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by kiloaper 15y ago
I disagree. Alcohol is claiming more and more lives from liver disease and throat and stomach cancer in the UK [1] and Ireland. It's not just drink driving that's a problem, but also the death toll from alcohol abuse over the long term whic
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by kiloaper 15y ago
I think Facebook is more entrenched than myspace ever was and that'll make it more resilient. Now everyone is on Facebook not just teenagers, e.g. my 50yr+ aunts and uncles who would have been PC-phobic before. That'll make it harder to l
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by kiloaper 15y ago
>then everyone will leave I don't know. Massive UI changes, a growing creepiness factor and privacy scandals may have caused a tiny number of people, myself included, to leave but I think you underestimate people's ability to suffer thr
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by kiloaper 15y ago
The number one reason for me would be because lots of the things covered on HN tend to be US focused to the point that people forget anywhere else exists. I'm tired of articles praising some service provider or payment processor only to fin
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by kiloaper 15y ago
There are a few existing applications. Autodesk have released a hobbyist package ( http://www.123dapp.com/ ) and there's online ones as well ( https://tinkercad.com/ ). OpenSCAD is my choice because it allows you to parametrically design ob
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by kiloaper 15y ago
They have shown scant regard for their users privacy in the past.[1][2] I deleted my account as a result. [1] http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/linkedins-soc... [2] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390998,00.asp
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Symphony was based on an old OpenOffice code base and is now dead. IBM is joining the Apache OpenOffice project and will be releasing their own IBM branded OpenOffice in the future. http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-sy
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by kiloaper 15y ago
It's not acceptable to a lot of people, like me, who consider it an unacceptable violation of a persons human rights. It's hard to fight against an entrenched practice especially when speaking out against it leads to accusations of religiou
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by kiloaper 15y ago
This is also significant because it's an ARM tablet. Up until now all the Plasma Active demos I've seen have been on x86 tablets. I see it has Mali-400 GPU. Rumour has it that an open source, reverse-engineered driver is on the way. Things
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Not only censorship but also results manipulation. >Prioritize websites that obtain certification as a licensed site under a recognised scheme It's like pressuring map makers to exclude "bad areas" of town where knockoffs are sold, bu
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by kiloaper 15y ago
With counties bringing in even more restrictions on free speech which contradict each other this will be fun. Take the Armenian genocide for example. Denying it will be a crime in France, but claiming it happened can lead to charges of "ins
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by kiloaper 15y ago
You seem to forget that it's not just Americans who consume Hollywood content. NetFlix is great in theory but it's not available to everyone and even when it is the selection can suck. As for 10+Mbps connections? I wish. I had dial-up 4 yea
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Along with ChromeOS, NaCl, Chromebooks and a web app store, Google's plans to kill the conventional Operating System is coming along nicely.
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by kiloaper 15y ago
I question the 'expertise' of a random poster on the internet and the reasons they would go to such lengths (astroturfing does happen, especially with powerful lobbyists in play). I'm no lawyer but just glancing at their 'analysis' I spotte
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Take a look at teardowns of any modern mobile device and you'll see there's nothing really spectacular about the iPhone. It's kind of like saying workers at McDonalds suffer more health problems because their work requires more 'attention'
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by kiloaper 15y ago
That's great. To be honest I'm guilty of copy/paste Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions myself. :)
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by kiloaper 15y ago
So this is thingiverse.com but presumably without the prevention of copyright infringement[1]? As a 3D printer owner Thingiverse is awesome. I encourage people to check it out, if anything just to see how far DIY 3d printers have come. [1]
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by kiloaper 15y ago
In my case ACME = DELL. It says a lot where there are entire forums dedicated to modifying modern NVidia drivers to work on their laptop. 'Modern' being up to 3 years old but still newer than what's on the Dell site. A least Windows 7 will
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by kiloaper 15y ago
I haven't seen the OSX Help menu but I've seen this feature implemented in several other program on Windows and Linux years ago. They don't seem to catch on but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's habit or the fact search seems like more effort or
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by kiloaper 15y ago
So an honest question for the sites operators, who appear to be an injury solicitors. What's the deal with your Privacy Policy [1]? Is it a copy/paste from another site or did you mean it to be that bad? It's the reason I'm telling people n
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Regarding voting I highly recommend the brilliant 1970 comedy The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. It raises interesting questions about how people would react to being about to vote for everything. Here's a brief summary of it stolen from
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by kiloaper 15y ago
No. This is not "SOPA-like" and the author should know this. The article is inaccurate and borderline linkbait. It's ISPs being forced to block sites. It's already happened with the main Irish ISP Eircom and the Pirate Bay, and it's becomin
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by kiloaper 15y ago
That sounds like an awesome way to assist in localisation. By analysing the results you could have one set of icons for your app for western countries, another for China etc. It reminds me of the problems planners had in trying to design ai
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by kiloaper 15y ago
I understand what you mean however the problem is more fundamental than that. It has become the case in the US and abroad that the higher courts are just enforcing existing laws in face of clear violations. With the blank card that is terro
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Doesn't matter. As always the government is 2 steps ahead. Drones are already being deployed in the US: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/15/9476623-domesti...
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by kiloaper 15y ago
We don't have to "make" Apple do anything. There are already people porting Linux and Android on their hardware. See http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
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by kiloaper 15y ago
The future? You mean the present. You also forgot warrantless Backscatter vans scanning vechicles on the roads: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/technology-x-rays-hom...
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by kiloaper 15y ago
The only major project that comes to mind using Mono on multiple platforms for a biggish open source project is OpenSimulator ( http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Build_Instructions ). I wonder how they overcome those issues.
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by kiloaper 15y ago
Doesn't Canonical already have proprietary closed source projects, the server behind Ubuntu One for example?
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by kiloaper 15y ago
I guess Grooveshark strategy of it being "easier to ask for forgiveness later than it is to ask for permission now" has failed. ( http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/grooveshark-emails-on-l... )

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