martey

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by martey 16y ago
Experiences with wireless carriers in the United States seem heavily dependent on location and personal travel routes, which is why anecdotal evidence about coverage is generally not very useful. Comparing their coverage maps, it looks clea
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On [Mobile] Input(tbray.org)
3 points by martey 16y ago|0 comments
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by martey 16y ago
It is worth noting that both this Tor blog post, and the research paper it mentions, were published in April 2010. I initially assumed that this would be explaining why using Bittorrent with Tor hurts the network, like http://www.chrisbrun
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by martey 16y ago
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/slice-and-dice-your-r...
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by martey 16y ago
If I ran a brick and mortar business, I could see how Square would be useful. But the source link and every discussion thread here are discussing e-commerce solutions, not Paypal's virtual terminal [1]. [1]: https://www.paypal.com/vtswipe
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by martey 16y ago
I am (unfortunately) not a biologist, but the abstract of their paper in Nature [1] seems to suggest that their research is notable not because they discovered telomerase is related to ageing, but because they figured out why lack of telo
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Broken Links(tbray.org)
303 points by martey 16y ago|90 comments
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by martey 16y ago
See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS . I am not sure whether Firefox or Chrome/Chromium on Linux will actually read the data that is provided by hdaps.
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by martey 16y ago
Other than old articles from 2007 and 2008, and a couple of undated anecdotes, I was not able to find any information from any American airline suggesting that phones were prohibited on flights regardless of whether they had an Airplane or
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by martey 16y ago
I think kylec was talking about leisure travel. People did not immigrate to the United States (or emigrate to Oregon) because they wanted a vacation, but because they wanted a better life. As a result, the mental calculus is different. Also
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by martey 16y ago
The post is from last April. If I click on any hyperlink to the post made between last April and last week, I instead get redirected to OKCupid's blog homepage, which does not have the article . If removing the article "changed nothing", i
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by martey 16y ago
Posts from Best Buy's community forums - http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Mobile-Phones-Mobile-Broadband/... - suggest that buying phones online subject them to an "Equipment Discount Provision" - http://wireless.bestbuy.com/template/simplec
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by martey 16y ago
There was some good discussion on hosted Django services on the Django subreddit a few days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/f1h7g/share_your_exp...
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by martey 16y ago
I believe that this is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460374
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by martey 16y ago
I think that truly making data anonymous is really hard. See AOL, Netflix, or almost every other company that has tried to release an anonymous dataset. By "black boxing" the data, the company in question will still be able to keep contro
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by martey 16y ago
There is more information and discussion on this topic at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2150639 While I think the fact that Sourceforge is resetting passwords is useful, I think it would have been better communicated as a comment at
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by martey 16y ago
* Smartphones do not have "data requirements." They still work on 2G networks, just slower. While many areas of the developing world still do not have significant cellular coverage (compared to Europe and North America), some providers are
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by martey 16y ago
Just because smartphones have a higher profit margin for companies, doesn't automatically mean that consumers will buy a smartphone, let alone will want one. If I ran an American cellular phone carrier, I would be remiss not to push my cu
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by martey 16y ago
Despite x86 compatibility, a large part of the value of Apple laptops comes from the fact that they are able to easily run OS X. It would be extremely difficult to sell an Apple laptop that did not come with the operating system preinstalle
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by martey 16y ago
The idea behind nuclear wars, asteroid strikes, or super volcanoes isn't that the events would directly kill every human being, but that their associated effects would. In all three cases, throwing large amounts of dust into the atmosphere
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by martey 16y ago
The AppBrain page you link to for the "pro" version states that you are donating half of the profits. Here you say that you are donating all of them. Which is it?
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by martey 16y ago
As the article makes clear, the primary reason for extraterrestrial colonization is to increase the chances of human survival in case of a major catastrophe that would cause extinction on Earth - like an asteroid strike or nuclear war. The
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by martey 16y ago
The second paragraph of the TechCrunch article states that "unlike the giant Nexus Ones that Google produced last year, which just played a looping video of the UI, this giant Nexus S actually works ."
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by martey 16y ago
I have known people who bought used computers or Office software, and had no idea that their software was pirated until they attempted to reinstall it. While it is sometimes obvious when software is pirated, it often is not.
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by martey 16y ago
For some reason, this is linking to Salon's mobile version. The standard version is available at http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/12/16/21st_century_s...
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by martey 16y ago
More interesting is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion... , which explains why the page was deleted. A number of votes for deletion on that page either implicitly mention or explicitly link to http://en.wikipedi
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by martey 16y ago
Those virtual images are for Microsoft Virtual PC, which only runs on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Everything I can see on the Internet suggests that the files used to work with non-Microsoft virtualization software (like VMWare), but does not
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by martey 16y ago
Snopes' notes suggest that the exam was first printed in the Salina Journal. Their website includes this page, which includes some more backstory, as well as answers: http://www.salina.com/1895test/
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by martey 16y ago
Except Project Gutenberg has already put its books in MOBI format, which is supported by the Kindle. Also, did you read the article: "They took the text version, stripped off the headers and footer containing the license, re-wrapped the se
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by martey 16y ago
But making all of their payments non-refundable and reserving the right to terminate your account for any reason (including posting "defamatory" comments online about them!). See their Terms of Service at http://dediseedbox.com/clients/kno

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