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by msg 15y ago
Image steganography? It's available to almost anyone, a plain-sight method with an expected amount of natural noise. If you use a small enough payload, it is essentially deniable and undetectable.
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by msg 15y ago
I'm reminded of the pg article on PR. Looks like a home-run hit to me. There is a whiff of desperation about it. "If you want to start a great company, you are probably passing through Kleiner." Is this really still true?
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by msg 15y ago
16 + 16 = 32, you need to fit four more hours of work per day in there.
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by msg 15y ago
1) It's unmaintainable. 2) It's ugly. If you ever need a semantic naming convention for closely related variables that are crucial to use correctly (encryptedCustomerInformation vs decryptedCustomerInformation), make up your own ad hoc.
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by msg 15y ago
Before we get too caught up in "what Christians believe" let's point out that it is a big tent religion and the story is much more complicated. Perhaps, as Chesterton said, GP is being "as narrow as the universe". When I read your essay I i
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by msg 15y ago
Hedging? Nothing requires their company to be ideologues against patents. (except for "Don't be evil") -- signed, an EFF member
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by msg 15y ago
There's so much cool hardware on the way to sense-o-matic virtual reality and the holodeck that I don't think Nintendo has anything to worry about. They are gaining experience even from the relative failures (still early to call it for 3DS
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by msg 15y ago
Correct. Sorry if I was obtuse. Neither my father nor I knew about the "shocking event" before reading it. I would call this a spoiler (certainly I would encase it in a spoiler warning before mentioning it online) but I guess you can argue
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by msg 15y ago
My dad was reading Game of Thrones and got to a shocking spoiler at the end of book 1 (you can guess which one). He told me he stopped reading the series right there. He probably wouldn't even have begun reading if he knew beforehand. He re
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by msg 15y ago
What metric could you come up with that wouldn't be gamed? Other than say, overachieving profit targets. The CEO has a lot of latitude to screw the company for their benefit.
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by msg 15y ago
Android. I wanted physical keyboards and hackable, and strongly disliked (and still dislike) Apple's policies governing iOS development and their dick moves toward Flash, compilers, in-app price matching, etc. And more nebulously, I felt li
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by msg 15y ago
Use the original title: "Study: Android is least open of open source mobile platforms"
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by msg 15y ago
Sorry I didn't see this earlier. I believe there is no meaningful distinction between an algorithm running on general purpose hardware and the same algorithm running on custom hardware. If you'd enforce your patent by claiming that someone
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by msg 15y ago
The context is very important (and not appearing in the email, right). The HTC Dream (G1) came out in late 2008. It was running Dalvik then. I think what is more likely is this: Tim Lindholm was asked to figure out how to run standard Java
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by msg 15y ago
The other problem is that it is interchangeable with many other jokes of the same flavor, ie, they were buying Facebook private shares, getting into the LinkedIn IPO, et cetera. This is a tip off that even if it's funny it might not be rele
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by msg 15y ago
You might be able to use Hany Farid's work on doctored photographs to show they've been tampered with. See, eg, this interesting transcript of his Nova appearance. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/hany-farid.html Steganography/image mani
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by msg 15y ago
Granted. But surely the prior art on bits being transmitted through a general purpose computing machine, whether mechanical, magnetic, mental, musical, or magical, is now unassailable. What is novel is not physical, what is physical is not
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by msg 15y ago
Also, the Live Music Archive.
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by msg 15y ago
It was ok on my HTC Desire.
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by msg 15y ago
The question Coke's ads answer is not just Pepsi Or Coke, it is To Coke Or Not To Coke. You always have the option of drinking water. Water dominates Coke as a beverage for health, it (perhaps) loses on taste and texture. Hence a lot of adv
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by msg 15y ago
Don't waste your time. This is a pretty crappy article. It will be old hat for you if you've been following this area in any depth. Misleading discussions: the proportion of patents that are overturned compared to the number that aren't, wh
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by msg 15y ago
I would not call this impossible. I would just call it ripe for disruption. Why not remove "idiot" resources and give them to "gifted"? Why not make your whole school "gifted", like they are doing in the follow-on study? The whole point of
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by msg 15y ago
What is bad about giving all kids the "gifted" classroom? It's obviously better than the regular classroom when you look at outcomes, that's what the study says. I didn't see a word about defining gifted down or watering down the school exp
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by msg 15y ago
It's because of the ratio of reads to writes. For many applications, especially in social/content, the creation traffic is an order of magnitude or two less than the consumption traffic. So free inbound bandwidth is a bit of a rounding erro
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Why I run shells inside Emacs(snarfed.org)
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by msg 15y ago
Never read Chronicle of a Death Foretold ? In programming, do you have to worry about phonology, slang, or number agreement? The guy's deeper point is that programming is a language acquisition task and we would do well to take the rich se
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by msg 15y ago
For better or worse, comment scores are useful for reading. I know how to ignore flamewars: I look for indentation and skip it. My virgin eyes somehow are not offended. So I'm much less likely to read threads now unless I'm really intereste
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by msg 15y ago
revanchist copyright laws on performance of music
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by msg 15y ago
I buy the argument that software is math and thus unpatentable. My experience has also been that most software patents (and especially always the most notorious) are trivial applications of an algorithm to some subject area. But here's a mo
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by msg 15y ago
John Lennon: 1940-1980 Mother: Julia Killer: Mark David Chapman J/k Point taken.

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