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by idm 17y ago
If you're bothered by HN commenters who use URL shortening services, then this is the extension for you. Disclaimer: I didn't write this; I'm just sharing it to ease the pain.
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Long URL Please: URL "unshortener" extension for Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)
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by idm 17y ago
I installed this. I have two comments: The first time I launch Firefox after installing, the interfaces asks if I want to import my history or "cancel." I'd like to recommend changing the wording to "Do not import" or something. Did I ju
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by idm 17y ago
Yeah - that's a pretty hard case to argue. I can imagine content-controlling situations where you might think of that as a feature, but there are other situations (most use cases, IMHO ) where text selection is an expected paradigm. EDI
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by idm 17y ago
Do you mean a tank, literally, as in an M1 Abrams? ...otherwise, did you see the video? Crumple zones, passenger cabin intact, airbags, seat belt, etc?
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by idm 17y ago
Ha! Great commercial, but I wonder if it's really for the audience, or more for the clever zing that is aimed at the egos inside Apple. Basically, the ad is an epic troll, which makes me smile, but leaves me wondering if it will effectivel
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by idm 17y ago
I wonder if there's any value in "lobbying" the TSA to implement rectal searches on the basis of this story. It's the reducito ad absurdum tactic: if the lobbying were successful, there's no way there wouldn't be backlash, right? As a r
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by idm 17y ago
Well - and I'm not implying that you necessarily subscribe to that justification, but - I don't buy it. There are already laws that grant the authority to shut down a town if it erupts into riots. I can't cite those laws, but I bet the LA
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by idm 17y ago
The "agent provocateurs" got a whole thread on the slashdot link - it's a tactic that has been used more and more frequently, it seems. I was one of the bloggers who identified the agents in the Quebec SPP protest (look up "put the rock do
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by idm 17y ago
Here's a video from CMU TV of the sound cannon in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNcKexj2cYU I assume the reasoning goes: if you want to stand around, you need to have a permit to do so... and you are free to apply for a permit,
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by idm 17y ago
I do agree with you, and that's not something I grokked from the original article. This is a major discussion now in some fields, and there is a small movement to publish experiments that showed no effects. It should be a bigger movement fo
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by idm 17y ago
You're right about my claim being approximate - the biggest problem with what I said was "assuming independence." If you're replicating a study, it's definitely not going to be a completely independent event. Usually, you copy at least pa
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by idm 17y ago
If a study cannot be replicated, then it's ripe for criticism; replication is the last step in the scientific method, after all. If a study, significant at p=0.05, is replicated again at p=0.05, then the odds of that happening when there ac
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by idm 17y ago
Let's just call it 30.5 gigabarrels, and be through with it. :) Still, thanks for pointing that out.
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by idm 17y ago
Oh, so the US has 30.5 thousand million barrels of oil in reserve? Personally, I like to call that number 30,500 hundred ten-thousands.
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by idm 17y ago
Here's what I have so far: o=onelinebot;u=$o:one.$o;t=twitter.com;h= http://;alias a=alias;a w=while\ read;a c="curl -u$u -d";c track=$o ${h}stream.$t/track.json>t&tail -f t|w t;do echo $t|grep -Eo '"screen_name":"[[:alnum:]]+"'|cu
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by idm 17y ago
I'm typing on a Microsoft keyboard right now, the nth of many. Good stuff - works with OSX w/o custom drivers, including the volume up/down/mute - a nice touch!
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by idm 17y ago
No worries - I was mostly being critical of the original article anyway.
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by idm 17y ago
The Codex work was presented at CHI 09 this year: http://www.google.com/search?q=codex+a+dual+screen+tablet+co... I don't have any idea how that could be construed as a leak. It's not even clever marketing - it's just a conference presen
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by idm 17y ago
This is what "Trademark" is all about, for once: preventing consumers from being misled.
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by idm 17y ago
With regards to the "infinite" program, I meant a DOS on YOUR machine, completely irrespective of network access. ...at least enough to force you to close the tab or the browser. I assume the sandbox is good enough to keep the process fro
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by idm 17y ago
FTA: "...to show what Mr. Peers and Mr. Godley — along with more than a million spiders and a dexterous team of intrepid Malagasy spider handlers — had accomplished." "...an endeavor that, as he has written, always seemed to be 'imbued with
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by idm 17y ago
Extremely impressive. ...although it's not clear why this isn't a huge vector to cause all sorts of havoc. The idea of having an executable sandbox that anyone can drop executable code into sounds famously ill-conceived. Every time a site
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by idm 17y ago
Good catch. Under the heading, "...Looking instead at the number of lines of code changed," Google doesn't even appear in the list.
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by idm 17y ago
werd - this is a great opportunity for hackers, and the amount of money at stake here is huge. Of course, that's not what the article is about, but I completely agree.
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by idm 17y ago
Like most stories, there are two sides to the issue. It seems like the P2P tech was a big "insider info" advantage that enabled Volpi to close the deal. The fact that he knew Skype could be implemented without the P2P backend was reassurin
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by idm 17y ago
Also, HAL 9000 was "born" in Urbana, Illinois. I doubt that sheds any light on why the author included the reference, but it definitely overlaps. (EDIT: Dennis Baron, the author of the book discussed in the article, teaches at Urbana-Cham
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by idm 17y ago
Wow - that document serves as a really good example of the kind of information investors might be interested in.
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by idm 17y ago
I hope the shirt says, "I leaked evidence in my employer's multi-million-dollar lawsuit and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
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by idm 17y ago
I'm in the "t-shirt was a joke" camp, but this does cause me to wonder: is this alleged screenshot also a joke? I mean, in the context of the t-shirt thing, just how credible can Arrington's screenshot claim be, anyway?

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