metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
You need to consider the goal of the Constitution: to prevent tyranny. Everything in the Bill of Rights was put there to thwart a known tactic of tyrants. Today there are new tools that give the tyrants new tactics, and we need to make su
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by metageek 16y ago
No, the DMCA bans circumventing a measure that prevents copying. Sony needs to prove that their locks on the PS3 prevent copying. I'm not sure they do.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm not happy about that "in a printed publication" bit, though.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, that's why they follow with: > We discuss why this view is the best we can do with current popular languages, and why it is inadequate moving forward. [...] In particular, we argue that parallel languages should not only promote hi
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by metageek 16y ago
Donated. I never used Winsock, but I worked for Netscape, which would've been worth a lot less without Trumpet getting users online.
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by metageek 16y ago
There shouldn't be IPv6 NATs, but I expect there will be once it actually gets deployed.
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by metageek 16y ago
One simple differentiator would be to require free preview sites to be hosted under the quplo domain. That also lets previews get up more quickly, because the user doesn't have to get the domain, configure DNS, etc. Probably not enough by
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by metageek 16y ago
Interesting details at Wikipedia, along with some links to other Lobopodia: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diania
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by metageek 16y ago
Sigh. This article is a little too mystical about the Cambrian Explosion for my taste. "[W]hen life, for no obvious reason, burst into a crazy display of weird new fantastic forms"—this sort of thing happens when evolution comes across a
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by metageek 16y ago
Why 32% and not 30%? Is there an extra fee I'm not seeing? I have one paid app in the Market (9 sales so far!), and I'm pretty sure I got exactly 70% of the sales.
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by metageek 16y ago
That is what they're threatening: > If our demands are not met, we will move our applications to alternative marketplaces or the web, cease Android development in favor of other more open platforms, we will dissuade other developers fro
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by metageek 16y ago
Even updating at the same time every day would be nice; then I could add the developer's console to the list of links I read every morning.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Apple and Google may mark their apps up less than the average department store or grocery store I'm pretty sure grocery store markups are more like 5% to 10%.
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by metageek 16y ago
>> Apple don't buy stock and sell it on. > Sure they do - they just buy it in a JIT fashion. Someone orders the app, Apple supplies them a copy. The 'stock bought' is the payment to the wholesaler. That's not a valid compariso
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by metageek 16y ago
You are absolutely wrong. All apps in the Market are signed, and apps are sandboxed by running them with separate Unix userids.
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by metageek 16y ago
You used it correctly.
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by metageek 16y ago
My Android phone's weather widget gives me the current temp, the daily high and low, and a general icon (sun, snow, freezing rain). Here in Massachusetts, it's accurate enough to be useful. The spatial resolution on the weather data is pre
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by metageek 16y ago
> I'm not aware of any broader literature or even editorials describing what value, if any, is added by the current system. I can just imagine the challenge of getting such studies published.
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by metageek 16y ago
A week ago I got my first Android phone. One thing that my Nokia N86 did better was that I could hit the button on my headset and say, "What time is it?".
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by metageek 16y ago
I'd be a little less concerned about this one, because it's riskier for the attacker: once you find it, you can probably get a court order to have Verizon tell you who's paying the 3G bill. Although I suppose that just means Step 0 is to ge
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by metageek 16y ago
What's special about the printing press is that it makes copying cheap; the comparable Roman technology was slavery, which makes labor cheap. (In the short term.)
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by metageek 16y ago
Talking through his hat on a couple of these. Netscape was not open source, and there's a huge gap between distributed computing and cloud computing.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm a little skeptical. When I'm taking notes, I don't have time to spend on encoding elaborate semantics (especially when I'm typing on a touchscreen). Does this do anything to help?
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by metageek 16y ago
"This video contains content from Ubisoft, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." Here's the Ars article about it: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/02/share-your-wiimot...
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by metageek 16y ago
Did these people not read the agreement before they published their app? I remember seeing that clause when I read it. (Not that I like the restriction, but professing shock when it's enforced is almost as stupid as building your revenue st
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by metageek 16y ago
Creepy.
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by metageek 16y ago
> It discusses the 'What' rather than the 'How'. Yeah, because the "how" is AI-complete.
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We'll have to start issuing H1 visas to import pickpockets.
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The weird thing is that there already is an external cable for PCIe. An 8-lane PCIe cable can beat Thunderbolt, at 16Gb/s instead of 10. (Although I'm not sure if that's bidirectional; if not, you'd have to go to a 16-lane cable.) http
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by metageek 16y ago
Good point.

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