Maxious

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811.
by Maxious 15y ago
It is the Australian government: "Agencies should note it may also be possible for foreign governments to access information held in their jurisdiction or to access information held in Australia by any company with a presence in their juris
812.
by Maxious 15y ago
I hear this startup idea over and over but I've never actually used a service like this. What happens?
813.
by Maxious 15y ago
http://tika.apache.org/ "detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries". I use it all the time for input to solr.
814.
by Maxious 15y ago
Interesting that they did agree that digital money (wire transfers) is property. So one set of bits is theft but another set isn't.
815.
by Maxious 15y ago
Map showing expected wave arrival times http://google.org/crisismap
816.
by Maxious 15y ago
What's the difference between http://wshr.eu/techcrunch.com/2012/04/03/facebook/fXd and http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/03/facebook-countersues-yahoo/... ? Reliance on a third party.
817.
by Maxious 15y ago
Dare I say it but providing more identity hints has really improved reddit. Thanks to some css :after trickery (and now built in support for managing that), it became possible to put more identity information next to usernames called "flair
818.
by Maxious 15y ago
As the raspberry pi blog comments say today they actually did find a misconfiguration of the HDMI port that was unintentionally transmitting on all sorts of frequencies. So the earlier than expected certification wasn't pointless.
819.
by Maxious 15y ago
That edit war is disgusting... although the current revisionist history echos how the News Ltd papers are covering these accusations - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/foxtel-denies-pay-tv-d...
820.
by Maxious 15y ago
We're going to be annihilated compared to HTML5 but we're going to use our IP to squeeze every last cent of you on the way out? ;)
821.
by Maxious 15y ago
Oops, can I blame it on autocorrect ;)
822.
by Maxious 15y ago
Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.
823.
by Maxious 15y ago
Exactly. Imagine if you had a "Million dollars for the login credentials of FBI/CIA/DOE employees!" program. Just because the employees want the million dollars, does not mean the payer is authorised to access those systems.
824.
by Maxious 15y ago
Casey Hudson 17.05.2011 http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/bioware-on-how-your-choices-... "More personal or more moral choices about how to deal with things… those things will ultimately affect part of the end game, which is pretty amazing.
825.
by Maxious 15y ago
New version of X.25? ;)
826.
by Maxious 15y ago
I can even read the content with curl. No javascript or cookies required.
827.
by Maxious 15y ago
As mentioned in the paper, there are Khan Academy "coaching" tools for monitoring the students. The site allows you to monitor the relative progress of the students so if one started to slow down you could pick them up on that: http://www.
828.
by Maxious 15y ago
For h264 to be enabled in Firefox, you must already be using a mobile device or in the future an operating system that (financially and technically) supports non-free codecs.
829.
by Maxious 15y ago
Similar to how some OSX binaries are protected against running on Hackintoshes with a rather simple plain text key... that when extracted is a poem telling you not to pirate Mac OS: http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/binaryprotecti
830.
by Maxious 15y ago
Strangely enough, it was reported today that Microsoft is developing quality touch-screen components: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/microsoft-demos-super-fast-...
831.
by Maxious 15y ago
"Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field" Isn't it 30% effective in auditor tests.... oh wait you have a post that claims 30% is inaccurate but doesn't actually disprove the figure or provide accurate figures: http://b
832.
by Maxious 15y ago
No they are not viewable by anybody except you. Plus he did opt-in on the screen (mentioned in the post) he didn't read properly, here's a screenshot: http://zagg-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/community/blog/wp-content/... It has a picture of a p
833.
by Maxious 15y ago
Just like the computers of yore, the screen is the family TV. And USB keyboard/mouse are a couple of dollars second hand - I'd bet if UK school districts are anything like the ones I worked with in my youth, they have rooms filled with peri
834.
by Maxious 15y ago
Everything except "Building Links" I would call UX/Accessibility if only to avoid any semblance of the shadier parts of SEO.
835.
by Maxious 15y ago
"The acronym SEQUEL was later changed to SQL because 'SEQUEL' was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley aircraft company."
836.
by Maxious 15y ago
For one, the dev preview expires in 10 days.
837.
by Maxious 15y ago
Apparently electronic payment systems from ATMs to merchant terminals to HMO claim machines all went straight to march 1st. Hilarity ensued.
838.
by Maxious 15y ago
The $50 record is clearly erroneous, there is another for $38 that has the specifications/photos and has a 1 per order limit.
839.
by Maxious 15y ago
Omission from blog post but not android market changelog: "Added Flash support on Android 4.0.3" Now I have no reason to use stock Android browser again! Opera Mobile: come for the speed, stay for the HTML5.
840.
by Maxious 15y ago
Stratfor CEO George Friedman Resigns Over Latest Breach http://www.zerohedge.com/news/leaked-email-shows-stratfor-ce... "But we must acknowledge that this incident would not have been possible if Stratfor had implemented stronger data pro

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