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by Decade 13y ago
I'm not entirely pleased with sonic.net. They have a nice business plan, but they don't care about the deep issues. For example, Dane is against Net Neutrality, and he doesn't think IPv6 is terribly important. The beta IPv6 s
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by Decade 13y ago
1. Software patents are a horribly harmful idea. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals should never have allowed them. 2. WTF? Xenix and SFU were in no way central to Microsoft's business, and I don't see how Microsoft arranging ot
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by Decade 13y ago
Haha, not bothering to explain the wired Internet situation. Short version: You probably should get Sonic.net. The dominant companies are AT&T and Comcast. I hate them both, but I hate AT&T more, because of their poor customer servi
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by Decade 13y ago
Intel integrated graphics are getting astonishingly better, and they're open source friendly, except for the Atoms that have the pathetic PowerVR graphics. At this point, for casual use, I don't think it's worth the hassle de
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by Decade 13y ago
1) I think the responsiveness of Microsoft Office is largely from using appropriate APIs. LibreOffice is ultimately based on StarOffice, and StarOffice was the worst office program I've ever tried. It dragged its own OS platform on top
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by Decade 13y ago
Let's have a specific example. The Linux kernel. Technically, it's GPLv2, but in practice the copyright holders don't bother to enforce the copyright license. Linus Torvalds is the acme of "pragmatic" open source. W
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by Decade 13y ago
Sometimes the obvious needs to be said. Most obvious: In 1997, Stallman wrote an essay in which the protagonist requires a copyright holder's permission to read a book. In 2009, Amazon remotely pulled "1984" out of Kindles. F
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by Decade 13y ago
1) Many people mistrust banks. I also mistrust banks. Most banks are confusing and make it difficult to tell exactly how much money you can spend, and then lie in wait to hit you with overdraft fees. For now, I'm trying out Simple Bank
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by Decade 13y ago
3) "Free checking." And then, even if you (the low-income person) avoid the overdraft fees, eventually monthly fees start appearing. So far, in 10 years of using banks, I've twice closed checking accounts because they started
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by Decade 13y ago
Regarding the food item from Whole Foods, I doubt that she needed to shoplift in order to eat. Even if she did, there are certainly cheaper and more accessible places to shoplift than Whole Foods. This is not Bourbon Restoration France. In
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by Decade 13y ago
There are various reasons that the legacy IPv4 assignments are not returned. At the normal rate of IPv4 address assignment, circa 2011 when IANA ran out, reclaiming all those addresses would have delayed address space exhaustion by maybe 2
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by Decade 13y ago
The introduction to the article is a bit overblown. We were connecting computers, sharing printers and files and playing multiplayer games, long before we used Ethernet. Now we all use Ethernet, and Ethernet has been around so long that dev
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by Decade 13y ago
Apple is not the problem. The (horribly proprietary) iCloud is just Apple's solution to the fundamental problem of people collecting data but not being able to manage it. The article calls out smart devices. I've fantasized about
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by Decade 13y ago
So, the cure for the Great Sadness is basically... religion? Like a modern, high-tech version of the Wheel of Time. You do have to believe in a cause greater than yourself. All your passions and drives die with you, so if you want life to b
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by Decade 13y ago
No. From his friends' improvised performance art piece, "How Not to Destroy Evidence," I'm guessing that Dzokhar deserves to have the book thrown at him. It's just that it should be the book that's thrown at him. Legally. Ortiz has a histor
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by Decade 13y ago
I didn't feel sympathy for Tsarnaev because of his cute face. I felt sympathy because his case is under the jurisdiction of Carmen Ortiz, and from Aaron Swartz we know what happens to people who cross Carmen Ortiz.