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White House responds to anti-SOPA petition with calls for new legislation(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
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by knorby 12y ago
Given that the drivers agreed to buy the SUVs in the first place, I'm not sure what else Lyft could really be expected to do here. They helped the drivers sell the SUVs and sent them a fairly sizable bit of compensation. A lot of car s
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by knorby 12y ago
People don't actually care about the camera thing. It is a stated reason to dislike Glass, but the average person gets recorded in all manner of forms while traveling in public that it is hard to believe that the camera aspect is reall
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by knorby 12y ago
Solaris SMF came out at around the same time as launchd, which looks a bit more like systemd. I don't think there is one single origin to these systems.
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by knorby 12y ago
They don't favor anyone, they simply charge for an unbiased service that only traders with considerable other infrastructure investments would care about, and at the $1500/mo cost based on the WSJ being cited, it's nothing. T
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by knorby 12y ago
He's pretty terrible at sound bites apparently. See the full quotation in this case in comments, and if you are curious, look up the CNBC interview you are citing. His basic statement in that case was that Google and other services hav
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by knorby 12y ago
Well, there were basically a few different strategies to produce U-235 during the war. For Hiroshima, most of the Uranium came from a very temporary but quicker to setup using an electromagnetic process at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, and that ended
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by knorby 12y ago
The QoS issue wasn't that bittorrent was blocked, but that ISPs were heavily deprioritizing bittorrent and potentially other unwanted traffic through packet inspection. It is and was very much something opposed by net neutrality advoca
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by knorby 12y ago
There was at least some effort to legalize them in California: http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/03/11/california-bill-would... Though the CA DMV seems to classify them as motor scooters: http:/&#x2
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by knorby 13y ago
I don't think the trailers did much in the way of demoing the movie's focus on UI. People just murmured commands, and in the case of the AIs, conversations. I have Google Glass, and the pre-AI UI experience was extremely similar,
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by knorby 13y ago
What if it was a spam email from a bot impersonating Google+? I occasionally scan my spam, and it doesn't seem out of the question. Once printed out, would you be sure that all judge/prosecutors would notice or want to notice? Re
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by knorby 13y ago
Large, multi-billion dollar projects have been cancelled by the US in the past for merely being over-budget for too long. The NSA does quite a bit that I doubt would even be at risk of going on the chopping block, though I really have no id
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by knorby 14y ago
I don't see how Glass is even close to DOA. Modern smartphones and tablets are the descendants of product lines with long histories and experienced user bases. Outside of research projects and limited use systems, Glass has little to go on,
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by knorby 14y ago
> That doesn't really say much, at the range he was firing and for his skill level, a shotgun may have been the optimal weapon for "number of people hit." And he hit a lot of people, but the AR-15 would have led to a lot more people dea
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by knorby 14y ago
"This man was apparently very smart and motivated, there was nothing we could have realistically done to prevent this. Look at Norway, they have stricter gun regulation than we do, yet they still had a mass shooting with a death toll that d
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by knorby 15y ago
I know someone who has worked on similar experiments, and he was able to predict the fault that caused this problem upon first hearing about it, and a fair number of similar people were able to do the same. Someone who is too anxious to ann
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by knorby 15y ago
It will give greater legitimacy to other sites protesting, just from news reports including google on the list of companies taking part. I'm guessing the news stories will end of having much more influence than whatever google links to.
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by knorby 15y ago
Amazon isn't the one free-riding there--it is the customer in the store. If Amazon didn't have a bar-code scanner in their app, or even an app at all, I would still check store items versus Amazon on my phone. It is fair to say that local s
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by knorby 15y ago
It is meant to be a bit painful in all circumstances. It isn't a pleasant way to die, but it doesn't look all that bad to watch, which is why it is used. Pain and trauma free measures like nitrogen asphyxiation aren't used for that reason;
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by knorby 15y ago
They work pretty actively with amazon on any of these massive clusters. They call ahead of time and try and find a good time (US night), etc, as I remember hearing.
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Lying is a pretty common reaction of some people to stressful situations, especially when they have something to hide. If you are testifying at a trial, you will have had time to collect your thoughts and prepare yourself for the situation,
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by knorby 15y ago
I saw this going around a bit last month: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tax-the-super-rich-or-revol... It is all speculation, so none of these predictions really should be called 'news,' but people have been known to riot over jobs or
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by knorby 15y ago
So they should just start rioting instead, like many are predicting will happen sometime next year?
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In what way do they have that capacity? That they let him and others clear trades (and made no policy against it) in the window between the trade and rollback, and that their policy pretty much doesn't give them the power to do rollbacks, I
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by knorby 16y ago
I really doubt there is a person out there who will read about this tomorrow and has not heard of Bing, considering how much advertising Bing still does. You also have to consider how any CNN type article of this post will read; the points
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by knorby 16y ago
The rudimentary copy protection of Flash/Silverlight can't be overlooked with this decision. I can't imagine the likes of Hulu or Netflix to ever seriously think that they would be allowed to support a HTML5 player. Only the likes of Youtub
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by knorby 16y ago
Looking through all the comparisons, Google Maps is also the only non-ugly one.
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by knorby 16y ago
Twitter creates one of the best interfaces possible for a person to filter through messages. 140 characters is a big part of that, but I think profile pictures play a pretty serious role in that too. I can go through a massive number of twe
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by knorby 16y ago
I don't think removing the 140 character limit would be bad necessarily, as long as only 140 characters are displayed by until a "view full tweet" option is invoked. The problem is that people will complete a thought over multiple tweets, s
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by knorby 16y ago
This works just fine for me on FF: http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5/selecti... I am guessing they put in some tricks in the validation here too.

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