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www.nytimes.com 5y ago

Texas’ Drive for Energy Independence Set It Up for Disaster

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danluu.com 6y ago

Keyboard Latency

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Some WeWork Staff Planned Their Lives Around a Stock Deal That Just Collapsed

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

The Saudis Have a High-Stakes Plan to Win the Global Oil War

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Congress Saves Coal Miner Pensions, but What About Others?

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www.cbc.ca 7y ago

Canada: Illegal cannabis getting even cheaper, as legal gets costlier

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www.bloomberg.com 7y ago

Canada Moves to Regulate Crypto Trading Amid Quadriga Scandal

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www.cbc.ca 7y ago

Crypto exchange QuadrigaCX seeks creditor protection after founder's death

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idlewords.com 8y ago

A Rocket to Nowhere (2005)

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Motel 6 Workers Tipped Off Immigration Agency About Guests

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medium.com 8y ago

Loftium Unwittingly Forms General Partnerships with Homebuyers

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www.sublimetext.com 8y ago

Sublime Text 3.0 is out

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elaineou.com 9y ago

The Bitcoin Backlog

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www.washingtonpost.com 9y ago

You Can Hold Copyright in Federal Law

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

The Man Who Stands Between Earth and Asteroid Armageddon

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

Best New Global Banknotes

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www.latimes.com 9y ago

To make cars lighter, automakers are dropping the spare tire

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www.newyorker.com 9y ago

Imagining a Cashless World

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Stanford Tops List of Colleges in the Wall Street Journal’s Inaugural Ranking

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

E-Commerce a Boon for Rural America but Costly for Retailers and Delivery Services

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www.theglobeandmail.com 10y ago

Walmart Canada will no longer accept Visa because of “Unacceptably High” fees

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www.bbc.com 10y ago

Why drinking in India is an 'outdoor sport'

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www.nytimes.com 10y ago

Export-Import Bank Dispute Threatens G.E. Factory That Obama Praised

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macheist.com 12y ago

MacHeist Apple Design Award Bundle

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I suspect that it might be harder to extradite him on these offences because the extradition treaty between the US and the UK, like all such treaties, bans extradition for “political offences.” (See article 4-1) If he is extradited on the hacking offence the US can’t also try him for espionage without the UK’s permission.

This seems quite reasonable to me. They want to protect their brand. They don't want people thinking "Ubuntu is an unstable piece of crap", when what they're running is a modified version that doesn't work correctly. If you want to modify it, play by their rules or remove their trademarks.

[dead] 10 years ago

What a lot of people don't realize is how close Trudeau's family was to Castro. Castro was a pallbearer at Justin Trudeau's father's funeral. Castro held Justin's baby brother in his arms.

Moreover your wouldn't have to look very hard to find recent quotes of American presidents praising some rather nasty regimes.

We Got Phished 10 years ago

The bank sets a cookie on your machine and only displays the image if you have the cookie. You won't get the image on a machine you've never used to log in before.

It's also trivially easy to defeat this. Here in Canada, your ballot has a counterfoil with a number on it. That number is only removed immediately before you deposit your vote into the ballot box. This ensures that the ballot you deposit is the same one you were given by the polling clerk.

"The default PIN is the last four digits of your registered mobile phone number. Please call Shift support at 800-897-0717 to reset your Shift Card pin."

That's a terrible idea. This isn't a library card. You're PIN shouldn't be known by anyone who knows your phone number.

So I spent about 60 seconds doing research. The J-1 visa they initially applied for is a work visa (or study visa). The ETSA they came on is for visa-waiver (tourism.) Most countries are going to be very unhappy if you apply for a work visa, don't get it, then show up anyway and say you're just a tourist. Non unreasonably, they assume you're lying. This isn't just a US thing.

What a misleading title. If you actually read the statement of claim posted at that link, you see that Georgia doesn't object to the laws being posted online for free, they do that themselves. But, they hired LexisNexis to produce an annotated code, and Public Resource is blatantly copying all the annotations. This is exactly what copyright is supposed to protect.

If Public Resource wants to they can make their own annotations.

Starting An Airline 12 years ago

The problem is that you can't actually fire anyone on board the plane. Those flight attendants aren't there to serve your drinks. They're there to guide/assist you "in the unlikely event of an emergency."

The pesky regulations say they need x attendants per passenger.

Can you tell the difference between a secure hardware token and a fake secure hardware token?

I suppose if you try to extract the secret key and the token destroys it, it's pretty secure. Of course, you just lost all your money. I can't think of a non-destructive test.