reginaldjcooper

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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Why share it with 3rd parties? Because that's the typical method of creating an account and managing it in case you forget your password and they will typically claim that they aren't going to share it with anyone and the cost of
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Would the US actually be able to enforce a court decision beyond injunction against a foreign business located abroad?
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
"FAT patent invalidation reduces Android OEM costs by $3.4 billion globally"
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Let's wait for the appeal before we declare any crushing defeats, but you aren't wrong that software patents are killing innovation. I think if you're a startup and you don't plan to do VC funding, don't incorporate
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I only knew there was the /r/jailbait that got removed. A pro-suicide forum is an unsavory thing. Thanks for clarifying.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Looks like Fisk and Gould were relatively unaffected by it, the country at large suffered a great loss, and nobody was punished for it. My word, history does repeat itself, they were just shy a government handout and a multi-million dollar
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
What like cyberbullying? Genuinely curious.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Yes I actually feel the same, they look like they are plotting something (for lack of a better description). Locking down the OS would be a strong indicator for a future walled garden scheme and if it comes to that I am definitely done with
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Why not everyone go buy a Nexus 5? It looks open as phones go, you can just root it with adb[0]. As long as you can root the phone and swap in your own OS I think Google's phone is as good as any other. [0] http://wiki.cyano
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I just got my Android phone and I agree. I shall never again pay someone for the "privilege" of programming my own device.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
> Remember that the cables that they use were paid for with public tax money. The private companies are selling back to us the infrastructure that we already paid to build. Actually unless I was misinformed, they are selling back the uni
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
If preventing deaths was anywhere close to the primary goal they'd be funneling money towards stopping traffic accidents. Terrorism is a convenient trope to get people to willingly relinquish their liberties, just like "for the ch
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
> You could implement a weighted trust system where you're more trusted the more people trust you, and consequently if you "issue" trust it's counted as more trustworthy than issuing trust to yourself. Nice try, but n
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Seriously. There are reasons US prisoners keep going back in and part of it is the focus on punishment instead of rehabilitation. Haven't the US a whole amendment dedicated to not using beatings or shankings as a punishment? I wish mor
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
No there's always a few posters that can't stop themselves from referencing tulips or pyramids. And humans remember unpleasant things better in the short term. So there you have it, the GP isn't irrational, but possibly hasn&
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I guess you can download the LLVM source but that has nothing to do with Apple. > that I can code for by spending like $100 Odd that you think that's freedom, because I can put my own apps on my own phone for actual free. I can put
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
that's right, I had a momentary lapse in judgement, sorry
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I would be very happy if there was bitcoin shorting. It would become less volatile so we could actually use it for stuff without guessing if we are getting a 10% discount or 10% haircut compared to the next day. If there were a reputable ma
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
A government with resources like the US or China could easily to a 51% attack on bitcoin and reject any transactions they didn't like. They could "take it over" and the cost to do so would be little more than a rounding error
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Seriously, in these threads there's hardly any middle ground between, "eventually these young fools will see they are standing at the foot of a pyramid of tulips," and, "fuck the police fuck fiat currency eventually doll
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
That's not true, there could be multiple buyers and the punchline would just be, "to whom? there's only the three of you."
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
I have been thinking about this also and I concluded I would either account for the bitcoin volatility risk in my BTC price or by raising the dollar price.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Nice observation. Yes bitcoins are exactly like tulips but moreso. In fact, in the future, bitcoin prices will drop below zero and these idiots will have to pay others to get rid of them. I'm looking forward to the expressions on their
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
IMO both of you have good points. I would expect 23andMe to be doing some shady Facebook-esqe bullshit because of the profit motive and that is why I have never used them even though I am curious. I expect the state to be doing some shady F
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
That's not a sad thing to be, at least recently. Apple is one of the major enemies of personal computing freedom.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
This is a good real-world example and the response is an armchair programmer informing you that you are doing it wrong. The internet is rife with know-it-alls. "Just do X." Well, I cannot because I am contractually obligated to wr
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
The scanner isn't effective enough to warrant the additional delay and invasion of privacy, it's just that the former head of Homeland Security is now a lobbyist for that company. Has TSA caught a single terrorist yet? The idea of
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
The greater violation of liberty is preventing many entities from using an idea rather than a single entity losing the opportunity to profit from an idea. Especially because a fire inventor being deprived of profit is not what is happening.
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
realtime means your algorithm is guaranteed within a certain window of time, even accounting for delays talking to memory, caches, etc. If it's okay to "drop frames" it is referred to as "soft real time", otherwise
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by reginaldjcooper 13y ago
If the copyright enthusiasts can misuse legal terminology to refer to copyright infringement as actual theft, I say let's go ahead and call this a theft as well. We'd be closer to the truth.

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