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by iy56 14y ago
Yes it would. Neither I nor anyone I know use Google because we trust or respect it, we use it because it works well.
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by iy56 14y ago
This is a social integration feature and not part of their DRM.
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by iy56 14y ago
Pirating the software does not do anything here. The security hole is not related to the DRM and pirated versions come with the same UPlay installs as legitimate copies.
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by iy56 14y ago
So like he said, over a decade ago.
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by iy56 14y ago
>You should just take them at face value for what they are. The problem is that this is impossible for most people.
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by iy56 14y ago
If yours were, perhaps. But if everyone's thoughts were constantly being broadcast, we'd learn to accept that sometimes people think strange thoughts, and that it's silly to care so much about it.
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by iy56 14y ago
There was even another recent HN submission in the same spirit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4005906 Smoking is forbidden on airplanes. But if someone does smoke, it's better that they have an ashtray available rather than starting
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by iy56 14y ago
If I never signed up for a twitter account and only signed into one for the first time using these leaked passwords, I haven't agreed to any terms of service.
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Google thinks Jim Doyle is still governor of Wisconsin(google.com)
4 points by iy56 14y ago|4 comments
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by iy56 15y ago
The video of that talk (relevant portion here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA ) is available further down the page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693327
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by iy56 15y ago
Collecting information pursuant to a legitimate search warrant?
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by iy56 15y ago
It's not completely useful, nor is it completely useless. As long as it is possible to be a "good" investor, in the sense of making lots of money, it can still be somewhat useful. If you continue to bet on people who made successful inves
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by iy56 15y ago
Of course you don't get a guarantee. People who are looking for one are stupid. You get a betting advantage - as long as you accept that it is possible to be a "good" investor, in the sense of making lots of money. If you continue to bet on
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by iy56 15y ago
Investing money produces measurable results. It is possibly to verify that someone is a successful investor without knowing why he is successful.
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by iy56 15y ago
Paying someone like him a fee to choose stocks for you seems like a much better strategy to me.
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by iy56 15y ago
Use a VM
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by iy56 15y ago
What does it mean to be "culturally literate" here exactly? Able to speak Chinese?
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by iy56 15y ago
Except that's not true at all. http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/4504-1 is the brick list for the Millienium Falcon set. The minifigures are clearly specific to the Star Wars franchise, but aside from the minifig accessories and maybe half a
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by iy56 15y ago
Huxley said >Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better So why would you read it as a claim that "it's OK for Apple to do this"? He's just pointing out an interesting bit of history.
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by iy56 15y ago
You can't, really, but if he checks his email more often than once a month, he may act on the message that says "xxx has added you as a friend, please confirm."
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by iy56 15y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to decline calling something a "product" if it doesn't make money. A widget company might produce a lot of memos in its daily operation, and might have its own cafeteria that produces food for its employees. But I
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by iy56 15y ago
Why is that a necessary quality for smartness? Amazon seems to be doing quite well in spite of it.
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by iy56 15y ago
"Why aren't these topics on your list" is perfectly relevant to a presentation on "subjects a generalist engineer should know."
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by iy56 15y ago
And if you visit the parent page ( http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/ ), you can search for a term and see it's graph, along with strongly correlated queries.
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by iy56 15y ago
Major healthcare IT companies like Centricity and Epic already provide iPad apps for physicians to use. drchrono says their biggest competition is paper charts because everyone that already has an electronic records system would rather use
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by iy56 15y ago
The x/100000 is per year. The 1/5 number is over a woman's lifetime. Still seems fishy to me, though.
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Sony Music Japan website hacked via SQL injection: "Stupid Sony, so very stupid"(technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by iy56 15y ago|0 comments
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by iy56 15y ago
Opera allows you to search from the URL bar, and customize these searches. By default, you can type "w foo" to search wikipedia, "g bar" to search Google, etc. You can also very easily remove the search bar, which is separate by default.
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by iy56 15y ago
Their lawyers tell them that an apology is an admission of fault.
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by iy56 16y ago
No, it's intentional.

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