hobolobo

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Keeping the pirates at bay [2001](gamasutra.com)
1 points by hobolobo 13y ago|0 comments
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by hobolobo 13y ago
That's not the point, though, is it?
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by hobolobo 13y ago
There's a lot of righteous indignation coming out. Just to let you know, I upvoted you for your honesty.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
Gets on hobby-horse For the jobcentre site (as was), 'Start with needs' means IDS needs to be able to monitor these shysters for not getting a job. Gets back off
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by hobolobo 13y ago
I believe the preferred nomenclature is 'targeted killing'.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
Well done. A very well executed idea.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
It is possible to read it as 'VLC comes with crapware' rather than 'third-parties distribute VLC with their own crapware'.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
I think this refers to death as distinct from the process of dying.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
They don't mention "We should set up on a reservation. Taxes are for little people." Possibly because he might not have worded it like that.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
You are most definitely not alone in your reaction. I am still bemused that Google's owners were, and remain, too scared to speak out publicly about what is going on, even after the revelations which have been made. Not just Google, ho
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Teenagers and the Internet(theguardian.com)
107 points by hobolobo 13y ago|120 comments
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by hobolobo 13y ago
'If you build it, they will come' works for both baseball diamonds and surveillance systems, it seems.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
So the traffic won't have 'direct access' to Google's servers? That's reassuring :)
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by hobolobo 13y ago
One quick way of testing if a creature has "capabilities to suffer from pain" is to put a heat source on them. If they move away from it, they do. There really is an ethical issue here.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
Possibly because his example encourages citizens to take a stand and act against those who like to work in the shadows.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
So you boot into Ubuntu which then loads the HDDs OS in a VM? What do you use to do this?
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by hobolobo 13y ago
What functionality is precluded by the use of a tablet?
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by hobolobo 13y ago
I don't claim to have an eye for design so its aesthetic appeal is difficult to judge but as far as functionality goes, it leaves a lot to be desired. The site has removed the ability to search by category which, for me at least, was an imp
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by hobolobo 13y ago
I can't speak for their digital strategy but their universal jobmatch site is abysmal. A truly awful piece of work. https://www.gov.uk/jobsearch
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Eric Schmidt angers MPs by defending Google's tax avoidance(information-age.com)
1 points by hobolobo 13y ago|0 comments
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by hobolobo 13y ago
I think that suspecting the worst has become a default position after so many appalling breaches (RockYou, Gawker, etc). After losing their 50M entry user database one would expect them to be a bit more forthcoming.
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by hobolobo 13y ago
You seem to have taken this awfully personally. Is there a reason?
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by hobolobo 14y ago
Well, the Brits did actually do force feeding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Price Though there are/were certain conditions on when it could be ordered such as when the inmate has an eating disorder or becomes mentally incapacitated
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by hobolobo 14y ago
Whilst internment was a pretty nasty thing, I don't think that what went on in British prisons is comparable to what goes on in Guatanamo Bay. The point was that whilst nowhere is perfectly just and or free, there is the perception that the
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by hobolobo 15y ago
Now there's an idea. Standardised components so you could build your own laptop, just as you would a PC.
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by hobolobo 15y ago
And some, such as Galileo in the case of heliocentrism, tie themselves in knots trying to reconcile the observable world with their faith.
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by hobolobo 15y ago
I think a more pertinent example would be Portugal, which decriminalised all drugs in 2001. Glenn Greenwald of the Cato Institute said "Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success." A couple of links
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by hobolobo 15y ago
And if you could combine this with a machine to remove lactic acid from your forearms and make it small enough to fit into a chalkbag so that every time you dipped, you got chalked up, cooled down, and stronger. Yeah, I think that might wor
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by hobolobo 15y ago
To be fair, you wrote "the fastest way to get people to stop telling you their ideas" which sounds a lot like shutting people up.
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by hobolobo 15y ago
The fawning tone of the piece is a bit off-putting. It is significant to consumer tech that he's stepping down as CEO but not to the vast majority of the world.

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