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901.
by noarchy 15y ago
Even Wal Mart will pay you while training you. If a company cannot meet that standard, something is wrong, imo.
902.
by noarchy 15y ago
When I saw the WSJ link, and knowing HN, I was expecting this to be about Atlas Shrugged, or something similar.
903.
by noarchy 15y ago
This report was widely discussed, in recent days: http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/06/17/report-the-most-common-w...
904.
by noarchy 15y ago
My Macbook comes out of sleep mode almost instantaneously, so I come out of it with uptimes that are similar to yours. My PC desktop, meanwhile, gets rebooted when Windows Update demands it, so it varies. There are workplaces where people m
905.
by noarchy 15y ago
Just an observation: people on HN who complain about being downvoted rarely see their comments get out of the "grey" zone.
906.
by noarchy 15y ago
I've seen plenty of folks threaten to do the same with HN, since it isn't exclusive enough for them anymore, either. Both sites will do fine, I think.
907.
LulzSec target CCP and Eve Online(eve-news.com)
1 points by noarchy 15y ago|0 comments
908.
by noarchy 15y ago
You can wall off groups of people within Facebook, but the effort required to do this is beyond the motivation level that I'd expect most Facebook users (myself included) to have. Like privacy, making Facebook more tolerable to use is an op
909.
by noarchy 15y ago
Where else would they go, at this point? I don't know of any competitors that are live and able to target Facebook refugees. Diaspora is still in Alpha, for example, and I suspect that the buzz on that one has been fading for some time.
910.
by noarchy 15y ago
How many Facebook users care about privacy? I agree that there are considerable issues with regard to Facebook and privacy, but I'm not sure that most of their users are proactive in caring about it as much. It is probably more likely that
911.
by noarchy 15y ago
There's a reason that he was on shows like Art Bell's. Not quite the guy I'd be quoting in a discussion of science.
912.
by noarchy 15y ago
Since DUIs have not stopped, even with checkpoints, what are you suggesting should be done beyond this?
913.
by noarchy 15y ago
That may be the case, but my point (which I tried to infer, if unsuccessfully) was that these are much more than "DUI" checkpoints. Apple shouldn't be swallowing the government's line about this.
914.
by noarchy 15y ago
Most people wouldn't think to do it. But if you have a busted tail light of which you were not aware, for example, rest assured that you'll know about it after passing through a "DUI" checkpoint.
915.
by noarchy 15y ago
You don't have to add a disclaimer about not condoning drunk driving. That you felt it was necessary says quite a bit about how we've been groomed to accept these checkpoints.
916.
by noarchy 15y ago
This probably depends on how arcane your research topic is. There are sources out there that have not been digitized, and this may require one to go hunting for some old, dusty tome. But this is all part of the evolution of how we get our i
917.
by noarchy 15y ago
It really isn't renting, either, is it? It falls in this strange grey area where you don't truly own it, but there's nothing comparable to a lease (though I can see someone arguing that a ToS agreement is akin to one). DRM'ed books seem, to
918.
by noarchy 15y ago
I agree with him on those points. Where I disagree is when he suggests that taxes should be used to pay authors. It is difficult to justify that in the name of "freedom", imo.
919.
Stallman: EBooks are "attacking our freedom"(pcpro.co.uk)
35 points by noarchy 15y ago|51 comments
920.
by noarchy 15y ago
I trust that most who really don't want this story clogging up their HN will flag it. There are procedures for this sort of thing.
921.
by noarchy 15y ago
I never knew that police could get involved in student loan matters. If the woman had been there, I wonder what her fate would have been?
922.
by noarchy 15y ago
I see someone whining about this in almost every post, of late, it seems. Usually it is in the form of a, "Oh another ____ thread, not another one of those." Not every post will be on one of your pet subjects. Deal with it.
923.
Hackers pull off Harper choking hoax(cbc.ca)
3 points by noarchy 15y ago|0 comments
924.
by noarchy 15y ago
I don't think that this is the beginning of the end. This is exactly the kind of scenario that has been anticipated, and discussed at length by bitcoin advocates. Obviously a government can try to ban them, but that's hardly going to render
925.
by noarchy 15y ago
This is not a total change in direction for Apple, just a fleshing out of what they've been wanting to do for a while. Expect more of this in the future, not less.
926.
by noarchy 15y ago
I'm sure that their sales team wants people to think that, regarding hardware ;) On the other hand, regarding jumping from 10.5 to 10.7: would this require the purchase of a Snow Leopard DVD, so that 10.6 would be covered in-between? I'd be
927.
by noarchy 15y ago
The difference is how you market yourself.
928.
by noarchy 15y ago
A report, based on interviews, from Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/06/01/we-ve-never-seen-su...
929.
by noarchy 15y ago
It may be shameless promotion, but the fact is, he managed to get a platform (CNN) on which to do it. One could argue that he's off to a good start.
930.
by noarchy 15y ago
I can't agree that no person or property is harmed by spam. A lot of resources have needed to be spent to reduce the spam that lands in my inbox. Someone paid for that, and most of us are probably happy that this effort has been made. There

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