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by bstrand 13y ago
Here's what Glenn Greenwald said on June 8: "Our story was written from the start to say NSA claimed this, telecoms deny-we wanted them to have to work it out in public what they do. We reported - accurately - what the NSA cla
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by bstrand 14y ago
Actually, it was MLK's idea of what activism entails, specifically those who use civil disobedience.
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by bstrand 14y ago
Was it a public interface? My read is that his app was logging in to the university system with his personal credentials. It's not clear why there couldn't be a public read-only interface for that data, and it's a shame the U wasn't willing
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by bstrand 15y ago
Only an unintended consequence if you accept the article's premise that a non-trivial number people actually went to McD's and only bought the toy, and those people will continue to go for the toy but buy the happy meal to get it. And feed
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by bstrand 15y ago
San Francisco should respond by imposing a 10000% tax on the sale of toys from food service establishments.
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by bstrand 15y ago
You make the common but fundamental mistake that fat and fit are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of fit fatties and vice-versa.
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by bstrand 15y ago
What additional things would make the difference?
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by bstrand 15y ago
There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of the Fire, but Ament's review fundamentally amounts to "I'm used to the iPad/iOS, and this isn't that." My capsule review: it's got some rough edges, but it has a few big things that I
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by bstrand 15y ago
The desktop is moving in this direction as well. Your example of OS X is shaky in particular, given the App Store. Even if it's still _possible_ in the future, acquiring apps outside the official channel will be exceptional, done only by en
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by bstrand 15y ago
But huge, glaring exceptions can disprove a 'rule'. Risky? sure. Insane? These examples strongly indicate otherwise.
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by bstrand 15y ago
It's a perfectly valid usage that does not at all necessarily imply political assassinations or other despicable. No reasonable person would interpret her post's title as claiming any kind of equivalence with political assassination, and an
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by bstrand 15y ago
Um, no. 'Disappear' as a transitive verb predates all of that by many decades. E.g.: 1897 Chem. News 19 Mar. 143 "We progressively disappear the faces of the dodecahedron." See also: lighten up, Francis.
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by bstrand 15y ago
Marco has a well established anti-Android bias, both Android the platform and Android users. He's been dismissive of it since the beginning, so this post-facto justification that Android users won't pay for apps is a bit hollow. ReadItLater
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by bstrand 16y ago
Dilger sloppily conflates the two very distict arguments over Flash on the iPhone platform and the new restrictions that dictate the languages you may use when writing native apps for the platform. Unsurprisingly, as the former is a reasona
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by bstrand 16y ago
Thrill as the corporate partisan sets up the straw men and then knocks! them! down! Nobody serious is saying "Adobe's going to to get Apple" nor that "Apple owes Adobe" nor that "Apple has a legal obligation to support third parties" nor th
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by bstrand 17y ago
Apparently that ad is apocryphal: http://www.antarctic-circle.org/advert.htm
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by bstrand 17y ago
I think, yeah, if I overtly state the account is no longer in use in the single post made over the previous year, and I've never used it for its proper purpose, I probably shouldn't expect that Tumblr are going expend company resources ju
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by bstrand 17y ago
The screenshots were from Google Reader. Meaghan has indicated elsewhere that the posts had been deleted, and the GReader posts are simply a history of what little activity there had been there. http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyamehQd51qa
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by bstrand 17y ago
I think you totally misread the motivational factors here. That guy (aka Tumbledore) could easily want to lie to bolster the justification for the indignation he obviously feels. Meaghan, OTOH, has many more reasons not to want to lie, fore