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by angusgr 16y ago
He had a fairly large antenna set up on a large stand next to him, and presumably the PoV headset on and a controller and things like that. If a police car drove by, I think they'd consider it worth asking him what he was doing. I say askin
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by angusgr 16y ago
More because it's easy to poke fun at Haskell in this way, even the Haskell people know they come off as obtuse and academic. AFAIK there's been much soul-searching in their community about how to get past that. While Steve Yegge is a good
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by angusgr 16y ago
I chuckled, and I'm happy Steve Yegge might blog some more, but this feels a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.
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by angusgr 16y ago
(article seems to have been shown incorrect/outdated as of today: http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklis... )
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by angusgr 16y ago
The story is correct, the headline is misleading. The article says it's on the ACMA blacklist, and if you link to a site on the blacklist from an Australian website then you are eligible to be fined. Whether anyone has since been fined for
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by angusgr 16y ago
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) is one such organisation: http://www.efa.org.au/category/censorship/mandatory-isp-filt... A lot of other NGOs have weighed on the issue as well, though.
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is a good example of Australian innovation (far from the only one), but CSIRO not really a "startup", it's a national research institution.
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by angusgr 16y ago
No, those ones are loosely insightful. These ones are lame: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/declarations.html ;)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Software-based analyzers [...] could someone explain this in more detail? If you have the device working in Linux, then you can capture USB as it runs via Wireshark or other tools. If you have the device working in Windows, I've used 'usb
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by angusgr 16y ago
Wordpress really presents itself as a generic "publishing platform" these days, it just mostly gets used for blogs. When I was looking around for a new WP theme for projectgus.com (which only gets updated once every couple of months on aver
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by angusgr 16y ago
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." — Albert Einstein I think there's no harm in encouraging scientists to be able to explain things in familiar terms, and break the massive disconnect between sci
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by angusgr 16y ago
That's fair enough I guess (I'm one of the persons who commented about the money & IP factors.) However, there are literally millions of problems like this that you could choose to solve for your own challenge. As I see it, this specifi
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by angusgr 16y ago
Well Netflix also offered $50k each year for a "Progress Prize", but you're right. I guess it is a question of "you get what you pay for", and I expect they'll get something quite usable but not great. Certainly good value for them, compare
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by angusgr 16y ago
Agreed. The Netflix Prize was $1M, and this doesn't seem like just 1% of the work. Not to mention Netflix only required an non-exclusive unrestricted license from the winning entry, rather than full reassignment of copyright (see tgflynn's
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by angusgr 16y ago
SL4A (formerly known as ASE)[1] and Groovy both come to mind, although a 30 second Google couldn't find me a good resource on how/whether you can use Groovy to build Android apps. I know SL4A has some GUI support, but I don't think it's as
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by angusgr 16y ago
It's really hard to make convincing generalisations about this. A lot of people seem to be happy with their cheapie tablets as a e-readers, tinker boxes, light web browsers, portable video players, etc. Noone who really wants an iPad equiva
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by angusgr 16y ago
I see! When Google stopped selling the Nexus One to end users there was speculation that they were done branding handsets. Guess it was just speculation.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I don't know about you personally, but I've seen a lot of people confused about exactly this - "what Android is": its architecture, what's its relationship to Linux is, its relationship to Java, its relationship to open source & GPL, et
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by angusgr 16y ago
Yeah, if you get a kick out of reverse engineering then it's a plus. If you don't, then you're better off with something like the BeagleBoard where the TI OMAP3 technical docs, BSP + libraries are all published and have well-supported open
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by angusgr 16y ago
Android is Apache licensed, so AOSP source is available but most vendors do not release their own source code that actually ships on the device. The Android port on the WM8505 has a ton of hardware-specific hacks in it, including significan
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by angusgr 16y ago
If it was their test run, evidence seems to be that they've gotten back out of the make-your-own hardware game.
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by angusgr 16y ago
These devices really are cheap and nasty. I have an Eken M001 and an M003, which are the same WM8505 chipset and (AFAIK) the exact same Android port. However, if you're stuck with one then it's worth loading one of the alternative firmwares
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by angusgr 16y ago
How easy is this thing to hack? Easy-ish. It's a Wondermedia WM8505-based tablet, so there are a bunch of other relatives (same Android port, AFAIK) like the Eken M001. Here are some resources: * Teardown/serial console: http://projectgu
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by angusgr 16y ago
I don't think the causality (hacking->popularity) runs that way. If anything, I'd think it runs the other way (popularity of the Wii made the Wiimote available in every game store and cheap for hacking on.) However, the popularity of th
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by angusgr 16y ago
Mate, I can see that you really like this software. Which is great. It looks like a really neat project. However, there's no need to be this defensive or rude. The criticisms are mild, but they are valid and they appear to be correct. Every
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by angusgr 16y ago
For cheapie gizmos, you might want to look into the ARM9 VT8500 & WM8505 based netbooks and tablets. These are <$100, there is an Android port and a Debian port, vendor kernel source is available and there is also OSS kernel support
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by angusgr 16y ago
You CAN also run NetSurf inside a X terminal like xterm or xfce Really, you can render the framebuffer into an X terminal session? That is not possible, is it? Or is there some other port besides the GTK port, that you're referring to? E
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by angusgr 16y ago
75% of Linux is now written by paid developers there's also hobbyists, volunteers, and people like RMS who believe they have a profound obligation to promote FOSS. I wouldn't consider that these two as completely distinct sets of people
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by angusgr 16y ago
fundamental pagination mistake I imagine there are technical limitations leading to economic reasons for these kind of mistakes. So much data, sitting in so many massive silos, that they must design their systems on the basis of peoples'
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by angusgr 16y ago
Privacy aside, have you ever tried to look something up from a few months ago, let alone (hypothetically) 20 years ago? This is one of my absolute dislikes with both Facebook and Twitter - you pile all your data in there, they keep it all a

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