amvp

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by amvp 17y ago
Yes. If scammers are motivated by greed and desperation, scam baiters seem largely motivated by a desire to humiliate, or just feel superior to the scammers. There is a 'trophy room' on that site where scammers are posed often naked, somet
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by amvp 17y ago
Windows firefox users can enable colour management in about:config by setting gfx.color_management.enabled to true. It's my understanding that safari is one of the few browsers on windows that gets it right out of the box.
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by amvp 17y ago
That is very nice, and I think two modest (17' or 19') widecreen monitors, rotated to portrait, would be good for coding. But it's my understanding that sub-pixel smoothing only works when the monitors are landscape. Is there a fix for tha
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by amvp 17y ago
Reality tv about the lives of people following the virtual lives of celebrities? More interestingly, there's a discussion going on here http://ff.im/3eBQP about whether this infringes of Leo Laporte's This Week In Tech TWiT trademark, and
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by amvp 17y ago
It breaks if you resize the page text in browser (Ctrl++), before stating the video, and shows you how the overlay fits over the page.
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by amvp 18y ago
Is there a non silverlight version of this?
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by amvp 18y ago
Yes. That's what fan pages allow - asymmetric follow. I think we'll see facebook pushing the fan page model for certain users (facebook.com/person_name)
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by amvp 18y ago
Not being able to turn away or and look out of the window! Sounds even worse.
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by amvp 18y ago
I agree - digg has a fairly elegant design that's easy on the eye, without being obstructive. I don't think hacker news would suffer a great deal if a :little: more attention was paid to visual design. It doesn't really matter, I think peop
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by amvp 18y ago
When you say relatively short order, how soon is that? 6 months? A year? Also, will Microsoft push IE8 out with windows update to XP and vista users?
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by amvp 18y ago
The web archive will retroactively remove anything they've archived from your domain if you disallow "ia_archiver" in your robots.txt file (and obviously, will stop crawling it). http://www.archive.org/about/exclude.php
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by amvp 18y ago
More than twitter, isn't the interface (and whole paradigm) much more along the lines of friendfeed? Personally, I feel like it's a step back. I quite liked the old UI, and maybe this one will just take some getting used to but I can't help
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by amvp 18y ago
I think he just meant them as the opposite of the little-boy demographic to whom a fart app would appeal.
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by amvp 18y ago
Seems like a good way for digg to shut these guys down is to pay for their services for a couple of stories. Then take a look at the first 200 or so users who digg the story - and ban them all.This isn't particularly efficient, because of t
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by amvp 18y ago
I'm seeing 2 votes for guilty here, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say innocent. The charge is "assisting in making copyright content available". Which seems like a very vague charge. Why are they more guilty than any other search e
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by amvp 18y ago
Two of the most workable suggestions there seem to be getting it onto 4chan, and getting it to the pirate bay guys (via irc). Whatever your views on the pirate bay (pirates!) and 4chan (pedos!), it seems to me that they provide an important
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by amvp 18y ago
Cell phones with video aren't the future. I've had one for 2 years now. Unfortunately, it isn't that useful. And I think the carriers know it. It _is_ included on my cell plan (video calls are treated just like regular calls on the bill) an
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by amvp 18y ago
I think it's a good example of how good people can be at the things they are passionate about. Also take a look at her model JCB, http://www.jenniferclarkbass.com/lego/jcb.htm which includes working hydraulics and a remote control panel t
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by amvp 18y ago
An easy way to find out what framework a site uses, is this bookmarklet: http://blog.olicio.us/2008/11/08/wtframework-bookmarklet/
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by amvp 18y ago
Mobile phones were a solved problem. You can buy a almost indestructible low-end Nokia or SonyErricson that's small, will make clear phone calls, pair with a bluetooth headset, has a keypad sufficiently good for sms, and a battery that last
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by amvp 18y ago
I agree in that I don't think the interview contributed very much, other than to propagate his quirky reputation But reading your comment makes it sound like that's all there is to him - it isn't. I found his book brilliant - the quirkiness
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by amvp 18y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, because nobody is mentioning it, but isn't this a major shift for MS? Microsoft is a software company basically (other than mice and zunes and 360s), but here they are offering essentially hardware-as-a-ser
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by amvp 18y ago
Welcome back. I missed you.