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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
I am really enjoying the Google Music service. For me, the strongest feature is the recommendation engine. I've found a lot of new music in a variety of genres that way. I treat it as a music exposure platform. I pay my 8 bucks a mont
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
So the true issue is less to do with the restrictions on the account and more on the absolutely absurd DRM placed on the content. I can leave my collection of CDs to whomever I would like (along with the digital library I keep on my hard dr
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
A personal HUD with no way to be context sensitive (ie no camera) is dead in the water. I'm biased because Im working in this space. but, I believe context aware augmented reality is the killer app for wearables. Honestly, the people w
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
One factor is diversity of options. Only a generation ago if you wanted information you would turn to a book, newspaper, or some other printed media. Now the people reading newspapers can get faster and better news online. The people readin
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
If BTC is to ever become a serious currency it needs stability and market penetration. You don't "invest" in a currency, that's really not very useful for doing the things currency is useful for (i.e buying necessities).
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
Amusingly enough, I think a large part of why people aren't more scared are sentiments like the ones you just expressed. It is plainly not "just like the Stasi are here" and the average person can see that. By overstating t
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
To be fair, that is (was?) the entire point of facebook. Allowing people to connect and answering the question "Remember that girl "Jane Doe" from college, what is she up to?" was basically the killer feature.
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
First off, congrats to you for success. I certainly agree that it's very possible to break into this space at pretty much any stage in your life. However, I think you have the cause and effect of attitudes toward non-children backwards
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
To clear up your points: the missed payment in question was not for a single starship but for the structure that designates control over a system. Simplified, the mechanics are such that so long as this structure exists taking the system is
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
That particular graph has several issues. The first of which is the lack of scale. It's set up so the tail ends nicely around $100 dollars a day when in reality it should extend over 2 orders magnitude to the right. When talking about
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
Adding to that is the strange fascination with slippery slope on the internet. It's so bad that people will start by calling their own argument a slippery slope and implying that that makes it logically sound. Removing that from discu
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
As the law stands it looks like it is illegal ( http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html section 3 subsection D [or search for link]). It looks like the linker is only protected if they don't have knowledge t
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
There is no reason to believe that an nfc controled lock is any less secure than a traditional physical tumbler lock. In fact, if set up correctly (well sealed pannel, sound generation of keys, etc), it could be significantly more secure si
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
I think the biggest deal is the profit aspect of the situation. If there was a person earning money for every person that he tells where Tarantino's script (in some fashion analogous to Gawker's add revenue from site hits) is your
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
That is the fundamental misconception in regards to the crypto-currrency and (in my opinion) indicative of why they will probably never catch on in any mainstream fashion. If the currency was successful, the end user was never intended to b
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
I'm sorry but calling it "work" as if doing something mentally fulfilling is a dirty word and implying that employees need (or even want) to work intellectually meaningless work is just ridiculous. A young person (your dreade
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
If you're using the mouse and interacting with windows 8 features you probably aren't having a good time. However, you have no reason to. As of 8.1 you can boot straight into the desktop, if you're a power user (or aren'
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
The parent comment was being sarcastic. He was using the obvious example of schools to illustrate what a ridiculous idea the notion that public roads are somehow not a public good if one person happens not to use them.
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
The problem is it is not about your freedom and safety. It's about the freedom and safety of others. Herd-Immunity is essential for protecting those who can't be vacinated because of allergies or age. By refusing vaccinating you a
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
The problem is by taking those laptops Snowden moved from being a whistleblower (a status that can be protected by laws and at least gives him a case in court) to an explict lawbreaker in the fact that US has strict export control laws gove
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by lordCarbonFiber 13y ago
Just a minor note, Snowden has been in no way prescient. Everyone that works with confidential information has to be briefed on export control and the associated consequences for security violations. I know he's pretty popular around h