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by drcube 14y ago
Well, regular English words can also be used in or as proper nouns, like Pagerank (or if the title of a website at Google was "Google's Larry Page").
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by drcube 14y ago
What about phrases?
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by drcube 14y ago
Why do we have to use geography at all? Can't we apportion representatives alphabetically, by last name? Or numerically, by SSN? I don't really see what geographical representation buys us, except gerrymandering and pork.
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by drcube 14y ago
No, these trolls show that the entire basis for patents is absurd. The only difference between "patent trolling" and normal patent litigation is that they target individual users who are ignorant of the process. Big businesses have been doi
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by drcube 14y ago
>f you have a locked bootloader sometimes you do , or at least a way to work around it. You still don't need their blessing, you just need to unlock it. It's your phone, not theirs. Period. >I don't get the "put up or shut up" part.
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by drcube 14y ago
Nobody, because A)the cellular radio is on a separate chip and has nothing to do with the OS, and B)people already install ROMs on their phones today, without having to be regulatory compliant. All I'm asking for is an Ubuntu ROM, because w
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by drcube 14y ago
"...there are no immediate plans for actual Ubuntu phones, and no carriers have been signed up yet ... although we're told that the OS will run on any new phone built for Android, should the manufacturer see merit in installing Ubuntu inste
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by drcube 14y ago
System 76 is not Canonical, though. And you can't buy them in stores. They were a lifesaver though when I wanted a linux laptop, and my current laptop is a S76 Gazelle running Slackware. I recommend them. Your first paragraph I'll give you.
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by drcube 14y ago
I won't believe it until they give me a ROM. It's my phone and I don't need the manufacturer's blessing. Put up or shut up, Canonical.
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by drcube 14y ago
Why the hell do I need manufacturer blessing?? I own the phone. Give me a ROM, Canonical.
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by drcube 14y ago
Ubuntu ported to phones/tablets. What I'd like to see, but probably won't, is for Canonical to partner up with an OEM to actually put Ubuntu branded devices in stores. Honestly, if I may digress, that is what Canonical should have done from
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by drcube 14y ago
This is ridiculous, if I'm reading it right. For one thing, the carrier I currently use (AT&T), forces you to buy a data plan if you have a smartphone. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case for all carriers. So that blows the conclus
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by drcube 14y ago
My girlfriend got a netbook for $199 in 2009. Where's the ultrabook in that price range?
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by drcube 14y ago
We already have the metric system. An inch is defined as 2.54 centimeters. Et cetera. I can't think of a single way in which we're NOT metric, except that stubborn people refuse to let go of gallons, miles and pounds. Every item you buy in
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by drcube 14y ago
Can you write a web app without knowing HTML and CSS? And how about reading the next sentence? >Once you understand that, then you can move on to Javascript, Ruby, Python, or whatever else you want.
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by drcube 14y ago
> You would no longer "own" professional software, you would only rent access to it. That is exactly the current situation. Read the EULA sometime. If they want to keep that model, force them to make it explicit, and stop fooling people
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by drcube 14y ago
Can you be held to a TOS that changes after you've deleted your account and stopped visiting a site? Just curious.
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm sure that usually, they have no idea what the "real" story is or how to find it.
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by drcube 14y ago
People are all talking about Zuck's sister, but the major issue here, as I see it, is that private family photos of Mark Zuckerberg himself are spreading across the web because of Facebook's privacy shortcomings. Honestly, it just shows t
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by drcube 14y ago
The landlord doesn't get to go through my stuff while I still live there, though. Just because I have boxes in the garage I haven't opened in six months doesn't mean they're up for grabs.
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by drcube 14y ago
>A bigger long-term worry is the plummeting price of digital storage. They mention that Google offers their service cheaper. But not the fact that you can have your own personal terabyte cloud for a couple hundred bucks, one you persona
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by drcube 14y ago
In general, I think religions require a few outlandish, unbelievable stories. Kind of like a shibboleth. Anybody can believe stories backed up by evidence and reason. But it takes a special kind of devotion to our group/tribe/congregation
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm pretty sure MTV was ad-free when it began. Same with HBO, etc. I'm thinking early 80s. I'm sure not every cable channel was ad-free, but plenty of them were because they got enough revenue from subscriptions. The thing is, services th
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by drcube 14y ago
I said it the other day in another thread, but just because you pay doesn't mean you've avoided this type of treatment. Remember when cable TV was ad-ree because, you know, people paid for it? There is absolutely nothing stopping Facebook o
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by drcube 14y ago
Funny enough, I really like it. What hurts my eyes are sites that are predominately blindingly white.
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by drcube 14y ago
How can he "invent" this? Hasn't it been known for years? It's the same principle as two mirrors at right angles, only instead of a corner, there is a gentle bend. I'm pretty sure I read about this in George Gamow's "One, Two, Three... Infi
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by drcube 14y ago
I can't tell if you're joking. Please tell me you are.
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by drcube 14y ago
Yeah, my swap partition is encrypted. The only thing that isn't is a small /boot partition. I figured as much, but I would have figured TrueCrypt and the like would be the same way. Being a relative novice with encryption, I just wanted to
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by drcube 14y ago
I have to re-enter my passphrase on my LUKS encrypted laptop when resuming from hibernation. Does anybody know if LUKS (which uses cryptsetup/dm-crypt) is safer in this regard?
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by drcube 14y ago
>The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks). Every time the "Change Facebook back to

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