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by caskance 11y ago
You mean I can get all kinds of sweet augs and not even have to pay for them? Where do I sign?] Also, military will do it WAY before private corps if they are still using human soldiers at the time. If you can give people enhanced strength
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by caskance 11y ago
You show your face automatically everywhere you go. Expecting other people not to look is folly. It's no different from the idiocy around fingerprints.
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by caskance 11y ago
I still see checkout clerks and airline gate agents do this all the time.
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by caskance 11y ago
Sounds like a boring half-measure. Let's shoot for full-scale personal holography. Look however you want, whenever you want.
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by caskance 11y ago
With sufficient data, you can narrow down the NYC crowd population quite a bit too. Whose smartphones are known to be nearby vs whose are known to be far away probably already gets you 90% of the way there.
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by caskance 11y ago
Google Glass specifically, yes. There will be other products with the same form factor that don't have the same restriction. And you can always just take your chances with sideloading an app even if Google themselves aren't willin
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by caskance 11y ago
The chances are just as good - not necessarily 50/50, but close to population baseline - that the person you met actually was a nice guy and "the machine" assumes you hang around with good people. If your chances are actually
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by caskance 11y ago
The problem is that there is no reason to believe that is more likely than the opposite case of "You have something you really want (everyone has different goals). Right when you think you are about to fail to reach your goal, it is a
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by caskance 11y ago
That this kind of risk is zero-sum. If higher rates are charged to people who meet these criteria, those of us who don't will get better rates from competitive lenders.
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by caskance 11y ago
Your daughter would be fine if her paranoid luddite father hadn't forbidden her from getting her own setup.
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by caskance 11y ago
A carriage manufacturer contest: Provide an elevator pitch, to completely non-technical end users that will make the aware of the danger of automobiles and persuade them that it is important.
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by caskance 11y ago
It still astonishes me how so many so called "tech savvy" users think they can do the technological equivalent of defending themselves from the military with a store-bought handgun.
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by caskance 11y ago
The most obvious answer is that the NSA pwned them.
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by caskance 11y ago
Nope. It's pretty much guaranteed that each side thinks their own position is superior. Else why would they hold it? The problem is when a party is so certain in their superiority they are unwilling to acknowledge the possibility that
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by caskance 11y ago
Do you normally handle contracts by someone coming into your office and slamming a pile of money on your desk, and you start work immediately?
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by caskance 11y ago
You might have a point if those products had been called "Operating System", "Text Editor" and "Portable Computer With Touchscreen and Keyboard".
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by caskance 11y ago
Adblock would not be a trademarkable name anyway. It's a generic term that describes what the product is.
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by caskance 11y ago
You can't give up something you never had.
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by caskance 11y ago
I'm not talking about mere bias. What you have is preexisting conviction. Preaching is not debate.
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by caskance 11y ago
Because that's how much I'd need to charge to actually do that instead of my current job.
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by caskance 11y ago
Because the kind of person who makes a drone strike tracker app is going to pay $5k for us to tell them "no, Apple will probably remove your app"?
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by caskance 11y ago
Has Amazon ever pretended to not be evil?
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by caskance 11y ago
IANAL, but probably because Google has more of a monopoly on web search than Amazon does on online shopping.
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by caskance 11y ago
The problem is that the internet has muddied what it means to do business in a country. If a Frenchman does a Google search, is that really Google doing business in France? Or even more ridiculously, what if I, who am not French, search for
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by caskance 11y ago
That would only force people to confront the uncomfortable reality that just because data is about you doesn't mean you own it.
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by caskance 11y ago
The alternative is that Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc build their own Great Firewalls and become countries. I'd prefer that but many people have a strong sentimental attachment to countries based on geography.
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by caskance 11y ago
Sure, why not. France already seems dead set on making sure Google can't do business there.
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by caskance 11y ago
It truly amazes me that someone can say with a straight face that the Chinese started this.
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by caskance 11y ago
They are consistent enough that I and most other developers have no trouble telling whether something is likely to get removed for being too offensive. The people that find their criteria capricious and unprofessional do things like ask &qu
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by caskance 11y ago
If you wanted to call their app removal criteria arbitrary or capricious, you sure picked some bad examples. Their offensiveness meter seems pretty obvious to me. The only thing I'd really worry about is "apps that duplicate OS fe

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