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How to buy an Android phone(esr.ibiblio.org)
1 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
If use the J2SE code (which is GPL with classpath exception) you can't run the TCK. Without passing the TCK you can't call it Java, and you don't get the patent license. See here: http://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html If
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by jancona 16y ago
You'd better consult a lawyer I if you're planning on running anything other than GPL software on a phone, because I'm pretty sure the classpath exception doesn't apply on mobile platforms, meaning that anything you run on the GPL JVM must
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Thinking about HTML and XML(norman.walsh.name)
3 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Instead of just complaining, why don't these guys review the machines as-delivered, with the bloatware in place? That would give the potential consumer an idea of what there up against.
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by jancona 16y ago
The real point isn't piracy, it's that the band and the record company lost the sale! They had a customer ready to give them money and they failed to get it. At that point whether he pirated it or did without is irrelevant. Talking about pi
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by jancona 16y ago
You should re-read the article. Caplan didn't say knowing how to play the piano is worthless, he said "Unless you love music from the bottom of your heart, a career in music is folly." Chua wasn't just encouraging her daughters to practice
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by jancona 16y ago
I got a kick out log this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=393989
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What happened to feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4?(decafbad.com)
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New Metallic Glass Is The Toughest, Strongest Material Yet(gizmodo.com)
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Today’s Award for the Silliest Theory of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act(volokh.com)
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by jancona 16y ago
A longer treatment of these issues that's still relevant today is "A Note on Distributed Computing" by Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, Jim Waldo and Samuel C. Kendall: http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html
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Hanson on the Technological Singularity(econtalk.org)
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Apache Subversion to WANdisco: +1 on the code contributions, -1 on the attitude(blogs.apache.org)
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by jancona 16y ago
They also have substantially fewer carbs--which is Taubes' point. By reducing your caloric intake you also reduced your carbohydrate intake, and so you don't know which was responsible for your weight loss.
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by jancona 16y ago
Someone donated one of these to my high school in the early 70's: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0672.jpg I wrote (in assembler) a terminal-based football simulation based on what I remembered of a program I had played on an ASR-33
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Newspaper Lawsuit Factory Sues Over ‘Death Ray’ Image(wired.com)
1 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Of course, most users have never even heard of VPNs. Does anyone offer easy-to-use VPN services to end users? If not, is that a potential business opportunity? (Not that I have a clue on how to make money at it. I can't imagine getting user
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by jancona 16y ago
Isn't part of the problem that the current wifi encryption standards require client authentication in order to get encryption, but don't normally provide any authentication of the AP. In other words, in order to get a WPA2 encrypted connect
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by jancona 16y ago
Great story. I read it back when it came out, but lost the link somewhere along the way. Thanks for posting it!
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by jancona 16y ago
They told me if I voted for McCain the government would become ever more secretive and unaccountable...
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The Amazon Boycott: Blaming a Victim(econlog.econlib.org)
1 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 16y ago
Are you saying the original open source Sipdroid ( http://code.google.com/p/sipdroid/ ) is adware? If so, why don't you remove the ad code and publish a clean version? You can, it's open source. Or are you talking about the many clones that
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What You Have That George Vanderbilt Didn't(econlog.econlib.org)
4 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine(searchengineland.com)
3 points by jancona 16y ago|0 comments
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What it's like to have sex with someone with Asperger's(blog.penelopetrunk.com)
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Groklaw accused of censorship(m.zdnet.com)
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Three cheers for Daniel Radcliffe, geek(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Response from Oracle to Apache on JCP(blogs.oracle.com)
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by jancona 16y ago
Because the JCP process that Sun agreed to says they are obligated to. Obviously they can renege, but Apache is pointing out that if they do, the JCP is a sham, in which Apache will refuse to participate.

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