Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't really give a damn about the ads. It is the database behind the ad targeting that I have a problem with. Best case it is really no one's business where, when and how I spend my money. Worst case the info could be used to
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is actually the right to exclude others from making copies. It is not an absolute right either. Even the most hardcore maximalists accept that there are some conditions under which that right does not exist, c.f. Jack Valenti's ack
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by Amadou 13y ago
Who still makes significant purchases using cash? Me. I'd been slowly weaning off credit cards due to the potential for purchase profiling and then two years ago Visa and MC both started in double-talking about selling "anonymi
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You license them from the publishers, as LyricFind did Looks like LyricFind is owned by Gracenote. Considering that Gracenote got its start by absconding with user-submitted CDDB data, submitted with the understanding that it was GPL&#x2
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by Amadou 13y ago
at first glance it might seem like you are referring to the right to publish someone else's work for profit without paying them anything. The thing is that the value in this case is not in the lyrics themselves but in the transcripti
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Without an account I can only see the first 5 of the ~300 hits. But Yasser Mufti looks like an OPEC employee to me, he's listed as the chairman of the board of governors. Maybe he's technically on Aramco's payroll, but I th
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The Xbox One has a Wee Dong Problem(fastcodesign.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you changed your ways you could be forgiven. One slight modification taking a page from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committees: If you acknowledge the error of your ways and also change them then you should be forgiven
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by Amadou 13y ago
For situations where you have a time-critical app, you can pin the app's memory into RAM with the mlock() family of functions. There may be a command-line utility that lets you pin an arbitrary running a process too, I haven't loo
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by Amadou 13y ago
And Dvorak's complaint about "System Idle Process" had a little bit more context. He was complaining that XP would become non-responsive while still being mostly idle (something I remember well from that era too). He could
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've got a few librarians, particularly research librarians, in the family. University libraries pay lots of money for whole-school access to online journals and other publications. If you can make your sales process friendly for uni
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they didn't do that just for the sake of being evil. No one ever does. Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides, "Today I will strike a blow for evil!" No, everybody has their own narrative in which they are the hero. E
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by Amadou 13y ago
it's not like Microsoft was exploiting little children in Africa That is actually one of the major criticisms of the Gates Foundation rather than MS. The foundation has been vociferous in its support of intellectual property laws.
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I think it is safe to say that, like the vast majority of known browser exploits, the injection mechanisms here also relied on javascript as a necessary component. Thus this is another example of the potential risks to your users when desig
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't use linkedin, but that doesn't seem right: http://www.linkedin.com/title/opec
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not sure how to instill a sense of frugality without letting them go hungry for a while. Non-parent (I only rent them from friends and family) advice here: Charitable work with the poor. Anything that gets them interacting with
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sure, but it is still a catch-all term for base, low-cognitive mental processes. I don't literally think lizards are tribal, if anything the opposite.
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Doesn't that go against basic survival instincts (lizard brain) at the very least? It's a form of tribalism and I'd argue that tribalism is the king of "lizard brain" survival instincts.
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Reminds me of a lot of political discourse - it is easy to be skeptical of people you want to be wrong, it is hard to be skeptical of people you agree with.
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The problem is that people sue over everything, so why deal with the hassle when you can go into defense mode early and stave off frivolous court proceedings? I suspect that going into "don't get sued" mode actually encoura
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by Amadou 13y ago
I look at his case the same way I look at all those anti-gay politicians who are secretly gay. They hate themselves and in order to compensate for that internal conflict they put a lot of effort into a public show of opposing what are thei
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by Amadou 13y ago
Another movie in the same vein is "Battleship." It "woooshed" a lot of people, but there are some controvertible clues that it was more than just an "America, fuck yeah!" movie. Most notably the song during t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Julian Sanchez identified this precise problem back in 2008 (and I'm sure he wasn't the first either). Sanchez cites examples of Truman using an FBI wiretap on a potential supreme court nominee and Johnson wiretapping Martin Luthe
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By creating a custom-IPO process, they saved on banker fees but wound up leaving an awful lot of money on the table. Could you elaborate? I thought the dutch auction was a good way to maximize google's share of the pot (by taking mo
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by Amadou 13y ago
They had to modify off the shelf hardware to make it work. I would like to read about this experiment you mention, do you have a link?
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malware this insidious should have arisen in multiple sites with multiple analysts looking at it. Stuxnet was floating around the net for about a year before there was public discussion. It was only afterwards that people went back and r
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First Solar Hits Cost Reducation Milestone: Largest Drop in 6 Years(pv-tech.org)
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Feds review third Tesla fire(usatoday.com)
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FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years(theguardian.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
The industry moved to advertising because it works. That's really overly simplistic. It's a complex system and to assume that its the best system (as Mike Hearn stated) is to ignore the fact that there are competing interests a

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