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by kenthorvath 14y ago
It's not cheating: it's collaboration. The old models of academic integrity just don't make sense in the digital age. Don't pit students against one another - make them work cooperatively. Don't give grades, assign projects that translate i
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
I would argue this public outcry should have been predicted and is not the kind of sentiment AT&T should be seeking from their customers. They should be adding value to their existing services and getting customers to pay for that added
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Good points. I see that you are well informed and care a great deal, and I really appreciate your thoughts. I think you may be overstating the degree to which my optimism in our ability to advance the technology is harmful, or a disservice.
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
I don't believe there would be a legal basis for taking down a site cataloging metadata about files. The information would be just as useful to copyright holders as it would be to copyright violators (e.g. tracking ownership, issuing takedo
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-decentralized-and-uncenso...
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Tribler was one of the services I had in mind, though I couldn't remember its name and I have limited access to search for such things where I work. But, yes, thanks for the share and the response. I also remember reading about something ca
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Junk files can be catalogued by hashes and hashes can be indexed by wiki services with an API. So, downloaded junk? The app has a report button that flags the wiki. About to download something? The app can check the wiki for you. A wiki of
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Demonoid, while great, is last gen file sharing technology. The convenience and community is what made it great, but that same convenience of having a central server is what allowed it to be targetted in this way. There are other next gener
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Honest question to help me decide if I pay to subscribe: are there ads in this magazine like just about every other magazine I've ever seen? Are there ads in the PDF version?
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Anyone else getting an invalid certificate from Moscow on this site?
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Source code, please.
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Sitting still for 40 hours, then dying after being roused and walking - sounds like he may have had a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot in his legs. Though, this is less common in asians and apparently this happened in Taiwan, so who kno
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
I bought licenses for Coda2, TextMate, and Sublime Text 2. I haven't opened TextMate in months. ST2 I use every day on every machine - including my Windows and Linux machines at work, and my Mac at home. Also, the Vintage plugin gives me cl
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
This happens frequently enough thanks to YouTube's rather non-discriminating python scripts that the value of YouTube is significantly diminished with respect to promoting free and open culture. With all the pandering to copyrightists its b
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Sorry, but my vote is for $foo and $bar, by far.
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Yes, I realize this is most likely an April Fools joke, but serious question: Are there any IRC clients and servers that offer in-built public key cryptography? It seems that IRC should be ideal for such a scheme. Private keys for channels
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the cursor of the hand giving 'the shocker' used for?
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Finally!
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Having worked at the LHC, please let me be the first to point out that there is no such thing (thank God) as the Large HARDON Collider. The author makes this mistake multiple times, and even suggests it as fitting given that it makes "soft/
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Why is it especially important that the author's name is female ("even though it doesn't look like one")? Not only is it not relevant, it reveals a deep personal bias that only serves to taint the rest of the article's assertions. Less of t
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
I'm not so sure this isn't a constitutional question. In Article I, section 8, the U.S. Constitution: Congress shall have power . . . To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventor
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
You're right of course. There are certainly other factors, and scientific rigor is a Good Thing (tm). However, I've found that the older the scientist, the more his or her disposition to say "no" to new ideas - either because the idea is un
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
"the service can't use its genetic testing to give you a heads-up about upcoming disease in your physiology, which is one of the big sells of 23andMe" Nonsense - I have a common variant of one blood clotting factor known to be responsible f
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
But, bear in mind that the iPhone was only ANNOUNCED in 2007, not developed - in fact rumors of an iPad-like device (the basis of the iPhone interface) were circulating for almost a decade prior to the iPhone's announcement. During that tim
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
Solution: Everytime a track is requested by a premium member, if it does not exist in 320 then they send FLAC and the client converts it on the fly while playing it and sends it back to Spotify. Do this 3x for every track and verify that th
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by kenthorvath 15y ago
If anything, this will just force better protocols and more anonymous methods of sharing to do be developed. Piracy will never die, because P2P communication is in the Internet's DNA. The more dramatic the copyright holders' response, the c
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by kenthorvath 16y ago
A much more intriguing and Gattaca-esque approach would be to use this to genetically engineer disease-free children. In the future, you won't have to screen for Tay-Sachs or Cystic Fibrosis, you could just eliminate it from the germline. O
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by kenthorvath 16y ago
Does this mean I will now have an additional array of cell towers to boost my otherwise crappy reception? Will this result in load balancing for AT&T's overwhelmed 3G network?
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by kenthorvath 16y ago
This would work a lot better if there were social integration with your friends and colleagues - maybe scraped from Facebook?
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Is Apple weaning its shareholders from a perceived reliance on Jobs?(kenthorvath.com)
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