Kadin

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by Kadin 17y ago
That would be fine, but there are some 'deletionists' out there that wouldn't be happy with that. Some deletionists aren't happy with just reverting edits; they insist on actually deleting articles completely and forcing contributors to s
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by Kadin 17y ago
They weren't shutting down their service; they were actually being very responsible about it -- they were going to stop taking new URLs for redirection, but continue to maintain the previously-created ones until the end of the year. It's no
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think it's probably due in large part to near-total destruction of the $1000-plus PC market. It's not that Apple has really gained there as much as the numbers would suggest, it's just that they've managed to hold on and get people to
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by Kadin 17y ago
Yeah, that was pretty weak. But I do think he has a bit of a point; if the Segway had taken off big-time after it was introduced (or if it ever does at some point in the future), I'd fully expect 3-wheeled versions from China to be in stor
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by Kadin 17y ago
I don't think that's Apple being evil, that's Apple being ahead of the curve. They've always done that and I've thought it was generally admirable, although sometimes it puts you as a customer further out on the bleeding edge than you'd li
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by Kadin 17y ago
Anyone know what the status is of a Google Voice client for the S60 platform? It seems far less restricted than most of the other smartphones, except perhaps Android. It even comes out of the box with a SIP client, and you can toggle a set
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think it pretty much goes without saying that, unless your drive has been freshly wiped, just about anyone could earn themselves a stint in Federal prison if their computer is confiscated and subjected to forensic analysis. Between porn,
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by Kadin 17y ago
I can see how their device would be good for old or rare books, but for anything mass market -- which seems to me would be the majority of what end-users want to "rip" (so they can take it with them on some portable device) -- it seems like
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by Kadin 17y ago
I agree. I don't think his "future shock" explanation really holds water. If anything, the last few decades have demonstrated that most people are far more tolerant of change than they themselves might have even predicted they'd be. Case
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by Kadin 17y ago
I've read that article before and I don't find it particularly convincing. Implementing any complex piece of legislation is hard. Luckily there are people who specialize in that sort of thing -- we wouldn't be hiring computer programmers t
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by Kadin 17y ago
It's not apparent to me from the writeup -- does the Google Voice client make its calls using the cellular phone / POTS network, or is it VOIP and just using the cell network to pass packets? I'm assuming SIP is probably a non-starter with
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by Kadin 17y ago
Points 1 and 2 seem well taken. I'd like to hear more about the story behind point 3, though. > Last year, we pooled our money with Sunlight Foundation and other groups and forked over $17,000 for the bulk feed of the Code of Federal R
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by Kadin 17y ago
Doesn't really surprise me. I've worked at banks where typewriters were still in use, for filling out certain infrequently-used forms and preparing titles and deeds. It costs a significant amount of time and money to construct an electroni
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by Kadin 17y ago
In many cities, specialized police units either already have or are in the process of being issued cell phone jamming units. They are being issued with these sorts of scenarios specifically in mind. If the police think there's a bomb somew
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by Kadin 17y ago
I've been looking at the photo, and I think the description is incorrect. I don't think it's a cellphone. It looks to me like a 2-way radio. I can't see any keypad, and it has what looks like a very small display, stubby antenna, and PTT
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by Kadin 17y ago
Well, I agree that there's nothing morally wrong about it in the abstract (but I think gambling is quite all right too, if the rules are on the up and up), but we don't know that they're not cheating. They could have people acting as shills
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by Kadin 17y ago
So, let me get this straight; "anti-sec" is an anti-full-disclosure group, who practice ... full disclosure. Got it.
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by Kadin 17y ago
I'm completely in agreement with everything you're saying, but I don't see how your argument really has much in common with the "anti-sec" BS. There's a lot of snake oil security in the world, and the AV publishers and firewall vendors are
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by Kadin 17y ago
I was going to say something similar but this pretty much sums it up. I read the postmortem written by the Sunlight Foundation guys; while they were well-meaning and I don't want to knock their effort, they didn't stand a chance . Getting
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by Kadin 17y ago
Why would anyone spend time eliminating GPL code in the userland of a system that runs on a GPL kernel and subsystems? I'm not denying that they're doing it or anything, I just can't imagine why they'd bother.
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by Kadin 17y ago
A few days ago I loaded up IE6 on a company machine (to download Firefox, natch) and noticed that Google displays a message on the main page, in a box in the upper-right corner, encouraging me to download Chrome. It doesn't seem to appear u
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by Kadin 17y ago
I was a Netcom guy also. I used them right up until I got cable HSI service (which in my area wasn't until late '01 or early '02). Netcom as a company disappeared somewhere in the late 90s; I don't know exactly what the story was, but I r
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by Kadin 17y ago
Is it really surprising, though? I can think of lots of situations where people self-segregate along economic or cultural lines, without much in the way of external pressure to do so. I'd imagine it has a lot to do with viewing oneself as
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by Kadin 17y ago
MySpace sucks because it gives users far more control than they ought to have over their pages. Facebook maintains high quality and a coherent feel by realizing that most people couldn't design their way out of a paper bag, and only giving
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by Kadin 17y ago
By keeping an eye on trends, it seems that users read comments from everyone, regardless of class, ethnic, or cultural background, or follower status. You assume that people use Twitter to keep an eye on trends. I'm not sure that more ca
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think because of moves just like yours, server hardware isn't worth what you think it is. Go lower. I'm down in the DC area rather than NYC, but I've sold old tech assets on CL with regularity -- there are lots of buyers out there. It's
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by Kadin 17y ago
The interesting thing is that almost everyone believes that flag burning ought to be totally legal; the argument is just over the circumstances. As is routinely pointed out, burning a flag is the approved way of "retiring" one when it's n
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by Kadin 17y ago
It's not "broken" ... it's that way for a reason. And that reason is so it can be steered to the people who are 'supposed' to get the work. What the Sunlight Labs people don't really understand is that they never had a chance in a million
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by Kadin 17y ago
That works if you can get your clients to agree to it, but most clients won't. Hell, cost-plus is almost always better for the contractor than firm-fixed work -- it shifts the risk to the client! -- but a lot of organizations just flatly re
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by Kadin 17y ago
I think the idea was sound, they just executed it poorly. They charged an awful lot of money for a very small savings of time and irritation. I think this wasn't entirely their fault -- the TSA put a lot of requirements on the Verified I

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