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by 9999 15y ago
Feels like the former. Were it the latter, they would have probably defaced the page or announced that they'd stolen some data, etc.
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by 9999 15y ago
If the only thing keeping Nintendo relevant is their first party software, I would expect them to go the way of Sega fairly quickly. I don't think Nintendo will be in the hardware business in 15 years unless they dramatically change their
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by 9999 15y ago
For people with a limited budget, a Nintendo console does need to do it all to be the one stop set top box entertainment shop. Their omission of DVD playback on the Wii (to save money on licensing, the hardware is perfectly capable of doin
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by 9999 15y ago
I wonder how secure those VPN providers are. Regardless, my bet is that these guys will get taken down via a Kaczynski vulnerability. That is, someone that personally knows them will figure out that they are responsible and report them to
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by 9999 15y ago
"I’m tired of seeing small businesses get screwed." I really don't understand this as a rationalization for the somewhat skewed portrayal of Groupon that this guy has been giving. I'm sure some small businesses have been screwed by choosin
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by 9999 15y ago
Random speculation: conduit fills with water or mud, sheathing rots.
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by 9999 15y ago
There have been quite a few of these articles now. This one was both informative and somewhat damning: http://venturelevel.com/post/4798285366/why-groupon-sucks-fo... Now that the social buying model is better understood, I feel like mer
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by 9999 15y ago
People downvote when they don't agree with what you said, which is not what the downvote is really for (filtering unhelpful posts), but there you go. Thanks for the useful links.
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by 9999 15y ago
From the article: "When Hotz broke into Sony's network so that he could play PlayStation 2 games on the PlayStation 3 console, he was committing a crime, but it wasn't one that hurt Sony in any significant way." What utter drivel. Hotz nev
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by 9999 15y ago
I agree completely. At the least they could have included a link to the source.
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by 9999 15y ago
The FSF's cause is by its very nature already marginalized in the wider world. Members of the software developing communities and computing hobbyist communities, probably find the iGroan stuff particularly cringe inducing, but there may be
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by 9999 15y ago
I groan at iGroan because it's a bad pun, but Stallman's position seems more or less sound. DRM sucks. This article from the EFF is too brief and poorly annotated to really lead me to any conclusions on its own. I would like to read a ful
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by 9999 15y ago
I haven't spent much time with Project Euler, but I can see how puzzles and riddles could be a more enticing introduction to programming for a lot of people. I'm not particularly averse to learning via giant tomes on programming or in a cl
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by 9999 15y ago
The way that Groupon has defined the sector actually does present fairly high barriers to entry in that you need a dedicated sales force to 1) discover potential merchants and 2) arrange a deal that will work for the Groupon purchaser and t
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by 9999 15y ago
The "making it do something useful" part is the hack. Breaking the security to do that thing is a crack.
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by 9999 15y ago
I'm using Stallman's definition of cracker, "people who break computer security" http://stallman.org/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?path=/archives/arch... That's exactly what George Hotz does. He breaks security. iPhone security, PS3 security, et
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by 9999 15y ago
A well known cracker named George Hotz (GeoHot), best known for iPhone jailbreaking, began to target the PS3's security to enable full access to the PS3's graphics capabilities via the Linux install option that the PS3 originally shipped wi
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by 9999 15y ago
I probably should not have used rape as the example there. What I was really trying to convey is that a crime was committed, and the perpetrators have set things up to shift the public's blame to Sony.
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by 9999 15y ago
Isn't this a fairly common practice? Admittedly, Groupon's enormous employee base means they're going to burn through the remaining funds faster than an ordinary startup. Aside from that, this doesn't seem all that outrageous, at least no
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by 9999 15y ago
The public is already predisposed to believing any hacking claims targeted at Sony at the moment. I wouldn't exactly frame their actions as reckless or lacking in logic either. How about malicious? I am particularly put off by this line:
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by 9999 15y ago
I know someone that briefly worked for a third party company that Sony had outsourced a fairly large project to (building some social networking features into the web based side of PSN). I found it really surprising at the time that Sony h
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by 9999 15y ago
I followed a similar path to you (OS 8 was where I joined Apple), and I am also intrigued by some of the ideas presented here (split keyboard for thumbs, good job!). I am a little disappointed that I didn't see any examples of touch intera
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by 9999 15y ago
Exactly, it would cost a company like Lodsys only a few thousand dollars to hire a couple of devs and build an iPhone application that makes use of the patent currently under consideration. That would not be a considerable additional burde
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by 9999 15y ago
There's no quicker way to foment a revolution than cutting off access to our cutting edge Western pornography.
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by 9999 15y ago
And why does Google's invasion of privacy make this okay? This is why the governments of the world need to implement do not track laws.
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by 9999 15y ago
Very well, I suppose some people might want to be tracked like a bunch of cattle. In the event that someone does want to do this, then they should have to opt-in. The default should not be opt-out for something as invasive as this. If App
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by 9999 15y ago
You should create a policy that completely prohibits this behavior.
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by 9999 15y ago
I've always thought Raskin's ZUI held some promise as an alternative UI paradigm. I'm pretty much a quicksilver addict now and use that to kind of combine the command line and GUI desktop worlds a little bit more at least.
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by 9999 15y ago
"if I did, I'd probably use Finder instead." The thing that strikes me as very, very cool about this project is that you might not need the Finder at all any more.
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by 9999 15y ago
They turned it off because of geohotz' hacking activities which would enable massive piracy (not his goal, but a consequence he understood very well). Read his Wikipedia entry.

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