falien

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by falien 16y ago
um, the idea is to bribe everyone to join something rather than only having the people who are especially motivated by a special interest. Its like giving everyone $100 just for voting regardless of who or what they vote for. I can replace
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by falien 16y ago
>can you account for the fact that in order to verify digests, the server actually needs to store the plaintext of the password, and not a hash? That was my first thought too, but apparently doesn't have to be the case. http://en.wi
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by falien 16y ago
There are two reasons those things make headlines: 1.They are uncommon and thus newsworthy. 2.They are sensationalist trash having only some vague relationship with reality. Things could obviously be better, but there are trade-offs with li
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by falien 16y ago
"Currently, the Gmail program is comprised of 443,000 lines of JavaScript, with 978,000 lines if comments are included. All of it was written by hand, he said." http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178558/Google_to_use... edit: "curren
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by falien 16y ago
It would be bloat if, as the author irresponsibly implies, all it did was display the basic data of a single text message. In the case of that single instance for the author it may do that (I didn't care to look that closely), but it provid
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by falien 16y ago
They're not a product company. They're an advertising company. This may change, but that does not mean all their efforts should be put towards changing it. They're expanding and creating their existing market, while putting feelers into oth
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by falien 16y ago
by what metric do you argue that it has not caught fire in ways that are remotely possible based on past experience with browser market share?
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by falien 16y ago
Google's initial efforts were directed very much at RIM. RIM's guiding strategy never had anything to do with form factor. It was always to provide the killer experience for email, with special attention to corporate email. Android took a s
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by falien 16y ago
They're both software. Its easily conceivable that a non-moron could search for one and mistake it for the other. This case seems like an actual violation whose enforcement would be much more reasonable than most other disputes that have ma
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by falien 16y ago
They aren't saying either of those things. They are saying "show me sushi stockholm" which google interprets as "show me sushi in stockholm" and as far as google knows (and accurately as far as I'm concerned when I use google), any sort of
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by falien 16y ago
Note that to see this behaviour on other search engines, you may need to use US locations. Yahoo and Bing don't seem to recognize stockholm as a location.
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by falien 16y ago
Google is not presenting their own competing services in a biased way over others. They are presenting search results in context sensitive ways. Searching for sushi in a geographic location indicates you want to find sushi places in that ar
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by falien 16y ago
While I agree in general, my point is that this market is an exception (at least in the US, I have no idea what the situation is like in other countries). Universities are dying for an alternative to Blackboard that has some reputable compa
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by falien 16y ago
Its not, but if it was it would be because it had Google backing it. Lack of a known corporate support system is Moodle's weakness, and Blackboard's sole reason for success.
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by falien 16y ago
Google has the engineers and the legal department to take on Blackboard. If they took 6 months for a dev team with this as their primary task and were willing to have actual tech support they could demolish blackboard with a single sales re
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by falien 16y ago
My problem with them is data entry, which google wants to let me take care of with my droid (and I'd love to). I have used search on a cable box exactly once because it was as much of a chore to enter the query and sort through the spectacu
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by falien 16y ago
>The drugs scenario you describe is being acted out every day by the way. Thats why I used it. And it makes those dealers criminals in the US. I didn't mean he was under US jurisdiction when he broke the law, I meant he broke a US law w
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by falien 16y ago
Comparing Mountain View to China... wow, China must be alot smaller than I thought.
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by falien 16y ago
The current US government is older than the current Chinese government. Major pollution became a problem during the industrial revolution, which started in Europe and North America. And when did the Chinese people have any more human right
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by falien 16y ago
I try to keep up with EU technology law, but I'm afraid I only keep up with specifics for individual countries when its widely covered. You can keep your hat on :P Many things that our intelligence agencies do disturbs me as well, and in fa
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by falien 16y ago
Like I said, I don't disagree with most of your sentiments. However, the fact that it was ruled unconstitutional refutes your assertion that it is illegal in the US, when in fact that law itself was determined to be illegal. I'm well awar
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by falien 16y ago
All of the equipment is manufactured in China anyway... Why would they not sell to the Chinese government when the alternative is for the government to get the unbranded equipment that is manufactured when the factory is "offline". :P
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by falien 16y ago
um... last sentence of the introductory blurb: "The gag order was ruled unconstitutional as an infringement of free speech, in the Doe v. Ashcroft case.[1]" I don't necessarily disagree with your sentiments, but alot of the arguments and es
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by falien 16y ago
I assume it would considering the close relationship Google and Mozilla have had in the past, and the fact that Mozilla should be very much ideologically behind this (assuming Google does open source it, as someone else said I'm not sure if
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by falien 16y ago
I believe the vast majority of youtube users still see the flash version though (even those who use browsers that would support the HTML5 version?), so that wouldn't matter as much.
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by falien 16y ago
Almost nothing is inevitable, and even things that are can be planned for to optimize your situation. I suppose it depends on your personality though, how you would end up dealing with the knowledge.
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by falien 16y ago
My guess is, at least in most places that disclaimer isn't what covers them. The disclaimer is to discourage the people who will stand at the customer service counter arguing for 3 hours to get their 5 pounds of steak for a dollar.
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by falien 16y ago
I'm not sure how the nexus one is doing, but before that the Droid was easily the fastest moving android device, and while its launch sales didn't rival the 3GS it was also US only and in a completely different landscape. That said it moved
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by falien 16y ago
From my reading I took it that the 5 pound voucher was not mentioned in the agreement, just something they would have gotten after.
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by falien 17y ago
Oh, from the original post I took it that it replaced your link with a scribd link (rather than adding a second link). I still think it is a questionable practice, but find it much less objectionable than I did at first.

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