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by cgranade 16y ago
Sweet that you shared that link using secure.wikimedia.org. I'm glad that others are using HTTPS where they can!
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by cgranade 16y ago
Good intentions can't justify abuse, and I don't know of a better for a pattern of calling one's child "garbage": Once when I was young—maybe more than once—when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me
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by cgranade 16y ago
A bit limited, no? Obviously, no taxonomy of sex or gender will ever be completely satisfactory, but {unknown, male, female, not applicable} is missing some fairly obvious and useful additions, such as hermaphroditic and transgendered. I sh
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by cgranade 16y ago
There's been some talk of making Zotero stand-alone to deal with that kind of issue, but that's enough of a project I think it will be a while still. In the meantime, a Chrome port doesn't make much sense in some ways, as it'd wind up dupli
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by cgranade 16y ago
The big one is syncing of passwords and preferences in an encrypted manner. It means that I can nearly transparently switch computers while still using secure randomly-generated passwords for each site. Last I checked that was not supported
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by cgranade 16y ago
For me, Firefox Sync and Zotero are the two must-haves that Chrome doesn't match at all. Firefox Sync goes so far beyond any other sync tool I've ever seen, it's incredible. Likewise, Zotero's browser-level integration is immensely helpful
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by cgranade 16y ago
Far from it. I think it's great that they don't simply forget problems from 10 years ago, but that they're able to return to and fix them. It'd be better if they didn't take 10 years to do so, but then again, I'm not complaining, either.
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by cgranade 16y ago
Sometimes 10-year-old problems do get fixed. Glad to see that Mozilla is continuing to take browser making seriously.
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by cgranade 16y ago
In defense of academics, it's quite common to first notify the vendor so that they can prepare a countermeasure for when the exploit is published. In general, publishing without making a reasonable attempt to contact the vendor is irrespons
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by cgranade 16y ago
In all fairness, this is an article by someone who knows his stuff saying maybe. There's so many crackpots going after P ≠ NP that we need to hear from those people saying this time is different. The news to this article isn't that a claime
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by cgranade 16y ago
To start with, the free case is a very recent concession that was made in response to intense media pressure (whether deserved or not). Moreover, I didn't say that the antenna problem is a critical problem for all users, but I said it illus
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by cgranade 16y ago
Well, by their behavior with respect to pornographic or erotic apps, their response to jailbreaking, their decision to completely lock the device against unauthorized apps, and their censoring of books and comics over non-sexualized nudity.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I was comparing the wrongness of the story, and how it was relatively easily defused by further research and by honesty on the part of Motorola. Mind you, there response left much to be desired, but it was a vast improvement over the "there
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by cgranade 16y ago
Mind you, hard data without even the possibility of independent verification, delivered far too late and after a string of PR blunders. Apple didn't just screw up, they kept screwing up by not respecting their customers enough to admit
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by cgranade 16y ago
I don't think Jobs' anger is legitimate at all. Yes, all phone have problems, and sometimes the media misreports on them (look at the DroidX/eFuse story, for instance). What's different, however, with Apple's iOS platform, is that there's o
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by cgranade 16y ago
Those claiming that Fox News are lying bastards (such as myself, though I didn't use "bastards" originally) likely are doing so because the evidence is on our side. On Fox, there is no division between the opinion and news programming, and
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by cgranade 16y ago
I think it's a real mistake to throw MSNBC into anything other than the "right-wing" column. Yes, they have Olbermann and Maddow, which are both good, fact-based shows with obvious and upfront ideological viewpoints, but that's overwhelmed
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by cgranade 16y ago
Certainly doesn't help to pick two right-leaning sources, anyway. I've never gotten where this whole idea that NPR is a liberal outlet comes from.
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by cgranade 16y ago
I fail to see how adding a channel which makes a business out of blatantly lying about whatever issue they touch makes anyone fine. The case of Fox News is part of why I said we need to move beyond the whole "unbiased" versus "biased" debat
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by cgranade 16y ago
Short answer: I don't. Never mind the insanely conservative bias to every major media outlet in the US, I don't really trust news that claims to be unbiased. I prefer it if instead you get reporters and editors being honest about their
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by cgranade 16y ago
It seems like the eventual trajectory of such censorship is the creation of a completely separate Internet that is China-only. With more and more sites from around the world being blocked, the demands aren't going away, and so parallel cens
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by cgranade 16y ago
Far from it. If Apple has an off-switch for any potential competitor to AT&T, which any VoIP provider is, then the only way for another VoIP provider to take on Skype on the iPhone is to have enough market share outside of the iPOS gard
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by cgranade 16y ago
Actually, I've heard many libertarians argue for precisely a kind of corporate anarchism. That is, at the end of the day, exactly what deregulation really is: removing government from having power over the actions of corporations. Taken to
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by cgranade 16y ago
Yes, Apple is more than happy to make the software available free of charge, but with the gargantuan caveat that they add their own restrictions in the App Store license terms. In particular, these new restrictions are very un-GPL. For inst
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by cgranade 16y ago
That'd be fine, were it not for that Apple's choice effectively cuts off open source software for their users as well. No one is saying that Apple should be forced to take undue legal risks, but by making themselves the single gateway to th
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by cgranade 16y ago
I think "inspired" is a bit of a strong word for imitating one particular design element. The Android home screen remains an entirely different beast, with it's widget-oriented interface. Frankly, I think that the home screen is one of Andr
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by cgranade 16y ago
If done by an individual, sure. For large organizations with political power, I suspect it's a whole 'nother ball game.
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by cgranade 16y ago
This is quite cool, but doesn't address the fact that Google is still a centralized repository of search history. While moving to HTTPS does most definitely eliminate some major problems, it does nothing to fix one of the biggest structural
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by cgranade 16y ago
Either 9 or 0... doesn't matter so much as long as you're consistent, really. 0.999... == 1.000...
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by cgranade 16y ago
Stories like this are why the term "anti-feature" was invented. Here, we see a useful feature being removed from consumers for no technical reason-- what else can you call that other than anti-feature?

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