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by gcb 15y ago
Nice. So people are forced to set up their own mail services and all. Much more secure than assuming some corporation will value your data. Or that dropbox is secure in any way. Irony apart. 100% of digital goods in China are pirated. That
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by gcb 15y ago
That mentality, in Samsung, is exactly what makes Samsung suck
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by gcb 15y ago
a phone in guest mode would be totally useless. case 1: no apps. guest has to install apps. will guest have a itunes/android market account? does he enter his Credit card to buy paid ones he want to use? case 2: apps with no data from real
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by gcb 15y ago
First world problems. I read it all scrolling sideways back and forth on my phone... To find out a transcript after the image
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by gcb 15y ago
1. Get a greedy lawyer 2. Sue Paypal for negligence. 3. Show up any conversation with buyer stating that the piece was priceless and the sale was only symbolic because he proved that he would keep the violin soul alive by playing it. 4. Add
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by gcb 15y ago
> But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now. saying that is ignoring the core problem. Since early on everyone wrote notes on textbooks and shared that. Everyone shared articles. in the 80's everyone hand out mix t
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by gcb 15y ago
what you think he said about copyright he said about pretty much everything else. fair use, openess, freedom, etc. right, closed systems and draconian DRM already existed, fine. but neither were essential for our everyday lives in the way h
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by gcb 15y ago
Last time i checked, it was against visa's agreement to store all that. But i was in another country then
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by gcb 15y ago
Take a look in plan9 and Sam/acme if you really want to extrapolate on everything is text.
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by gcb 15y ago
nothing there hinted at the programmer part...
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by gcb 15y ago
the how is irrelevant for this tasty speculation. they may move only hosting outside and refuse access from the US, if not from their US corporate network. IMHO, the more interesting thing to think about is the resulting wake up call. would
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by gcb 15y ago
the highest reviewed of the cheap items is always the useless moneypit. you want something in between. cost benefit.
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by gcb 15y ago
ironically, when i choose between a job in Europe or one in the USA, i considered a lot the fleeing freedoms here and in particular the hassle of international flights (since my family would be in another country and all). ended up convinci
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by gcb 15y ago
would using something like socialflights.com avoid all this hassle?
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by gcb 15y ago
sorry about that, got the numbers from /.'s summary. should have know better.
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by gcb 15y ago
So much for how "social" and "private" they intend google+ to be. Do not expect a conversation with close friends there. it's an open mall. officially. And the first people migrated from facebook boasting the privacy concerns.
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TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas(news.slashdot.org)
10 points by gcb 15y ago|10 comments
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by gcb 15y ago
The easier assignments are easier because they now have morehints alongside. this i guess is not to ease for lazy slobs (what you described :) but to ease the demand for help on the staff. The critic is that they overdid
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by gcb 15y ago
If the costs of hosting at a spam-infested provider beats the clean one by much, adding this layer would be a good idea. thanks
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by gcb 15y ago
You raise a very good point i was taking for granted Reverse lookup. Will add that to my table. Thanks
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by gcb 15y ago
For technical or political reasons?
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by gcb 15y ago
and 7.5 years I still think it's not that useful anyway. you could always go to a specific line (edit>go to line, or Ctrl+L), which is over 9000% more useful from anyway you look at it. you also could have seem the line number on the st
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by gcb 15y ago
also, judging from most deals i made on ebay/craigslist, 101% of them required me to call/email the seller to make sure what they were selling. specially for the lower-than-market value ads. and NOT excluding expensive ads such as cars. tha
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by gcb 15y ago
I'm completely out of this scene for 2yrs... Is gnome3 built on compiz?
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by gcb 15y ago
Since they are openid providers, you already lost the bet. Where do i collect my large sum? Even if you want to exclude them, i still bet google+Yahoo users > tweeter+facebook
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by gcb 15y ago
will never understand why people cut 99% of the internet off by offering only twitter/facebook signup... i never implemented either of those, but couldn't be so much easier than openid to justify that number
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by gcb 15y ago
what? the reason it makes the ant climb high is because when it grows it actually rips open the ant and eventually burst millions of spore to rain over the colony.
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by gcb 15y ago
more shocking than anything related to the technology, is why they didn't declassify the price for project. I mean, if there's no risk of start a war with previous allies when this get's public, which greater danger may be on revealing the
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Ask HN: ever had problem with outgoing email?
5 points by gcb 15y ago|5 comments
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by gcb 15y ago
So we should see lots of brains from goldsachs going to google?

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