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by naner 14y ago
You are not entitled to scrape content from other sites, even if they contain publicly submitted data. I do support this sort of thing in the hacker spirit (as long as you aren't being too agressive) but selling an application using the
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by naner 14y ago
It is beyond time for Ubuntu to quit pussyfooting around and partner with ASUS or some other competent hardware manufacturer* and sell Ubuntu-branded laptops on the Ubuntu website. The Linux desktop (in various incarnations) has been in "te
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by naner 14y ago
Netflix is available on several Linux devices (Chromebook, Android, Roku, Linux-based TVs, etc.) but these devices usually have some hardware-based DRM features available. There are no standards for DRM on the Linux desktop and we certainly
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by naner 14y ago
You may be referring to paco[1], which has always been kind of a hack. It also appears to not have been updated in a very long time. 1: http://paco.sourceforge.net/
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by naner 14y ago
The chain of events could have been: I don't think it is helpful to make excuses for Anonymous. If you'll allow me to abuse the ethical alignment terms: They appear to be a chaotic neutral , not a chaotic good . I'm not sure it makes mu
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by naner 14y ago
I did technically disagree. Crowdsourced and copyleft aren't the same thing. I gave the example of Dive into Python as a copyleft publication that is not crowdsourced and where the copyright is held by one person (or publishing company).
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by naner 14y ago
He was tacked on to the project, not part of the original team. And he seems to be somewhat ashamed that he created something people usually describe as addictive and time-wasting.
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by naner 14y ago
I can think of no reason Amazon would be against selling crowdsourced books (besides quality control). You can think of no reason besides that one reason you gave? ;) According to the email he received, Amazon doesn't allow you you publis
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by naner 14y ago
That may be the case but that's not what she said, she made it sound like he did something illegal and threatened to close his account. I have a feeling that Amazon may actually dislike people selling crowdsourced material as assembled book
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by naner 14y ago
Another strange part is that when looking at attendance, this seems even easier to hack - just give your tag to someone else so they can scan it. Well they get more funds from the state if they are able to show higher attendance rates so
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by naner 14y ago
The RFID tag IDs are explicitly being used for tracking student location by faculty and are mandatory. Smart phones are neither mandatory nor is location information available to school faculty. It isn't really the same thing. The school
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by naner 14y ago
I think most of us can easily tell the difference between bad pain and the kind of pain he's talking about here.
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by naner 14y ago
I'll offer an opposing anecdote. While I was at Georgia Tech (2002-2007) I noticed continuous improvements/investments into the campus and student resources. It was great.
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by naner 14y ago
This is what we’re taught: make five compliments for every criticism, sandwich negative feedback with positive feedback on each side, the most important thing is to keep up someone’s self-esteem. But, as Semmelweis showed, this is a dang
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by naner 14y ago
Samsung didn't rip Apple off to trick people into thinking they had Apple products. What's the point of that? They want their products returned and customers angered? Apple had put more effort into designing their products so Samsung aped m
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by naner 14y ago
When I was on a jury we were instructed to use only information provided through the trial. Not to rely on "expert opinions" within the jury pool. I'm not sure if that always applies, though.
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by naner 14y ago
What's your opinion of Livescribe? I'm also a paper note taker but I don't see myself moving to Livescribe (though I haven't tried it) or taking photos of pages in Evernote. I'm pretty organized, though, so I'm not dying to have everything
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by naner 14y ago
Chattanooga, TN has fiber available to individuals and businesses through their municipal electric company[1] (they put the fiber in for a Smart Grid). It is a cool little city, but there's not much of a tech sector. It is probably 1/3 the
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by naner 14y ago
Sorry, I edited my post to add the right-click thing as you were creating yours...
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by naner 14y ago
I wonder if Shift+Insert works... (is that only a Linux thing?) Or Rt-Click -> Paste.
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by naner 14y ago
I had the same thing happen at Georiga Tech years ago. My calc professor had the class buy a rough draft of the textbook he was writing. That wasn't as egregious as the situation described here, we could share books. The books were worthles
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by naner 14y ago
Doesn't it encourage them to get you off-track? Sure, but if they actually did so they would quickly lose customers. You have to trust that the system is helping before you would buy into it. The service is based on the pain of losing bei
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by naner 14y ago
Yes, I know. I was referring to the earlier case against Microsoft concerning h264 patents. I didn't mean to imply the same thing would happen here. I edited the post in an attempt to make it clear.
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by naner 14y ago
Google (through Motorola) is using Apple's tactics against them. Google/Motorola tried to do the same thing with Microsoft only to have Microsoft cry foul over FRAND (which isn't applicable in the case with Apple). It is a dirty tactic but
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by naner 14y ago
I was going to say that since this system very visibly shines red lights on your storefront windows it might actually serve as a beacon for savvy criminals.
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by naner 14y ago
MariaDB is the free (GPL) branch (actually more of a fork at this point) created by Monty, the primary original author of MySQL.
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by naner 14y ago
...just shows that Tor is really anonymous and safe. It shows that the groups who go after and prosecute these people don't have the resources or motivation to get to all of them. When you have a very significant target of the US (near th
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by naner 14y ago
He is a pompous ass and so is Kim Dotcom. The problem is that the charges against each of them appear to be completely exaggerated or made up[1]. 1: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4280532
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by naner 14y ago
I guess some people just love to hate Flash. Yes. Flash has performance and implementation issues. And developers can't do anything to improve the situation.
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by naner 14y ago
One of my favorite articles I always share when someone does an unsolicited redesign without putting the requisite analysis into it: http://www.ryanholiday.net/this-is-what-real-analysis-looks-...

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