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811.
by noarchy 15y ago
I'm not sure that annoyance level is what should matter when we're talking about respecting local privacy laws. Perhaps a better interface can be designed/implemented, but that's another matter.
812.
by noarchy 15y ago
Borked in a big way. You can't sell an inferior tablet for the same price as an iPad. The ones who are succeeding against Apple (like Amazon) are effectively competing on price.
813.
by noarchy 15y ago
...and then they embed Flash in the page. I wonder how much energy gets wasted by my CPU fan being driven to 100% on Flash sites :)
814.
Help wanted: tech firms scramble for talent (theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by noarchy 15y ago|0 comments
815.
by noarchy 15y ago
Assuming that we trust these numbers, what does it say about mobile development that Obj-C continues to shoot up, while Java has lost momentum (though still high on the list)? There are more Android devices out there than iOS, but the devel
816.
by noarchy 15y ago
I would have rather seen the hacking done from within China, with messages in readable, relevant Chinese. It probably would have been far more powerful as a statement. Under those circumstances, I'd find it hard to call it criminal; it woul
817.
Swedish researchers uncover key to China's Tor-blocking system(v3.co.uk)
82 points by noarchy 15y ago|3 comments
818.
by noarchy 15y ago
I tend to agree. A lucky throwaway account can end up with hundreds of karma points just for getting there 'first' on an item, or being the one that got upvoted enough to be noticed.
819.
by noarchy 15y ago
People may be creating polls for karma, but I don't know what the use of that would be. A certain karma threshold is needed for downvoting, and (I think, since I've never tried it) posting polls to begin with. So there may be some initial i
820.
by noarchy 15y ago
Normally I'm not worried about IE7/6. The only time it is an issue is when a corporate client (who else is stuck using those browsers, these days? not many) complains that their new, cutting-edge social media app doesn't render properly in
821.
by noarchy 15y ago
My first programming book was K.N. King's "C Programming, a Modern Approach" That remains one of the few programming-related books I own that has endured some wear. I actually have read the GoF book, but I'm not sure that I'd recommend it t
822.
by noarchy 15y ago
If you don't mind going the Emacs route, there's http://aquamacs.org/ It is probably a bit friendlier, out of the box, than vanilla Emacs, at least from an OS X perspective.
823.
by noarchy 15y ago
Despite the opening of the article, I wouldn't put much stock in The Old Republic being a long-term threat to WoW. Short term, it probably did take some players from WoW. Anyone who is currently playing TOR knows that the server populations
824.
by noarchy 15y ago
It may be temporary, but Marine Le Pen's campaign web site seems to be down at the moment. It would be easy to see her benefiting from the inevitable fervour over this loony gunman. Sarkozy would love to have a bit of that for himself, henc
825.
by noarchy 15y ago
Interesting that you'd narrow it down to 'murdering', because violence is much broader than murder. We're quite sheltered from the effects of warfare, for instance, especially when the casualties are not our own. The major media does not li
826.
by noarchy 15y ago
As someone living in Canada, I can VPN my way through the IP barriers. So that isn't an issue for me. But when it comes to paying, they sometimes still don't want my money if they see a Canadian address. There is definitely something wrong
827.
by noarchy 15y ago
Most developers who I've known are easily-distracted from being in the "zone", and I include myself in that list. I'm always more productive when working remotely, where I can control my work environment. Second in order of preference is ha
828.
by noarchy 15y ago
It has been a long time, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer That incident alone doesn't mean that this is happening often, because it isn't. Violence is shown on US television all the time, but it is almost always of the ficti
829.
by noarchy 15y ago
>The United States made a huge mistake in moving to an all-volunteer army in the 1970s. With a draft and mandatory conscription, everybody had the common experience of serving and perhaps doing really bad things in the line of duty. As
830.
by noarchy 15y ago
I've never heard of one, but there may very well be a market for that sort of thing. The problem with Bitcoins will be the legal jurisdictions involved, since these services are regulated nearly everywhere, right?
831.
by noarchy 15y ago
GPUs that Bitcoin miners would certainly have around. Not saying that this is what happened, but it got me wondering.
832.
by noarchy 15y ago
The problem being, of course, that other sites are using FB for logins. Granted, this is a problem only if you consent to it.
833.
by noarchy 15y ago
That "naive openness" of Wikipedia that the author describes is a huge part of its success. If a top-down form of editing is sought, there are encyclopedias for that. Wikipedia already has its groups of elites (deletionists come to mind), a
834.
by noarchy 15y ago
Are you being sarcastic? Apache still powers a huge chunk of the Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server#Market_share
835.
by noarchy 15y ago
Meanwhile in Canada, the government is limiting debate on its own copyright legislation. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/08/pol-copyright...
836.
by noarchy 15y ago
You've said elsewhere that you live in Canada. Then you should know that this is far from an apples-to-apples comparison. The Queen has little real power in Canada. Where I happen to live (Québec), she is quite unpopular, but at the same ti
837.
by noarchy 15y ago
As a Canadian resident, I get a sampling of a partitioned internet when I try to use sites like Hulu or Pandora. The effort to bring national borders to the Internet is well underway, and unfortunately it isn't limited to the usual slate of
838.
by noarchy 15y ago
How do you define "developer"? The man has certainly written his share of code, and has contributed it to the community. I don't know how he has made his living, over the years, but I bet he's been paid to develop at some point.
839.
by noarchy 15y ago
I can't help but think that the VPN business is a good place to be, as national borders encroach more and more on the Internet. I've been using VPNs to access US content from Canada for a while, and a handful of acquaintances have begun to
840.
by noarchy 15y ago
" when users first install the custom firmware they are prompted with a notification asking them to opt-in" Sounds like it is only including those who opt-in. That would indeed seem to indicate that the actual number is higher.

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