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by dean 14y ago
" Apple have been outstanding in that regard- providing OS updates to really quite old phones. " Yes, like the iOS 4 update for my 3G -- which made my phone so slow as to be almost useless. Came close to smashing it in frustration many, man
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Alberta launches online course to help parents be Internet Savvy(calgaryherald.com)
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by dean 14y ago
Hey! I just met you. Why are you trying to sell me something right after saying hello?
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Tim O'Reilly on how his Classics degree shaped his business(artsandhumanities.fas.harvard.edu)
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TekSavvy under pressure to reveal user details to L.A. film studio(business.financialpost.com)
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by dean 14y ago
Enlighten me. What is the process of "rationally testing opinion"? (More opinion is not the right answer.) Philosophy can make large, beautiful, perfectly logical structures of thought. But they necessarily must begin with an axiom, some fo
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by dean 14y ago
" [Philosophy] has been superseded by a specific form of dogmatic, reductionist science. " Not sure of the 'specific form' of science you are refering to, but I would hardly call science dogmatic. True, it dogmatically follows the 'Scientif
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by dean 14y ago
" These discoveries may be correct, and they may be true. " This is the problem with Philosophy. You can take something correct and true, and disregard it. Worse, it is disregarded in favor of what is essentially an opinion.
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by dean 14y ago
While I agree that philosophy has the ability to ask good questions, unfortunately it does not seem to be able to answer those questions in any meaningful way. Science also has the ability to ask good questions, but it knows how to answer t
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Laptop Buyers Should Pay Some Attention to the Chromebook(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Ladies learning code, doing it themselves(ottawacitizen.com)
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by dean 14y ago
I agree, let them use a computer, however I would just yank out the ethernet cable. I don't want to see how well someone can Google.
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by dean 14y ago
Tan wrote. "If an Internet connection goes down and if the user has enabled offline mode by checking the "stay logged in" box, Synapse 2.0 automatically goes into offline mode." Seems bass ackwards to me. You have to create an account onl
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Big Data Now 2012 Edition [Free from O'Reilly](strata.oreilly.com)
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Antiscience Beliefs Jeopardize U.S. Democracy(scientificamerican.com)
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Kindle user claims Amazon deleted whole library without explanation(boingboing.net)
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HBR Celebrates Its Graveyard Of Obsolete Management Ideas(forbes.com)
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How to Break Into a Computer (and Prevent It from Happening to You)(lifehacker.com)
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Three Weeks In, and the iPhone 5 Is Already Dominating the Mobile Web(allthingsd.com)
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by dean 14y ago
How can Monsanto claim to own the rights to all seeds " forever into the future " based on a patent? Patents have a limited lifespan. At some point, the patent will expire, and Monsanto's rights along with it. If I were a farmer, I'd be sto
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Mobile data usage: All consuming(economist.com)
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by dean 14y ago
For reference, here's the keyboard layout of the ADM-3A terminal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg There's also a nice picture linked in the article in case anyone missed it.
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by dean 14y ago
If we're talking oil reserves, not production, then according to Wikipedia, Canada has the 3rd largest proven oil reserves in the world at 175,200,000,000 barrels. The U.S. is 13th with 20,682,000,000 barrels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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A Deadly Sense of Euphoria(planeandpilotmag.com)
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Slides of Albert Einstein’s brain available on iPad app(cbc.ca)
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This Piece of Glass Can Store Data Forever (gizmodo.com)
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by dean 14y ago
Every time I see this, I try to imagine what would happen if Microsoft forced IE to be the default browser in Windows. I'm guessing there would be quite an uproar.
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by dean 14y ago
That's not a troll. And that's not harassment. That's a stalker. I'm shocked Twitter did nothing about this kind of repeated targeted abuse. And I'm very surprised that the police did nothing for someone who was receiving death threats at h
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by dean 14y ago
I just tried this. I went to http://fiddle.jshell.net/wut6z/show/ (which is the HTML frame of a fiddle someone posted down this page), with my iPhone. It's just an HTML input tag with type=file and an "accept" attribute set to "image/*",
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by dean 14y ago
This will get you directly to the HTML frame: http://fiddle.jshell.net/wut6z/show/ I just took a photo with my mobile web browser. Cool.

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