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by drcube 14y ago
Yeah, everybody knows tin foil hats are a cheaper and more effective alternative.
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by drcube 14y ago
My guess is so they can make it very easy to install only free software.
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by drcube 14y ago
I think the moral is to pave over the desire path[1] and iterate with user feedback, rather than doing the big design up front and finding out nobody wants to use it after the money is already sunk. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_l
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by drcube 14y ago
http://www.gnupg.org/ Problem solved.
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by drcube 14y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firemacs/
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by drcube 14y ago
And here I thought it had to do with the size of the companies involved. "Big Pharma", "Big Tobacco", "Big Oil", "Big Blue" and so on, and now there's "Big Data". The presumption is that big companies have a lot of data, but not necessarily
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by drcube 14y ago
Not only that, it's still his freaking NAME.
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by drcube 14y ago
Apparently Toshiba thinks ignorance = safety.
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by drcube 14y ago
"That which is measured improves." Be wary of measuring - and hence improving - the wrong thing. Sometimes you optimize for the wrong metric. The classic example is measuring programmer output by lines of code. The are many more subtle ways
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by drcube 14y ago
Screenshot, courtesy Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RISCOS_4_scr.png
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by drcube 14y ago
Call me when they sponsor the FSF.
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by drcube 14y ago
I'm not so sure the ethical calculus works out on those either.
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by drcube 14y ago
I think you're reading too much into it. The point is everybody hates (or at least complains about) their elected leaders, despite the fact that they keep electing them. Rather than complain, he chooses to educate. That is "arrogance"?
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by drcube 14y ago
Jesus, it's a short, nerdy wiki article. I wonder what you must think of Hollywood?
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by drcube 14y ago
"Empty space" isn't made out of atoms. And yes, there's plenty of air in a loaf of bread.
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by drcube 14y ago
I would expect the vast majority of it to be free space. If you bought a laptop with a 250GB hard drive, and found when you booted it that ~125GB were used by the OS, would you be okay with that? Especially when the HD storage was a promine
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by drcube 14y ago
Do you really think "babysitters, online" is a novel, protectable idea? And regardless, to start a company you have to let people know what your company does . You can't just say "give us money, we can't tell you why but it's totally worth
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by drcube 14y ago
It wouldn't be Apple if they didn't overcharge.
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by drcube 14y ago
Wrong. NOBODY should have the power to delete things from my hard drive without my permission.
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by drcube 14y ago
My thoughts on this article, since I submitted it: Due to bulk licensing and paid bloatware, Windows computers are only about $30 more expensive than they would be without buying the OS. So I think the author gives too much weight to piracy
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Windows is Free [2007](autotelic.com)
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by drcube 14y ago
Somebody decides how to measure merit and certifies who has it. Then you have regulatory capture[1]. That's why you have all the white guys deciding who will be doctors, business executives, lawyers, engineers, etc. And people like people
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by drcube 14y ago
Although Mercury in this instance is extremely insignificant, technically the earth orbits the center of gravity of the Sun and Mercury. Actually, the center of gravity of the Solar system as a whole, but I'm just going along with the GP.
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by drcube 14y ago
I've been in free fall around the sun for about 30 years now, doing around 60,000 mph the whole time. Where's my prize?
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by drcube 14y ago
EVERYTHING you post on Facebook is potentially public, so treat it as such. Facebook wipes your privacy settings with alarming frequency. You're one "forward" or "share" away from internet notoriety. If you're afraid about your secrets gett
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by drcube 14y ago
I think you're wrong here. Given an infinite amount of time and an infinite number of stars distributed evenly in an infinite universe, even the dust and planets will start to radiate[1]. The paradox hinges on the assumption that the univer
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by drcube 14y ago
I should correct myself that historically, the paradox didn't hinge on the universe being infinitely old, but on the speed of light being infinitely fast.
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by drcube 14y ago
That doesn't matter. Eventually the dust will radiate too.
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by drcube 14y ago
That's on an intergalactic scale. Theres no evidence that I know of that galaxies or galactic clusters will be torn apart from cosmic expansion.
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by drcube 14y ago
It's only a paradox if you think the universe is infinite in size and age, and the stars are evenly distributed and have been shining the whole time. Basically, the fact that the sky is dark tells us that at least one of the above assumptio

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