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by drcube 15y ago
The government will still run the city. The good ones have always stayed out of the implementation details, because they are no good at it. That's why we have a permanent bureaucracy of full-time unelected government employees, as well as c
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by drcube 15y ago
However, you can turn off Metro and get a desktop OS on Windows 8. Mac users are essentially forced to use the iOS features in OSX. (That's my understanding, I have no experience with either of these OSes.)
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by drcube 15y ago
The universe contains more than matter. Did every last photon ever emitted end up in a black hole too? Or is the universe losing energy with every cycle? This is besides the empirical evidence against a cyclical universe. Cosmological expan
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by drcube 15y ago
So I read the complaint, and that thing that was clearly stated before is now reiterated. If it doesn't bother me, I go ahead and buy your app. Good reviews are worthless to me as a consumer. What I want are details, good and/or bad, that I
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by drcube 15y ago
So if I upload all my music to Google Drive, and let my friends access it... will the FBI send a paramilitary team to confiscate Google's servers at gunpoint?
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by drcube 15y ago
You mean law enforcement officers might be required to actually learn what the law says and follow it, or else be held accountable?? I can't imagine how terrible that must be.
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by drcube 15y ago
Since the sentence (taking down MU's business and confiscating all of their property and money) has already been carried out, I'm pretty sure the FBIAA doesn't care.
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by drcube 15y ago
"The QR code returns a string of dates: 1955 1958 1960 1961 1967 1969 1971 1977 2003 2005 Which might mean something, or it might just be the birth dates of the development team, I’m really not sure yet." 57 year olds working along
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by drcube 15y ago
Why are their visual angles measured in millimeters?
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by drcube 15y ago
Thanks. I misread. According to jwz, it is the unchangeable default on iOS , not OSX.
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by drcube 15y ago
I tried using Safari when it was first ported to Windows, back when I used Windows, which means at least 5 years ago. It was slow and I couldn't do the things I was used to doing in Firefox or Opera, so I switched back after about a week. I
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by drcube 15y ago
Even if the idea were worth money, how would you know unless you had experience in the field? Might as well tell a lawyer your great idea for his client's defense. See how much he'll pay. As an electrical engineer, I would not presume to
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by drcube 15y ago
>"The only results I omitted were single letter prefixes and suffixes because they’re not something you would generally add to generate quality domain names." Adding "i" to any word seems to be all the rage these days. And "e" would be
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by drcube 15y ago
>"Specifically, we think that JavaScript has been injected into your site by a third party and may be used to redirect users to malicious sites" Funny, there was just a discussion here yesterday asking "Why would anybody use NoScript?"
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by drcube 15y ago
>Of course, older versions of the software still 'live on' under the GPL, the author is implicitly making a fork. That's what I'm talking about, though. You can't say "Everybody that has previously used or is currently using this softwa
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by drcube 15y ago
What's with the "inventor gets to change his mind" clause? That's like having a clause in the GPL that says at any given time, the author can revoke the GPL and sell the copyright to Microsoft. It appears like they're not taking this seriou
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The first Intel based smartphone(theverge.com)
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by drcube 15y ago
I'm not. To clarify, I'm only advocating that "the price for living in a civilization" not be hidden from those who must pay it. Look at it this way: Taxpayer awareness is a cost to the government. If they could reduce or eliminate that awa
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by drcube 15y ago
I didn't say we shouldn't pay taxes, or that there aren't benefits of having the government those taxes pay for. But nobody gets a say in the matter. And everybody should be aware of this most basic function of the government. I'm basic
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by drcube 15y ago
I once complained on a message board that sales tax should be included in the sticker price, so that I know ahead of time what I'm going to pay. I still feel that way, but someone pointed out that it would further hide from consumers the fa
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by drcube 15y ago
It may or not be as morally wrong, depending on your view of Microsoft and/or drug dealers. But the motivations are exactly the same. This isn't just restaurants in the food court giving free samples to draw in more customers. They are deli
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by drcube 15y ago
I don't see how this is a problem at all. It's no different than stopping at "Dairy King" and being disappointed in the ice cream. Eat somewhere else next time. In fact, there are plenty of legitimate artistic works that have the exact sam
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by drcube 15y ago
"Bizspark is proof that Microsoft loves programmers and startups" No, it isn't. Not anymore than MS giving away free licenses for Office, VS and Windows to college students is proof that they love college kids. Not anymore than giving poor
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by drcube 15y ago
I've wondered about this with the Superbowl, aka "The Big Game". I understand that refusing to let people mention your hugely popular event without paying is a quick way to make money. But does it help in the long term? For events no one's
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by drcube 15y ago
194.71.107.15 I don't know if they're blocking it at the DNS level, or if there is some way of blocking the actual site. But that's the IP address. Why couldn't someone use any generic proxy to visit Pirate Bay? I just don't see how governm
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by drcube 15y ago
I think of the Turing test not as an actual experiment that can be performed, but more of a first crack at a working definition of intelligence. Sort of like Shannon said "Let's leave 'meaning' to the psychologists, and define 'information'
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by drcube 15y ago
You assume that any AI worth the label will already be as capable as current PCs. But perhaps there is a tradeoff? Maybe becoming "intelligent" in the way we understand it is incompatible with the "dumb calculator/encyclopedia" capabilities
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by drcube 15y ago
It should be your right to fire poor performers, regardless of their drug history, and your right to continue the employment of top performers, regardless of their drug history. If someone isn't up to snuff, cut them loose. If someone works
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by drcube 15y ago
All I can say is good luck. I hope he's right. But if you think that all it takes is a desire for freedom to subvert tyranny, you misread history. Does anyone think the problem in the middle ages, or the USSR, or the American slave plantati
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by drcube 15y ago
Along with everyone else, I agree that scientists shouldn't be punished for being wrong. HOWEVER, it appears that the mistake brought to light existing frictions within the group, which is the driving force behind these resignations. From t

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