charonn0

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   by charonn0 14y ago

   Interesting title. Please re-post this when there's something to show other than an e-mail signup form.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   The past crimes of one are no defense for the current crimes of another.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   I tend to agree, however the author is not applying this principle to all cases. Hence, a double standard.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   When talking about his unreliable iMac: > When a tool has served me well and needs to be taken care of, I feel I owe it that kindness for all its done for me. and then, when he wants to bash Linux: > A computer is a tool, that’s al
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   That's one of the things Voyager hopes to find out for us, I think.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   This is the same as what I see, using a standard-issue Firefox UA string.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   It's exactly this sort of "our users are morons" mentality that drove me away from the Gnome desktop environment.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   I would accept this as artistic expression if and only if they don't actually accept any money. If they wanted to make a statement about internet privacy then they chose the douchiest possible way of going about it.
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   by charonn0 14y ago

   People do that frequently?
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    A number of commercially farmed crops are grown using genetically modified seeds. The farmers license the seeds from the company that holds the patents to the various gene modifications (principally Monsanto.) These licenses tend to obligat
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    This has nothing to do with Aaron Swartz and has nothing in common with his case.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    I really hope the trend of using lightbox-like login popups (e.g. [1]) goes away very soon; they tend to break Firefox's password manager and add absolutely nothing of value. [1]: http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f351/charonn0/vtlogin_zps
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    > not the nerds that care about the 1% of features 99% of their target audience had no need for. What features, exactly, comprise this unimportant 1%? Why aren't they important? And what portion of the remaining 99% was written by the n
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    >Just roll your eyeballs at the 1337 crowd This is not leadership. If Mr. Shuttleworth truly wants to provide leadership for the FOSS community, then blaming people for disagreeing with him is not a good start and "my way or the highway
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    Games from GoG are provided as unencumbered, fully offline installers with no DRM whatsoever. So long as you have the installer you can install the game on any compatible system. There are no mechanisms for GoG to clawback the installer or
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    If they can't fix their own software to work without their own servers then they are lazy at best and incompetent at worst. There are no valid excuses in claiming a fix is too difficult when you're the one who designed the problem to begin
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    While I have a number of complaints about the Steam client, the service itself is fantastic.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    This sort of cock-up is just one of the reasons why always-connected DRM is an immediate deal-breaker for me. > What we are doing is deploying more servers over the coming two days, which will alleviate many of the ongoing issues. The i
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    I'm not seeing what's so special about these bulbs.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    So if I bought this chair and took a hammer and some nails to it, I would be in violation of the DMCA?
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    Posting of a bond, whether by a criminal defendant, civil plaintiff, or as a condition of some license is never presumed to eradicate malfeasance. It is a deterrent only: if the bond is sufficiently large then the person or business so bond
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    San Francisco does the same thing, only with bus tickets. http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    This article seems more than a little over-enthusiastic about an app that recommends other apps.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    It's a good bill, but why does every new law need a cutesy acronym for a name? How about calling it the "Patent Litigation Reform Act of 2013"? Or something else similarly utilitarian?
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    They're screwing you over more, but is it worth foregoing $200+ just to make a point to a stranger?
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    A minimum-wage ($7.25/hr) American worker would earn $100 in under 14 hours (before taxes.) Imagine yourself playing the game but with $1,000 (or more) on offer. Would you refuse $300 to punish your partner for keeping $700? Now change the
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    As in broadcast/cable/satellite networks. Not Netflix, Hulu, etc.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    I think tablets will supplant television more and faster than they will kill-off desktop PCs. The one-way cultural channel offered by TV is a far stronger competitive overlap with tablets than those shared by tablets and PCs.
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    Melancholy; melodic but listless; in turns sporadic and frenetic; all too brief, and all too incomplete. http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=charonn0
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    by charonn0 14y ago

    I've lost track of the number proposed Internet laws that were obviously written by legislators lacking even a working understanding of what the Internet is or how it works.