mvalle

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1. 31.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   Would ordering the comments based on points solve this? Ie. highest scoring comment at top.
2. 32.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   I have long believed that the FSF or SFLC should provide free or lowcost insurance against patent lawsuits where free software is involved. That way companies, like HTC, could more comfortably, and with less associated risk, deny paying for
3. 33.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   or, if the employer knows that if she finds a replacement for you, she will have to find replacements for all her employees, then she won't bother coercing you at all.
4. 34.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   I completely agree. Every time I see a digital library service, where you can borrow a book or other media that then is deleted after certain lending period, I can't help but thinking that they are missing the point. The time-limited lendin
5. 35.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   You don't permanently own it.
6. 36.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   I find that calling Americans "Unitedstatesians" is like calling the French "Republicans".
7. 37.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   Case in point: Gaddafi
8. 38.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   I had an email from Google(docs) go to the gmail spam folder.
9. 39.▲
   by mvalle 15y ago

   Guns are the only form of power. Sometimes you just don't have enough guns.
10. 40.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    Does this work with Chrome? I believe Chrome does it's own dns resolution and skips the host file. (I defiantly know it won't resolve localhost if you're offline)
11. 41.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    There is one good thing XML. brought: BPEL. It's the funniest language I've ever seen.
12. 42.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    I think it's changing, ala inflation.
13. 43.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    I love reading software patents. From the article: 32. Of the patents Microsoft threatened Barnes & Noble with in the past, Microsoft has only sued Microsoft on the ’780 patent. Barnes & Noble denies that the accused NookTM and Nook
14. 44.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    In business school, my law teacher worked as a lawyer and only came in to teach us a few hours a week. He also was a really great teacher.
15. 45.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    I'm just building a mango app to sync with IMDb. Oh well... I'll have a look at yours. I didn't know about tmdb.
16. 46.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    I believe he now works for the Software Freedom Law Center, which is sort of affiliated with the FSF.
17. 47.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    That's what I thought. It's not very humble anymore is it?
18. 48.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    I think this is great. I think more sites should do this. I think I should do this! I'm not a great sysadmin, but I'd like to do what I can to help the ipv6 switch-over. Does anyone have any experience in operating a ipv6-enabled site? What
19. 49.▲
    by mvalle 15y ago

    Isn't it possible to plot someone's position over time, no matter what phone you have? I mean the carriers know which towers you've connected to and when, they have all the info you need to track someone, even across multiple phones.
20. 50.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    I don't think it would be hard to do, in fact, they reverse the whole point of a CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA is supposed to be a task that is easy for humans, but difficult for computers. High-level mathematics is difficult for humans but easy for c
21. 51.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    I fear that 1981 still applies today, and is indeed the case with Google.
22. 52.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    Free Software is defined as software released under a license that follows the definition of Free Software ( http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ). BSD, MIT and WTFPL are all on the list of officially verified Free Software license
23. 53.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    "In reality, Free Software ends up being useful only for programmers, hackers, technical people," That is like saying that freedom of speech is only useful for journalists. You don't have to exercise a freedom to benefit from it. You benefi
24. 54.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    Some Chinese people say, that the government only prevents them from seeing/reading bad stuff, and that censorship is, in general, a good thing.
25. 55.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    I'd like to emphasize that this is music only. Not video content or non-music audio content etc.
26. 56.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    It appears that Match.com does control OkCupid. "IAC's Match.com Acquires OkCupid" http://iac.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1882
27. 57.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    Oh, the irony...
28. 58.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    Because App Stores are the new trend and everyone wants one. Most iPhone/iPod apps could too just as easily be plain web sites.
29. 59.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    Totalitarian or not, it is still a tyrannical regime.
30. 60.▲
    by mvalle 16y ago

    When I first got my netbook, I sometimes set up an ssh media server to stream music from my main computer to my netbook like this: ssh user@host cat /path/to/music-collection | mplayer