gergles

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721.
by gergles 15y ago
They offer rear-facing seats for people under 5' tall (read: children) that you can install in the trunk.
722.
by gergles 15y ago
Correct, B&PC sect. 16600 http://online.ceb.com/CalCases/C4/44C4t937.htm
723.
by gergles 15y ago
The advice about "disclose your salary because companies are honest and fair actors" is still incorrect. Companies are entering into a business deal with you, and they will negotiate it like they negotiate every other business deal - trying
724.
by gergles 15y ago
Your ISP won't be able to get a trusted certificate authority to issue them a cert for "*", which is what they would need to do in order to transparently MITM SSL. They could generate that cert on their own, and maybe install it into the Wi
725.
by gergles 15y ago
The one near the Oyster Point exit (going North) always just advertises the latest game, so that's definitely a customer acquisition one. The other one I've seen has bounced between recruiting and the latest VilleVille.
726.
by gergles 15y ago
Fine, the copyright protection for Google's algorithm has evaporated. Where do you plan on getting a copy of it? And even if you did somehow acquire it, how do you plan on using it without violating Google's trade secret protection on it? T
727.
by gergles 15y ago
Yes, because even the founders recognized that intellectual property is not real property. You can't stop people from copying ideas, and so they permitted copyright to be applied for a limited time in order to encourage people to release
728.
by gergles 15y ago
They have long-term rentals of at least 2 large billboards along the 101... though I doubt those cost $13M a month, even in SF.
729.
by gergles 15y ago
Yet PayPal is already doing that too. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-paypal-t...
730.
by gergles 15y ago
But you have to provide your own e-mail service and e-mail hosting. They aren't hosting your e-mail[0]. How do they justify a recurring annual subscription? 0: "Your email is never stored on our servers, and is left on your current email se
731.
by gergles 15y ago
I wonder how the Google fanboys will reconcile this with "Don't Be Evil". Colluding to keep salaries low and to prevent career mobility for your employees is pretty fucking evil in my book.
732.
by gergles 15y ago
I assume their justification are the push notification servers, though that's a bit thin for my taste.
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by gergles 15y ago
The idea that there need to exist "weeder classes" is utterly stupid. The admissions process is the "weeder" process. If you can't hack it, you shouldn't be admitted at all. Taking students, who you have already identified as competent and
734.
by gergles 15y ago
Even if you wrote the compiler by hand, it doesn't matter. See the outstanding "Reflections on Trusting Trust": http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
735.
by gergles 15y ago
Yes, it's called the "Overton Window". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
736.
by gergles 15y ago
Awesome, I'm glad we're on the new HN where we downvote things we disagree with. Google doesn't have a compliance requirement of "prevent users from running another OS". MS does. That pretty clearly crosses a line that none of the Google re
737.
by gergles 15y ago
Because MS compliance requirement X is deliberately anti-consumer, anti open-source, and openly hostile to users using their hardware as they see fit?
738.
by gergles 15y ago
His assertion is incorrect. Any public performance, whether "for profit" or not, requires a license.
739.
by gergles 15y ago
The point was that you don't need any law to demand money for something. Copyright may legitimize your demand (in some people's eyes) but you can demand anything for anything. I demand you pay me $20 for the privilege of reading my posts.
740.
by gergles 15y ago
He'd be able to 'demand' whatever he wants. Charities "demand" donations all the time and get them, and there's no protectionist law they have to deal with.
741.
by gergles 15y ago
If you don't like what Google is doing with Android, install a custom ROM. You can recompile it and strip out any code that you don't approve of. Try doing that on your iPhone.
742.
by gergles 15y ago
You can run a torrent client if you want, but some of the Android Market apps are flagged as Wi-Fi download only - the switch may be carrier specific, but see https://market.android.com/details?id=com.escapistgames.star... - this app will
743.
by gergles 15y ago
Prior restraint is the biggest 1st-amendment issue possible (as expressed by SCOTUS in several opinions), and shutting down sites based on a say-so and a court order that the site "looks infringing" is prior restraint.
744.
by gergles 15y ago
A domain takedown, sure, but not a payment-processing and ad-serving ban, which may as well be a takedown for 99+% of sites.
745.
by gergles 15y ago
Said feature exists in ICS. You can "disable" any app, even the ones in ROM.
746.
by gergles 15y ago
Google "Santorum" sometime. It's possible.
747.
by gergles 15y ago
Well, it isn't really about airline security, it's about revenue protection. If you're too dumb to photoshop your boarding pass, you also have no choice but to pay the $X00 "change fee" to give your tickets to somebody else. The airlines ha
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by gergles 15y ago
Not in the US you don't. Buy a ticket under "John Doe." Retrieve boarding pass. Print a copy. While you still have it open, photoshop it (or edit the HTML, whatever) to say "Bob McTerrorist". Show your photoshopped boarding pass and your "B
749.
by gergles 15y ago
Please elucidate what information could possibly excuse the fact that is trivial to completely run around the "no-fly list".
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by gergles 15y ago
The money was 'paid back' by banks who got zero-interest loans from the Fed discount window. This way, they get to say "Hey, we paid back TARP", the Obama administration gets to say "The bailout wasn't a boondoggle", and the banks also borr

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