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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Sad thing is that Kodak invented the digital camera. At the time the sales of the film for their Kodak camera's were doing so well they decided to shelve the project instead of jeopardize those sales. (That is how I understand it anyway) 20
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
The only thing I agree with in this article is that film / music industry products often do not provide a good service. They are riddled with copy protection and unskippable ad's which punish people who actually buy the damn things. Take th
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
How extreme is it really? The guy has 15 things with resale value that he treasures. How many things to do you own that you use day in, day out that you treasure. For me, discarding kitchen things and stuff needed to run a house (furniture,
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
HN has nothing to lose by blacking out. Google have advertisers and business to worry about. They also have the G+ vs Facebook battle to be concerned about. If Google blackout and no one else does then what will people do during the hours G
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
The answer is no, people who say yes are wrong. You black out your website to raise awareness to the cause. I think it is a fair bet that an extremely high number of HN users know a lot about SOPA / PIPA. So there is no point doing this to
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
The story is misleading. It say's that Comet sold 94k counterfeit Windows CD's. Comet seem to say that as manufacturers stopped packaging computer's with CD's they decided to make their own. Assuming this is true. Each computer had a valid
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I used to go to the cinema all the time. Unfortunately, as my local cinema no longer has a projectionist and no staff are apparently watching the movie people talk, they text.. some even get up and run around. I don't bother going much now.
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I think this is a really good analysis of what is going on in Washington. I have always found it worrying when politicians walk into a field which they have little knowledge about and try to pass laws. Anyone can become an elected official
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
If you don't like it use something else. Copy and pasting usually means you never knew what the code said anyway. Typing it once means you will remember it till the end of the day but tomorrow? The day after? Typing it 20 times and saying i
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I was aware that Apple didn't invent Siri. They brought the company which made it then tidied it up. The point still is that Apple recognised its use in one of their products, they took the punt and made it happen. I am also an Android user
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
> Apple: Takes risk, makes iPhone > Google: I want some of that. Android Go! > Apple: Takes risk, launches iPad > Google: I want some of that. Android is tablet optimised > Apple: Lets innovate here and add Siri &#
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I do the same, the only reason I keep the account is so people can include me in events organised via Facebook. The only other time I go on it is when I get an email notification saying someone has sent me a message. I don't bother with sta
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Its very cool, it looks like it would have tonnes of use's assuming there isn't a lower tech method of emulating a similar effect. Counterfeit cash only has to be good enough to trick a human. It is for this reason that I don't think it wou
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Many parents hide behind a wall of ignorance. That looks technical so I will get my kid to do it. Maybe when I get a bit older I will be the same. However... as soon as my kid asks for my credit card details I will be like 'hang on.. whats
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I was under the impression you needed to enter your app store password to make a digital purchase. The vulnerability i thought was that the iPad remembered the password for a short amount of time, if you handed your iPad to a kid in that
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
This isn't an isolated case. In a similar story Warner Bros abused the DMCA to take down HotFile content that didn't infringe their copyright. http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-admits-sending-hotfile-f... Label's and studio's have every
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
When I was doing client work, I would sort out a hacked Wordpress blog at least once a fortnight. The only thing the users had apparently done wrong was not updated their installation. It was because of this that I started to move clients a
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
The problem is that if you do not practice you forget or get rusty. I calculate percentages every day. Turns out yesterday the guy in charge of the company I worked for asked me the formula to work out the % difference between 2 numbers. He
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Bit of a non-article really. One paragraph on bad hires. It doesn't say why PHP stopped being the problem. It doesn't really say why existing programmers couldn't transition to another language. It doesn't say what Rose would do differently
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Oh someone posts an unbiased comment against PayPal.. must be working for them! It is the 'in thing' to bash PayPal at the moment. Just because you take a sensible view doesn't make you an employee.
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I really like this from PayPal. They have nipped the issue in the bud. They are making a donation to boot. It seems to me that both Regretsy and PayPal are at fault. Regretsy for using a button with implications they didn't realise. Paypal
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I have used a recent version of Firefox. It has a load of HTML5 goodness but not many website's run these bleeding edge features. It still looks incredibly ugly on the Mac. The last time I used Firefox on Mac it was wobbly. I only now have
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Debt is only important as a percentage of GDP. The actual debt figure is fairly irrelevant. It is when you stack the debt figure against the GDP that you see how good / bad the debt load of a country is. The trouble Europe has is that a num
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I would love to use Firefox but I can't bring myself to do it. Firefox got really terrible and bloated and whenever I use it I am just waiting for a hint of terribleness to appear. Then I switch to another browser. The main thing Firefox ne
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
The majority of people who get burned are people looking for a deal. I mean, it doesn't matter where someone lives $14/hr is cheap and you have to ask why it is so cheap. OK, the cost of living is cheaper in India than it is in the West. Th
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
My most secure passwords are for Twitter and Facebook. I don't really use either anymore but I don't want to delete them as they contain some history. The problem is that both position themselves as one login for tonnes of services. I do us
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
This is the point I am making. These sites do not matter. I have no attachment to them. I have no need to keep them secure. If one site lost its database. Lets say I have 60 accounts on various sites. Based on my 3 passwords 20 or so would
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
Mozilla made BrowserID, is this something similar to what you suggested?
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I don't understand this whole never reuse passwords nonsense. I have unique passwords for my email accounts, github, facebook, twitter and bank accounts. I only need to remember about 8 passwords. They are all pretty memorable. I usually wr
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by VonLipwig 15y ago
I disagree completely. Artists are loosing out because people who buy legitimate music are switching to Spotify. I buy the music of bands I really like. I buy their albums as a conscious choice to support them. For other bands I would downl

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