Tortoise | 2 years ago | on: Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Tortoise | 3 years ago | on: Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
Unfortunately, for an American man at age 84 he would only be expected to live (on average) another 6.44 years. See:
Tortoise | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What email service provider are you using for your custom domain?
Fastmail is good.
Tortoise | 4 years ago | on: Aukey kicked off Amazon following fake reviews allegations
Tortoise | 4 years ago | on: Jaguar Land Rover to suspend output due to chip shortage
Tortoise | 6 years ago | on: Assange Indicted Under Espionage Act, Raising First Amendment Issues
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.
Tortoise | 8 years ago | on: List of price of medieval items (2006)
d stands for denarius, a roman coin
Tortoise | 8 years ago | on: It appears my Google account is slated for deletion
Fastmail.fm
Not free; but you definitely get what you pay for.
Tortoise | 8 years ago | on: A tale of two Canadas: Where you grew up affects your income in adulthood
This makes no sense. Every large city is dark green (the best.) Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City. Even Montreal is light green. Most smaller cities—like Halifax, Winnipeg, Saskatoon—are also dark green.
Tortoise | 9 years ago | on: Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images
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.
Tortoise | 9 years ago | on: Trudeau calls Castro legendary revolutionary who improved education & healthcare
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.
Tortoise | 9 years ago | on: We Got Phished
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.
Tortoise | 9 years ago | on: Why Online Voting Is a Danger to Democracy
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.
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted
"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.
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released
So many people seem to dislike Wordpress but what alternatives are their if you want to host your own blog?
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: Kicked out of the US: 33 hours of hell
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.
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: State of Georgia sues Public Resource for posting their state laws
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.
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
That's why it has an arbitration clause. The Federal Arbitration Act trumps state law and allows such waivers.
Tortoise | 10 years ago | on: Drunk-driver proof cars could be sold by 2020
The sort of people who'd be willing to pay an extra few hundred dollars for this aren't the sort of people who drive drunk. It doesn't make sense unless the government forces it.
Tortoise | 11 years ago | on: Why, after a year with Adobe EchoSign, I’m taking my business elsewhere
Are there any decent online fax services for less than $10/month. I send so few faxes that pricing doesn't make sense.
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