motters

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by motters 16y ago
That's one of my biggest gripes too. I sometimes use a tablet as an input device, and it's really hard to grab the edge of a window with the pen.
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by motters 16y ago
When you put your information into the cloud terms and conditions apply, and they can be changed on a whim.
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by motters 16y ago
Increasing ISP liabilities could lead to a situation where people cannot run server hardware from their home, in the style of FreedomBox. This might be one of the ultimate intentions/outcomes of this sort of legislation - i.e. that you're
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by motters 16y ago
Finding fossil microorganisms and observing that they look very similar to those found on Earth would be an indication to me that the rock may not be a meteorite after all, or that it may be a meteorite from Earth (i.e. blasted out into s
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by motters 16y ago
Personally I don't. I started off with data flow diagrams and similar top down design methodologies which I'd been formally taught, but it's very difficult to keep your software and your diagrams in line and over time the diagrams become m
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by motters 16y ago
Looks like the patient is dead. Maybe someone cut some cables, or perhaps some critical infrastructure was destroyed in the fighting.
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Navigating the age of democratized media(osamak.webfactional.com)
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Libya turns off its internet: this time it's a flatline(google.com)
192 points by motters 16y ago|71 comments
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The battle for liberation of the Sony PS3(defectivebydesign.org)
7 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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High Tech Heroes: Heinz von Foerster(youtube.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
I participate in open source mainly as a way of making my hobby projects available to others who might have similar interests, and also as a means of keeping my skills and knowledge up to date. I could spend my time making commercial close
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by motters 16y ago
I don't think so. The syntax of C# is far closer to Java than it is to VB. C# has often been described as "Microsoft's version of Java", and if you read about the history of those languages you'll see why. It would be far easier for some
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by motters 16y ago
Yes you probably should. I did a lot of VB programming between about 1997 and 2005, then largely abandoned it in favour of C# and C++. Why did I change? VB and VB.NET came with a lot of limitations which other languages didn't have, part
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by motters 16y ago
Yes, although alternative terms like "forbidden sharing" aren't quite as catchy and don't have the associated glamour factor from dramatic swashbuckling movies.
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by motters 16y ago
I'm also a fan of mechanical watches. When I was a kid I used to take them apart and mend them - something taught by my grandfather. However, mechanical watches are more about fashion or collectability than they are utilitarian.
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by motters 16y ago
I don't think that wristwatches are going away any time soon, due to their convenience factor, but they probably will accumulate more functionality and could be used in future as a digital wallet, a P2P data server or a phone.
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by motters 16y ago
I don't know anything about LULZ, but given the content of the HBGary emails it's entirely possible that "personas" are deployed on this and other noteworthy forums, in accordance with their rent-a-bot business model. However, at least on
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by motters 16y ago
The internet amplifies reputational risk. My guess is that if HBGary has any future they will at the very minimum have to change their company name. Reading some of the leaked emails provides (at least for me) a shocking insight into the
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by motters 16y ago
"a budding industrial espionagist could buy the SheevaPlug..." Stopped reading at that point. People can use technology for whatever they want, including nefarious purposes. That's not an issue which is specific to plug computers.
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He made a robot elephant, in 1949(cyberneticzoo.com)
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by motters 16y ago
As far as I know the Microsoft tags are patented, but the patents on the datamatrix codes lapsed in 2007, so that they can be freely used for any purpose without battles over royalties.
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by motters 16y ago
By taking action against Manning, PayPal employees are supporting his continued mistreatment. Anyone who believes this to be immoral should seriously investigate the possibility of trading using Bitcoin rather than Paypal. Unlike PayPal,
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by motters 16y ago
Canonical should leave the Amazon store alone, and give users the freedom to decide whether to buy their music using UbuntuOne (donating to Canonical) or Amazon (Donating to Gnome). Even better, under System/Preferences make the donation p
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by motters 16y ago
You can always be kicked out of a walled garden.
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Shell future energy scenarios: 'zone of uncertainty' ahead(shell.com)
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by motters 16y ago
Note that they're not complaining about Word and Excel. They're complaining about printer and scanner drivers.
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by motters 16y ago
Google transparency traffic also suggests that the shutdowns have been sporadic. Maybe it's a kind of internet curfew.
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by motters 16y ago
Google suggests that it's a periodic flatline rather than a complete blackout. Maybe a sort of internet curfew outside of business hours. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/
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by motters 16y ago
It's always difficult to know exactly what people do with the software once it's out there "in the wild". Many of my projects are just curiosities with no other contributors, but a few have had many improvements submitted - some of them qu
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by motters 16y ago
Yes, but not often.

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