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by iigs 18y ago
Given the financial aspect I'd prefer a technical solution as well, just as the spammers surely must wish they could solve captcha computationally. Unfortunately they're willing to pay per account and unless their opponents (the major email
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by iigs 18y ago
Maybe it's time to beat the captcha-cracking guys at their own game: use mechanical turk to "interview" people signing up for a new email account. If you signed up via an IM session rather than a web form it would leave a lot more context i
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by iigs 18y ago
I live two miles away from where this happened. Between the social engineering aspect of this and the escape on the inner tube, this is by far the most interesting thing that has happened in our little town for a while. :)
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by iigs 18y ago
I agree with the sentiment (wouldn't it be nice to not treat computers, particularly full of nasty chemicals, as items meant to be thrown away every other year). Unfortunately you will find that this isn't the way it works. Manufacturers wi
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by iigs 18y ago
I suspect if your Mac was going to kill you your car already would have. Gasoline (in the USA) can be up to 5% benzene by volume. I don't have numbers, but I suspect that one hot-day fill of your car exposes you to more benzene than anythin
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by iigs 18y ago
Talk about a picture being worth 1000 words -- I read the article and thought "sure, it makes sense, that's probably a problem" and then saw the traffic graph. Wow. Everybody knows that this is a risk of developing inside someone else's wal
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by iigs 18y ago
Reading uneducated users opinions about signal meters ("phone A is better because it has one more bar than phone B") gives me that same sad feeling about humanity that talking about politics with "low information voters" does. It makes me w
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by iigs 18y ago
The value of Android's positioning isn't "open relative to Apple", although that's certainly a nice selling point as long as it lasts, but rather "open on an absolute basis" in that the platform can be picked up by hardware vendors, modifie
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by iigs 18y ago
The amount of bad advice in this area is astounding. By far one of the best pieces of advice I've ever been given (and of course, summarily ignored) was to do the math on home ownership vs renting and putting the difference into another inv
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by iigs 18y ago
You contend that the creation of the GNU utilities -- differently licensed but by and large feature clones of an existing software package was a more important contribution to society than the American automobile safety regulation changes b
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by iigs 18y ago
Stallman is to Open Source what Ralph Nader is to Liberals or Ron Paul is to Conservatives/Libertarians. He has a well-formed, strongly held but atypical opinion aimed at solving a particular problem, often at great cost in other areas. In
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by iigs 18y ago
Now, I enjoy an Apple hardware brainfuck as much as the next, but a phone is never a better phone because of hardware alone, and Google knows this too. Not sure about this... I think in large part the problem with Windows Mobile phones is
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by iigs 18y ago
Thanks for posting this, I found it really interesting. As a 20-something geek I was surprised to read how virtually every place accepted the bribe in one way or another. It really contradicts my low confidence + true/false mentality. His a
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by iigs 18y ago
I've been thinking about this lately - about giving all of your data to a third party and hoping they don't go out of business or erase your account (for whatever reason). Or be forced to give up access statistics via Pen Register. Or pro
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by iigs 18y ago
The specific moment I'm referring to was in 2007. I believe it's still the case that you can not download patch clusters without a support account. I'd love to be proven wrong about this, though. There was a previous time (circa 2002) when
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by iigs 18y ago
I know that the plural of anecdote isn't data, but our experiences with Solaris at work seem to not be unusual. Over the past ten years Sun has NOT had their story straight on the availability of Solaris x86 ISOs and support patches (former
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by iigs 18y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I haven't done the pricing for both. How do they work out?
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by iigs 18y ago
The version of FreeBSD I installed to try ZFS loses all data on the volume after every reboot. It's like having a 146g RAID 1 SCSI RAM disk. :/ Granted I know I picked a random version (7.0 RC1), but the differences in maturity between the
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by iigs 18y ago
I agree that it's not going to hang with a lot of normal gasoline cars, but considering how far electric cars have come in such a short time (momentarily exclude the fact that there were electric cars in the early 1900s that were an evoluti
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by iigs 18y ago
Honestly I find discussing this topic (regulating forum karma) pretty interesting. Granted, articles that are toned to imply someone's whining about being downmodded are kind of frustrating, but I don't think the overall idea is any less "r
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by iigs 18y ago
I think it would be neat if downvotes took a point of karma away from the downvoter as well. That would provide incentive for the downvoting user to comment so that people would have a chance to mod him up to recover it. Yes, yes, I know "d
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by iigs 18y ago
If it takes as long to get cut and paste as it took to get a right mouse button on the Macintosh you might as well stop paying attention for a while. I think the analogy holds fairly well -- perhaps some people would be confused by it or so
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by iigs 18y ago
I guess if you're #3, and you buy and extinguish #2 that makes you #2 by default. Somehow this gets by the anti-trust people because #1 is so much bigger. This is an ego "measuring contest" plain and simple. There's no synergy to be had her
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by iigs 18y ago
A common theme in the halls of carriers and ISPs is that they want to evolve from being dumb pipes to value-added portals and content destinations. For example, the cell phone industry's solution to this is to sell ringtones (among other th
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by iigs 18y ago
When replying to a comment in a thread (the parent being a comment, as opposed to a comment like this, where the parent is the article) it would be neat to have the article link available above the reply box (as in the article-parent case).
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by iigs 18y ago
I expected it to be about the startup marrying a technology stack (i.e. committing to Microsoft products, or Apple, or open source, or Sun, for that matter) I agree with the post saying it was light on content. It would have been nice if he
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by iigs 18y ago
Yep, sure would make the world a better place for that guy, at least! I'd take a small amount of it ($2-3 million if i could be sure of good interest returns over time, more commensurate with inability to do same) and return the rest to the
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by iigs 18y ago
The author touts the platform openness, but I'm not sure that we're going to see much come of it. Because hardware vendors are so selective about their platforms, it's entirely possible that we'll be obstructed from recompiling the OS for t
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by iigs 18y ago
I think this is interesting. I didn't notice any data in there about search engines, but I suspect that reading individual blog posts is wildly underrepresented, because many inexperienced people wouldn't be able to identify one in search r
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by iigs 18y ago
I would buy a phone from a company that was only in advertising until they were in advertising and operating systems for mobile phones. Who cares what other things they do? Why wouldn't you evaluate it on its merits? Is this the poor judgem

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