anon1385

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by anon1385 12y ago
Half price is optimistic. It's more likely to be free.
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by anon1385 12y ago
>If you're so interested in freedom, why aren't you picketing Apple Campus too? FSF activists do literally picket Apple events: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/01-27-2010/apple-ipad-protest.jpg As far as I know
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by anon1385 12y ago
They can and do still remove stories from their websites: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-... >I researched the newspaper’s coverage of HSBC. I learnt that Harry Wilson, the admirabl
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by anon1385 12y ago
Note that the Telegraph article is just about the Guardian moving an advert from one page to another. It had nothing to do with changing the news or editorial content of the paper. The story about Iraq still ran. Advertisers not wanting the
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by anon1385 12y ago
>At some point comparing highly efficient codecs with metrics like PSNR becomes meaningless, I'm not sure why so much emphasis is still put on it. Because (some) codec developers have put a lot of effort into optimising for it, and
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by anon1385 12y ago
>YouTube is only going to offer UHD over VP9, meaning that 4K smart TVs and set-top-boxes will have to support VP9. Google told us VP8 was the future, and that widespread hardware support was imminent. Then in less than a couple of years
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by anon1385 12y ago
The idea that older versions of GCC didn't have as many bugs doesn't hold up to any scrutiny: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1036
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by anon1385 12y ago
Good grief. Are you seriously comparing the text in a huge, boldly coloured and centred button with an undecorated link outside of the main UI element and claiming they have equal weight on the page just because the basic text height is the
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by anon1385 12y ago
That's good to hear. As you can see if you follow the links above I've been ranting about this for a long time. Do you have a source for that information?
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by anon1385 12y ago
You can't take a single search as evidence that things have changed. Ads won't always show for the search terms for various reasons (geography, language, platform, lack of ad budget etc).
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by anon1385 12y ago
Well maybe they should stop allowing download sites that offer ad infected downloads to buy the top spots on the google search results page? https://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png Adwords is probably one of the main infection vect
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by anon1385 12y ago
Criticising FirefoxOS for being 'javascript only' can mean a variety of things. It can mean the author doesn't like the javascript language and thinks they will inevitably be forced to use it at some point. Or it can mean the
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by anon1385 12y ago
None of that helps if you want to do something that is prohibited by the javascript sandbox. To pre-empt the inevitable response that everything you want to do is possible inside the javascript sandbox: for a lot of people everything they
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by anon1385 12y ago
>The fact that someone is rich does not mean he took anything from you Of course it does. That's the definition of private property - if they claim to own it then you can't freely use it anymore. The creation of private propert
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by anon1385 12y ago
Saying you are prepared to drink it is a gimmick. The same basic idea has been used a million times before for everything from asbestos to tobacco to coal dust to lead paint. Common enough for it to be parodied in a 25 year old episode of t
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by anon1385 12y ago
Environmentalist is hardly the word I'd use to describe Patrick Moore. Professional contrarian, science denier and industry shill would be more accurate. He is certainly not some 'random environmentalist'. http://w
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by anon1385 12y ago
I'm just commenting from the position of an observer who has found that your general attitude undermines the work you do, irrespective of whether you are right or wrong about the issue at hand. We are all wrong at times. There is no sh
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by anon1385 12y ago
>And no, he doesn't mock people who read the standard. The discussion was entirely about something else. Allow me to quote for you, since this comment[1] was downvoted to the bottom of that thread and maybe you missed it: Ahhh the
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by anon1385 12y ago
As somebody who doesn't know Python I would never use this book or recommend it to others. The reason for that is nothing to do with drama over Ruby (which I don't know either) but purely because of the quality of his other work a
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Millions of TVs will no longer be supported by YouTube after April 2015(support.google.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
Just because they have a policy against these thing doesn't mean they don't happen: http://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/ >Google acknowledged Wednesday that two employees have been terminated
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Only a wishy-washy equivocating, journalist can write, "everything about the new system appears to be working and it's making the lives of all better but is it really a good thing." The "making people dependent on th
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Google reportedly blackmailed websites into giving it content for free(theverge.com)
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by anon1385 12y ago
There is another perverse incentive. It has been suggested that in previous years the browser vendors were sitting on fixes and waited till the week before pwn2own to release them.
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's not evil government regulations that leads to Uber drivers being uninsured. It's private insurance companies who, aware of the greater risks, don't cover commercial driving as part of their regular insurance policies.
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by anon1385 12y ago
More accurately: Uninsured Uber drivers are causing harm to other road users. Uber is blatantly ignoring the law to make more money at the expense of the rest of society. This leads to Uber getting punished by the courts. No laws need chang
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by anon1385 12y ago
So you think people should be able to drive around on the roads without valid insurance?
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by anon1385 12y ago
>Uber is so obviously superior to any regulated taxi service. Please do tell us how a taxi service with uninsured drivers is superior.
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by anon1385 12y ago
You get the thrill of drivers who are uninsured and poorly paid (once you factor in the capital costs of the vehicle and the cost of vehicle maintenance). Welcome to the libertarian paradise.
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by anon1385 12y ago
>While it's not preferable, I think that we can be understanding of the fact that people can sometimes have outbursts due to stressors in their life. Sure. The question is, do the rest of us treat those incidents as mistakes where s

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