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by clort 10y ago
I got the feeling this did take a long time, he mentions things becoming available, and technology changing. "This project spans years, and when I started there were no 3D printers. Eventually I made one"
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by clort 11y ago
Just on this a+b issue. I think the +b is the most objectionable part of the whole thing and I wish people would not propose a return to shorter terms but include that as a sop. My reasoning is this. If I publish something, and claim copyri
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by clort 11y ago
Indeed. I also heard he was accused of bestiality and other unsavoury things.
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by clort 11y ago
Hm Do you have a reference as to the prices of branded vs no-name items? I don't have any specific knowledge but I suspect the brand markup is quite significant.. might be interesting to check that (I don't think there is any no
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by clort 11y ago
> Neither of these things were revealed by the Panama papers are you sure? The article says that Almost lost among the many revelations is the fact that Russia’s biggest bank uses The Podesta Group as its lobbyist in Washington, D
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by clort 11y ago
I read it more that if the GreenStijl website which was in the EU jurisdiction was posting the links to the pages hosted on a computer within another jurisdiction, but that the pages were not generally available (ie they weren't being
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by clort 11y ago
Probably not, according to Bruce Schneier https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/08/dmca_does_not_a.html
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by clort 11y ago
well it seems to me that now they know the bug exists, and they have the source code, that makes it easier to find. They have plenty of clever people at Apple I'm sure they will work it out. I guess the biggest problem really is that t
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by clort 11y ago
as ghaff says, dramamine is used by many though I think the side effects can be harsh. I've heard good things about the patches and especially using a smaller dose (cutting the patch in half) to reduce the side effects. I've also
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by clort 11y ago
Your comments about nausea are interesting, because I am a sailor and I know about motion sickness a little. I know that some people never get it for instance, and I know that I do get sick but only really on the first day of the season o
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by clort 11y ago
"The space itself appeared to be decomposing. The front wall, next to the door, was made of corroded metal. The paint on the wedge-shaped shelf had almost completely chipped away; the beds were caked in rust; and t
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by clort 11y ago
> They're doubling up because they don't have room to do anything else then they shouldn't admit them. You know, I've been all over the world and in many third world countries as many people who can get on the bus, ju
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by clort 11y ago
Its a test, to measure how intelligent the spambots are getting. See https://xkcd.com/810/
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by clort 11y ago
Sorry to have to tell you this, but Bluetooth mice worked fine with Windows XP.
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by clort 11y ago
> Sadly well, except that in a way.. regulation comes from the government, which is the collective us. I prefer that the government spends some money to work out what regulation would be useful so that the collective us can spend our mon
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by clort 11y ago
> Instead it's made us richer. some of us, anyway http://www.cbsnews.com/news/census-data-half-of-us-poor-or-low-income/ I wonder what it means when half of the richest country in the world lives in p
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by clort 11y ago
Yes, I don't have EasyList ticked
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by clort 11y ago
Perhaps the same here - ghostery, noscript and adblockplus installed, and the page says no ad blocking detected! Actually, I'm hoping that this is a success rather than a failure because the next phase of anti-ad blocking is them needi
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by clort 11y ago
In Minority Report, when the hologram shouts Johns name to attract his attention as he passes by... Is that going to be peak advertising, or could it get worse than this?
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by clort 11y ago
In fact, if this is replicated by independent engineers and they just published the actual method required.. it seems that Rossi will have lost claim to any money he could have made by actually making these devices or patenting them. I gues
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by clort 11y ago
Its pretty sad that people really feel this way in the modern world (Note: not them, but that they feel this way). Not that you said you were living in a similar world to myself but I guess I can see that more vulnerable people might feel t
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by clort 11y ago
I also agree with this, though that is to be expected. This whole case is massively problematic because the guy was guilty beyond doubt and in a nasty way. The law should not be punitive though, we want justice not revenge . We should not
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by clort 11y ago
> If this is considered a back door, then everything that will accept signed updates has that same backdoor, which is a lot of things. Yes. So.. we should think about that and make it so that the keys are stored in a box which cannot be
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by clort 11y ago
They are capable of unlocking the phone. There is no philosophical question about this, as they have the knowledge and the ability and the authority. That it might take some expertise and effort is not really relevant - some is required in
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by clort 11y ago
Except that this still relates to an older version of the technology.. in the Dune series, Leto bred the Duncan Idaho ghola over many generations because although some persons were invisible from prescience, he could still see their footpr
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by clort 11y ago
if they can create it, they have the capability.
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by clort 11y ago
Surely would be better to use SLIP or PPP and set up a IP network.. Amiga could certainly do that, I did so back in the day. Mind you, I don't know if modern Windows can do SLIP ..
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by clort 11y ago
it doesn't seem possible to violate that term
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by clort 11y ago
Having an AI as the president would make it clear to all that there is an invisible group of people behind the president, pushing them to act and say things that they want. I agree that even now Watson could probably make decisions better b
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by clort 11y ago
surely one point of an AI chatbot is that you don't give it ideas to answer questions with? it needs to be smart enough to work that stuff out on its own..

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