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by blasdel 16y ago
If the call was already being recorded (say for voicemail) it can simply be subpoenaed. In the eyes of the law the defendant wiretapped themselves. Of course the actual GPS service, involving beeping atomic clocks in space and a passive rec
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by blasdel 16y ago
You actually can't buy a non-industrial device from anyone but Verizon with their branding and firmware that they will allow on their network. They fought FCC regulations that forced them to open up and lost ( http://www.consumeraffairs.com
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by blasdel 16y ago
A moderator (PG and some YC alumni) probably saw this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1010590 then deleted it and blacklisted your domain for blogspam.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I confronted Jason Fried about this at last year's Startup School, and I think I figured it out — because they avoid adding features to their products, writing serves as their real creative outlet. He told me that anyone at the company can
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by blasdel 16y ago
They open sourced the parts that have been solid for years. What's always been a huge problem is the runtime — the implementation of the standard library. It's it's mostly the same across all platforms and more than just 'glue code', it's w
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by blasdel 16y ago
The Reader exploits probably involve a PDF with embedded Flash. Synergy!
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, extensions named 'Flashblock' are pretty universally mediocre and don't actually keep Flash from crashing your browser — they just keep it from being displayed. ClickToFlash for native Webkit views on OS X actually blocks Flash for rea
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by blasdel 16y ago
Which is why the AMA in the US uses collective action to strictly limit the number of new medical degrees and licenses. They also do a lot of lobbying to ensure that their job territory is not encroached upon by nurses, EMTs, or other poten
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, your domain is blacklisted. All stories with links to it will be [dead] on arrival.
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One of the great things about analog technology is it fucks up correctly(modcult.org)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|1 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
"Healthier" is one of the only words that I would never use to describe an American Cuba — their Soviet subsidy led to them educating a ridiculous percentage of their population as doctors, so many that most work in other fields. Even now
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by blasdel 16y ago
Hosted in blog format with an RSS feed: http://monthlyreview.org/castro/
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yeah, the captcha-ed file hosting sites popular in the segment they're after are a major problem. Especially if the "web seed" is hosted by burnbit, I think people will end up using this with private Dropbox URLs instead.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Though Yahoo did do things to clean up some of the dipshit decisions made by the founders after they left. Originally if you uploaded anything but photos taken with a lensed camera (like illustrations or screenshots), your account would be
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by blasdel 16y ago
This brilliant job ad with bonus shibboleth was linked in #startups months ago: http://bnjmnhggns.org/jobs.html
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If a file exists, there is torrent of it. If not, it will be burned(burnbit.com)
221 points by blasdel 16y ago|58 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
A bonus question requiring previous knowledge can be fantastic as a shibboleth if crafted well — it reinforces to the potential applicant that there is a clever compatriot on the other side, and makes the job of screening resumes easier.
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by blasdel 16y ago
I assume you made that analogy hypothetically, but consumers buying PCs subsidized by overpriced network service contracts was actually common practice 10 years ago. Most of the major ISPs did it — the consumer would get a ~$400 instant reb
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by blasdel 16y ago
Android's Dalvik VM has only had a JIT for 4 months (shipped in 2.2) Hilariously enough, they started using V8 in 2.0 a year ago — so in 2.0 and 2.1, Javascript is JIT-ed but Java isn't!
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MS Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug(code.technically.us)
120 points by blasdel 16y ago|113 comments
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Five Reasons I Wouldn't Have Invested in Zynga(bubblegeneration.com)
1 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
In almost all circumstances, the recipient of a Paypal payment gets the 30¢ + %n cut taken out, even if the money came directly from a bank account. Paypal is also set up to avoid making credit card transactions at all costs — you need one
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by blasdel 16y ago
Especially compared to their competitors Bloglines and the last couple years of Google Reader aren't very much like email at all — the only vestige is the unread count. One of the major points of difference is the 'river of news' UI, where
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by blasdel 16y ago
I've been using RSS readers in some form for more than 10 years now, and used Bloglines intensively from 2003-2007. I ditched it when NetNewsWire went free with syncing and I realized I had Macs at both home and work. I ditched NNW for Goog
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by blasdel 16y ago
You would think so, and that was their original business plan — just make money off the float. Instead they ended up charging fees (30¢ + %3) to get to profitability.
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by blasdel 16y ago
To be accepted, the 'backup plan' needs to be similar in implementation to the 'YC plan' — if you wouldn't have proceeded with your startup in some form if you got rejected, then YC will almost definitely reject you.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Liability is a bitch! I do notice that they left out the standard clause about operating Nuclear facilities, but that's probably present in the clickwrap for just using the device at all.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Currently any app can just get raw read access to the Media Library SQLite database file — the current MediaPlayer framework just implements an unprivileged API on top of that.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yeah, nobody here makes suits in 36L or 38L, and most of them bundle the pants with waists that are way huge, though at least they usually come unhemmed. Sleeves are always a problem, especially with the ridiculous way they often measure fr
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by blasdel 16y ago
He's ignorant? Finish reading the paragraph!

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