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by cgranade 17y ago
Wow. Fox News as a reputable source? The fact that they refer to "climate-gate data" as if the data itself is even slightly disputed by responsible scientists shows how little they care about the actual story. This article strikes me as a b
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I'd say it does matter quite a lot, which is why I use Fedora on my computer and Android on my phone. OS X itself is even rather open by comparison to the iPhone OS platform, which illustrates rather nicely that Apple tends to favor opennes
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If you look at Mozilla's Weave project, they're doing exactly that. The time they've spent on Personas pales in comparison to the time they've spent on Ubiquity, Test Pilot, Weave and other Labs projects. Using a computer should be fun, and
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I really love how they're challenging a lot of the accepted norms and trying to improve, but in an open and transparent way. This is open source at its finest. Even if I don't like every single decision they make, they're trying, and I thin
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Thanks! I was wondering why on earth a font engine needed a full VM, but that makes a lot more sense now.
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That's rather common with MIME types, HTTP and MIME headers, where experimental or vendor-specific extensions get prefixed with "X-". The same thing could work here, I agree. I think that "-x-transition" would work better than "-webkit-tran
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by cgranade 17y ago
I did no such thing. If I know which thread you mean, it was downvoted and closed so that I couldn't even comment on it.
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I have. The decisions of the respective bloggers to, instead of relying on facts, rely on misleading half-truths, misquotes and outright fabrications makes it difficult for me to find any reason to associate either site with skepticism. Rat
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You're absolutely right that this discussion is not new, and nor is it news. Though there are some particular events that are new (for instance, the "no significant warming" quote being propagated without the statistical details that show t
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As someone who has been upvoting and submitting AGW-related articles, I just want to defend why I do so. Over the past several months, it seems as if the HN community has been plagued with a deluge of articles promoting outright and utter c
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I agree wholeheartedly, modulo your very last sentence. I think that "yelling," as you put it, is a valid, defensible and necessary response to the yelling of the denialists, provided that one only yells things which are true. The other sid
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by cgranade 17y ago
Given that there is an immense amount of money involved in the fossil fuel industries, it's hard (and even, in my opinion, unwise) to not ascribe ill motives to those who start such lies. When it comes to climate change, the denialists
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That's an odd list of catastrophes there. A couple of those, such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria and nuclear annihilation, turned out not to be catastrophes because efforts were taken to stop them from becoming catastrophes, not because s
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by cgranade 17y ago
I think the point being made is that many of the ones who started pushing this misleading quote did understand, even if not everyone who has since repeated also understood. Quote mining is something that scientists are seldom trained to def
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That's one hell of a false equivalency. Because the author chose to put a valid and rational argument under a valid but slightly inflammatory headline, you equate him with those intentionally misrepresenting the science? PZ is many things,
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's why PZ (author of the post) didn't do that. He said that climate change deniers lie. There are skeptics who argue in good faith, and they get drowned out by the sheer level of noise from the denialists who aren't interested in th
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by cgranade 17y ago
Actually, science is characterized largely by an absence of black and white thinking. Speaking as a theoretical physicist, I can assure you that those of us in science will argue ad naseum about whatever detail of a theory you want. It is t
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by cgranade 17y ago
To my mind, part of the point was that there's no standard way of importing additional libraries. Many modern languages have some sort of symbolic import statement that instructs the interpreter or compiler to add additional libraries to th
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by cgranade 17y ago
I think you're right on that, but it worries me that it hasn't happened yet. The iPad is a rather large step towards strengthening their position, and the backlash has been, at best, minimal.
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by cgranade 17y ago
In some ways the problems with Apple's model go far, far deeper. If devices like the iPad become the norm, then that enables the machinery of censorship at a much tighter level than any ISP could ever dream of. The old standby of using Snea
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by cgranade 17y ago
To my mind, the Google Voice app issue was a very poignant example of why being anti-iPhone makes sense. It showed that you cannot even in principle distribute an app for the iPhone that Apple does not like. While individual carriers may lo
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by cgranade 17y ago
Actually, that is a quite large leap. The article refers to being a gatekeeper in the markets controlled by Apple, such as the iPhone/iPad and the iTunes movie service. They are now in the content business big time, and are pushing further
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I think one reason for that is because of the sheer number of sensors included in modern devices. It would greatly clutter interfaces and physical form factors to include privacy switches for each kind of sensor.
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Fine, and good for you. Opportunities aren't uniform, though, and there are students who don't even have those necessities you mention, and have to work for those. I likewise was fortunate to have the opportunity to make my own money at a y
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by cgranade 17y ago
As opposed to pocket electronics with integrated microphones? Think of all the embarassment that has occured due to pocket dialing, and now consider if that had been intentional. It's harder to block a microphone than a camera lens, too, an
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by cgranade 17y ago
It seems a bit irresponsible to me to encourage people not directly involved to call the authorities over this. Surely they have been made aware, if only by the media. Often times (again, not a lawyer, so I don't know how to nail this down)
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What scares me is the kind of review that will likely happen isn't going to be one that emphasizes the rights of schoolchildren, but that emphasizes how schools should modulate their activities to stay within the letter, if not the spirit,
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Sadly, I don't have the citation off the top of my head. For all I know, I could've fallen for an urban legend. If I have, sorry for being gullible!
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As I've said elsewhere, and as Cory Doctrow mentioned in his write-up, this kind of complete invasion trains children to become adults who do not value privacy and who do not understand why it is important to be vigilant against just this k
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by cgranade 17y ago
Given the role that schools have played in destroying the lives of some children by getting authorities involved in "sexting" cases, it would be especially ironic if this spying program produced child pornography charges. After all, in many

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