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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Oh yeah. See their recent abuses of perceived power to shut down web sites they (or their supporters) don't like: https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=city+of+london+police
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
But the freeze/boil numbers are arbitrary as well only being true at sea-level. Where I live in Colorado, we're 1 mile (cough, 1.6 km) above sea level meaning those formulas are meaningless.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Reminds me of the attempts to extract audio from the groves on ancient spun pots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoacoustics#Past_interpret...
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I've got a Pebble - It's much easier for me to glance at my wrist to get the date, time, weather, or to tell who that email came from rather than fishing my phone out of my pocket - especially when driving. On the downside, it&#x2
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
The "Stories" feature does get some things wrong, but I find it cool. I don't use Google Calendar, so it's not getting data from that for me. Here's a recent example that it did for me with pretty good results: htt
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I would guess in almost every case, the purpose of free wifi is not to do any sort of tracking, it's just to get you in the door. I know that I've picked hotels and other establishments based on the availability of free wifi.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Interesting... Nice that IOS gives you a warning. I wonder if Android does the same?
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I seem to recall that there's an authentication handshake in place with modern protocols so your phone won't connect to any random "cell tower" to prevent abuse like this. Anybody know for sure? But of course if the poli
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
> Black people can't be racist in any way that really counts Rolls eyes.. Tell that to this guy that it doesn't really matter: http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/04/04/white-man-beaten-by-m...
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
OS Kernel in JS? As seen many times before on Hacker News (And it still blows my mind) just go whole hog: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Rolls eyes...
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Apple, Samsung reportedly want to settle all patent disputes(cnet.com)
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
This appears to be from 2011. Must not have panned out. I noticed that they were concentrating on running apps and didn't get into phone capabilities such as dialing, receiving calls, etc. Likely would need dual sims...
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I recall reading a while back about an attempt to extract sound from the groves in ancient pots that were spun upon a potter's wheel. My recollection is that the attempt was unsuccessful, but wouldn't that be something to be able
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
When I first saw that picture, I thought that the guy had peed his pants in fear that he had offended the "Dear Great Leader"
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"Does Lebron James balk if President Obama gives him a tip on his jumper?" - No he just rolls his eyes... But Dennis Rodman better not try that in North Korea if he wants to come home in one piece.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Is it just me, or does anyone else think the term "fired" is improper in cases like this? I think the more appropriate term for when a company is changing direction, leaving a market, etc. is "laid-off". To me, "fir
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Yes. And they haven't changed. See their slimy Android extortion techniques which taxes millions of smartphones based on some highly questionable patents and also their recent FUD-based ad campaigns.
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Uh, does that cartoon rendition of "Cortana" remind anyone else of the Corpse Bride? http://whatculture.com/film/tim-burton-ranking-his-movies-fr... Creepy...
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
How long emotional impressions last? I'm sure there are good folks at Microsoft, but the company hasn't changed. Like those awful, nasty political campaign ads? Microsoft haired one of the main practitioners to promote Windows: h
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
In 2012 Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's health funding was $732 billion. And I don't know how you get rid of SS since the government would still need to make payments that are higher than any typical basic income level. http:&
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
You'd guess wrong. In 2012 the entire defense budget was $689 Billion. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Sounds like another Jackson shakedown that will benefit his children: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19810901&id=p... [edit, here's another] http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
"I've had enough Fords as rental cars to know that that software is utter garbage" Same here. Last one I rented, I really, really struggled just to tune to a radio station. I eventually got it tuned but several minutes later
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
No joke - One of my friends was amazed the day he was at another friend's house and noticed that she had one of those great-big ashtrays attached to her treadmill to allow walking and smoking at the same time...
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Same here, works fine. Disclaimer: My brother works on it at Google :-)
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I recall that in the late 90's there was a regulation in place that forced the phone and cable companies to lease their coax or DSL lines to competitors who wanted to offer service as an ISP. I recall getting mailers from various littl
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
If they were able to let multiple companies offer service over their community-owned dumb pipes, that would indeed be ideal. But my recollection is that were hiring a single private ISP to manage it all. Maybe they were too small for Comcas
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
I recall reading an article a while back about a neighborhood that had a fiber network that was put in when the community was built as a selling point. Every single house had fiber in place for TV, Phone and Internet. Sounds great! Right? I
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
Yeah, I'm a bit torn on these bills. They sound awful, but there are issues that all the tech-sites seem to ignore. I'm all for competition, competition, competition. We need more competition! But when municipalities get into the

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