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by ben1040 14y ago
I wonder if Majestic would have done better if it didn't launch a month and a half before 9/11. People were on edge then, and a game that ends up making mysterious phone calls to you probably wouldn't go over well. I actually thought it wa
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by ben1040 14y ago
>Also - What does 'CE' stand for? "Consumer Electronics."
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by ben1040 14y ago
I use a local authorized Apple repair shop for warranty work rather than use the Genius Bar, if it's at all possible (i.e. if it's for a Mac). I can show up at the shop at 9am with no "appointment" necessary. A friendly receptionist offers
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by ben1040 14y ago
Google had a partnership with Citi, so if you had a Citi card, it would actually send the real card number. With any other bank, the proxy card number is sent, and Google forwards the charge to the real card.
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by ben1040 14y ago
So the recent change to Google Wallet to let you use any card you wanted basically worked by creating a virtual credit card that acted as a proxy, and transmitting that card number using NFC. When the charge hit that virtual card, they wou
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by ben1040 14y ago
Square added the encryption in the dongles last year. This happened not long after Verifone cited the lack of encryption in an early 2011 FUD campaign against Square. http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/28/square-to-beef-up-card-read...
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by ben1040 14y ago
It looks like there already is a standard, and the Model S makes use of it (as well as the Leaf, Volt, et al). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J1772
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by ben1040 14y ago
I love the design of the stations, and how it calls back to that '50s and '60s gas station design that celebrated the promise of the future. Seems really appropriate.
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by ben1040 14y ago
Someone replied to his Twitter post on this topic with an interesting point: https://twitter.com/b6n/status/258785250145087488 The message "This price was set by the publisher" only appears when he's logged in. That message is a tipoff t
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by ben1040 14y ago
Funny that it came down to a question of "causal nexus."
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by ben1040 14y ago
Due to an uptick in violent crime, the St Louis police department last month enacted a policy of not sending anyone out to investigate crimes like stolen cars or auto break-ins (and taking reports over the phone instead), because they neede
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by ben1040 14y ago
Its window had passed before the injunction. The ban went into effect June 26, 2012, a full year after the Galaxy Tab 10.1 went on the market. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1's successor, which was not affected by the injunction, had been
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by ben1040 14y ago
Awesome, thanks. I feel more inclined to try it out if I know that I won't have to completely re-buy an account when I inevitably want to tinker around with the developer side of things.
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by ben1040 14y ago
If you buy the $36 (formerly the $50) plan can you get a prorated upgrade to the $100 developer plan later?
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by ben1040 14y ago
Interesting writeup about the Chrome behavior: https://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=10312
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by ben1040 14y ago
Yes, if you have location history enabled, it seems to pretty much assume that if you go the same place during the day often enough, it calls it work, and if you spend enough nights at a place, it calls it home. Google had picked a location
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by ben1040 14y ago
When I saw the keynote introducing Google Now, the first thing I thought of was that concept video they used to introduce Glass [1]. For example, in the video, the user looked at a subway station entrance, and the glasses showed a rider ale
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by ben1040 14y ago
Don't the scammers often use the victimized sellers as drop shippers? Say, Alice lists a laptop on eBay or Craigslist. The scammer has also listed a similar model for sale, and Bob has purchased it in what he believes to be a legitimate tr
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by ben1040 14y ago
Don't the Canadian carriers also require 3-year contracts on subsidized phones?
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Google Civic Information API(developers.google.com)
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by ben1040 14y ago
On the other hand, they are trying to monetize the Android Maps app by including paid local offers and the like. There's nothing stopping them from trying to make money from the iOS user base the same way.
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by ben1040 14y ago
To be fair those were a lot of names for what pretty much was the same company, as VA Research went on a decade-long journey from being a Wall Street IPO hit selling Linux workstations to selling T-shirts to people who use Linux workstation
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by ben1040 14y ago
Only for international use. Domestic use is still locked to Verizon.
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by ben1040 14y ago
It's not sharing it with "outsiders" that's the issue. The problem is that the NDA limits you to being able to discuss these things with other developers on Apple's forums, and that is the only venue. And honestly Apple's forum isn't terr
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by ben1040 14y ago
Seriously. When anyone can get access to NDA-protected stuff just by coughing up $100, all the NDA really does is make it difficult for developers to share helpful knowledge.
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by ben1040 14y ago
>This for example, I've never seen a leather item in meat-space with aluminum buttons. The leather and metal buttons remind me of an old camera (or one such as a Leica with a timeless design). As an example: http://i.imgur.com/EfGW5.j
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by ben1040 14y ago
>2. Many professions such as law and medicine legally require purchase of the appropriate degree. And in many states, if the licensing board should learn that you are in default on student loans, then they'll revoke your license to prac
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by ben1040 14y ago
And even then, I'm pretty sure it's accessing the store in the background without the user opening it up. Otherwise, how would it know to pop up a notification that app updates are available?
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by ben1040 14y ago
Here's a little more (well sort of) modern corporate anthem, from Sun. http://anthems.zdnet.co.uk/anthems/sun.mp3 Lyrics here: http://www.zdnet.com/it-anthems-the-power-of-sun-3002133207/
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by ben1040 14y ago
This is a fake story from a satire newspaper. http://dailycurrant.com/about/ Q. Are your newstories real? A. No. Our stories are purely fictional. However they are meant to address real-world issues though satire and often refer and link

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