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151.
by bwarp 15y ago
That is one thing I've been wanting for years. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Innovation? Bullshit. Innovation is improvement, not change for the sake of change. It's not an improvement.
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's not like everyone can benefit from new features thrown out by browser vendors every two minutes so what is the problem? Stuff stays around for a while. If you want to reach your userbase, you use the common subset of functionality.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That is correct but they would survive without them. A lot of people will jump to help if they fall, myself included.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I hope the market share stays. It's the only browser which isn't a corporate puppet, respects the user's requests and has a truly open development model. It's the only real browser if you ask me.
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's not a battery - it's a cell and it doesn't generate power. It takes power. It only gets about 50% out. I did this in chemistry at school about 25 years ago.
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by bwarp 15y ago
My kids can have an iPhone when they pay for one themselves. Until then, they have a PAYG $10 Nokia. Perhaps that was a good move after all.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think this is a novelty at best. The electrical interface standards may change between devices (voltage/current sink ability) and even between software releases (power saving etc) resulting in a sudden "it stops working" moment. The basis
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by bwarp 15y ago
What movement to save the NHS? I think it's a movement to fuck it up.
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's not trivial - but it's not unsurmountable. Regarding triangulation, it's about finding the source. The source is hard to track reliably if it moves, especially away from the detection devices or rapidly out of range. Try tracking a br
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by bwarp 15y ago
A one time pad can be easily hidden amongst other text i.e. a book printing with some rules applied (third letter of every alternate sentence).
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by bwarp 15y ago
Scrolls do have one disadvantage over pages. It's hard to communicate where you are in one without some indexing aid. Any scrolling technology seems to be devoid of that. I think that's why the page paradigm has persisted. It's all about fa
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by bwarp 15y ago
Good for you Germany! I wish British politicians weren't useless, spineless, back stabbing, lying arseholes. They signed without blinking an eye.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Yes. You need to look up "Electronic Countermeasures". There are plenty of chunks of real info out there on it. Pretty much any form of it is plainly described despite the usual expectation that it's top secret or classified. There are hand
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by bwarp 15y ago
Bits of it are easy to kill (at country level at least).
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by bwarp 15y ago
It's not that easy and there are simple anti-triangulation countermeasures you can use. It's possible to drop decoy transmitters/relays, which are easy enough to knock up and are cheap. You can also use refraction to "bounce" HF radio waves
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by bwarp 15y ago
This is why good old analogue amateur or personal radio should still be a powerful force for people who are rebelling against their governments and corporate overlords. The Internet is easy to kill, as are digital cell-based radio networks.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I have two children too. They are the only non-artificial responsibility.
169.
by bwarp 15y ago
You have missed a bit there. The less responsibility you have, the more time you have. You are paying to lose some of your artificial responsibility. Cut some of the middle-man out (money) and some real responsibility and the net effect is
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by bwarp 15y ago
Until the seller decides to monopolise the valuable items (Monsanto).
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by bwarp 15y ago
I know how it works. You are solely considering the latest generation of equipment. There is still a lot of analogue kit (crossbar switches/relays) out there across the globe. There are even small pockets of it in the UK. POTS is definitely
172.
by bwarp 15y ago
It's simply zealotism. The right tool for the job is always the right tool for the job. Git is not the right tool for the job for most of the cases described.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's fine until you hit C|Net or some other shite filled web site which is 2.8Mb to hit the front page. That's 1097 preloads and the base 3G rate (3Gb) in the UK is used up. 1Mb after that costs about $1.50 so each subsequent preload of C
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by bwarp 15y ago
My 6303 does that but I look like an idiot doing it ;-)
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by bwarp 15y ago
Yes plenty of times. And I've had to muddle with foreign operators and they've had to deal with my really bad attempts at their languages. At the end of the day I'd got where I wanted to go though and had some interesting conversations on t
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by bwarp 15y ago
Remove money from the picture entirely and ask yourself what you'd like to recieve in exchange for your work. If there is not a "fair value" then it probably shouldn't be being done. If it's for personal interest, don't expect a fair value
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by bwarp 15y ago
As the parent commenter, I upvoted you. Yes, you can say that of most technological "advances". I agree entirely. Very little genuine improvement happens in technology. Most of it is false starts. When it does happen, everyone notices it an
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by bwarp 15y ago
Spot on! This is exactly my problem with this. I have a Nokia 6303. I press a couple of buttons and I'm calling the person I want. It's so unbelievably solved.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Bandwidth costs a fortune on mobile devices in most countries around the world. It's a legitimate whinge.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That depends on how the person wishes to be rewarded (within reason) hence my previous comment about how "value" differs per person.

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