CamperBob

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by CamperBob 15y ago
Not only that, but modafinil is also great when you absolutely, positively, have to win a flame war on the Internet.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I've come to think of it in economic terms. Some incredibly valuable companies -- Google and Facebook come to mind -- are built around nothing more than the economics of your personal information and mine. Seemingly innocuous information
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Perhaps the most straightforward fix would be to simply refrain from drawing any current at all from the vehicle's main battery while parked. The alarm and any other standby processes should run from a 12-volt motorcycle battery or somethi
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Such filters would be of no use against deliberate in-band interference.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Unfortunately, for some technical reasons that are too arcane to get into here, extremely sharp filters are not suitable for GPS receivers. It would have been better for everyone, including LightSquared, if the political appointees at the F
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Personally I chose to ignore this point of view as it would imply that absolutely everything is completely without a point. Who told you there was "a point?" And why did he tell you that?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The source code has nothing to do with the content of a patent. It can be part of a patent, but it isn't necessary. The courts don't care how you implemented someone else's "idea," only that you did.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
No one was complaining about having to ask the user for permission to access an address book. People were complaining about silly, arbitrary rules, like banning dictionary apps for "not being family friendly" or walling off entire areas of
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by CamperBob 15y ago
FTA: "Every piece of software released to the world without legal protections may leave open a door for someone else to attempt to patent the same technology (and may leave its creators more open to legal threats without a patent to wield d
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by CamperBob 15y ago
One of the most frustrating examples of people telling lies about Jobs is the meme that he told an iPhone user that they were "holding it the wrong way" when they complained about the iPhone 4 antenna. What he actually said was (and this i
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Gruber: But “Design is how it works” is a much better statement of Apple’s philosophy Nope. Function is how it works. Design is what it is . Jobs got that, whatever else anyone can say about him.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Correction: crappy, inadequately-redundant sensors fail.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
The FCC wants to deny Lightspeed the use of their licensed spectrum because neighboring users (GPS receivers) cheaped out on their receivers and can't tolerate Lightspeed's transmissions. This is an insane oversimplification. RTFA -- tha
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Yes. Yes, they are. They may be an affluent victim. An able victim. ... who, as the GP points out, played the game with the best of them. Live by the patent sword, die by the patent sword. I like the idea someone posted on HN a few month
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Not a huge fan of zipties, honestly... there's a point where it's less trouble to just pull the cable and see what it's attached to, especially since we all get lazy when it comes to labeling our source/dest endpoints. Most of the shots of
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Likewise no one wants to watch a juiced up player hit a home run every time. Theres no spectacle in that. Be careful with such sweeping statements. I think it'd be cool as hell to watch athletic competitions that were really just proxies
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by CamperBob 15y ago
"Eat better, get exercise, reduce distractions" isn't a very sexy answer though, when compared to, "take a pill and become awesome like that guy in Limitless." I've never understood these sorts of comments, although they appear reliably i
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Frankly, it's a pretty goofy article. The variables it cites aren't even relevant for printed books. If the Thor decision had an impact on publishing, it was to encourage faster turnaround at the printing facilities and development of j
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What I don't get is this need to "preserve the species." Read some Dawkins.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I answered it by pointing out that it's objectively unanswerable.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Re-reading, it looks like you're right; I withdraw the comment.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Fixing Hubble was really important. I'm not sure how much the shuttle's work was of the same magnitude, or couldn't have been done with automated gear. Although a staunch supporter of Zubrin and his Mars strategy, as well as a supporter o
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I want my kids to grow up, be happy and have their own kids if they want to, but I really don't care about what happens 100 generations down the road. Stop trying to think 100 generations ahead -- that's pointless, no one can do that. In
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What's so special about "humanity" that it needs to be preserved? The frustrating thing about your nihilistic argument is that there's no practical way we can divide humanity into the grasshoppers who live only for today and the ants who
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Why not focus on things that are problems now? Because those problems will never be solved entirely, no matter what we do?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Put copyright aside for a sec and lets try to actually frame it in the case of child porn or drug trafficking. How can any legislator conclude that disrupting the public like this is acceptable after having a reasonable discussion about ho
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by CamperBob 15y ago
You were downvoted, but as a longtime EFF member I have much the same question. I pay them to get out in front of issues like SOPA/PIPA, and I was disappointed to see that it didn't happen. I don't believe I saw a single instance of press
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Gee, maybe that's because some "political alignments" are substantially better than others when it comes to this sort of issue.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
YouTube fails to fall under the first because it is not primarily designed to engage in, enable, or facilitate infringing In whose opinion? Viacom's?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Linking most definitely is already a crime in the US. The time to protest it was eleven years ago: http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/299 Every move in defense of liberty on the Web since then has been a rear-guard action.

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