DannyB2

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by DannyB2 7y ago
Can this now be renamed to: The Right To Invoke The Streisand Effect How about an archive (outside the EU) of every Right To Be Forgotten request, and links to what was not to be remembered. The people of the EU can be the most forgetful pe
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Agree. I expect $100 board to have 2 or 4 GB. Yet once upon a time I thought a 48 K Apple II was a lot.
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The patent examination process is not well understood by most people. Once a patent is received, the patent examiner carefully places the application into a room full of other patent applications. Then kittens are released into the room wit
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Could Snowden hire a US lawyer to represent him? Snowden does not necessarily have to appear in court along side his advocate. If the US demands he appear in court, his lawyer could motion to allow Snowden to appear by tele-presence. Aft
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In reality, those deadly sins do exist, just as the virtues do. It depends on the person.
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Good point. When it turns out that uninsured can actually pay.
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Hospitals fleece the insured. Or their insurance companies. (But insurance companies are not a magic pile of money in the sky, everyone's premiums are affected.) A poor, uninsured person visits the ER. They can't pay. The hosp
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But ST:Voyager never had the DMCA. Imagine the copyright strikes of storing (and replicating) all of YouTube in a teaspoon.
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The Three Virtues of a software developer. 1. Lazyness. The first step towards efficiency. Why do you think automatic dishwashers exist? 2. Impatience. The first step towards performance optimization. 3. Antisocial. Ability to hyper-foc
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Advertising starts out okay. But the endpoint is all ads, no content. And the content is very low quality. An excellent ongoing example is Cable TV. Content is now about 50 % of the time. When a long string of ads are completed, then ch
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The problem with (some) paywalls is that they also advertise. Either advertise and make it free, or have a paywall subscription model. I get it that news isn't free. What is strange about the struggle is that in the 21st century a big
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Advertising ruins every medium it ever touches. Newspapers. Billboards. Magazines. Radio. TV. Cable TV. VHS / DVD. Usenet. Email. The Web. Online news. Smart phones. Streaming video. It is a watershed decision to have ads o
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Shouldn't it be that I have to tell Facebook what they are allowed to keep? Especially since I have never had and never will have a FB account.
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It is deleted, then added to a list of deleted faces. Just so they can be sure not to re-add it later. Yeah. That's it! And they're sticking with that story.
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It is amusing to note that on mini computers of the 1970's that what we now would call a "floating point co-processor" was a hardware option. Even with the Intel 8086, a "math" coprocessor was a separate 8087 chip.
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Back in the early days of BYTE magazine, early microcomputers, etc. I seem to recall that Steve Jobs coined the term "Personal Computer". Apple didn't market it to death. But at that time the way these computers were descr
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by DannyB2 7y ago
Music today is deeply meaningful, partly because of how it is produced: Take one part modem noise, mix thoroughly with 2 parts bass and 1/2 part melody line. Serving suggestion: crank the bitrate way up to a full 96 Kbps! /s Lyr
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> Capped broadband is a new development in the US. Shirley you mean capped but unlimited broadband. At least the throttling will be unlimited. Maybe the caps will be unlimited too. And the excuses. And mysterious service outages.
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> Why is it okay for . . . . It's not okay.
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Maybe IBM acquired Red Hat in order to join RISC-V by proxy.
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Big Corporations contributing manpower to open source means (gasp!) that they must have discovered some profit motive to using, and supporting open source! They're not doing this out of the goodness of their heart; but to increase sha
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I thought it was fun to run a web, dns and ftp server on a PowerMac in 1997. But I had the sense to start learning Linux and finally get one in 1999. I was using then-current actual Mac software for this. On classic Mac OS. The box was no
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Social Media? Home video games? Back in my day sonny, we had to actually go physically locate our friends (no cell phones), and ask "hey, you want to go spend some quarters at the video arcade and then get some nachos? Who's goi
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Speech therapists cons tand dotted pears and parenthesis.
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From TFA... > Deceptive design played an enormous part in last week’s FTC settlement with Facebook, and Hawley’s bill would make it unlawful for tech companies to use dark patterns to manipulate users into opting into services. For examp
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> Poor understanding of physics are exemplified everywhere these days. Please allow me to quote former vice president Dan Quayle... https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle Mars is essentially in the same orbit. … M
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I wouldn't interpret it to mean literally one hundred years. The progression of hundred to thousand, etc, seems to be saying 'whenever it does happen...', the sun will go cold.
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Computers are wonderful. They can do the same work that would require a thousand people to accomplish in the same amount of time. Flip side . . . Computers are terrible. They can screw things up so bad it would require a thousand people t
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> Other POST failures, like a missing keyboard, lead to halts with an error message on the screen. Keyboard not detected. Press any key to continue booting.
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Spock: The loss to the galaxy may be irretrievable.

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