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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I mean, I don't have an option to switch away from Comcast because their internet service is bad. That's why they can refuse to upgrade their peering with Netflix in the first place, because they know I'm stuck with them, whe
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Your comments on this post are a great demonstration of the attitude that is driving me off Google properties, as quickly as I can find viable replacements.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
With more loaded questions: "Alcohol destroys more lives than any of those drugs: are you saying we should return to the era of prohibition and mafia violence? Should our children die because people can't be responsible? That does
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Could you elaborate on why you think it's a dead technology?
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
In my terms, a bank vault would protect my valuables by fundamentally denying me access to them, except on terms dictated by some external trusted party. This is the case of DRM using entirely encrypted paths (which can be broken with the b
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
This is my real objection to DRM: it fundamentally either is just a show (turning over the unencrypted message to the browser, anyway) or requires that I be locked away from the computation happening (has direct access to hardware and secur
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The only redeeming feature is that AT&T is giving a discount for the service. I suspect they'd run in to more lawsuits about their monopoly status if they forced that decision on all consumers. However, the plugin companies aren&#x
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I actually think that AT&T would be in a weaker position than the browser plugins. AT&T is a message relayer, while the browser plugin is a specific program installed by the user to modify the messages they receive. There's no
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
> The victory was not quite a Deep Blue moment; Crazy Stone was given a small handicap, and Ishida is no longer in his prime. As I heard the story, the computer received something like 4 stones (a moderate handicap), and was playing agai
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I find the Haskell type system much easier than the Python type system. I'd argue that Haskell actually has a pedagogy problem, because many of its proponents are academics or mathematicians, who are comfortable with that kind of langu
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I mean, would you be okay with support that cost money? That seems to be the model that Red Hat went with, for instance.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I mean, I hope things go well for them and their partnership brings nothing but good things. From what I've seen, they've put a lot of work in to their device and made significant gains. But Facebook doesn't and won't ha
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
There's a huge problem with the monopoly status of Comcast in this case: I'd dump an ISP for not quickly (ie, in a 3-4 month span) working something out with Netflix if I could. Comcast's monopoly status is greatly impacting
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
(This is of course wandering down the same meta path, but...) I've always wondered if it would be possible to tag comments with tags like "tangent" or "meta" (or whatever else seems good), and then apply sorts based
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
After dealing with YouTube for the past year, I'm very skeptical Google won't mangle a UI/platform for "the good of the common user".
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The title was better before the edit, since "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a work of fiction, has been borrowed in many contexts, and the additional title material clarified that it was borrowing that title to talk about an exper
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The high dev salaries there make the Bay Area even more of a dead end than it would otherwise be for the people who are stuck in service jobs for life, such as making food when the devs eat out.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Can you still configure the plugin (manually) to not trust such sites? I don't want it to be a negotiation between the EFF and a website as to the state of my privacy - I want the final say in who is going to be trusted.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I kept trying to write a reply to this, then I just gave up and upvoted your comment. If only there was some way to offer you a beer over the internet.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
There's no requirement that the Kickstarter complete the core project - just that they provide any promised reward. Many projects, where the project is highly speculative, provide explicit rewards and then an offer to get the benefits
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
How is Kickstarter any different than me paying an artist to write a song for me on my behalf or a carpenter to build me a house? I'd certainly have ground to sue the artist or carpenter if they failed to eventually deliver a song or h
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Their claim will be that any of Carmack's work on those topics, because he originally began his work under Zenimax, is recreating based on Zenimax's property, because Zenimax has a claim to the early prototype Carmack thought of w
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Or Carmack pitched an early version of the technology to Zenimax and subsequently worked on parts of what was eventually used by Oculus during work hours. Both pitching it as a work product and working on it during work hours gives Zenimax
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
You're really, really in to the strawmen, huh? Shutting down many of the roads in cities, where the effects of cars are most pronounced, wouldn't remotely cause the "messy collapse of the existing civilization", and is a
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
At various times, books, e-books, and kindle fires. Amazon actually shifted the pricing on books and e-books by selling them at below what they were buying them at for prolonged periods of times, and drove rival book sellers out of business
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
"Piracy" is a term used specifically to attach the implication of theft to copyright infringement, because actual pirates steal things. The root of calling it "piracy" is no better than calling it "theft", even
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Amazon sells a number of things at a loss and still seems to be doing fine.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
2, 3, and 4 have all been dismissed by the explanation of the tests offered to me in the past, particularly in pointing out that the person being tested has a great deal of influence on both the specific claim being tested and the way in wh
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Airgaps aren't perfect, but are you suggesting their network would have been more secure without the airgap?
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Yes, the study found that on for death row inmates, but there are many reasons to suspect that it's likely not significantly lower in other populations. I commented on this in my original comment, but ran the numbers to get a sense of

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