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by pyrocat 13y ago
Yup, lots of more information keeps coming out, you just have to know where to keep up with it. Here's a great source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files
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by pyrocat 13y ago
That's certainly what the US media is reporting on. Here's a better source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files
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by pyrocat 13y ago
/sc2 Hell, it's about time
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Really? There was a t-shirt printing API posted on HN just a few days ago. Lots of online t-shirt shops simply need you to upload an image in order to create a storefront selling that shirt. Wouldn't be that hard to automate it.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
I think we live in a sad middleground between the two.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Yeah the part that got was me where they said that cookies "also help web sites handle logins and other basic functions" without making the distinction between domain cookies and 3rd party cookies. And then followed it up with &qu
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Why bother spending money to pay a developer to patch it for offline play? They already have your money.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Which is why the cable cutting movement is so popular.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
and this is why media conglomeration is a bad thing.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Did you stop reading after the first couple sentences? He took down the content. The NYT then came back and said even having the text "The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour." on his site was
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Some people are insecure when they're not 100% sure of the rules for social interaction. They don't want to come off as an asshole who pays no mind to social niceties or as someone who has Aspbergers and doesn't recognize social cues.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Kids who post youtube videos of themselves rapping: http://news.yahoo.com/teenagers-social-media-terrorism-threa... The Methuen, Mass., high school student was arrested last week after posting online videos that show him rapping an origi
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Because it's a shocking invasion of privacy.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Pretty much. "This issue is very important to me and as your constituent I would like you to support this bill." You can either leave it at that or continue on with why you think the bill is important.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
"I'm old and have a family and therefore my time is more valuable than yours"
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by pyrocat 13y ago
I like the design, but was expecting a larger list and more filtering options.
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by pyrocat 13y ago
I assume you've seen this? http://whitemenwearinggoogleglass.tumblr.com/
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by pyrocat 13y ago
Nice to get an Informatics shout out, even if it's presented as a computer science 2nd choice. It's a wonderful program that blends code, design, and user experience, with a sprinkling of library science and business ethics. I couldn't thin
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Yeah I quit reading at "salespeople are competitive by nature"
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Hurry up and come to Seattle!
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Came here hoping it was this. Ah well, there's always Transcendence: http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Came here to say this, thank you.
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by pyrocat 14y ago
If your disclaimer is longer than your joke, maybe you should reconsider telling it.
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Except that still implies that 1445 students plagiarized. "Professor tells class to edit wikipedia, results in 16 cases of plagiarism" would be way less misleading.
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by pyrocat 14y ago
These people telling you to move to California aren't necessarily giving the best advice. Seattle is like San Francisco with slightly less start-ups and 1/3rd the cost of living. Seattle also has Microsoft and a wide variety of businesses t
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by pyrocat 14y ago
This wasn't the case at my school, as an undergrad.
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by pyrocat 14y ago
So... what about GOG.com? And Kickstarter games? There are plenty of "digital goods" out there that don't have shitty DRM or require company servers to be online to access the content you paid for. Let's not talk about DRM like it's the onl
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by pyrocat 14y ago
The patch would cost a lot more development dollars. In order to make always-on DRM effective there needs to be some significant logic kept on the company servers. If it was a simple on/off switch it would be very easy to break. Thus, creat
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by pyrocat 14y ago
Exactly the point. What if these games had the same DRM that Sim City has?
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by pyrocat 14y ago
I think the larger point is that when EA decides it is no longer profitable to pay for Sim City servers, the game (singleplayer experience and all) will simply cease to exist. There will be no searching through old boxes to find that instal

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