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by claudius 13y ago
The OP rebuild his TinyTinyRSS client for Firefox OS using jQuery, which then threw a bunch of warnings (because the app needs elevated permissions to connect to arbitrary servers, it is checked more thoroughly) when he submitted it to the
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by claudius 13y ago
> Would you consider it spam if someone manually went to a site, found their contact information, and sent them an email by hand? It appears to fit the same definition as "unsolicited", and yet, that is one of the purposes of a
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by claudius 13y ago
I’d go with OTR for this and the website supposedly answers this. While I don’t fully understand their answer, they seem to be saying that OTR is an add-on rather than an integral part of the protocol and hence Goldbug is to be preferred ov
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by claudius 13y ago
Curious. I get redirected to [0] on Debian/Opera, with the following content: Entschuldigen Sie, Mozilla Firefox für Yahoo! optimiert ist nicht für Ihr System verfügbar. Die für Yahoo! optimierte Mozilla Firefox Version ist nu
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by claudius 13y ago
Pack boxes of 50% books and 50% clothing/computer parts/bedding/everything else to make the boxes lighter and get a good indication when you have enough books (i.e. when they really do make up 50% of the content of your boxes
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by claudius 13y ago
I’m not part of the age group yet where people would be able to afford books only to look good to their peers. And while you are certainly right that public libraries might make it possible to read many books without owning any, I found t
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by claudius 13y ago
And, conversely, up until ebooks existed, walking into a flat without any books was a clear indicator that I’d be rather bored by the person living there.
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by claudius 13y ago
While certainly possible, I see two caveats here: a) The ‘worthy project’ would have to license their product under GPL, too, which has the obvious effect that the whole thing is properly open-sourced again and everybody can slap ads on th
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by claudius 13y ago
Which is a pretty big feat by itself in a time when most people were afraid of standing up from their crouching positions.
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by claudius 13y ago
Apologies, but Harmattan (aka Maemo 6 aka ‘MeeGo Instance’) is still my favourite mobile OS, and even though it was released in 2010 it still easily keeps up with the standard stuff on Android, iOS and Windows Phone (no voice recognition à
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by claudius 13y ago
However, there are linguists working in institutions that do prescribe the proper use of language – e.g. [0] in France and [1] in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. The idea to pass laws to change spelling may appear somewhat strange to othe
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by claudius 13y ago
Unfortunately, this destruction of language is not government-mandated, as Orwell feared, but results a) from the laziness of most people and b) from the increased effects these people have on ‘upper class’ language due to thinner class bou
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by claudius 13y ago
> We have been conditioned to believe we need to live in high priced boxes. The housing market in the US (and the UK) always surprises me. People here just rent medium-priced parts of boxes, often far after they found a family and only m
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by claudius 13y ago
[0] claims that the city of Munich saved about 10 million Euros by switching to their own Linux distribution ‘LiMux ’ [1]. So, yes, F/OSS is cheaper. [0] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linux-bring
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by claudius 13y ago
Which depends on the cases tested by Sharp – as the GP, depending on the hardware you use, you can probably get 100% or 0% (if you try really hard).
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by claudius 13y ago
> Anyways, if apple's solution is simply better than the android micro USB solution, who wins? I win, because I don’t have to buy a new charger for every phone, because I can use standard USB cables to charge my phone and because sa
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by claudius 13y ago
> From the perspective of the U.S. and U.K., the Chinese and Israelies and French are undoubtedly doing their best to spy on as much of the Internet as they possibly can, and they're probably pretty successful at it, so why would we
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by claudius 13y ago
Hrm, maybe you need a better smartphone? It works really well on Opera Mobile on my N9…
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by claudius 13y ago
Probably because by the time it became usual to plug them in often (read: portable computers), they were already commonplace to a degree that made it impractical to replace them. And nowadays there’s Wifi/UMTS available for most such u
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by claudius 13y ago
> Just let the free market decide things like this, it is extremely efficient at that. Yes, it absolutely did not take an EU intervention to standardise mobile phone chargers on Micro USB, instead, the manufacturers recognised that it is
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by claudius 13y ago
The way I understand it, this allows people/companies to do their accounting at least in parts in Bitcoin and then pay taxes (in Euros, of course) on the resulting revenue, rather than treating Bitcoins as goods that are sold/boug
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by claudius 13y ago
The people voted for law makers that made a) easily abused laws (such as this one) and b) laws that inherently invade the privacy of their fellow European citizens. They furthermore voted for law makers that (apparently) did not include any
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by claudius 13y ago
I assume guard-of-terra intended to pay the guy who found the bug, not the company that criminally neglected the security of its users. Hence I don’t see how you come to your conclusion…
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by claudius 13y ago
While it would certainly be convenient if everybody spoke the same language, I don’t think it would be better than the current state of affairs, where most people know two to three languages more-or-less well. After all, knowing more th
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by claudius 13y ago
There’s no excuse for not knowing at least three out of English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Urdu, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and German. If you’ve finished university peeking at a fourth and fifth language can’t hurt either. How many do yo
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by claudius 13y ago
While you are of course right that, from a legal perspective, the ECtHR is the body responsible for (most cases) of human rights abuse, and that it is not part of the EU per se, I did not mean to say that the current case should be brought
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by claudius 13y ago
Then they should have voted for a different government. Sorry, but “there are people in a country with a democratic government that don’t deserve what their government brought upon them” is not a particularly good reason – and even then, I
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by claudius 13y ago
Nah, it is actually a pretty good idea. It's high time for the EU to actually take a stance on civil liberties, human rights and the abolishment of these ‘anti-terrorism acts’. This will be a lot harder if there are people at the table
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by claudius 13y ago
If you read the Wikipedia article[0] on the ‘Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001’, you will notice that it is not restricted and applicable to areas other than terrorism – serious economic damage to the UK being one of them. So ther
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by claudius 13y ago
Given the size of these ‘planes’, they could possibly even act as train ferries! Imagine your standard high-speed train going into a plane to get from, say, Rome to Barcelona (or Bari to Athens or Warnemünde to Helsinki…). I’ll stop hallu

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