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by drucken 13y ago
Making something patentable does not magically transfer attributes to it, i.e. 'to encourage progress'. The question is not whether not to patent but whether patentability is appropriate. In respect to software patents, which is little mo
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by drucken 13y ago
What does this service offer over the market leader, Burner ( http://burnerapp.com/ )? Is it the Bitcoin support?
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NASA: Coal and Gas are Far More Harmful than Nuclear Power(giss.nasa.gov)
2 points by drucken 13y ago|0 comments
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Body odour robots detect smelly feet and stinky breath(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 13y ago|0 comments
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World first atomic pocket watch: Hoptroff No 10(crave.cnet.co.uk)
2 points by drucken 13y ago|1 comments
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by drucken 13y ago
This is one of the reasons why any possibility of a significant "free trade" agreement between the US and EU is virtually non-existent. Their principles, economies, and output across a large range of sectors are much more different than man
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by drucken 13y ago
1. "Wiretapping" is the wrong conceptual model for what is proposed and implemented in modern systems. "Vacuuming" might be a better term. 2. This is a power grab, not merely an attempt to maintain equivalent present powers. As people live
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Choco pies: The smuggled treats of North Korea(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 13y ago
Given the US's annual trade deficit with China is more than a quarter of a trillion dollars and growing every year by some $20 billion (i.e. an extra month's worth of trade balance per annum), surveys of this kind are not worth the pixels t
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Finally, A Solution For Walking And Texting [video](youtube.com)
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Scientists make 'bug-eye' camera(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 13y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 13y ago
Yup, this is the notorious nProtect Gameguard ( http://global.nprotect.com/product/gg.php ). It is even worse than most anti-cheat clients which " only " monitor and notify. Not only will it actively pre-emptively change the state of your p
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by drucken 13y ago
" Oh no! Server Error: 500 (Internal Server Error) " This is the problem with services this fun to play with. Here at HN we break our toys!
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by drucken 13y ago
It is not really enough to just compare looks. For example, even Amazon sites on Firefox 3.6.* browsers in the last couple of months show extremely inconsistent behaviour, e.g. inability to submit new searches after an existing search. I su
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Google Glass Has Already Been Hacked By Jailbreakers(forbes.com)
1 points by drucken 13y ago|0 comments
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LG to start selling curved OLED TVs in South Korea(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 13y ago
Immigration has nothing whatsoever to do with relieving world poverty and could never fulfill such a goal. The primary effect, and perhaps purpose of immigration (excluding asylum), is to keep labor costs down. One could even convincingly c
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by drucken 13y ago
Interesting concept but, 1. It seems to fail silently for searches it cannot find, making you doubt whether it works at all or something wrong with your web browser. 2. If you are going to make it such a heavily scripting dependent site, th
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by drucken 13y ago
Interesting that Germany is the only large country in the top 10. I also love the way you that clicking on the map maintains a direct link to the drilldown navigation and statistics without the page even being refreshed. For example, this
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by drucken 13y ago
" The girl lives on another continent, so it is not just knocking on the door either. " from " Jenta bor på et annet kontinent, så det er ikke bare å banke på døren heller. " Can I assume that is mistranslated since the passport picture sho
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The suburban house that is the North Korean embassy [video](bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Why did Datadial then remove the link in the original article if believed they are irrefutably right? The jurisdiction is not even the litigant-friendly US, it is the UK...
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The North Korean spy who blew up a plane(bbc.co.uk)
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by drucken 14y ago
Cheers for that! Fixed.
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by drucken 14y ago
This is why I like Perl, perl -e 'print sort{length $a <=> length $b} <>' english-words.txt > sorted.txt
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by drucken 14y ago
This is a stunningly elegant proposal. It seems to apply to any field as well, which inspires confidence. The idea of all Life as simply the Evolution fitness function over the maximization of Entropy...!
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SpaceCoder (3D mouse): measuring with shadows [video](youtube.com)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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Small in Size, Big On Power: New Microbatteries the Most Powerful Yet(sciencedaily.com)
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by drucken 14y ago
English object-noun adjectival order (left to right): Quantity > Quality > Size > Measure > Shape > Age > Color > Origin > Material > Purpose. Easy to remember because the stronger an adjective is tied to
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Paper can be turned into an interactive screen using a system by Fujitsu(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments

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