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by kunai 13y ago
> The Web is going to get DRM one way or another Why should it have to?
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by kunai 13y ago
That's extremely narrow-minded. First of all, the DRM is proprietary. Those using open-source browsers like Firefox or Chromium won't be able to view any sites that push DRM at their will; especially if it's integrated INTO the web standa
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by kunai 13y ago
The only true solution to the problem of DRM is to kill Hollywood. It's unlikely to happen, though. Many others have reiterated on this point, so I'm not going to waste my time iterating yet once more. http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html
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Hacker defaults for OS X(github.com)
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How The Apple Tablet Could Ruin Computing (2009)(popsci.com)
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by kunai 13y ago
This. 60 years ago, wearing anything other than a suit and tie was considered informal. Even just a tucked-in shirt without a tie and black pants was informal dress. Men commonly would be seen in business suits; and usually wore hats as w
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by kunai 13y ago
The main problem is typography and your color scheme. Scarlet and teal just do not go together well. And on typography -- there's no full usage of font weights, so how am I going to tell if something's a heading, or application interface te
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by kunai 13y ago
The thing is, the flat designs created in 10 hours don't look good. Google's semi-flat interface that they're pushing out everywhere is good design. It's clean, simple, but also contains sufficient visual cues to be usable at the same l
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by kunai 13y ago
When is that last time you used cron to schedule jobs? Be honest.
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Ornamental, perhaps?
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by kunai 13y ago
I wonder why no distributions have adopted launchd as their SysV init replacement. Not only does it combine cron, at, and other daemons into init itself, but it's also licensed liberally and would serve as a quite decent replacement for ini
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by kunai 13y ago
I'm quite sick of the hordes of Flat Design submissions clogging the HN frontpage. The issue here is that skeuomorphic UIs are commonly mistaken for "realist" UIs. Any application that resembles a calendar, whether it has fake leather stitc
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by kunai 13y ago
Store hours, probably the Chromebook. She ended up using iOS more because of the versatility of it, but she still uses the Chromebook too.
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by kunai 13y ago
http://imagebin.org/259223 There's no search bar in Safari anymore; the search and path bars are the same thing, just like Chrome. My grandmother didn't have much of a problem with it, all I had to do was tell her they both do the same th
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by kunai 13y ago
Not really; Safari with the 6.0 update is markedly similar to Chrome. There's few differences left in all of the browsers. Most are homogenous with overlapping feature sets. Yeah, sure, Firefox has the advantage of extensions, Chrome has th
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by kunai 13y ago
Well, then sell the Air and get her a Chromebook! $329 for the HP model, and it comes with a lower-res screen (no blurriness) and a very, VERY easy-to-use interface. $1199 for a Web terminal is just way, way too much.
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by kunai 13y ago
If your grandmother only uses Safari... why not buy her a Chromebook instead? More and more general consumers are using their computers as internet terminals. A Mac or any fully-fledged desktop machine is overkill for that, and the Chrome
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by kunai 13y ago
Your analogy is completely flawed. Automakers aren't putting root exploits in vehicles that allow override by the government when it detects you're going to an "unauthorized" music dealer. And are late 60's cars really that bad? There wer
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by kunai 13y ago
At this point, does it even matter? This lobby still has the backing of the entertainment industry, and it doesn't matter if it's stolen IP, trying to create an exemption for installing rootkits on remote machines is the entertainment indus
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by kunai 13y ago
I love to write software, but unfortunately, I don't think that will solve the problem at hand, which is the MPAA's DRM lobby. They have millions and millions of dollars' worth of support behind them. What's a few hundred hackers to a huge
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by kunai 13y ago
Forget black hat; any sane person would organize attacks against the MPAA. I know Anonymous is one of the prime offenders in this area, but I wouldn't be surprised if many on Reddit organized and attacked the MPAA's systems.
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by kunai 13y ago
Do you really think that Aaron Swartz, Larry Lessig and the masses of people protesting Capitol Hill last year when SOPA came around didn't make a difference? They were activists. Do you really think we'd have so much free/open source softw
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by kunai 13y ago
I'm sick and tired of being in such a lazy-ass, apathetic society that possesses zero regard to freedom. Stallman may be a nut, but when you think long and hard about what he says, and think about SOPA, PIPA, and this lobby, in horror, your
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by kunai 13y ago
Nice!
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And another party entirely believes a woman should have the right to do what she wants with her body, and also that gays deserve the right to be married. They also believe in personal freedom and lower spending. Yes, there are parties oth
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by kunai 13y ago
I get two inferences from this: A) The people of this society are turning into safety-obsessed, overly politically correct weaklings or B) The two sides of the political spectrum exist to distract us while they both behind the scenes exist
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by kunai 13y ago
Clever. :)
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by kunai 13y ago
If you're on Linux, AbiWord is excellent. If you're on OS X, Apple Pages is excellent.
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by kunai 13y ago
Sources?
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by kunai 13y ago
Your point stands, but name-calling and sarcasm is just low. Really low. And the Second Amendment was founded for two purposes -- so that this nation would be able to defend itself against an outside force that sought to destroy the U.S.'s

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