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901.
by mason240 13y ago
Google mandated it for all phones with Android, which it when it became the de facto standard.
902.
by mason240 13y ago
>Not a all. Vodafone, Telefonica and Orange completely agree with you. Of course they do, they already have near continental wireless coverage. The small carriers don't. This would obviously lead to no more roaming at all, which run
903.
by mason240 13y ago
>homogenise network technology and allow for a real single EU telecom space. Won't that lead to a slowdown in the development and implementation of new wireless technology? What incentive would governments have to upgrade existing c
904.
by mason240 13y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryp... US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet • NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and med
905.
by mason240 13y ago
See also: HTC EVO or HTC One
906.
by mason240 13y ago
It is used to aid in the creation and distribution of child pornography, so the analogy is exact - unless of course you don't view the molestation of those middle schoolers to be an attack on them (as the downvotes seem to indicate).
907.
by mason240 13y ago
Anyone that has to use the words "geek" or "nerd" to describe themselves or what they are doing are neither. If you are a geek or nerd, you just are. You don't have to convince other people of it.
908.
by mason240 13y ago
It will be until we form a group large enough to have pull like the ACLU (500k members) or the NRA (5M members). The grassroots opposition to ACTA and SOPA were effective for round one, but we will lose in the long run unless get serious a
909.
by mason240 13y ago
And they would have been right. The Wii only delayed the inevitable. They had a huge hit but didn't capitalize on it.
910.
by mason240 13y ago
The NYT said they rejected it for that reason, or that is what you friend assumed to be the case?
911.
by mason240 13y ago
How often do you any player start out in the CFL/AAFL and go on to become starters in the NFL. There is a handful who fall into the "undiscovered talent" category and that's it. They are far from being a developmental le
912.
by mason240 13y ago
Is "people using their second or third language will make more grammatical errors than people using their primary language" really that controversial of a concept?
913.
by mason240 13y ago
@"^[^@]{1,}[@]{1}[^@]{1,}\.{1}[^@]{1,}$" I check it with this RegEx to make sure it's in the right format of [string]@[string].[string] to make sure that user at least tries to enter an email address, but beyond that sending
914.
by mason240 13y ago
Yeah, maybe they just look up the MD5 hash on http://md5.gromweb.com/ and sent him the result. I used that site to show my boss his plaintext password to explain why MD5 alone is barely more than security though obscurity w
915.
by mason240 13y ago
>If you think the majority of people would just lay their lives to waste because they don't need to doing the bidding of others just to survive, then you are wrong. 99% of able-bodied and able-minded adults would not succumb to idle
916.
by mason240 13y ago
That is something that can only "believed" in or "disbelieved" as much as gravity can be "believed" in or "disbelieved."
917.
by mason240 13y ago
It's funny how anecdotes in a comment section that support an article's premise are always upvoted/supported, but any anecdote that runs counter to it is always met with a hostile reaction.
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by mason240 13y ago
The quality of this site/community has nothing to do with Paul Graham's ability to run Microsoft.
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Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience(uxmag.com)
1 points by mason240 13y ago|0 comments
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by mason240 13y ago
This might be relevant: Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience http://uxmag.com/articles/dark-ux-the-elements-of-the-video-... >Behind the scenes, however, they engage in all kinds of “optimizations”
921.
by mason240 13y ago
Only about 5% of prisoners in the US are housed in private prisons.
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by mason240 13y ago
>when the real money – gold and silver – are used as an indicator. The basis of your argument is wrong. An individual commodity like gold can't be used as indicator of economic levels. It is just as affected by supply and demand as
923.
by mason240 13y ago
Was the horse meat scandal a myth?
924.
by mason240 13y ago
I think the best effect of Kickstarter might be to show just how hard running a business and selling a product really is. I often hear people lament over "it only costs $3 to make China, why are they selling it for $19 here!" with
925.
by mason240 13y ago
A barstool is much cheaper than a motorized desk.
926.
by mason240 13y ago
I went through that too for the first couple of weeks, but it did eventually go away.
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by mason240 13y ago
That's why I have a bar 15 inches high that runs beneath my desk. I can put a foot up on in it and change position every 5-10 minutes.
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by mason240 13y ago
I am also completely flat footed (wet footprint has no arch) and I was using a standing desk for 6 months with no issues. I wore running shoes, stood on a thin pad (the floor is hard tile), and took sitting breaks in a bar stool about 3 tim
929.
by mason240 13y ago
The comments on the blog are pretty brutal to the author.
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by mason240 13y ago
"Work is already underway in Japan to build a dedicated autonomous driving proving ground, to be completed by the end of fiscal year 2014. Featuring real townscapes - masonry not mock-ups - it will be used to push vehicle testing beyon

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