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by bxr 15y ago
>playlists? Yeah, nobody would want to use those. They especially wouldn't want to build a playlist on the fly with their ipod.
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by bxr 15y ago
I know the high risk actors are there, my post was fueled by my continuing fascination of how low the barrier to entry to the low-risk category is, and how high the potential they have is.
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by bxr 15y ago
So they got exposed because they were acting like a bunch of children and taking no precautions? Man, if people who don't know what they're doing are this successful, imagine what it means about people who are. And how any laws we make abo
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by bxr 15y ago
Wendy’s providing unlimited baked potatoes and Frosties, in exchange for a 5 percent equity stake. I'd take that deal.
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by bxr 15y ago
<a> That won't help my XY is W and V. What can I do? *b has changed the channel topic to: Don't ask questions.
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by bxr 15y ago
>If you want to piss off the most knowledgeable person in the room; simply ask if you can ask a question. Don't forget the corollary: Never ask if you can ask a question on channels where they don't like answering questions. You should
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by bxr 15y ago
I'm currently writing some cobol for shits and giggles. Its terrible. I don't really get this article though. The "friendly fire" is what fuels the drive to make new hotness to be as good as it can be. I don't think its damaging outside
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by bxr 15y ago
>Everyone knows the correct way to get copyrighted content from the internet. You use iTunes, or Amazon's MP3 service, or NetFlix, or Hulu, or any number of services. Everyone also knows that when you get a legal copy of a copyrighted w
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by bxr 15y ago
Except for that part where FJ makes money off of him.
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by bxr 15y ago
>(if attribution is your only aim) There is a difference between the minimum you tolerate and what you want to actively participate in. You're just suggesting that The Oatmeal drag himself down to their level.
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by bxr 15y ago
I agree, there is certainly a market for the tablet that keeps things possible. The iPad type device is great for consuming content, it excels here, its probably not going to be beaten (at least not any time soon). But there is a huge mark
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by bxr 15y ago
Just like my direct mail campaign is not automated because when the letters come out of the printer/stuffer machine I still have to lick the envelopes.
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by bxr 15y ago
>It sounds like if the industry isn't enforcing itself and operating out in the open, no one really cares. Thats some very strange reasoning you're operating on there. The fact the industry isn't enforcing itself only suggests that peo
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by bxr 15y ago
And just because something is legal, doesn't make it immoral. The law doesn't touch anything but the worst of the worst of spam. To address your other post, I would assume that you're getting down-voted because you're playing devil's advoca
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by bxr 15y ago
>Businesses need to learn that there are laws and that software is subject to licenses that they should read I'm not saying burnt in a lawsuit against them for infringement, it could be as simple as abandoning technologies based on reco
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by bxr 15y ago
I never said they couldn't I said they couldn't without worrying about legal repercussions. Even in the cases when they're in the right, they have to carefully worry about the license. If I develop on an opensource stack, its prohibitivel
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by bxr 15y ago
It was a poll, not a vote. pg is going to do what he wants.
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by bxr 15y ago
The author is mistaken, as you point out there wouldn be nothing to look at (well, effectively nothing) if the code from debain was removed. Also the methodology is a bit suspect. The main non-free and contrib repositories are divided alo
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by bxr 15y ago
>the whole idea of a Free alternative to Unix I don't mean to marginalize the gnu project, but there were already free -nixes out there. Starting over from scratch isn't much of an accomplishment other than the license... >and crea
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by bxr 15y ago
>"If you throw a big enough temper tantrum and incite a large enough shitstorm, developers will address your concerns" is an unfortunate precedent. Its unfortunate for many reasons, not the least of which is that they either were, or we
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by bxr 15y ago
>He should let the police handle it. And if they don't do anything? They're not required to. Should he just forget about it?
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by bxr 15y ago
>and infer that the article states that some health authority has recently said that cell phone signals are about as dangerous as lead, etc. They would be inferring the wrong thing if they did that. When someone thinks of the dangers
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by bxr 15y ago
I can't help but ask "so what?" I know the media likes to fascinate themselves with facebook, but adding websites does not really make the bog standard concept of not-yet-released products news. After wondering why they're reporting on thi
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by bxr 15y ago
I came here to post the same thing. Zuckerberg is only saying this because his buisness depends on it. Anyone who can get people to listen to them can report on people's opinions as a way to influence other peoples opinions. Considering t
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by bxr 15y ago
This is why we can't have nice things, abuse of something useful for ends undesirable to the masses leads to it getting banned for all uses.
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by bxr 15y ago
>If I tell my machine to do something, I want it to carry my orders. I downloaded this 'Free Screensaver Pack' and I want to run it! Who does this virus scanner think it is? Quit telling me that its a bad idea and just goddamn do what
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by bxr 15y ago
No, you didn't create software, but you effectively distributed a trojan.
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by bxr 15y ago
The popularity of virtualization technology and the new trend of selling instances could make operating system development interesting again. The requirements for an operating system have changed drastically with this new way of thinking ab
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by bxr 15y ago
>Is the product actually better? If not, that sounds like a dysfunctional market. Everything else being equal, marketing is just propaganda that makes the market less functional. And a "strong brand" is the result of successful propaga
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by bxr 15y ago
>switching to a date-based version system would be the wrong move It already is, its just done with a "2.6." prefix.

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