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by motters 15y ago
This is probably a very bad idea. It's too early to tell where Bitcoin will go, and whether it will achieve widespread acceptance as a currency. Putting all of your savings into something highly speculative isn't very wise, unless you can
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by motters 15y ago
It beats Ballmer's chair hurling I guess.
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by motters 15y ago
I think these things were identified several decades ago by sociologists. Namely that poverty isn't so much about money or level of education, as popularly supposed, but is primarily about "social exclusion", where there are few or no oppo
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by motters 15y ago
The comments here seem to be overwhelmingly positive, but if I were to use this routinely doesn't it mean that not just my search information but also my financial information is available to Google to analyze and/or sell to advertisers or
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by motters 15y ago
If these are public profiles then maybe this isn't a problem, but if the data contains non-public profiles then its a security breech for Google. The robots.txt settings would lead me to believe that these are public profile and that Googl
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by motters 15y ago
There have been times in the distant past where I was contacted by people from the mainstream media for interviews or TV appearances on well known shows. I always politely turned them down, because I feared similar exaggerations and distor
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by motters 15y ago
The whole thing is an exercise in silliness, but it keeps newspapers in business I suppose.
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by motters 15y ago
Good idea.
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by motters 15y ago
Second life failed, in the sense that it never gained mass popularity in the same way that social networking did, for a variety of reasons. i) It's mostly deserted ii) It's not easy to find your friends, or people who you might want to beco
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by motters 15y ago
The problem not just in Canada but in many places elsewhere is that advocates for digital rights havn't been proactive enough in lobbying for laws which protect people's digital information. Over the previous five years or so digital right
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by motters 15y ago
My suspicion is that, just like Gmail, all of these cloud systems are backdoored. The only secure solution, which applies especially to businesses with any confidential information, is to encrypt and decrypt on the local client machine.
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by motters 15y ago
I use these all the time in many gadgets. They're easy to find in supermarkets, so it depends where you live I suppose.
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by motters 15y ago
The main problem with these trick programs is that as a software engineer of n years I don't debug programs by staring at them for a long time or by memorising a lot of tricks. I usually do it by running them and checking their output, or
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by motters 15y ago
I suppose it's a question of degree. If not too much CPU resource is consumed then perhaps it is an acceptable way to monetize web sites - although this would only work for high traffic sites, and would become less lucrative over time. Th
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by motters 15y ago
If there is a Bitcoin bubble you can be sure that there will be people doing things like this, regardless of whether it's ethical or not. From the site visitor's point of view they're not getting a cut of the mined coins, so their high CPU
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by motters 15y ago
British libraries face a similar situation, but I don't expect libraries to disappear altogether and they will probably enjoy a new phase of usage. As another commenter notes, libraries are really community education centers and there's cu
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by motters 15y ago
Although I've been on LinkedIn for years it's had no significant utility value for me.
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by motters 15y ago
I guess this is a make or break moment for the Mono project. Who owns the copyright on Mono anyway - is it individual developers?
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by motters 15y ago
Diaspora had a lot of momentum and was endorsed by famous names, but failed to engage with and target the target market - which is mainly software folks and freedom beards running ARM servers. Only once you have a sufficient developer comm
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by motters 15y ago
Probably it's a good idea to get rid of any remaining smallpox samples, but to retain its DNA/RNA sequence for possible future study. The genomes for viruses are typically not very large. If you printed out HIV it's maybe a couple of shee
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by motters 15y ago
Puny bandwidth is going to be a problem whether the server is your own or exists at some unspecified location in the cloud. Cloud storage isn't necessarily bad, but it's expensive considering the cost of storage these days and it might be a
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by motters 15y ago
I've never been a Dropbox user, and this sort of behavior doesn't surprise me. It puzzles me why folks are prepared to spend substantial amounts of money renting tiny amounts of insecure web storage when they could spend a modest amount on
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Cloud Robotics(youtu.be)
2 points by motters 15y ago|1 comments
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by motters 15y ago
Presently I don't hold any Bitcoins, but I think that cryptocurrencies are an interesting development, and are quite likely to be the future of money - especially for micropayment transactions. It's entirely possible that Bitcoin may not s
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by motters 15y ago
It looks as if Ubuntu is making good progress on the user interface, despite the current apparent loss of functionality with Unity. Having well designed and user friendly features is only one part of the equation though. To really gain po
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by motters 15y ago
The trouble with living inside of a walled garden is that new innovations can be blocked rather easily.
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by motters 16y ago
I think someone from Google needs to explain what went on here. Why is what's going on in the 3.14159 building regarded as top secret? If they're just OCRing documents surely that's no big deal. People shouldn't be fired simply because t
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by motters 16y ago
Why would being interested in sociological issues get him fired?
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Looking for new Lead Developer for Add-Art(visitsteve.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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Designing robot arms(carlpisaturo.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments

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