even meant good or bad news. Under CA law they get free parking at meters as well as in (most) restricted-time zones. It seems like that would continue here, and now the city has the goal of upping the rates to always keep spaces open on every block.
Re:San Francisco is getting a smarter parking meter system on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @06:48PM (#1399741)
This is big news for holders of disabled placards.
There's a lot of things this project could do without replacing Facebook that I'd still consider successful. Four people thinking hard about making social networking better than Facebook for a summer could help "the eventual Facebook replacement" be better than it otherwise would be, even if this project itself doesn't turn into that replacement.
Re:Thursday = Thor's day on Friday May 07, 2010 @04:00PM (#1328550)
They were on a date -> Love god -> Friday!
Re:Market Plunge Baffles Wall Street on Friday May 07, 2010 @02:34PM (#1328351)
> Do you really think that it's of benefit to society for some people to show up to work every day and take home Wal-Mart wages, instead of having real alternatives?

Given the prevalence of unemployment, yes Walmart jobs are better than at least one real alternative.

Re:Today the Dow dropped 1000 points in about ten minutes. on Thursday May 06, 2010 @05:22PM (#1325766)
GTC (good 'til canceled) are available to me (nobody special--just a margin account at Zecco) as nothing more than an option to change on a normal order. The only difference is that they stay open across the end of the day. (Supposedly they'll be canceled by something after 30-90 days if I don't cancel them and they don't execute.)
Re:Match.com no longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @02:21PM (#1302255)
Along the lines of lincolnq's comment: |sort |uniq can be shrunk to |sort -u
> If your using a display that doesn't implement HDCP than you don't see the video, therefore you don't have control of where the stream goes. Netflix determines that for you.

I've used Netflix over composite and VGA cables with no problem. While DRM can be used to protect things in the way you mention, that doesn't appear to be the case with Netflix.

Re:EFF: Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @04:50PM (#1299674)
Regarding the second, the article says (regarding the PPA's protections for journalists):

The PPA includes an exception for searches targeting criminal suspects (which Chen may or may not be), but that exception does not apply "if the offense to which the materials relate consists of the receipt, possession, communication, or withholding of such materials or the information contained therein."

I don't see the point in avoiding Netflix's DRM here. It's just on the content stream between Netflix's servers and Netflix's client software. Furthermore, once the stream has arrived at whatever device you're using to play the movie, Netflix then helpfully strips the DRM and decodes the stream to whatever output you want. I can play movies from Netflix on my computer or on my Wii and either will happily use a large variety of unprotected outputs (VGA, S-Video, etc.)
Re:A Desk That Allows You to Stand or Sit on Thursday April 22, 2010 @03:10PM (#1286140)
I've noticed a coworker of mine with a similar setup, but with more of a tall chair than a stool.

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