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691.
by drcube 15y ago
Recent popularity? The graph basically says that copyrighted works older than 10-15 years are simply ignored. Public domain works, however, are almost as widespread as recent blockbusters.
692.
by drcube 15y ago
Well, not quite. At least on my phone, an app keeps root permissions after allowing it with Superuser once. What I'd like is a "sudo" I have to allow everytime. So I know each time a program wants to have root priveleges and I can grant tho
693.
by drcube 15y ago
Why does it have to be all apps or none? Can't it be selective, at selected times, like "sudo" on a regular linux distro?
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by drcube 15y ago
Exacerbating the problem is the fact that the publishers are not only trying to keep the old definition, but to constrain it even more. They're reactionaries rather than conservatives. An example would be books. In the past, a book I owned
695.
by drcube 15y ago
How is Stallman's version of free software socialist? I've heard this before, and I don't understand it.
696.
by drcube 15y ago
You're right. I vote, but none of those bastards actually represent me.
697.
by drcube 15y ago
Don't forget children and felons.
698.
by drcube 15y ago
It just needs an OS to go with it. I think Rob Pike should port Plan 9 to Go.
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by drcube 15y ago
This is the case with drug tests currenty, in a lot of industries. Submit to a wholesale invasion of privacy or don't work. I understand Silicon Valley is pretty hip and savvy, but this is the reality for blue collar industrial jobs, retail
700.
by drcube 15y ago
That's what happened in Iran? China? People just didn't care enough? I'm trying to understand your perspective of history here. It seems to me despotism more often is the result of fervor and extremism. Whipping the populace up into a frenz
701.
by drcube 15y ago
Really? What government in the world allows "nobody" to be elected?
702.
by drcube 15y ago
Their next OS will be "Microsoft Boxes". They'll have to use a "Tessellating Box Manager" until they figure out how to make their boxes overlap as if it were 4D, in Boxes 3.1.
703.
by drcube 15y ago
How is someone trying to take down a website they don't like a "white hat" hacker?
704.
by drcube 15y ago
If you live your work life, say from when you're 25 to 65, working from 9 to 5 on something that you don't really care about but you do just to pay the bills, aren't those 75,000 hours of your life you flushed down the toilet? For most pe
705.
by drcube 15y ago
You clearly have sufficient wealth and/or insurance to make such a decision. Most people don't, and either get a short list of approved doctors and procedures, or wait until it gets bad enough to go to the emergency room. These people are n
706.
by drcube 15y ago
Should the kind fashion experts at JC Penny's mandate what you wear, comrade? Should your mechanic prescribe your car, along with the distance you are allowed to drive and at what intervals? Constrained by common sense government guidelines
707.
by drcube 15y ago
This is a solution looking for a problem. On the bright side, they can't screw it up any more than the US is already. On the brighter side, this will be less effective than herding cats. It's like the governments of the world are teaming to
708.
by drcube 15y ago
Arch is great, but it targets pretty much the opposite type of user than Ubuntu. Could you imagine telling your grandma to switch to Arch from Windows? Of course, nowadays, I would suggest Mint, because Ubuntu is just weird. Their original
709.
by drcube 15y ago
"Ignore" is a reaction. Notifications are a distraction whether you ignore them or not.
710.
by drcube 15y ago
Time to eliminate CAs altogether. I don't see why my trust in them should be assumed: http://convergence.io/details.html
711.
by drcube 15y ago
And real newspapers. And magazines, cable tv, movies, etc...
712.
by drcube 15y ago
Runners and writers got over the hump to get where they're at. They didn't start out in tranquility and joy. It took some work to get to the point where it's no longer work. Like an aquired taste, there's "aquired fun".
713.
by drcube 15y ago
Physical objects have/are interfaces too. What do you think handles, levers, door knobs, gear shifters, file cabinets and flat surfaces are? Between our senses and external reality, there will always be an interface. The beauty of computers
714.
by drcube 15y ago
Sounds like a distinction without a difference. If you can stop people from using a formula with your patent, you've effectively patented that formula.
715.
by drcube 15y ago
What do they mean when they say the gravitational constant has changed less than 1 part in 100 billion? Surely that's within experimental error? I think they mean to say "there is no evidence that it has changed at all".
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by drcube 15y ago
This is a great story of one person's experiences. It doesn't generalize. The whole idea that you can only "really" love one person, and that longing for someone else proves you don't love who you're with is horribly misguided. I'm polyamor
717.
by drcube 15y ago
Totally off topic, but what about team sports? I played teeball when I was six and flag football in the 5th grade, but other than that, I totally missed out on organized sports as a kid. (I played a lot of "unorganized" sports in the back y
718.
by drcube 15y ago
Fantasy baseball is pretty popular I thought. Never played it, but that's where fantasy sports started. It's also known as "Rotisserie Leagues". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_sport#Modern_founding_-...
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by drcube 15y ago
"Our findings indicate that, as a lower bound, international box office returns in our sample were at least 7% lower than they would have been in the absence of pre-release piracy. By contrast, we do not see evidence of elevated sales disp
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by drcube 15y ago
Do you? You are demonstrably incorrect. If you were right, there would be almost zero purchases of anything available on Pirate Bay. As it is, Hollywood is raking in cash.

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