VengefulCynic

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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Actually, the argument from the reactionaries in the article is very much aware that it's hard to go back and add censorship after services launch. Their argument is that before allowing any services to launch, censorship tools and suppress
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Have you been to Autonomy's website? Seriously... go have a look... have a look at the 'Introduction to Autonomy' page: http://www.autonomy.com/content/Autonomy/introduction/index.... "Organizations already benefiting from Autonomy techn
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
And, as discussed in his podcast - Build and Analyze http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/18 (ep. 18), this has nothing to do with Marco developing a sudden aversion to Tumblr and everything to do with his desire to be able to roll his own CMS a
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
The current version appears to dislike unicode characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Dobrovi%C4%87 causes an error.
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
It would seem that this "crack" could simply be circumvented by using an alphanumeric password and/or setting the iPhone to shred its crypto key after 10 consecutive password failures. Obviously, neither of these are standard features, but
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Hardly. Apple isn't claiming the patents are invalid or that software patents in general are invalid - they're simply claiming that Lodsys is trying to get iOS app developers to pay for something that Apple has already bought (and been give
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Twitter and OAuth: Echoes of Microsoft(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
I should note that this is a discussion of engineering managers: I'm pretty sure that if you're the manager of a field that doesn't traditionally involve critical thinking, relatively little of this would apply.
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The Politician and the Engineer: Why Managers Hate Themselves(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
3 points by VengefulCynic 15y ago|1 comments
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How to Write Bad History(youngnewyork.net)
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
The article seems to imply that the Swiss authorities want Google to use a manual blurring technique instead of automating the process (rather than in addition to). If that's the case, I'd be hard-pressed to explain how the Swiss privacy w
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My Geek Mom(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
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All Hail the Public Library(defendingthepublicgood.org)
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Diversified: Unabashed Love for More Than Just Programming(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
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Transparency In Hating Your Customers(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
Except half of Boxcar's functionality is to provide advertising. That's a lot like saying "I don't know why people complain about the Huffington Post and all of their advertising when reputable sites like eBay are nothing but people trying
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Airpush Wants to Destroy Android(joshuascholl.posterous.com)
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
You're getting hot and bothered about legal arguments that just aren't there. Other than alleging antitrust implications by Nokia and Microsoft cross-licensing patents from (between them) a dominant position in the mobile phone industry, th
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by VengefulCynic 15y ago
It's important to note here that a big piece of Barnes & Noble's argument is bad faith on the part of Microsoft. They're characterizing Microsoft as a bully who is attempting (under cover of NDA) to use a limited number of patents (with
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Have you ever heard anyone explain why gold is The Only Real Money and that the US Federal Reserve is run by people who are (either stupidly or maliciously) engaged in a conspiracy that is perpetuating a scam at your expense? If you haven't
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
As a former retail manager of a brick and mortar store, I have to say that anything that brings competition to the payment processing industry would be huge for retailers. Obviously, a retailer of Apple's scale has that much more to gain fr
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Quite simply, Google appears to be in material breach of your SLA. Where is your lawyer?
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
The problem here is that the mathematics education industry is bought and paid for by educational vendors in general and Texas Instruments in particular. My wife's school has its own TI Vendor who makes sure to come by every month or two w
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Just ask New York how that's working out for them. (hint: they seem happy, money-wise) http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=4... I can't imagine it makes the online shoppers happy, though.
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Ignoring the cost in ignoring the revenue from millions of iOS users, let me focus instead of the looming legal question of WebM. If Google were to indemnify WebM users (sites who encode in WebM, developers who release decoders, OEMs who r
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Except instead of suing for a lack of legal amenities, he's suing for spamming. Or, to put it differently, he's not suing them for not doing something they should, he's suing them for doing something they shouldn't. It's much more like sui
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
Cars are getting opener, so we don't foresee needing to worry about the roads.
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
After having been in the local IT and software business in small-town Texas, I can assure you that this sort of stuff is alarmingly common amongst a lot of local IT shops. Now, giving credit where it's due, someone's at least gone to the h
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
So it’s pretty clear to me that Oracle is playing for keeps, and playing to own the Enterprise space. It's not like Oracle's behavior with MySQL and Java is something new for them. Larry Ellison has always been a guy who buys a company,
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by VengefulCynic 16y ago
This message also needs to be sent to the parents of the witty shadows of bullies. Which is where those of us with kids probably come in. After all, I was the same shadow for a time... and I think many smart kids are, especially after doing

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