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lurkinggrue··on A dead man's switch for your computer?
Not the case with SSD.
lurkinggrue··on How the 'John Oliver Effect' Is Having a Real-Life Impact
But yes, Let us not forget Not the Nine O'Clock News.
lurkinggrue··on Ars Technica Was Hacked
Running Windows XP without any service packs!
lurkinggrue··on Blockbuster: Losing the plot
I just data horde as I got sick of how much wasn't available or would just disappear at the whim of an executive.

Hey did you plan on watching Galactica? Sike!

lurkinggrue··on Blockbuster: Losing the plot
When Total Access came out I remember Blockbuster still had a death stench on it.
lurkinggrue··on Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile
But makes it harder to switch devices... Nice one Apple.
lurkinggrue··on Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
Can you test for this using curl?
lurkinggrue··on How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart
I do get sick of every argument boiling down to "Gun to the head" corrosion.

I do wonder if they were forced to eat broccoli too much as a kid as that is the parents holding a gun to their kids heads.

lurkinggrue··on How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart
I'm so shocked.
lurkinggrue··on Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built
They had massive whips, Rimmer.

Massive, massive whips.

lurkinggrue··on What Lies Beneath Stonehenge?
The Pandorica?
lurkinggrue··on Macintel: The End Is Nigh
Seriously, Not really.
lurkinggrue··on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Yeah, I'm all for the evil AI taking over.
lurkinggrue··on Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find?
I do hate software that auto replaces :) with a graphic emoticon.
lurkinggrue··on Adventures in Cognitive Biases
Exactly, I would have pressed the shrug button quite a bit here.

Oddly enough I did get the cat one spot on.

lurkinggrue··on Adventures in Cognitive Biases
Yeah, many of the questions I would have just said "Not sure" if I was asked and then I would google the answer.
lurkinggrue··on Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E.
Other transgendered people that loved the game would care.
lurkinggrue··on Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream
It has a ton of useful features that never came back when they rewrote the browser using blink.
lurkinggrue··on Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream
WOW! I never expected they would do it. Shame it's still Opera 24.
lurkinggrue··on Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care
Wall Street?
lurkinggrue··on I’m Just Now Realizing How Stupid We Are
Survivor bias is a bitch.
lurkinggrue··on The Story of Infocom (2000) [pdf]
Ok, This is wonderful.
lurkinggrue··on Earbits will be shutting down June 16th
OMG! ... who?
lurkinggrue··on Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
I'm not incognito mode but it didn't work for me.

Kinda weird.

lurkinggrue··on Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
It didn't work for me.
lurkinggrue··on Being Happy With Sugar
When I started to fix my diet I had to purge myself of Caffeinated sodas first. I found the combination of HFCS and caffeine would make me crave junk food like an addict. I purged myself of the caffeine and ate junk food then after a few weeks purged the junk food and now I can turn away from the bag of potato chips without too much willpower.

Having gotten off of physically addictive drugs before I recognized the feelings and realized how much I had to slowly ween myself off of that stuff.

lurkinggrue··on Flickr is removing Facebook and Google sign-in
Why would Yahoo be any better?
lurkinggrue··on Flickr is removing Facebook and Google sign-in
500Px probably.
lurkinggrue··on Why and how to avoid hamburger menus
Gah! All those low battery icons on those screen shots are driving me crazy.
lurkinggrue··on True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
We already have the source.
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