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   by ben1040 14y ago

   This only works if your phone has been rooted.
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   I really wish there was something like f.lux ( http://stereopsis.com/flux/ ) for iOS, or at least without having to jailbreak and do whatever else, because then I might be able to use my iPad in bed to read a bit before sleeping. Having it
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   Thanks for the writeup - while going through the levels, I was wondering how some of this stuff was set up from the game-master's perspective. This was really fun to play, and I learned a thing or two (specifically the manner in which you
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   Back in 2000 my wallet, including my Visa check card and other credit cards, was stolen in Paris. I called the bank right away, got cards canceled, had new ones ordered and all that. I get my checking account statement and see several char
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   Not only is it not forgotten, it still costs $110 new on Amazon.
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   I knew a DJ who had a MD dash unit in his car. It seemed like the coolest thing ever. I had a MiniDisc component unit and a portable or two, one of which was the one pictured in the article. I dumped the component quite some time ago. I
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   This works great, except that some sites seem to block requests from EC2 hosts. StackOverflow and Yelp are two that come to mind immediately although I'm sure there are others. If I remember right, StackOverflow only lets you access via t
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   Per that article, Mueller is saying that in reference to a previous case before the ITC, not this newest filing.
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   by ben1040 14y ago

   For my day job I work for a university, and I live two blocks away. Maybe one night or so a week, after dinner and the kid's put to bed I will head back up to the campus library and work. They're open until 3am, which is later than I can af
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    I paid a year or so ago, whenever the Textmate 2 beta came out for Textmate owners. I've gotten far more than $50 out of having access to Textmate 2 during that time. I don't feel miffed at all.
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    I might well be wrong, but I assumed that white spot was just the sun reflecting off of that part of the rover.
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    After the credit card reform act went through in 2010, the card companies now allow for a $10 minimum. http://consumerist.com/2010/09/amex-visa-mastercard-all-give...
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    Yep, you can't enable the tab feature without first taking a photo of yourself with the app.
14. 524.▲
    by ben1040 14y ago

    Right now it just settles the charge to whatever credit card you have on file with Square. Maybe eventually Square will let you link it to a bank account or prepaid account and they'll keep the spread.
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    One cool feature about the Square mobile app is you can set up geofenced "tabs" that automatically get opened if you get close enough to an establishment. So you keep your phone in your pocket, walk into Starbucks and order a drink as you d
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    Judge Alsup orders Oracle, Google to disclose paid advocates(arstechnica.com)

    89 points by ben1040 14y ago|25 comments
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    >IIRC it does the wipe via the recovery boot, so wiping that partition would kill it. Isn't this not an option in relatively recent Macs, which have the recovery functionality baked into the EFI firmware and not as a partition on the di
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    Nope. AT&T's spectrum is not subject to the open access restrictions (and the iPhone, not being LTE at present, would not be subject to it anyway).
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    I wonder how this plays in with chargebacks & consumer protection from cards. If Google's partner bank is a proxy between the merchant and, say, your Amex, what happens if you need to invoke a chargeback? Does Google's partner get invo
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    There seems to be a loophole where if you have already sideloaded a version originally downloaded form the Play Store (i.e. if you extracted the apk from a rooted HSPA+ Nexus device), then you can get updates. If you've not installed it, t
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    You can buy one at full retail price through Verizon and keep unlimited, but there's no point in that when you could buy used off eBay/Craigslist and save relative to the $650 off-contract price.
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    If you post an email chain, please, post the messages in timestamp order. It's a little annoying when you need to scroll all the way down to identify the beginning of the discussion, and then have to read from bottom to top to see the excha
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    This page, linked off the above mentioned Wikipedia article, is actually a pretty interesting read on the engineering challenge of shipping a flag to the Moon in such a manner that people in space suits could unpack it and set it up. http:
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    So instead of giving a mix tape to that girl you fancy, it's now the custom to hand her a 16GB USB drive instead?
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    I let my Mac developer account lapse a few months ago, but at least here's how it worked with Lion: If you went into the developer portal and claimed the App Store redemption code for the beta, then you were automatically licensed in the st
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    This is spot on. Thanks to the App Store, the days of paying $30+ for boxed software and paying again every year or so for version n+1 (assuming it comes out at all) are pretty far back in the rear view mirror now. I paid $10 for Sparrow a
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    >Shucks ... doesn't seem to be a way to see if there's any activity in my area without having to sign up first. Yep. I signed up and after going through the signup workflow, I then found out there was nothing really going on in my nec
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    They said that then, yes. They have not, however, actually done the rollout, at least for the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Retail, or the I/O giveaway variant, for that matter.
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    Don't most high-end Android phones these days allow you to connect to a TV via MHL adapter? It seems like they would be better served (i.e., able to actually deliver a product at the price point they're pushing) by building a really awesome
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    by ben1040 14y ago

    I can't see from a cursory glance how they verify identity. But I assume they might use one of the schemes used by banks when setting up online accounts, or even by the TSA when you forget your ID and want to board a plane. They look at pu