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by bodski 15y ago
Are cheap those eggs laid by anaemic, malnourished battery hens who are given growth steroids/antibiotics though? I realise that it is possible to find good deals direct from farmers but those prices sound insane! Personally eggs and meat a
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by bodski 15y ago
What Florian seems to be insinuating is that Android application developers would be somehow at risk in some way from this ruling due to them having written programs that " use the teachings of the infringed patent claims in one way or anot
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by bodski 15y ago
From Florian's blog entry: "Implications for Android: Concerning Android, I wouldn't rule out that maybe some of the hundreds of thousands of Android applications out there use the teachings of the infringed patent claims in one way or anot
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by bodski 16y ago
It seems the proxies are filtering by URL but all requests to any part of a flagged domain go through the proxy and so the sites see all subscribers of a particular ISP appearing to come from the same IP address. Hence the "your IP address
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by bodski 16y ago
Interesting, you seem to already harbour ill feelings toward Groklaw: http://lwn.net/Articles/401923/
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by bodski 16y ago
Talking of books, I think we should all (re)read Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider" [1], inspiring and prophetic. The book that coined the term 'computer worm', maybe parts of the 'remedy' are written within... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by bodski 16y ago
One of the key factors has to be the unlocking of previously 'unfarmable' into a self sustaining fertile alternative. Big agro-business contends that this is not possible and that we need to use oil based fertilisers and pesticides, machine
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by bodski 16y ago
If Barnes & Noble refused to pay (which is what Microsoft says), it's actually a matter of fairness that Microsoft enforces its patents because otherwise those who respect Microsoft's rights would be at a competitive disadvantage versu
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by bodski 16y ago
This could be really interesting for people working with digital art installations (using old PCs and monitors/TVs). A shame that its not likely to work with the wooden 'mirror' though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSbk9JDwPY
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by bodski 16y ago
This sub thread might make you rest a little easier, hopefully it is accurate with regards to the bill as it currently stands: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288824 edit: changed link to relevant comment
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by bodski 16y ago
If you are burying cables in the wall you may as well spend the extra and go for Cat. 6a UTP as it's spec'd to carry 10 Gbit Ethernet. Watch out for the minimum bend radius though its often around 30 mm with Cat 6a (4x cable's outer diamete
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by bodski 16y ago
The thing is... these devices are quite hypnotic and addictive for fully grown adults, let alone infants. As a father of two young children, I kept them away from computers and screens as much as possible until they were 3 years old. Babies
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by bodski 16y ago
Umm defensive, just like these ones? http://i.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-break... Unless you meant out of defence of the right to make more profit, in which case yes I totally agree, completely defensive.
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by bodski 16y ago
The market already allocates the bandwidth! Consumers pay for varying levels of service with bigger usage caps for higher prices etc. The content providers pay for their bandwidth at the other end (or the big ones enter 'tiering agreements'
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by bodski 16y ago
With wireless you can't just keep increasing capacity forever. The problem is that there is a theoretical limit to how wireless infrastructure can be improved. Sure, new generations of wireless tech. are improving the bandwidth available ev