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by iloveponies 14y ago
Actually, it's the other way around. NFC is a superset of many different types of RFID standards that operate all under 13.56MHz - FeliCa, MiFARE, Topaz, ISO14443 etc in addition to include different communication protocols (SNEP for exampl
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by iloveponies 14y ago
This is not a big concern, all modern devices with NFC have to have the screen unlocked before the NFC radio turns on.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Sure, and I use my Oyster card most days. But years ago TfL tried using NFC - a trial with the Nokia 6131. Ultimately it was rejected as it was too slow at the gates, a genuine concern in stations that see tens to hundreds of thousands move
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Why aren't we seeing adoption yet? Quite simply, percentage of devices that support it are too low in contrast to the effort required to get any sort of deployment - a chicken and egg problem. Adding support for QR codes requires some softw
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by iloveponies 14y ago
You have to use either Koryo or another government approved/run organisation for tourism inside the DPRK. http://wikitravel.org/en/North_Korea
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by iloveponies 14y ago
In South Korea, it's quite common for people to put their mobile number on a sticker on the windshield or even bumper - exactly for this reason. Of course, abuse of this trend also exists.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
It appears you're lumping the "BBC" in as one entity, when it is in fact many entities. World Service and the Domestic BBC are separate entities - and World Service's profits go back to the domestic BBC so more revenue beyond your license f
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by iloveponies 14y ago
What is your concern exactly? Your TV license didn't pay for that content.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
I've not yet heard of an instance where rms has allegedly sexually assaulted anyone or said anything that could be seen as blatantly sexist or misogynist. He may be awkward around women, I'd also argue he can be awkward around everyone - th
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by iloveponies 14y ago
BBC staff (perhaps not contractors) do get access to discounts and other benefits with Apple and many other companies as well as offering staff discounts for some BBC events (tours, proms) but these are not guaranteed.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
This is a complicated affair. It's the rights holders to the content that the BBC broadcasts who are probably the biggest hurdle in expanding the BBC Worldwide's reach. Global iPlayer is a start, but it will take time.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
The Prius when braking can turn the flow of energy from going to the wheels to going back and recharging the battery.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
Phones that have put their NFC chip into card emulation mode for insecure communication (that doesn't require security via the SIM) can in theory still operate without the phone itself being on, the Nokia 6131 apparently did this. Since it
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by iloveponies 14y ago
From the official Formspring post regarding this: > The post did not contain usernames or any other identifying information. > ... upgraded our hashing mechanisms from sha-256 with random salts to bcrypt ... So not only are the hash
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by iloveponies 14y ago
The movie studios are not so open with software, but almost all of them do use open source software in some way, and most certainly nearly all have developers that use some varying amount of version control. http://github.com/emi https:/
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by iloveponies 14y ago
It's not about how something affects the world. It's about how it affect my, and my perspective of my world. Human's are not very good at paying attention at things that do not directly affect them. Those who are the exception to this, are
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by iloveponies 14y ago
You're right, I'm not paying any attention to B2B uses simply because I care little about them and in my opinion the only way on gaining mass adoption for NFC technology is consumer orientated. In 2006, a year before the iPhone was released
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by iloveponies 14y ago
NFC is not a revolution. Revolutions are events that change the way a lot of people do things in a short amount of time, and very few deployments of NFC have actually done that as they usually end up as gimmicks replacing QR codes or other
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by iloveponies 14y ago
If the startup penalty is such a concern, There is Moo. And Mo. And M. Or failing that tools like Class::Accessor.
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by iloveponies 14y ago
> Apple rejects alternative web browsers on iOS outright, Except for Opera Mini - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Most Working Holiday visa programs are age restricted to people 18-30 years old, in addition to a lot of other immigration laws change.
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Schengen Agreement, at least kind of sorted this problem for the lucky ones to be a citizen of a member state. For the rest of us, we'll continue to be dogged by this for a long time to come. Immigration laws world wide run on the premise t
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Interesting they make no reference to PEP 8.
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Depressingly, I've been told of this being used in production.
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by iloveponies 15y ago
I decided to use a name that looked real, but isn't, and isn't mine. So far, I've yet to be caught by Google. The cost of this? Explaining to friends who don't know my opinion on anonymity on the internet.
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Despite this and others like Socket.io, Pusher still appears to be popular and doing well. How come?
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by iloveponies 15y ago
It bewilders me when private corporations peddle on consumer fear like this, it really does.
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by iloveponies 15y ago
The JSON spec is no longer exclusively under this license as it's part of both the ECMA 5 specification and formalised under RFC 4627 so the "do good not evil" tidbit (which, by the way, SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org/different.html also
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by iloveponies 15y ago
Perhaps playing "OB Marker Bingo" at his speech is in order?
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by iloveponies 15y ago
I've been told by unnamed Apple employees that VLC is the #2 application on OS X for bug reports (the #1 being Safari). Whilst I too have had very little problems with VLC's stability - apparently the whole truth is far different.

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