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by maqr 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand the point of webOS. If Android is maturing quickly and free-as-in-speech, why wouldn't HP simply adopt that? I can understand Apple carving out their own proprietary path, because of their legions of fans and wide
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by maqr 16y ago
I don't get CNN International or BBC News on Comcast, but I do think it's amusing that every time CNN needs real reporting (like when the Egypt story broke), they just cut to CNN International, where at least some level of real reporting is
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by maqr 16y ago
How about Flash? I'm pretty sure you can have as many open connections as you want that way.
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by maqr 16y ago
That sounds much more reasonable. I appreciate what the author is saying, but his thesis isn't really well supported: > Here’s the reality: if you’re not the type of person who can create freedom without a million dollars, you probably
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by maqr 16y ago
Those aren't the right kind of questions. How about: Is prohibition good for society? Who is benefiting from prohibition? Should people be allowed to willfully consume drugs of their choosing? To answer your question, I think most peopl
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by maqr 16y ago
Where do I click "I agree"?
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by maqr 16y ago
> But the U.S. military is telling its troops to stop using CDs, DVDs, thumb drives and every other form of removable media — or risk a court martial. I'm pretty sure anyone stealing the data is already risking a court martial. If the s
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by maqr 16y ago
DNS is not "the internet". If an ICANN-free system was setup, the "internet" still continues to operate exactly as expected, but the way of resolving addresses has changed. This is one of the few articles where "internet" vs "DNS" actually
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by maqr 16y ago
I wish they would announce this sort of things months ahead of time. It's so hard to plan around contract renewals. I just bought a G2, but would much rather have had this.
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by maqr 16y ago
Not true. It just has write-protection. It only looks like it's "restoring" because linux is caching FS writes, but never gets to flush them. See here for details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vis...
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The 70 Online Databases that Define Our Planet(technologyreview.com)
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by maqr 16y ago
Comcast is going about it in a way that consumers won't understand. I've seen a lot of people expecting things like tiered pricing (think the "YouTube package"), but this is much more dangerous. Comcast is going to isolate the content upst
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by maqr 16y ago
YQL for Yahoo Finance is a useful way of querying it. I'm not sure where you go if they don't have the information that you need though.
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by maqr 16y ago
Just as a note, HTC uses something called "ExtUSB" which lets them get extra pins (and therefore features) out of something that can still do normal USB functions (like charging, syncing, etc). http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.ph
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by maqr 16y ago
Include engineering in this.
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by maqr 16y ago
This seemed glaringly obvious to me, but I guess he wouldn't have had anything to write about then.
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by maqr 16y ago
I'm upvoting this so people can see how bad CNN's "reporting" has become. The article headline is a question. Is that bad reporting? They've done no prodding at the Swedish government or anyone involved, so they have no new information. Th
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by maqr 16y ago
Because Google (and everyone else) will just ignore the obviously-public record of your name change and just not index that? And why stop at one name change? Why not allow people to create as many identities as they'd like? And why not mu
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by maqr 16y ago
You speak some depressing truth.
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by maqr 16y ago
Some people use drugs for life-enhancement. You probably don't read HN because your life sucks, or play video games because your life sucks, or watching sporting events because your life sucks. For some people, drugs are just another enjoy
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by maqr 16y ago
When did sendmail become "not difficult"? I thought it was one of the largest and hardest to configure daemons out there.
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by maqr 16y ago
This is all so absurd. Why is anyone mad at Google over this Verizon thing? Is Verizon so evil that just talking to them about the future of networks is enough for Google to be evil by association? (Actually, don't answer that.) The arg
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by maqr 16y ago
Fair enough, but we've complacently accepted "internet" as a service, like electricity or water. I think this is a bad model. We need to figure out why we don't have more providers, then we need to lower the barriers to entry, so that we
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by maqr 16y ago
As an American, my observation is that the FCC always sells out to the highest bidder or the loudest complainer. That's why all of our cell providers have a different band allocated to them, and why AT&T got the best GSM band while T-Mo
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by maqr 16y ago
I think we need to define "prioritization". Is it prioritized to stop a DoS attack? How about to make SIP travel faster through the network than web traffic? What about things like DOCSIS, allowing quick bursts of fast speeds for your cab
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by maqr 16y ago
I've been watching it the whole time, and I still have absolutely no idea what's going on.
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by maqr 16y ago
I'm impressed that they did their homework on that one :)
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by maqr 16y ago
But since we're talking about Kurzweil... let's define "human" first.
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by maqr 16y ago
I bought SC2 and it's a good game. The licensing system is absurd though. The more interesting part is that the license is non-transferable, which is true for almost all MMOs, but this is the first 'normal' game that I think I've purchase
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by maqr 16y ago
Yeah, that bothered me too, but I suppose it does feel very alien to have something so very abnormal growing from within. I don't think people realize that cancer is just a very slightly modified you. Hitch factually knows this, I'm sure,

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