rictic

68 ms·

691.
by rictic 14y ago
http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/
692.
by rictic 14y ago
... and that would be illegal for them to do, and for good reason. The solution to bad speech is not violence. It's more speech.
693.
by rictic 14y ago
There's fewer affordances for interaction, yet the screen is always visible. Huge win if the software guess correctly that you want to see something, potentially quite annoying if not. I've never used a Glass though, this is just based on w
694.
by rictic 14y ago
There are lots of simple things that one could do to a roadway to impede or endanger traffic. Consider, for example, the danger of leaving something sharp or slick on a tight turn where people often speed. I've thought about this for a few
695.
by rictic 14y ago
I believe the charge is that they've done or avoided doing some very specific and otherwise natural things to avoid falling under banking regulation.
696.
by rictic 14y ago
This is cool, but I was surprised: why is interframe compression basically impossible here?
697.
by rictic 14y ago
If we further assume that the two companies who produce the two products only produce those products, then for those two companies it's zero sum for them to contribute in good faith to open source bloom filters. Any gain that one company g
698.
by rictic 14y ago
Imagine a simple market (if you're wincing already, I'm right there with you, but you asked for this right?). There are 100 customers, and two products. The products are interchangeable, save for the performance of their bloom filters. This
699.
by rictic 14y ago
The question, I think, isn't whether someone from a culture influenced by the deodorant ads will find the smell of body odor offensive. The question is whether we would find it offensive if no one had told us that our body odor was repulsiv
700.
by rictic 14y ago
How would one peg the price to existing bitcoin (honest question)?
701.
by rictic 14y ago
Ah dang, for some reason I thought that hotmail and y!mail were in there too. It looks like there's a commitment (which CAs you'll allow to sign your cert) that's needed from the site owner for HSTS to work. I hope they get in there one way
702.
by rictic 14y ago
I wish this meme would die. There's a kernel of truth, that initially Chrome didn't support blocking network requests, but that's because of the tradeoff of extension compatibility vs power that Chrome made. Firefox addons (as originally de
703.
by rictic 14y ago
My understanding is that games on the current generation of consoles are assumed to corrupt your save if power is lost while saving. The response from the certification process of these consoles is to warn the user about this every time eve
704.
by rictic 14y ago
With a reasonable save system, the system behaves exactly the same as it does now, only save games aren't corrupted if power is lost in the middle of saving. It makes the device work more like a reliable appliance, not less. There would s
705.
by rictic 14y ago
It's not quite that bad. Even with a compromised certificate authority, it's not an invisible attack to do a man in the middle and inject their own certificate. Someone knowledgable could notice this discrepancy and raise a stink. Furthermo
706.
by rictic 14y ago
Wow. Huh.
707.
by rictic 14y ago
That argument would've had more weight before kickstarter took off. I mean, think of it. A group just raised over $3.5 million in two days on kickstarter to build an opensource and indie-friendly video game console.
708.
by rictic 14y ago
One place where Refine distinguishes itself compared to those tools are its quick visualizations of subsets of the data. In the article the author is able to tell that a column is always blank, and thus worth dropping, but Refine can do a l
709.
by rictic 14y ago
A piece of anecdata: I've got comcast, and I recently bought my own cable modem because the provider given one was dropping packets. To get it to connect at all, I needed to call them up and tell them the model number and the the MAC addres
710.
by rictic 14y ago
If you're willing to wait and are willing to throw down some initial capital you can also mine bitcoins directly. Freshly mined bitcoins are difficult to impossible to trace (not even to the machine that mined them) (with small variation in
711.
by rictic 14y ago
At the current exchange rate then any transaction below ~$0.06 might have a transaction fee of a fraction of a cent. Simple fix? Don't support incredibly small transactions, (or at least don't support large numbers of very small transaction
712.
by rictic 14y ago
They were both also victims of oppression, in different ways and to different degrees. A large number of people were and are. More attention is paid to the oppression that Turing underwent because it seems likely that it was a major factor
713.
by rictic 14y ago
Ok, then, imagine that Einstein had died in such a way that it was very plausible (likely even) but not ironclad certain that he had died in the holocaust. I think mikeash's point still holds. There's a level of uncertainty under which, I a
714.
by rictic 14y ago
True, there's something of a tradeoff to make there in terms of waiting vs risk. This is the case with existing payment systems to some extent as well, isn't it? Blizzard for example recently took some heat with regard to fully activating d
715.
by rictic 14y ago
Yes. A reliable double spend attack would require many millions of dollars worth of machines, and would be noticeable and verifiable (you could provably say "hey I just got a double spend from this account for this amount"). This means that
716.
by rictic 14y ago
If you're giving someone access to a service that you can revoke (e.g. web hosting, VPN, etc), it doesn't seem like there's any practical risk in optimistically giving someone access once you see the spend hit the bitcoin network. It's not
717.
by rictic 14y ago
Is that true? Isn't that the responsibility of the whatever component that translates the number of seconds since Jan 1 1970 into a calendar?
718.
by rictic 14y ago
From the discussion it looks like the chrome devs want to support this use case. I think the idea is that you can add more trusted installation locations.
719.
by rictic 14y ago
I'll give you an example. A friend was over a few days ago and wanted to watch a particular episode of Community. One quick google search and we found the name of the episode. One quick search on iTunes, a couple clicks and it's downloading
720.
by rictic 14y ago
I'd give good odds that joshu already knows this, but I'd like to point out that a lot of work has gone into making freebase's schema machine readable. The schema is stored and constructed in the same way as all other data in freebase (as a

More ›