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There was a nice discussion over on /. where it was noted that the "relaxed restrictions" included having the target computer navigate to malicious web pages created by the entrants. This is how the winner eventually won. But we've seen security hol…
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Quote: Originally Posted by soulcrusher I would just like to give a quick update, if anyone cares... masters Towel That's Dr. Towel, Ph.D., bub, and the diploma to prove it came in the mail last month. Speaking of which, is anyone else d…
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I've been running Kubuntu on my home desktop for about four months now, Gentoo for two years before that. It's a great complement to a Mac laptop. Kubuntu in particular was almost as easy to install/configure as OS X and is just as easy to keep upda…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dutch pear Seems like a hell of a job for hundreds of articles, but you get real quick at it, and once you're through this part you really will start enjoying papers enormously. I might plow through all that if I ca…
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Maybe you guys can answer a question for me... I checked out Papers, and it looks very nice. But I have almost a thousand PDFs I'm accumulated over the years from my field; when I tried importing them into Papers, it found very little useful metadat…
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Why the hell is she suing eBay, instead of the various nefarious folks who are actually selling the pirated goods? If she succeeds in forcing online marketplaces to act as proxies for the FBI and RIAA/MPAA, I just might have to boycott her last book…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot ... and the "best and brightest" will continue to look somewhere other than medicine for thier careers.... People stopped going into medicine for the money thirty years ago. It's hard to argue tha…
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I have a first-gen 15" CD2.0 GHz purchased 2/2006, and it's been a great machine. No problems at all. As for AppleCare, I have some experience thanks to my old laptop: a 600 MHz white iBook that had to be returned to Apple three times for logic boar…
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I have to admit I'm a little confused about the "fewer workers = economic collapse" argument. There seem to be more examples in history of worker shortages spurring innovation and higher overall wages than there are of worker shortages causing reduc…
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You're also forgetting that we're already paying that much for health care. Much is coming directly out of our pockets, the rest indirectly deducted from our pay in the form of employment-related insurance. The latter may be more subtle than direct …
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Grad school would be the best time of your life if only you knew for certain ahead of time that your experiments would work, your papers would be accepted, your committee would approve your thesis, and you would graduate. Try to appreciate it, anywa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sunilraman Looks like you got the Mac "habit" under control. What's your secret?? Poverty. You just have to stay in grad school forever.
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Long, long ago: Apple IIc 1991ish: LC [1993ish: 040 upgrade card...wheeow!] 1996: PowerCenter 150 [1999: G3 upgrade card...wheeow!] 2002: iBook 12" 600 MHz 2006: MBP 15" 2.0 GHz Wow. Hadn't really occurred to me that I've had all of four boxe…
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Cute. Deeper voice than James Blunt, too.
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Quote: Originally Posted by CoolHandPete I disagree. Most experts I've heard have recommended against extended warranties EXCEPT for Apple products, since the normal warranty is only 90 days. There was a lot of discussion about this on the radio …
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1. Size, >1cm 2. Irregular borders 3. Irregular color 4. Irregular texture 5. Changing or growing Medical types love mnemonics, so these are sometimes known as the ABCDE's: Asymmetry Border Color Diameter Enlargement Melanomas are …
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Try OmniGraffle. You'll love it.
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What about GnuPG? A Free (as in both beer and speech) cross-platform implementation of PGP, which appears to have gone all corporate and expensive since I last used it.