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by drucken 15y ago
I think this (article page) comment says a lot about the real motivation: "...So instead of taking the very SMALL and SLIM chance I'll get robbed by a street thug - I should switch to digital currency and just allow the banks to DEFINITELY
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by drucken 15y ago
Actually, a far more direct "charitable reading" of that is: A. regardless of how good someone is at public speaking, it is largely independent of their writing skill. An additional possible inference from the article is: B. they may/should
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by drucken 15y ago
Agreed. It's a shame the author (mjg59?) did not respond to hpa's comment - it seems the "obvious" solution.
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by drucken 15y ago
If you think that's low, have a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgkZSpJ0vFQ It's actually flying lower than when it lands :)
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by drucken 15y ago
As others have implied already, he could just as easily have been referring to the words. I think his intention was to explain that these are the same words (mostly from academia and taken up with reckless abandon via language architectures
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by drucken 15y ago
From the article, and the premise that massive computing power is being created and required anyway, it sounds much more like a weakness at AES 128-bit that is only practical for a government agency. It also sounds that they discovered it b
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by drucken 15y ago
The other way to look at this is because of the fools who join an unlimited plan, but do not use more than other cheaper plans on a consistent basis, is that they effectively eliminate the pricing structure to leave just one plan which then
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by drucken 15y ago
Are US ISPs being paid to do this by the entertainment industry? If so, is there any transparency on this? Why would the ISPs choose to do this with no legal requirement for it and strong restrictions in how they can achieve this now or in
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by drucken 15y ago
I think you do a great disservice to the talk in addition to missing the elucidative point entirely. The easiest way for anyone to remember or have many complex topics explained is via a story and especially one with comedy, due to the stro
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by drucken 15y ago
Youtube link to Rob Reid's TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0
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by drucken 15y ago
My first acid test for search engines, other than a baseline performance speed, for 15 years has been simple: search for myself. Whoever finds either the most up-to-date or most results about me in the first page of results, gets my (reluct
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by drucken 15y ago
Hmm, I have been on the fence about the agency vs wholesale model for a long while now. I especially thought it was odd the publishers could actually get away with their behaviour, even when they would have (initially and for a while) made
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by drucken 15y ago
Oh, really... In an age, * where the Internet can be seen on ever increasing number of diverse devices * where every day people discover that every additional layer of software complexity adds security vulnerabilities * where the default in
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by drucken 15y ago
I do hope he is speaking entirely about software patents rather than all patents in general. There may be issues with non-software patents but under any system their problems are trivial in scope and solution space compared to software pate
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by drucken 15y ago
Extremely well-written article. It also clearly demonstrates one of the reasons why markets alone are simply not sufficient/appropriate for some problems. The rest of the developed countries outside of the US have long understood this with
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by drucken 15y ago
Actually, given the harshness of the penal system in every aspect including their plea-bargaining facet, the US may as well be the PRC compared to the EU. Also, like the PRC, the US has the death penalty. Separately, there should be a publi
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by drucken 15y ago
It is not clear if glass as a protective cover is still used or required for final production of solar cells made with this process. Does anyone know?
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by drucken 15y ago
Who is LegitScript - they do not appear to be an arm of the law of any jurisdiction or even a state-recognised watchdog? Is there any reason these registrars should act on behalf of another private organisation, especially one that is not e
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Homeless people as mobile wi-fi hotspots(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by drucken 15y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 15y ago
In addition, of the fee-free services, Paypal may be the only one that does not require end customers to make accounts to use it. This is, for me, by far the biggest disadvantage to the otherwise competent Google Checkout product.
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by drucken 15y ago
Exactly. Unlike physical representations of function which make sense to be patentable due to the risk of being copied, stolen and possibly improved upon before use or distribution, and unlike software licences which add or enable function
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by drucken 15y ago
Excellent article. I do slightly disagree with his point about evolution of property rights. This issue comes up often in the context of the Great Divergence - a topic of economic history that describes and seeks to explain why there was su
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by drucken 15y ago
I wonder if this article is a really an unconscious railing or secret diatribe against the cost of renewing a UK passport these days :) * Minimum cost to renew a UK passport in 1997: GBP 18 ($28). * Minimum cost to renew a UK passport in 20
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by drucken 15y ago
Comments from the IRC chat in the background says it all: "If Joe can't figure it out, Windows 8 will be the new Vista" :)
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by drucken 15y ago
A poor article based on a very selective and introspective graph. 1. The graph shows there's been a mere 25% increase in manufacturing output value since the 70s. The economic value growth of other sectors has been far greater than that. 2.
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by drucken 15y ago
Agreed, lukeschlather. THIS is the key point. The reason why Germany, Singapore and other strong manufacturing-based developed countries have succeded so well is NOT because they have taken the worst elements of Anglo-Saxon capitalism and
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by drucken 15y ago
Good stuff. Though I am somewhat shocked any high profile sites are still using GoDaddy at this point ...
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US Army: Geotagged posts put soldiers' lives at risk(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by drucken 15y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 15y ago
It is a single password/pass phrase. This makes it simple to manage. You can easily create a simple paper and geographically-redundant system (e.g. using a one-time pad) that means you can keep the passphrase in the open, for example, in yo
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by drucken 15y ago
So, Jotform (to name just a recent one) was running a "gambling, torrent or porn site"? Right... The only thing silly here is not taking into account all business risks. US-owned TLDs are very much now a risk.

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