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by beedogs 11y ago
> Amazon does 320 kBPS, but it's still not good enough. Yeah, nah. I'd bet a paycheck or two that no one could tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a CD. And I'd win 99 times out of 100.
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by beedogs 12y ago
I've got 3 Linksys E3000s that seem to be working fine with DD-WRT and Tomato. One's the main router, one's the VPN endpoint(s), and one's a spare.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Trademark law may actually be stupider and more convoluted than even copyright.
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by beedogs 12y ago
In order for the state to keep secrets, it must prove why they need to be secret. You don't just get to blanket everything you do with that excuse.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Bit of a difference between the screen and keyboard -- which users interact with -- and the guts of the thing. Use some common sense.
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by beedogs 12y ago
> If you travel every once in a while, or need to use bathrooms at work, there's that factor too. If I catch someone traipsing to the restroom with a box of wet wipes under their arm, they're not going to make it without being
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by beedogs 12y ago
This is sort of like joking about all the "wasted effort" that went into fixing the Y2K bug. It's not wasted effort if it averts an existential crisis.
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by beedogs 12y ago
What this tells me is that if you're running a website that uses Google advertising as your primary source of revenue, you should probably sell up now and get out while the getting is good. Ad-based sites simply cannot survive anymore
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by beedogs 12y ago
Wow, so a $1300 laptop with no USB ports? Why does Apple keep making their new products worse -- less features but subjectively more "beautiful" -- than the ones before? Somewhere in the attic at One Infinite Loop, is there a pai
580.
by beedogs 12y ago
oh for fuck's sake.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Welp, I'm convinced. Page 76 is key.
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by beedogs 12y ago
It's also a bit daft to not recognize the obvious hyperbole in the headline.
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by beedogs 12y ago
It kinda blows my mind that the US government thinks this is a case they can actually win. If they actually do, it's pretty much all over for democracy in the US.
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by beedogs 12y ago
I've got no problem with anyone inflicting damage on the NSA. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and all that.
585.
by beedogs 12y ago
Time to shut down the NSA. They have no place in a free society.
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by beedogs 12y ago
> big oversight on the part of Facebook IMHO. Status updates != tweets For one thing, most status updates aren't public. It would be absolutely horrifying if they suddenly became so, just to be fed into a search engine.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Jesus. When the company I worked for (here in Australia) was subsumed by another, all the contracts were renegotiated specifically to include our years spent at the old company. Going in the opposite direction is pretty awful.
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by beedogs 12y ago
> Before the IBM apologists start commenting And here they are now!
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by beedogs 12y ago
Some American companies apparently have yet to figure out you can fuck over your employees even more by not paying severance. IBM's clearly behind the curve on this trend.
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by beedogs 12y ago
All this tells me, really, is that national security letters and the laws surrounding them are a complete farce. I have a hard time believing the government could ever win a case against someone accused of disclosing the receipt of one.
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by beedogs 12y ago
I'm still not sold on this whole Beats acquisition. It seems like a mid-1990s Microsoft play.
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by beedogs 12y ago
> I can not optimize it for longer user sessions, I can not figure out which are the most popular pages, I can not record client-side errors, I can not track caching and page load time. Sure you can. You can do all of those things still
593.
by beedogs 12y ago
I don't see any problem with this.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Peter Thiel and Mark Cuban are usually wrong about a lot of things, so it's no surprise they're stupidly wrong about this one too.
595.
by beedogs 12y ago
Republicans: always just slightly worse than Democrats. Great choice last November, America! You surely won't regret it for decades.
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by beedogs 12y ago
Yep, Microsoft's the only one.
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by beedogs 12y ago
> As a ultra-simple example: with a case-sensitive file system I can have two directories, "documents" and "Documents". Which one are my documents in? Half in one, half in the other, probably. That only really happens
598.
by beedogs 12y ago
Why on earth do search engines even respond to DMCA complaints? This is madness.
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by beedogs 12y ago
There are a lot of horrible, unthinking, authoritarian people out there who think folks need to be punished well out of proportion to their crime in order to "teach them a lesson".
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by beedogs 12y ago
Maybe pick up a history book. The protests of today are nothing at all compared to those of even 40 years ago.

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