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by mdda 15y ago
This 'getting used to' phase also applies to the Microsoft ribbon[1]. And all the differences from NT-XP-Vista-7. Moreover, it's more likely that the GUI can be forced to be stable on Linux, while the underlying system receives security up
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by mdda 15y ago
Good point : Now I understand why Facebook is suddenly on the pro-privacy side of the password argument. Fortunately, for them, Facebook itself has access to everything on your Facebook pages.
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by mdda 15y ago
The regular wording is really sneaky : "99% of customers that switch to GXXX save money". That's completely to be expected : The only people that have an incentive to switch are those that would save money. It would be far stronger if the
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by mdda 15y ago
Thanks - it wasn't clear who the middlemen were : The uncooperative website, someone distributing to the website, the music publisher, the artist's agents, etc...
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by mdda 15y ago
Could you give some examples of the value added by middlemen? And the headaches?
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by mdda 15y ago
There's a very impressive demo at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/demo/ too. One thing I didn't understand from the diagram in the article is that some grey circles are connected to each other : Is that from that that the browser s
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by mdda 15y ago
I think the article has an interesting theme. However, the invention of the telegraph/telephone hugely increased the connectivity of the world, and the speed of the growth feedback mechanism. But economic theories weren't forced to change
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by mdda 15y ago
And if there's some special 'platform native' special sauce you want to add to the rapidly iterating HTML UI : http://wiki.phonegap.com/w/page/36752779/PhoneGap%20Plugins#...
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by mdda 15y ago
Niggle : Cachet is the version that means 'prestige; distinction', caché is 'hidden' - both from 'cacher' (to hide, French).
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by mdda 15y ago
Moreover, many restaurants deliberately leak smells, as free advertising. What the store owner was really objecting to is the rice-eating student breaking the sniff-through EULA.
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by mdda 15y ago
Thanks : Updated procedure (for Fedora without chronyd/ntpd running already) : # yum install chrony # systemctl enable chronyd.service # systemctl start chronyd.service Sorry if the (working) pointers before were horrible. Hopefully this i
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by mdda 15y ago
For those alarmed at the offset... # yum install ntpdate # ntpdate -u ntp-1.vt.edu # hwclock -w "Your time is exact!"
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by mdda 15y ago
Maybe Stuart told him how his parents felt.
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by mdda 15y ago
One of the things about financial markets is that large numbers of people are attempting to spot patterns, and eek out a profit from the patterns repeating. People are very good at this - which means that, over time, the number of profitab
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by mdda 15y ago
The opposite is also true : There's a pretty fixed mark-up for 'cracked' Apple TV 2s. I imagine people are buying used ATV2s, rooting and reselling...
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by mdda 15y ago
Minifiers almost always have an option to preserve specially marked comments for precisely this reason (to preserve the license information).
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by mdda 15y ago
Yup - the L-type visas are a non-starter. But if your lawyer was so experienced, shouldn't you have been forwarned that you had a marginal case? Did the UCSIS outright deny the application (which is a problem for the future too) or just ask
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by mdda 15y ago
I agree that they should be more flexible (i.e. if someone can prove that they would earn more than the US average wage, it would be a net benefit to the US for them to be allowed in). Further to the idea of coming over to SF and couch-surf
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by mdda 15y ago
Actually, this is a box-checking exercise, and doesn't stand in the way of setting up a startup. I went through the same process in 1999, and have renewed ever since - and I did all my own paperwork (which is a huge pain), so I'm pretty fa
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by mdda 15y ago
Personally, I find it fascinating that this band of merry pirates is so organized, so rules-based. Out of a purely anarchic environment, they've managed to accept this kind of self-discipline. If only web-standards committees had that sor
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by mdda 15y ago
Ok, asking the other way around, did Linode check out the non-attacked VPSs to determine whether they didn't have bitcoin wallets on them? I'm not disagreeing with anything else said here - it's just that it seems that the memo was very con
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by mdda 15y ago
What wasn't stated was whether the Termsheet had any kind of no-shop clause.
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by mdda 15y ago
It wasn't clear from the memo, but how did the attacker know which 8 specific accounts had 'references to bitcoin' if they didn't access other accounts too?
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by mdda 15y ago
Link to CUSEC talk : http://vimeo.com/36579366
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by mdda 15y ago
The (paid for) Google Apps for Business still has a line of Ads at the top of the email listing. No ads down the RHS, though.
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by mdda 15y ago
As someone actively involved in valuing and trading structured products, since their first (below the radar) crisis in 2001-3, I really don't understand where this idea about the roots of the problem being the government came from : Except
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by mdda 15y ago
Maybe because if a non-rich person says it, it could be self-serving. Having a billionaire make the same self-sacrificing claim lends it credibility.
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by mdda 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that's an accurate picture of the kind of sales operation that's required to make the magic work... The key difference, though, is that a stockbroker Boiler-Room is usually operating at (or around) a threshold of legality si
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by mdda 15y ago
You have to draw the (5 pointed) star from the bottom left - like this : http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/
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by mdda 15y ago
Don't mean to be a grammarian, but the phrase is "person ... taking this tack with a client" [1] 1: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/tact.html

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