anoncow

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   by anoncow 13y ago

   Eventually, this will become a crime and we, programmers, will support it. Because, legislating our way to money is easier. Locking down is easier.
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   Software developers should create a group which would fight for this cause. We can name it Software Industry Association of America or Software Programmers Association of America. This free searching system is killing us.
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   >that's less secure than prepared statements, and may break some things (eg if the code is relying on certain things not being escaped, etc)
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   Living includes staying happy. If playing games makes you happy, the game developer is doing a useful job for you. If the developer is happy making games, he is doing a useful job for himself too.
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   The parent article mentions replicant. Replicant and edge, both are good ventures.
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   >I personally believe democracy is not suited to India at the moment (I don't know which oppressor you want to hand over the country to.) People vote along lines of caste and religion. People vote for money and liquor. But people vo
7. 487.▲
   by anoncow 13y ago

   I really don't see a point comparing apples and oranges. Ubuntu and Android both have their contributions. I am not qualified enough to comment on the OS X part though.
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   The donation page for Replicant is here https://crm.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1... Replicant webpage http://replicant.us/ Download page http://replicant.us&#x2F
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   by anoncow 13y ago

   This could be the basis for a class action(?) lawsuit against AT&T for gross negligence in handling sensitive data.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Also the Glycemic Index of the calories that you consume matters. http://www.fao.org/docrep/w8079e/w8079e0k.htm
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    The same indoctrination exists elsewhere too. People are given respect for their degrees or position in the hierarchy. Business trainings teach employees to be good to their bosses. while stating that doing so is important if they want the
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Any info on country-wise availability, especially India?
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    I really hope President Obama reads this.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    I'd attribute this to Heinlein's Razor.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    I concede. You have a point.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    >We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds. I know this has almost no chance of being the reason for the usage of the phrase "best of both worlds". I posted this
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Without the retraction, Xbox one would probably have been dead on arrival. This move takes them back to where they were. The malarkey about how XBox one wanted to be a better steam and would offer cheaper games(this was what some xbox dev s
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    That is because they source results from Bing and Yandex(and also their own index). I wish them all the best. Prosper DDG! http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal? Without the option of counter-claiming, Youtube is a monarchy. I do expect a public company to have some sort of democracy, especially o
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    >you might infringe if you were singing a copyrighted song Or if your video happens to be one of those which youtube partners don't like. Youtube, apparently, has a deal independent of the DMCA, which allows big media compan(ies) t
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    I tried to switch back to Google because it didn't feel the same to a part of my brain, even though I didn't feel search result quality was an issue. So I changed keyword.url(firefox) to duckduckgo. It doesn't feel that bad n
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    http://www.idc.ac.il/tecs is down? Edit: But slides are available on http://www.nand2tetris.org/course.php A video lecture based course would have been great, but this is splendid too!
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    So the PS4 is Steam for consoles with offline support. Best of both worlds.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    can you elaborate on the emergence of resistant strains due to mass vaccination?
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    please elaborate.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Even with regulations, we have pharma companies behaving wantonly. Leave the markets unregulated and we will have worse behavior. Also, there is a lot of self regulation that the pharma companies are expected to do.
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    Authorship ties Google+ to search. Can I have my photo next to my search result if I don't have a Google account?
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    > It appears that when Google was small, they tried to be open to benefit from other big players. Now that they are the biggies, they don't see any value in being open. Sad but true. Corporations who have to worry about keeping their sh
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    >And yet the furor is not about Microsoft... The furore is partly also about Google moving away from an open protocol to a supposedly secret protocol. If Google were to publish the new protocol that Hangouts uses all/most of the animosi
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    by anoncow 13y ago

    You are right. But are the scientist and the philanthropist living the same lifestyle?