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by RK 17y ago
People still don't encrypt their email (at least the overwhelming majority of them). The convenience of ubiquitous mail access across multiple devices has made encryption even less likely (i.e. do you carry your private key with you everywh
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by RK 17y ago
According to this survey, cellphone sales are plummeting in Japan but sales of smartphones have grown 80% in the past year Are they considering cellphones and smartphones as separate categories somehow? If not, I'm wondering if phone sale
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$250 Desktop Runs Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OS X?(starryhope.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Or if you want to remain anonymous. Remember the internet?
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Group Effort: Solo Musicians Band Together on Collaboration Web Sites(wired.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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Could There Be an AndroidFox?(linuxjournal.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Not sure what that has to do with the article, but... Yes, it's pretty common to pay for a master's. A lot of departments will only fund PhD students (automatically). Master's only people usually have to "pay their own way", although that m
728.
by RK 17y ago
People seem to be very loose with their account info these days when it comes to convenience. You'd never give your password to someone if they asked you in person, but if it's a website, that's a whole different scenario.
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by RK 17y ago
I am somewhat familiar with the PACS situation (quick summary: frustrating as hell if you're used to open/commodity style technologies). I was about to suggest some kind of plugin for OsiriX, but then I looked in your Help section and saw t
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The Wired Interview: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg(wired.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
I once took a class with Gell-Mann with only a handful of other students. He did a lot of impressions of people's accents, so I asked him if he would imitate Feynman's, but he claimed he couldn't do it. The funny thing about him complaining
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by RK 17y ago
I don't mean that AIM uses SMS to actually send/receive messages, rather that each IM is charged at the SMS rate (also each email sent or received via the built-in client is charged that way). That's why, for example, it's cheaper to use T-
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by RK 17y ago
Here are couple early hands-ons: http://gizmodo.com/5301955/htc-hero-android-phone-hands+on-w... http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/24/htc-hero-hands-on/
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by RK 17y ago
This may depend on the data package. The required data package with the Sidekick probably gives you unlimited IMing. On may last two T-mobile phones IM's and emails have both been charged at SMS rates when using the built in messaging apps.
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by RK 17y ago
T-mobile also charges IM's at SMS rates if you use the built in apps...
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by RK 17y ago
What does this site do?? Maybe I am having a display error (Firefox 3.0.11 on Ubuntu 8.04), but I am not seeing anything that gives even a clue as to what this website is supposed to do. EDIT: enabled cookies and I can now see the instructi
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by RK 17y ago
Facebook explicitly wants to be THE monolithic dominating force on the internet. You can't even use it without signing up and joining the whole Facebook thing. It is the new AOL. I'm still waiting for the "Internet" of social networking s
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by RK 17y ago
I remember finding the Jordan book in the library when I was first taking quantum as an undergrad. It seemed like a very interesting approach, but also like it was leaving a lot of important concepts out.
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T-Mobile Will Drop Its Second Android Phone, The myTouch 3G, This August.(techcrunch.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Was this sponsored by Skittles or did they just use them because of the bright colors? Or do Skittles have well known anti-zombie properties?
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by RK 17y ago
My back hurts just watching that guy play bent over the table like that... :) Other than that it was a a very cool demo.
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Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage(dotnetperls.com)
75 points by RK 17y ago|44 comments
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by RK 17y ago
The case could have addressed some interesting questions, such as the degree to which duplicating functionality falls under the definition of reverse engineering, and whether a file-format translator is a derivative work, as well as whethe
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by RK 17y ago
A few years ago there was the so-called Bogdanov Affair in physics, which some people claimed was a "reverse Sokal hoax" (i.e. publishing bogus physics that was so esoteric that no one could tell whether it was legitimate). http://en.wikip
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by RK 17y ago
Currently working AT a startup part time. It's a scientific hardware startup and times are very tough...
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by RK 17y ago
DIY home radiochemistry from some who actually seems to know what they are doing (a nuclear engineering grad student): http://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry...
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by RK 17y ago
It seems that all I ever hear about is the iPhone, but what I see on the street, especially when traveling, is Blackberrys, so I'm not that surprised by this data. I think a lot of average consumers balk at the iPhone price and business use
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by RK 18y ago
That's because of Google's anti-cloaking policy. Webmasters are not allowed to show a different screen to visitors than they show to the GoogleBot; they get banned from Google's index if they do. Unless of course the site is a scholarly j
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by RK 18y ago
Summarizing quote: "And they haven't just failed abstractly or in general. They've failed me personally." Interesting logic.
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by RK 18y ago
That was the fate of Friendster, MySpace, etc. So it's not unprecedented. I've always been pretty lukewarm on social networking sites because they felt like they were essentially AOL 2.0 (as others have stated). Hopefully in the future some

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