admax88q

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1051.
by admax88q 12y ago
What's the point in having leverage if you're not going to use it? This was their moment. They have the second largest audience of desktop users. They have their leverage, and chose not to use it.
1052.
by admax88q 13y ago
What's worse, is that if the ISP had implemented multicast for real, then we could save enormous amounts of bandwidth. Think of the wasted traffic has thousands of people watch a live stream in unison. Or the millions watching viral y
1053.
by admax88q 13y ago
No, the notion of the unbreakable one time pad is a great notion to have around. It is the good standard for crypto systems. Yes it's unworkable in practice but that's exactly why nobody really uses it. It is useful for teaching
1054.
by admax88q 13y ago
You don't get it at all.
1055.
by admax88q 13y ago
Flipping a jump statement is a criminal offense in many countries now.
1056.
by admax88q 13y ago
The "implementation" of an interface is the code that actually does stuff when that interface is called. In this case, the implementation of the DRM hooks are those proprietary DRM modules. This "standard" shuts everyone
1057.
by admax88q 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow. The DRM extensions are basically hooks to proprietary plugins. If the plugin decides that you didn't view the ad, then it will refuse to play to request media. Then can and will be workarounds, but thanks
1058.
by admax88q 13y ago
But any agreed upon public standard should be implementable by any vendor. DRM extensions do not fit this bill. If only a select few can implement it, then why call it a standard?
1059.
by admax88q 13y ago
Yes let's. Standardizing DRM extensions is bullshit. No new browser can ever be standards compliant when being compliant requires having the appropriate binary blob as distributed by the approved parties.
1060.
by admax88q 13y ago
DRM can force you to do whatever you want. It's proprietary code running on your system. If you want to view the content, it will ensure that you've seen the ad before it renders the content.
1061.
by admax88q 13y ago
Why does everyone keep talking about removing it. If the report is written from scratch every time, there's no need to remove the canary statement. You just don't include it in the next copy of the report. The old statement is no
1062.
by admax88q 13y ago
I hope not. BB10 is a very nice operating system. I'd hate to see it go to waste. I find it much more responsive and snappy than Android.
1063.
by admax88q 13y ago
A citation showing what? That Wikipedia deleted PR accounts recently? Or that this article was posted after that happened? Both those events are easily searchable. Hacker News comments are not a fucking encyclopaedia.
1064.
by admax88q 13y ago
It also won't make you go slower. And rolling at a constant low speed is much less frustrating than constant stop and go traffic. Especially for people driving standard. It's also more fuel efficient.
1065.
by admax88q 13y ago
The JVM would like to have a word with you.
1066.
by admax88q 13y ago
A mesh network can't scale. "We show that for WMNs the throughput of each node decreases as O(1/n), where n is the total number of nodes in the network." http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?a
1067.
by admax88q 13y ago
If you're left with the choice between the lesser or two evils on how to run the country. It is very _very_ important that you get the _lesser_ of those two evils.
1068.
by admax88q 13y ago
This is a stupid comparison, and it contributes to the dumbing down of politics and political thought.
1069.
by admax88q 13y ago
How will transactions get confirmed in the block chain if there's no longer any blocks worth mining? Won't most people stop mining blocks to save money? Or is the hope that enough people will continue mining out of goodwill to keep the eco
1070.
by admax88q 13y ago
That doesn't answer the question of who owns the code. The code must have an owner to enforce the GPL or re-license or whatever.
1071.
by admax88q 14y ago
This is actually a technique that retail stores discovered a while ago. They used to make it very difficult to return products, and rarely would you get your money back. But then they realized that if you make returns simple and painless p
1072.
by admax88q 14y ago
> Saying that AppGratis should have known not to build their business on the AppStore platform This part they should have known. I think the AppStore terms are ridiculous. There's been a lot of noise raised about them but people conti
1073.
by admax88q 14y ago
Patents are not trade secrets. There's nothing illegal about communicating the contents of a patent.
1074.
by admax88q 14y ago
Of course whether or not the simulation is "real time" for us makes no difference to the simulation. Since time in the simulation would be perceived normally.
1075.
by admax88q 14y ago
I don't think OpenBSD runs on Xen as a guest yet. They do offer NetBSD, not sure about FreeBSD