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by metageek 15y ago
Yeah, but buying the domain is cheaper than suing.
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by metageek 15y ago
What's that stand for, Russian Federation?
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by metageek 15y ago
Sorry, I fat-thumbed and downvoted you instead of upvoting.
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by metageek 15y ago
I'd buy "tech people are poor predictors for social", but negative predictors?
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by metageek 15y ago
Seems to be Flash.
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by metageek 15y ago
>You can even transparently route over WiFi, etc. Um...that's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the platform; on any OS with a modern network stack (Android, iOS, Windows 3.x...), the stack hides the details of what hardware you're c
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by metageek 15y ago
You could eat negative meat, by raising cattle and not letting anybody eat them. ;-)
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by metageek 15y ago
Correct.
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by metageek 15y ago
Yeah, but who wants to seduce a car?
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by metageek 15y ago
They've got an answer for that: you can add someone who doesn't have an account to a circle, and they'll get your message in email.
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by metageek 15y ago
I haven't looked closely at what happens when you upload an image to Google+, but I can tell you that it's trivially easy to share photos out of Picasa, which does let you get the originals.
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by metageek 15y ago
>There's no such thing as a "one time password". Some people call the code generated by the authenticator a one-time password, because it can't be reused.
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by metageek 15y ago
Just because it's not a work made for hire doesn't mean the company can't receive the copyright. A copyright holder is always free to transfer the copyright; if AOL has two brain cells to knock together, their contracts with these contract
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by metageek 15y ago
That's the default, but I'm pretty sure the contract can say AOL gets the copyright.
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by metageek 15y ago
It's pretty hard to measure the speed of a crash after the fact. By the time any third party notices the scene, the speed is generally 0.
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by metageek 15y ago
The IP number in the log is from a block in Japan, named GLOBALEV-IT, belonging to Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. Traceroute shows it's reached via tokyjp01.jp.ra.gin.ntt.net, which suggests that it's actually in Japan, not just allocate
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by metageek 15y ago
<dig, dig>...oh, you're right.
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by metageek 15y ago
Isn't AT&T dead? SBC bought the name, not the company.
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by metageek 15y ago
So, once someone has a track record of being evil, any further evil they do is not worth covering?
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by metageek 15y ago
> Today, thanks to Top Prospect, the social recruiting site that rewards users for helping their friends find jobs This probably skews the figures in favor of social media companies.
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by metageek 15y ago
I've seen a few of those, too. I've seen one "print a ticket" lot, in a beach town in southern CA; I haven't seen any others when living in MA, PA, VA, GA, or the Bay Area.
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by metageek 15y ago
> this type of scam doesn't happen in the US In most of the US, this type of scam doesn't happen because we don't have this kind of parking lot. I think I've seen just one in my life. Most lots have either parking meters or gates and
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by metageek 15y ago
There are more details in the interview tzs linked to [1]. > It was as though he thought his interpretation of policy superseded the authority of the people or office who/which set out the policy. It's worse than that. According to th
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by metageek 15y ago
That was Compaq, wasn't it? I remember hearing about it, way back when, but I never heard anybody praise it before. Was it perhaps your first keyboard, or almost your first? I tend to type with both thumbs on the space bar, so it sounds da
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by metageek 15y ago
Or emacs C-x 2.
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by metageek 15y ago
I hope sites will be allowed to write a cookie saying "this user has declined cookies". Otherwise, users will be prompted over and over, and will eventually give in.
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by metageek 15y ago
> "I think the problem is that photo-sharing services don’t allow you to easily provide copyright information,” said Sullivan, who operates SearchEngineLand.com. Flickr's done that for years. The problem is with the social networks wh
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by metageek 15y ago
Maybe 2.3 and 3.0; but it didn't exist before 2.2. So I guess 2.2 is when it started sucking.
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by metageek 15y ago
Meta Meta: Arguing over whether to use Down to express disagreement is the HN way.
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by metageek 15y ago
But 15 years from now people will need to virtualize Windows 2020.

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