ErrantX

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by ErrantX 14y ago
Hah! I like that idea :) It would have to be pretty convincing because you have to boot the device up to acquire it with the Aceso (as phones are such proprietary tech) so it would need to pass the "boots up and looks like a mobile device"
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Well, not really. Lots of people get detained. I have to admit I was pretty drunk once and woke up in a police cell. Would that count? Many people are genuinely detained but later found not to have been involved. What if you were arrested f
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> but the cops can always find something if they really want to. Forensic analyst here :) Genuinely the vast majority of cops don't. And indeed IMO sending this sort of thing off to contractors is the necessary sort of separation to mak
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by ErrantX 14y ago
> Under the new system, content will be extracted using purpose built terminals in police stations. So the device in the screenshot is a Radio Tactics Aceso, there is one sat across the room from my desk. It has been around for quite a
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Whilst many places often refuse to swipe any more (which I suppose is their prerogative) it does actually work. If the chip/pin reader has the swipe slot at the top then it will work. Tesco don't have the swipe slot, and they now train till
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That idea is very cool; but I feel it introduces a whole new amount of complexity. Making a car that drives you (safely) somewhere is the problem Google is working on. Delivery of packages along a route is a whole other matter; for example
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by ErrantX 15y ago
For the majority of people this is unobtainable. Which is where your theory breaks down, I think. Because if a huge proportion of people adopt this attitude and strive for independence, most will fail and be ultimately unhappier for it. Whi
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by ErrantX 15y ago
That's awesome; I'm glad you've come back with an opposite viewpoint. I think the takeaway is that different things work for different people. It could be that you would spend your life intensely happier if you just let go right now. And eq
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Hmm. About 2 years ago I bought myself a canvas and wrote on it the following: Live happy, make friends, enjoy. Make those dreams happy It was for much the same reason - to inspire me. However, about 6 months later I thought those idea th
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I started contributing to the Literature Stack Exchange when it launched last year - which quickly became not fun . Most of the decent questions were closed as off topic, answer quality declined because the remaining questions were too nar
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Clearly Groupon is going to fail, that seems fairly certain now (right?). But the real question is what the long term fall out from that will be?
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by ErrantX 15y ago
True. On the other hand most people are somewhere in the spectrum between bad and almost-good writers. And even the best writers, when writing quickly in an immediate medium like the internet, can get it wrong. I think that is the key; when
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Ok, fair enough. But I still don't get the point being made - which now I re-read it seems to be that complaining to grouper is making a big thing of it. It seems perfectly logical to me; if you're in a business relationship with someone an
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by ErrantX 15y ago
At some point in the past someone said "the encroachment of IRCspeak into everyday English is a bad moon rising" :) I kinda agree. But then again I do find it has utility; people can use it to express emotion, which previously has been a st
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The process is really simple; and they explain it with a nice graphical flow if you click the "how does it work" link (prior to signing in). Did you see/click that and still have the same concern? And if you did see it, what sort of assuran
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by ErrantX 15y ago
and one that most establishments treat as a mere nuisance I'm skeptical of this... I'm struggling to think of any reasonable bar in my area (i.e. anything below, say, nightclub level) where, if someone caught you having sex in the bathroo
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by ErrantX 15y ago
One possibility which I think is overlooked is simply to ask for money from your users. Add a "badges" feature (i.e. "X Followers", "Y Plays") and then ask for contributions in return for a "Fandalism Supporter" badge. It won't serve long t
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by ErrantX 15y ago
> Assessing the quality of an app is what users' ratings are for As an app store user I disagree. User ratings in the app store are not really a useful guideline in my experience - and it often takes trying several (reasonably well ra
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by ErrantX 15y ago
What you are saying boils down to "Surely it's obvious that...". Of course, the problem there is that it's not obvious to a non-trivial number of people. Who apparently in this case work in Apple's review department. The most obviously id
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I've always thought the keyword is "explicit" for which the most relevant definition is probably: "described or shown in realistic detail" I had the iKarmasutra app and it was great; slightly coy and fun, but detailed enough to understand h
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by ErrantX 15y ago
It takes two to tango. That is harsh, but it is a lesson I learned from my stalker. No one deserves to be stalked, and the people that do the stalking and weird and disturbing and evil. But I caused a significant portion of the problem in m
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I need to disclaim this post with the comment that Andy and I really don't see eye to eye over many things on Wikipedia/Wikimedia/Commons :) (mainly to do with his tone; after discussion with me and the Wikimedia community ). But I really
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Seems unlikely to be a true comment in this case. However, She is a very odd cookie - and appears to have said some strange things (including engaging trolls) in the past. So I would believe Kickstarter if they said there was more "engageme
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The commenting here is interesting, as is the post. I have some general comments to make about cyberstalking and situations like this - but want to preface it with the disclaimer that I've never heard of Rachel before and cannot sit in any
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think the problem has arisen from a misunderstanding of what Turing was getting at in his paper. At first he talks about Chess (an example chosen, as we know, because it has a well defined rule set) and a computer imitating a Chess player
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This is great. Interestingly, a capitalist economy might be provoking a modern version of the space race - i.e. companies competing to meet the contracts push hard on development and testing to win. Orbital's language in this article, for e
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by ErrantX 15y ago
PHP has its frustrations. It's not outright broken. But my point was that all other programming languages suffer their own "broken" problems. I managed a team working in Ruby not long ago; they had no end of gripes and frustrations. The key
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up this assertion? Because I would imagine it depended a lot on the skill of the teams in question - and if evenly matched they would produce similar quality.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Ask yourself this: would the Instagram team have been as successful had they chosen PHP? They absolutely would. Building an actual application is a hard problem; a lot harder than the kinks of individual programming languages. Whichever t
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Presumably this is the period for which it's been studied. So, without perfect information - I decide. The thing about the modern world is that you can make informed choices - information is only a Google away. For example; my specifi

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