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by idm 17y ago
wait a second - the Digital Millennium _Copyright_ Act is enforceable for issues with the US Patent and Trademark office? All the same, your story is simultaneously cool and a shame. Good luck getting it back online!
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by idm 17y ago
I promise I'm not gunning for any legal action here (cause I get so much done w/ my Apple tools) but... http://gizmodo.com/5240272/federal-trade-commission-investig... FTA: "The biggest issue here seems to be that Apple and Google share t
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by idm 17y ago
It's not a question of how much AT&T has to lose, it's a question of what Apple has to gain. Here, yes, AT&T has something to lose if the app is allowed. Maybe it's not much, but it's something. What does Apple have to gain by deny
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by idm 17y ago
Since you mention it, the FCC just might call _you_ the criminal if you tried to modify your cisco box... :) I won't claim to understand what's cooking in the DoJ or the FTC, but from my armchair, it seems like there's at least an argument
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by idm 17y ago
On the one hand, I feel like Apple can probably hide behind the terms of its app store and be sufficiently safe from any consequences. In the short term. Especially given the "duplicating dialer functionality" argument, this sounds a lot l
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by idm 17y ago
The before/after comparison is shocking.
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by idm 17y ago
WOW - I just installed Chrome for Intel OSX, and this is amazing. The performance in Firefox 3.5 was unplayable, while Safari 4 was much better, but Chrome is insane. I can't believe what I just witnessed: a playable javascript NES emulato
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by idm 17y ago
Just like TFA I booted Haiku in VirtualBox... Several years ago I ran the BeOS R5 livedisk, and while this is reminiscent, since I'm running in a virtual environment it falls short. Running BeOS on the metal was amazing - setting a thread
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by idm 17y ago
The goals of Dragonfly have been so interesting, but I hope this isn't another HURD situation (where HURD is also a really awesome project that progresses in babysteps).
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by idm 17y ago
This reminds me of the Perl Catalyst approach, which states that everything important already exists in CPAN, so the web framework just needs to provide a little glue to stick it together. In other words, there's massive reuse of CPAN compo
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by idm 17y ago
This video is great! The serious action starts at 21:25 when Henryk Plotz completely replicates an RFID card using his iPod. Definitely don't miss it!
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by idm 17y ago
I assume it makes no difference if Texas Instruments is on the record saying, "...it was waiting “for Mythbusters to let us know when they were planning on showing the segment” when they heard “that the storyline had changed and they were p
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by idm 17y ago
Ha! Exactly.
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by idm 17y ago
I can't help but think there's something ironic or cynical about the site's branding... EDIT: from the FAQ ( http://www.dataliberation.org/home/faq ) Quote: "What's with the logo? It grew out of the fact that we see ourselves fighting for t
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Ask HN: are independent Canadian ISPs viable?
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by idm 17y ago
So, the MS contest is performing useragent analysis to generate custom pages based on your browser. If you use Firefox or Chrome, you get a customized jab at your of browser (e.g. "old Firefox" or "Tarnished Chrome".) ...but if you use Ope
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by idm 18y ago
re: "small sample," think of it like this: * about 5000 people saw the feedback form (presumably because they canceled the install) * of that group, about 330 actually submitted something Strictly as a matter of statistics, 330 is a big sam
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by idm 18y ago
There is a "share" widget next to the original article on the NY Times - you can repost the article to Facebook, etc, with the click of a button. I am ... confused ... by what the newspaper industry wants us to do with their content.
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by idm 18y ago
Great example of testing/measuring! In the article, there's a simple pie chart leading to a simple question, but without measurement in the first place, the question would never have been asked. ...and after half a dozen replies to the ar
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by idm 18y ago
I switched back and forth between 1U and 2U setups for the same motherboard, and I could run my system in higher ambient temperature with less airflow when using a 2U heatsink. From the patent-looking picture in the article, it looks like t
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by idm 18y ago
These time scales do cause one to consider: what is the lifetime of SGML, HTML, XML, RDF, ... How have those Gutenberg typefaces held up? I was in a British church last year, and the floors were made of carved granite, which were complete
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by idm 18y ago
Good point, and I didn't mean to suggest that the one precludes the other. However, the ma.gnol.ia story is a tale of redundancy - they were backing up corrupted data for weeks, and once they realized this, it was too late. The database t
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by idm 18y ago
ACID: Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability See ma.gnol.ia for an example of what can happen with a DBMS that doesn't provide this. That's a big reason why I use Postgres instead of MySQL. With Postgres, the database won't get cor
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by idm 18y ago
The biggest problem I have with developing on SQLite is the limited capacity to perform DB schema migrations. I use South. SQLite doesn't provide much by way of schema changes, at least not in a manner that the Django ORM can make use of.
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by idm 18y ago
What about percentages? Frequencies are nice, but I wonder what percentage of applications include the optional video.