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by rfugger 14y ago
Even better, if you're worried about privacy, you can pay for your VPN with Bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Connectivity https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Dedicated.2FVirtual_Server_...
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by rfugger 14y ago
I don't think courts would take kindly to that kind of blatant attack on free speech and privacy rights that are well-established in law in most countries.
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by rfugger 14y ago
Google's is worse because it takes all rights to use your work however it likes, and then states in its privacy policy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the service. But if it likes, it can amend the privacy policy in
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by rfugger 14y ago
I found Unity awkward at first, but I put in a few days' honest effort to learn to shortcuts and try to work as the designers intended me to, and it improved my desktop efficiency quite a bit, and removed a fair bit of clutter compared to G
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Vancouver developers build a social network for bus riders(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by rfugger 14y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 14y ago
These desire engine articles make me wonder if similar ideas were circulating around the tobacco industry in the 60's.
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Ignore Everybody.(gapingvoid.com)
135 points by rfugger 15y ago|28 comments
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The purpose of business is profit?(doriantaylor.com)
2 points by rfugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
In short, if Motorola didn’t think that Medfield was competitive, it wouldn’t have agreed to make a bunch of Medfield-powered phones and tablets. Either that, or Intel paid it a bunch of money to make it worth their while.
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by rfugger 15y ago
The problem is, I don't want to help a "provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry". And I don't feel right taking someone's money and providing no value in return.
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VW gives workers a rest from Blackberry messages(reuters.com)
2 points by rfugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Maybe Mozilla encouraged him in this direction, since they're friendly with Google?
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Pjax: ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button(pjax.heroku.com)
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by rfugger 15y ago
Whoa, as a python guy, this makes me not want to learn Haskell at all. The syntax seems as bad a Perl.
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by rfugger 15y ago
I agree. It is a legitimate question, though, to ask whether the benefits of internet voting outweigh the increased opportunity for coercion. No internet voting advocates seem to be addressing that question, though, which makes me think t
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by rfugger 15y ago
Trying to aim a standard at an amorphous, undefined future goal doesn't seem very likely to succeed.
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by rfugger 15y ago
I respect that Canonical is trying to make Ubuntu an OS that regular Mac and Windows users will feel comfortable switching to. They must realize that this will alienate many long-time Linux users, but that doesn't hurt Linux as a whole, be
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by rfugger 15y ago
For 99% of applications, there just isn't budget or a need for software failover. Making data centers continually more reliable serves this 99% well.
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by rfugger 15y ago
Don't resist efficiency, just find a better way to distribute wealth so that people are less driven by fear, creating a more caring society without killing the incentive to innovate. I like the idea of a basic income for all paid for by re
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by rfugger 15y ago
Question: Did the state come after Mr. Greenspan, or did he pick a fight with them because of this silly rule? If it's the latter, then I certainly sympathize, but it doesn't seem like the best approach to having your business succeed. B
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Canadian researcher traces AIDS to single bush hunter from 1921(theglobeandmail.com)
183 points by rfugger 15y ago|55 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
What are the chances of Microsoft allowing their vendors to implement installing secure-boot keys from removable media?
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"If you can avoid it, don’t ever take out a patent"(theglobeandmail.com)
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by rfugger 15y ago
I thought that these agreements didn't actually involve any payments to Microsoft, and in some cases even involved payments going the other way, to give MS fuel for its FUD.
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by rfugger 15y ago
P=NP was solved 6 days ago and no one told me? Anyone want to point out the error here?
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Supreme Court of Canada rules drug injection clinic can stay open(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by rfugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Send this to anyone who thinks the planes overhead are spraying chemtrails.
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by rfugger 15y ago
Can you give an example of this?
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by rfugger 15y ago
That's cheating somehow...
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by rfugger 15y ago
1. Everyone in the study was allowed to succeed in their goals, so a conclusion cannot be stated beyond "those that set high goals and have them met are more satisfied than those who set lower goals and have them met." 2. Correlation is not

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