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by mirkules 12y ago
This is more difficult with mobile devices, and also doesn't it display warning dialogs?
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by mirkules 12y ago
Not premature at all, I simply do not agree to using Google products (or rather I do not agree to their Terms of Service) and was providing a hard-to-find delete button should others need to use it (for whatever reason). Indeed I'm not
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by mirkules 12y ago
This made me sad. i used Songza for a while and actually preferred it over Pandora. Glad for the people that cashed out, but that means that the service will either die soon or it will be Google-plusified: something I clearly don't agr
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by mirkules 12y ago
Thank you. I simply cannot fathom why people seem to believ that service providers can be held liable for their own stupid decisions. Putting hot coffee in your lap is a stupid decision. When I was a kid, I got a pretty decent electric sh
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by mirkules 12y ago
The point is that there is a direct transliteration available between cyrillic and latin, and it's also not so culture-dependent as 617.cn is. You could trivially automate that process too.
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by mirkules 12y ago
"Hotmail.com might as well be Cyrillic". This is not a good comparison because Cyrillic (at least, the slavic version) has almost a one-to-one relation to its latin counterparts. Russian Cyrillic is a little more complex, with let
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by mirkules 12y ago
I love the idea, and it makes me push myself harder when I see submissions that are light-years ahead of my project. It's almost to the point of intimidating how good some of these are..
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by mirkules 12y ago
Ever tried reaching in the back of an iMac to plug in a USB drive? I have a 2011 iMac, and to this day I still have NO idea which way the slots are oriented. I usually just give up, stand up, and angle the entire computer just so I can plug
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by mirkules 13y ago
"so he downloaded the iPad operating system onto his computer, decrypted it, and browsed through the operating system’s code to try to find a way to register it." This seems highly suspect and improbable to me. If he was so skille
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by mirkules 13y ago
"I personally would donate to a campaign of someone running for office based on how they performed on issues I cared about" The fact that OKCupid chose this particular issue to blast Firefox signifies that this is _the_ issue they
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by mirkules 13y ago
I agree, it's painfully slow for anything but simple tasks. My former company (in)famously does everything in Excel (including Gant and flow charts), and being the only guy with OSX the load times were terrible, the UI sluggish and it
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by mirkules 13y ago
To summarize the real issue here: if we stopped using a company's products just because we disagree with the personal views of its founders, leaders or employees, we wouldn't use any products at all. This event worries me because
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by mirkules 13y ago
Nicely put. I would only add that a senior developer is able to grasp the "big picture" of a project, and would have the ability adapt and influence (not just with words, but with actions and well-researched presentations) the res
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by mirkules 13y ago
I just want to let you know that I did my entire masters thesis/project using Octave (sound signal processing). Please keep up the good work. :)
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by mirkules 13y ago
However, "the complaint alleges that Kibkalo committed criminal trade secret theft", keyword being "criminal". I believe the crime in question is the following federal crime: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys&#x2F
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by mirkules 13y ago
In my opinion, they don't. If you use an IDE like Eclipse where deprecated methods are clearly marked by a strikethrough and marked with a compiler warning, I don't see the big deal. And the bonus is that old code still compiles w
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by mirkules 13y ago
Sometimes it is more important what a post like this doesn't say. "You don’t have to give us your name and we don’t ask for your email address. We don’t know your birthday. We don’t know your home address. We don’t know where yo
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by mirkules 13y ago
If your definition of "better" is simply "faster", then yes, it is better. If you care about security of your data, end-to-end, this is worse (as others have pointed out because of your ISP being a MitM). In addition, n
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by mirkules 13y ago
Frankly, I would be surprised if this was not in Google's ToS from the start, considering that Google's core business model is mining of big data. I suspect there wouldn't be an option to turn it off, not even by paying extra
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by mirkules 13y ago
Can anyone confirm this on an iOS 6 device? I don't have of those anymore. Good news is iPad running 5.1.1 is not affected, which almost leads me to believe this vuln was introduced with iOS 7
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by mirkules 13y ago
The Wii version of Netflix also does not play automatically - it's pretty much the only thing I use the Wii for.
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by mirkules 13y ago
There is a saying: "You can't talk yourself out of being arrested, but you can talk yourself into being arrested."
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by mirkules 13y ago
Maybe he's a SQL programmer (a binary column can be true, false or NULL).
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by mirkules 13y ago
This post stopped well short of describing the advantages and disadvantages of both AK-47s and M-16s in favor of emphasizing how bad weapons are. The Wikipedia entry is much more informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by mirkules 13y ago
To me it seems that the underlying issue in these talks isn't that these methods exist or that they can be employed on a large scale. The issue is that these powers are complety secretive and unchecked. I do agree that they could have
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by mirkules 13y ago
Not the OP, but I'll take a crack at it. The problem is that creating order (or, more generally speaking, rehabilitating unorderly parts of society) and making money can sometimes be adversarial processes, thus creating a conflict of i
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by mirkules 13y ago
The gist of this article is that concerts bring in much, much more revenue for the band than in-store cd sales via (a percentage of) ticket sales and merchandising. Most of all, concerts expand the fan base leading to even more revenue. Mos
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by mirkules 13y ago
If the POS terminals were compromised, attackers could have retrieved CCV1 numbers at the point of reading the card. In other words, it's still possible Target complied with the PCI requirement of not storing CCV numbers. But since nob
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by mirkules 13y ago
First law: "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." (Only applicable to sentient robots, of course ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Roboti
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by mirkules 13y ago
The thing about a fingerprint or even a dna sample, in this use case is that you send your signature ahead of time and verify yourself phyisically at the party. Does your fingerprint hash match your fingerprint? That is more difficult (bu

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