cosmicray

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by cosmicray 16y ago
> Real banks make mistakes all the time. Indeed they do. Not only do banks make mistakes, but the Federal Reserve does as well. For those who don't know this, the Fed is responsible for national check clearing (other than bank-to-bank c
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> I will take your information to heart and get paypals access revoked and I'm going to close that account and open a new one just to be sure. To be fair, PayPal transactions to/from your bank account happen via ACH. ACH (automated clea
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Just gave it a try on a site where I sell stuff. One particular item which I sold earlier this week, no clicks were recorded for the Add To Cart button. That may be some odd interaction with how things are added to the cart, but it was some
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Every single item of data can be considered 'original content' (unless you plagiarized it from someone else). All those listings (or objects) represent the informational abstract of the actual item you have to sell. This 'original content'
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by cosmicray 16y ago
About Google Checkout ... I've used both PayPal (~10 years) and GC (~3 years). My view is that PP has a more robust dispute resolution system. Resolving a dispute at GC is merely a matter of "Providing a positive customer experience" (and
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> It would seem that AT&T won a few of those battles. If AT&T won the battles, it may have been more due to lack of suitable infrastructure, than to telling Apple not to implement something. I live where AT&T has no 3G (only
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by cosmicray 16y ago
One other piece of trivia wrapped up in QuickDraw is US patent 4622545 (inventor William D. Atkinson, assigned to Apple Computer). That patent covers the methods required for updating of non-contiguous 2D regions, which could have any imagi
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by cosmicray 16y ago
MonkeyLives (aka low memory global address $100) was a system global that was usually off. If you saw it on, it indicated that the equivalent of a monkey was loose on the keyboard. IOW, don't do anything dangerous when true.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
> The iPad does to the internet what the iPod did to music. The iPad is an internet appliance. It streamlines the consumption of information/content. The iPad will hasten the bandwidth usage explosion. OT, AT&T needs to get the mess
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by cosmicray 16y ago
From what I've read, the leaks are occurring from the remains of the drill pipe/casing. That was 5000-ft long, vertical, and connected the Deepwater Horizon to the blowout preventer on the sea bed. As the rig sunk, the pipe detached and tum
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by cosmicray 16y ago
The title of this piece is a parody of the classic Pogo comic strip where the phrase was coined "We have met the enemy, and he is us" (from 1972, referring to the rapid pollution of the planet). wiki has more about it here: http://en.wikip
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Hmmmm... I thought the link between the GSM handset and the tower (or BTS) was encrypted. Was this recently cracked ? If so, does this unit take advantage of that ?
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by cosmicray 16y ago
the most obvious would be large crowd behavior analysis. That would not necessarily require divulging individual information. The other possibility would be some form of association tracking. This is not significantly different than trying
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by cosmicray 16y ago
If Adobe wanted to advance the Flash 'standard', they should put the specs and standard in the public space. They do not have to open source their implementation, but the bytecodes and file formats should be submitted to a standards body.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
imho, Apple should find a way to work Gray into the 4G iPhone announcement event. Maybe have him appear with the phone for Steve, that Steve 'misplaced'. Consider it a silent finger to gawker.
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by cosmicray 16y ago
and remember, everyone of those units sold was GSM. No cdma and no EV-DO. I'm not saying it will never happen, but as this GSM-only platform continues to grow, the alternative begins to look less desirable. (and I say this from an area that
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by cosmicray 16y ago
Gizmodo, and the entire Gawker network, is geared towards one thing, that being to generate page hits. Page hits equal ad imprint revenue. After curiously inspecting the article, I looked at their legal page. They specifically spell out tha
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by cosmicray 17y ago
when I look at my home address (rather rural) some local place names (way too small to be called a city) do indeed appear and vanish. I've attributed it to some kind of rotation algorithm. Some of these place names are so obscure, I've bare
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by cosmicray 17y ago
Once upon a time, the POTS system used something called 'in-band signaling'. An example of that was really old coin telephones, where the devices would send certain tones to tell the operator which coins you had deposited. John Draper (aka
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by cosmicray 17y ago
Everything I've read talks about the potential for damage to jet engines. Does that extend to turbo-prop engines ? I know they fly slower, but in a real emergency, could smaller cargo aircraft (e.g. C-130) still fly ?
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by cosmicray 17y ago
With respect to Apple, they annually publish a supplier responsibility report. You can get access to it here ... http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/ I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide if Apple's professed clai
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by cosmicray 17y ago
> Letting any of these secondary runtimes develop a significant base of applications in the store risks putting Apple in a position where the company that controls that runtime can cause delays in Apple’s release schedule, or worse, de
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by cosmicray 17y ago
If 1,000 new applications are written using Flash, they are going to be equally available on other mobile platforms. Apple would prefer that not happen.
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by cosmicray 17y ago
Steelcase 454 Concentrix Old, make sure you get the one with steel 5-way legs & hard casters, and without arm rests (unless you really want them). These have not been made new for ~20 years, but you find them occasionally on craigslist,