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Windows 'Threshold' to bring Metro applications to desktop(osnews.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
which is why people are choked, becuase Lee is part of Big Media and rationalizing piracy at the same time. The hypocrisy is... hard to ignore
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by mindstab 13y ago
what gain? you are proposing taking for example a $100usb product and selling it for 100btc... which at current market value is the equivalent of over pricing it to $100,000usd. Who would buy that when they could pay $100usd for it instead
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by mindstab 13y ago
they can sure set them, and then no one would use them. do you not understand money? what are you, the owner of 100btc going to do: a) buy $100usd worth of goods at ebay directly b) cash out at a proper exchange for $100,000usd, then buy $1
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by mindstab 13y ago
No, because no one would give them bitcoins at 1:1 and they can't magic up their own, they 'd have to buy them at market price and then sell them at a hilarious loss.
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by mindstab 13y ago
Not really surprising. A lot of "big" nations from G8 and other places you'd expect to see are plain missing from this mess, and those left, while many are smaller, even they aren't thrilled at being pushed into this cle
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by mindstab 13y ago
also at: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/14/2316242/tsa-screenin...
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TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance(theverge.com)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|1 comments
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Feedly now ironically requires Google+ authentication(blog.feedly.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Quit my job for a year to write open source code, what should I work on?
17 points by mindstab 13y ago|20 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
It has nothing to do with "artistic meaning". The ocean's are acidifying and being over fished at the same time. The entire ocean ecosystem is collapsing. Soon there will be no fish, the ocean will be fully of jelly fish. Eco
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by mindstab 13y ago
and say things like 64bit windows (only the most popular desktop OS on the planet) with a non alpha GUI toolkit.
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by mindstab 13y ago
Good, they aren't going to have a release that is a massive regression (again). I was planning on skipping 13.10 because everything so far said it would have worse performance and more bugs. OTOH it's a bit scary that their relea
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Succinct explanation for why giving up liberty to fight is the wrong way(asofterworld.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
yeah but you can have an encrypted disk, encrypted ram, not so much.
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Gnome looks ready to remove middle-click paste(phoronix.com)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
sooo... it seems partly for emotional reasons “We’re trying to make sure it remains in whole in Canada" that is not a business reason "we have every confidence it will be successful again,” based on? "There are no strategic p
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by mindstab 13y ago
Not necessarily. If it simply sets the random seed once as the program starts, then saving the state of the game, and reloading it repeatedly will give the same result from rand(), because the seed hasn't changed and you are rewinding&
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by mindstab 13y ago
Random Luddite opinion. No real data.
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by mindstab 13y ago
Seems kind of harsh on the kids. Sure they don't need tech to play and won't notice it immediately but tech proficiency is so important and this day and age and he's setting his kids back with this, I want to say selfish, pro
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The latest news - Charlie Stross(antipope.org)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
... This isn't some "punishment" this is how the internet works. If you opt out of being tracked and cookies... how would that be remembered? That is really a sign it's working. This is part of why this is such an amazin
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by mindstab 13y ago
From everything I've heard I fear Google is next up on this Ballmer path. They are turning off R&D and looking to capitalize on what they have after a decade of crazy growth from new things that fell out of R&D. It's bizaa
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Bradley Manning in a World of Cheneys(juancole.com)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
no windows, linux or macos client? only web based? Then no, Owncloud has desktop apps. Therefor for many cases it's not just better but still the only contender. Dropbox's ubiquity sets a high bar.
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by mindstab 13y ago
So how we we achieve political change? As Charlie Stross points out, some very wrong has hijacked our political system: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders...
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by mindstab 13y ago
So a kid threatens to shot up a school and spends half a year in jail [1], but endless viciously well described death threats like this and no police response? What's with the very uneven handed approach to law enforcement? Oh right,
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by mindstab 13y ago
I think this is Canonical's most aggressive and unstable plan yet. Mir is baby new, like version 0.0.9. They need to be doing a freeze soon for 13.10 and Mir is still dropping major major features like multimonitor support (soon) and h
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Mir for Ubuntu 13.10 progress report(jonobacon.org)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|1 comments
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Richard Dawkins should revisit the letter to his 10 year old daughter(tirania.org)
14 points by mindstab 13y ago|4 comments

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