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The Appeal Of Wikileaks is rooted in geek dissent culture(npr.org)
2 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments
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by doron 16y ago
What is it about the way computing is currently done that inhibits women outside of social norms? I wonder If programming syntax as it is designed might have some influence. There is some evidence that men and women use language differently
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by doron 16y ago
You get Sony?
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by doron 16y ago
"the department of water should be concerned because coca cola sells a bazillion cans a day?" That is exactly the point, Google is not a public utility service, it is for profit. Google should be concerned in the same way Coca Cola is conce
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by doron 16y ago
Judith Butler had this to say on the subject... A `Bad Writer' Bites Back BERKELEY, Calif. -- In the last few years, a small, culturally conservative academic journal has gained public attention by showcasing difficult sentences written by
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by doron 16y ago
Solutions abound http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?device=iphone&#...
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by doron 16y ago
I keep wondering, If the iPhone 4 does indeed have better reception than previous models, doesn't that mean that previous model (3g, 3gs) antenna design is partly to blame for dropped calls and not just AT&T?
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by doron 16y ago
Travel as much as you can, in your country and abroad. Learn to appreciate other cultures, experience deserts, jungles, frost and balmy beaches. Try to learn at least one other language, just enough to get you by. Try to live in different p
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by doron 16y ago
I am sure there is,but can it be done? If it is possible, then its inevitable future design iteration, and worth the wait, because i suspect it will come soon, or am I wrong?
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by doron 16y ago
The screen is stunning. I found it annoying that Apple released the Ipad but a month before without it. It seems they could have pulled that one easy, but i guess we will see this in Ipad2, its fair business, but still kind of a dick move i
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by doron 16y ago
Anybody knows why you newspapers, magazines and blogs are currently not available? I own a kindle, and the only reason i would really need a mobile reader is for the magazines.
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by doron 16y ago
Fantastic link, and timely too. Thank you.
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by doron 16y ago
Do they have to rub their chest and fix the tie so many times to manipulate the interface? Reminds me of the lines from "Blades of Glory" Chazz: No one knows what it means, but it's provocative... Jimmy: No, it's not, it's gross... Chazz:
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by doron 16y ago
As i recall the company was actually mentioned in a book i read - Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World by Trevor Paglen. so you are on the mark here.
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by doron 16y ago
I know its off topic, but when you see this dedication to quality, and the aspirations that led the Voyager mission, you cannot but feel saddened and stupefied by the clusterfuck we are witnessing these past 2 months in the gulf of mexico.
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by doron 16y ago
Buy a device for $200+ and fix it with duct tape. Every man should be able to fix something with a hammer, a screwdriver, and some duct tape. I kick my tower computer good and regular, it silences that pesky yammering fan, and keeps it fro
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by doron 16y ago
A comment at techcrunch is priceless "It's not a design flaw. Steve is just trying to bring gentility and good manners to mobile phone usage. The correct way to hold an iPhone 4 is with the thumb and index finger on either side of the phone
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by doron 16y ago
The key phrase here is "general-interest" cohesion of the group is harder to achieve when the range of topics is very wide. Most of the sites that maintain a good discourse revolve around specific subjects, often to a specialized degree. H
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Iphone likely losing in DOD smartphone bid (dodbuzz.com)
5 points by doron 16y ago|2 comments
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by doron 16y ago
From the end user perspective (at least this end user) The competition to widen access to ads and and further to create rich ads is something i hope both companies will not see much success in. At present, Browsing via mobile is relatively
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A win for open source: SCO case finally over(groklaw.net)
24 points by doron 16y ago|1 comments
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by doron 16y ago
Not to say that physical work is always great, in fact many times it isn't, but i find the devaluation of it a little troubling, I did physical work on and off several years, there is immense value and satisfaction in building and creating
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by doron 16y ago
Choice Quote: "Men dominate just two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most over the next decade: janitor and computer engineer"
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by doron 16y ago
If the software crashes, can i get cash back from the developer?
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by doron 16y ago
Agreed, Swype is utterly fantastic, any other keyboard input feels primitive in comparison.
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by doron 16y ago
I know, the web-server did not respond at the time of posting, that is the reason why i posted the cache, and therefore didn't see the reason to post the full URL.
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by doron 16y ago
This reminds me of the project SlowMail i only could find the cache: http://bit.ly/c9dWWF
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The privacy Machiavellis(sfgate.com)
3 points by doron 16y ago|0 comments
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by doron 16y ago
I think the entire suite of online synchronization that Google provides online to the droids as the rival to mobile.me not just itunes sync. Google provides mapping services, increasingly important to geolocation services, email, document c
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by doron 16y ago
There is the issue of expertise, to scale this fast into a system that ambitious would be something that apple didn't tackle before. Apple talent poll seems to be focused on other problems, very large scale computing is an expertise Google

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