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by jxcole 15y ago
I wish we had this in the US. I would much rather pay $2 a month for talking and text than the ridiculous prices that the phone companies charge.
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by jxcole 15y ago
So much better than before...but still not quite where I would like them to be. I feel like a game like that made huge advances by using talented actors and scanning in the faces. They overcame a lot of the uncanny valley that was there bef
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by jxcole 15y ago
The most unrealistic things in video games for me are faces. While increasing polygon counts and such will certainly help, I can't help but notice that faces will never cross the uncanny valley unless they can do something about the lightin
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by jxcole 15y ago
I find this one the most worrying: "In 2008, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) obtained a temporary restraining order to prevent a talk at DEFCON by three MIT students who had uncovered physical and logical security hole
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by jxcole 15y ago
I would agree except that a bunch of companies just bought some patents for $4.5 billion. If patents become ineffective, the value of that purchase is $0. Very few companies are going to look on this as a positive thing.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Why does Anonymous focus so much on attacking the US government (and related rich democratic countries) when it could instead be focused on fighting the governments that are actually oppressive? Nothing the US has ever done, even at it's mo
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by jxcole 15y ago
+1 for correlation with ancient Greek mythology. I seriously recommend Prometheus Unbound for a more modern treatment of the subject. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/prometheus.html
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by jxcole 15y ago
I think they may be shooting themselves in the foot with all this litigation against copy infringers. Once it becomes impractical to share files using bit torrent, people will probably just switch to mildly less convenient but more secure m
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by jxcole 15y ago
Awesome observation. Another interesting tidbit. Imagine that bitcoin became the de-facto currency. Not only would the government be unable to tax, it would also be unable to control the financial systems it uses to affect markets. For exam
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by jxcole 15y ago
Not necessarily. If it became apparent that people could pay each other in bitcoins without being taxed, there would, eventually, be no point in have USDs at all.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Except that most of the articles are critical of bitcoin, making others less likely to adopt it, losing those early adopters possible cash. Then again, the only thing worse than being talked badly about is not being talked about.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Ok come on, there was no need for them to go to war with Russia AT ALL, if Hitler had focused on Britain and waited until the West was completely defeated (a few years at the most), he would not have lost. Russia divided the Germans in a wa
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by jxcole 15y ago
Totally not copyright. Copyright applies to software too, but patents are the one everyone cares about. The idea of patenting plots is a good one. In fact, it might even be legal _except_ that everything that can be done in a book has been
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by jxcole 15y ago
Cool idea. They are taking the LLVM and making more back ends. It would be cool if they could support as many back-ends as Haxe. I've developed in Haxe before and I can say I much prefer it to writing in javascript directly. I hope these pr
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by jxcole 15y ago
I believe I have read, though please correct me if I'm wrong, that there is a problem with current printing methods. The way that microchips are built is sort of like those projectors we used to have in class; you would dark out certain pla
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by jxcole 15y ago
My dad works in the airplane industry and had an interesting story to tell me that relates to this. (I'm not sure exactly how accurate it is or what the source is, sorry). Apparently, it is illegal for pilots to read while flying. Even if t
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by jxcole 15y ago
I may be pointing out the obvious here, but a man from a newspaper hates the internet. The internet is killing newspapers. This probably isn't a coincidence. I am especially convinced of this because of the irrational arguments presented, a
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by jxcole 15y ago
This article complains specifically about not being able to copy from a book in public domain to somewhere else. If you are seriously having this problem, I recommend checking out http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page They have a lot of
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by jxcole 15y ago
http://www.freekorea.us/2011/05/16/un-report-implicates-chin...
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by jxcole 15y ago
Laughable. On 26 March 2010 the North Korean military launched a torpedo sinking a US ally's warship, killing 46 of it's 108 crew during a time of peace. The Cheonan represented a significant loss to the South Korean people, and though econ
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by jxcole 15y ago
In general, software is EITHER trivial to copy OR the problem is non-trivial. I would be surprised to hear of any patents covering something that falls into both categories.
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by jxcole 15y ago
Couldn't disagree more. Sure, as a society of wanna-be/successful code entrepreneurs, we are more likely to be affected by this issue. But that doesn't mean the issue isn't substantive. It is more accurate to say that the majority of people
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by jxcole 15y ago
You know, I heard PG argue this in his software patent article, and I don't buy it. In the end, necessity is the mother of invention. Software engineers invent things because they need them. They would not, by default, either try to keep it
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by jxcole 15y ago
Sorry to be a nay sayer, but it won't work. If this requirement were set in place, a patent troll will get around it by hiring a coder for a week to get something out really quick that does something nobody needs and then they'll sell one c
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by jxcole 15y ago
Cool idea. An exchange of knowledge. Sadly, I neither live in San Fransisco nor am I an expert in Django/Python. However, I have a general question for you: For those of us who are unable to pair with you, do you have any recommendation on
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An incredible kinetic sculpture of San Francisco(thisiscolossal.com)
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by jxcole 15y ago
I appreciate that symbols can be an odd way to represent every day quantitative problems, but I have never had a problem with it. Sure, some people do, but this guy seems really royally pissed off at ordinary mathematics. I have always been
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by jxcole 15y ago
Well written, but a little out of proportion. I doubt any one would have taken these allegations seriously.
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by jxcole 15y ago
No. I am not a physicist, but my understanding is that certain devices that have been proposed for use in space manipulation devices (e.g. wormholes, alcubierre drive), require either a form of matter that has reverse gravity or thousands o
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by jxcole 15y ago
Interesting. My Dad once sued microsoft because they had many "temporary" workers who did not get the full benefit of full time workers. These workers were labelled as contract workers however, he was able to win his case because at the end

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