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by maqr 15y ago
How many people out there care enough to run a daemon on their home computers to participate in a decentralized file replication system? That's a nice theoretical thing for nerds, but nobody will ever do it, right? P2P exploded once people
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The Rootkit Of All Evil – CIQ(xda-developers.com)
120 points by maqr 15y ago|20 comments
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by maqr 15y ago
Between the donation lock-out from every major bank, the heavily biased media coverage, and the clearly false charges against Assange, this has become too painful to watch. All of this for a guy trying to create a press outlet that tells th
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by maqr 15y ago
I prefer no app at all. For example, if you visit YouTube's mobile site on iOS, it has a neat little javascript animation that directs you on how to add it to your home screen. Once it's on the home screen, it feels like I'm opening an ap
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by maqr 15y ago
I have my cell phone's voicemail use Google Voice and it's a huge improvement over T-Mobile's voicemail. I also give out my Google Voice number and it rings both my cell phone and my always-open Gmail window at the same time. If I'm at my c
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by maqr 15y ago
I don't have a huge interest in social networking, but the landing page doesn't give me any compelling reason to sign up or learn more (other than knowing you're an HN'er). I might not be the target demographic (somebody without a Facebook
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Freeing energy from the grid(ted.com)
1 points by maqr 15y ago|0 comments
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by maqr 15y ago
> If Wikileaks were a terrorist organisation (blowing up buildings and people and whatnot), I'd understand governments to force a ban. We're pretty sure they're not considered a terrorist organization... right?
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by maqr 15y ago
Those pills can raise your blood-pressure, so maybe that's cause of your problem? Next time that happens, take your blood pressure and see if it's higher than expected.
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by maqr 15y ago
From the rules: > Any attempt to disrupt the normal operation of the contest software or the contest servers will result in the immediate involvement of law enforcement officials. Our policy is to always prosecute. I get that people sho
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by maqr 15y ago
I noticed that too. It seems like it's formatted to make skimming easier, but that actually caused me to read the entire thing.
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by maqr 15y ago
Is there any reason why this hasn't been done? It is certainly a strange business method of acquiring intellectual property for the sole purpose of locating and suing unknowing infringers. Perhaps you can only patent the method that you us
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by maqr 15y ago
The people who most need to read this document will never read it.
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by maqr 15y ago
I'm pretty sure if you or me infringe on copyright, the damages aren't estimated according to the market rate... but I'm curious how this works for the BBC.
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by maqr 15y ago
> PHP is exactly like C. Either you like both or you don’t like either, there is no claim you can make about PHP that can’t be made about C as well, and vice versa. This is absolutely satire. I don't think anyone can troll much harder
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by maqr 15y ago
So it should be a pretty easy hack to disable NSSupportsAutomaticTermination across all apps, if somebody felt so inclined.
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by maqr 15y ago
Spain generally seems to have the right take on intellectual property. They also do not allow software patents. I wonder if Spain could become the new hub for startups.
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by maqr 15y ago
In case anyone is unaware, Web.com is a pretty evil company. From my experience with them, their practice is to sign up businesses to build a website, but Web.com retains ownership of the domain name. They make it difficult and costly to m
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by maqr 15y ago
These views about piracy seem almost identical to the pirates' views about piracy. Many nfo files include things like "try before buy" or "if you like this release, please buy it".
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by maqr 15y ago
That's only really true of the remotely exploitable ones like jailbreakme. DFU mode exploits aren't a security threat.
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by maqr 15y ago
If you're interested in keyboards, this is the place to be looking: http://www.overclock.net/keyboards/491752-mechanical-keyboar...
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by maqr 15y ago
Usually, yeah. In this particular case, however, it was more about political activism and voluntary participation. People organized to use their individual computers to make their collective voice heard. If this were actually some kind of
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by maqr 15y ago
My cable provider (Comcast) does not provide these channels, so the only way I can get BBC content is to listen to the radio versions online or tune in for an hour a day or so on BBC America (which really sucks). I would love to just be abl
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by maqr 15y ago
If you assume an MTU of 1500 bytes, then this kid sent about 5.25MB worth of data.
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by maqr 15y ago
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible
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by maqr 15y ago
I'm trying to avoid doing precisely that, but I want into Google+... I wish they would just add support for Apps domains.
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by maqr 15y ago
> without a lot of red tape and hassles and registering as a business I don't know if there have been any horror stories yet, but the reality is that in our society, you need those protections offered by registering as a business and de
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by maqr 15y ago
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible
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by maqr 15y ago
I'm impressed that they "get" twitter and were able to tweet the events with pictures in a sensible reporter-like timeline. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have police doing this sort of thing, but at least it reads well.
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by maqr 15y ago
> Hacker News is _very_ full of over-confident people, believe me . Heh.

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