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by robtoo 15y ago
I found this in the UK... http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5072954.htm for GPB 70 (USD 115) new But the Indian tablet has 3G and a "bundled data plan" (whatever that might be) as well as WiFi, so it's hard to find proper c
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by robtoo 15y ago
According to the article, there is no "fruits of $3.5 million", no real IP, no nothing.
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by robtoo 15y ago
I assume you're being down-voted because you are comparing the price of a contract-free phone with that of a contract phone (but excluding the cost of the contract). A quick look at the AT&T website suggest that to get that $49 iPhone,
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by robtoo 15y ago
I (probably) have the same phone as the grand-parent. Best modding info is at: http://android.modaco.com/forum/453-zte-blade-libra-blademod...
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by robtoo 15y ago
Tarn supports himself primarily with donations from Dwarf Fortress enthusiasts. He's been doing the donation model for years, and it looks like he receives about $3000/month: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=87996.0
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by robtoo 15y ago
The client wouldn't pay, so he gives it to them for free anyway?
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Fraudster used Facebook to hack bank accounts(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by robtoo 15y ago|0 comments
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Motorola's plan to collect patent royalties from other Android makers(unwiredview.com)
3 points by robtoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by robtoo 15y ago
From http://puck.nether.net/~rtucker/faq/funny/amazonbn.html the B&N press release which elicited the succinct reply: NEW YORK, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 6, 1998--The following is a statement by barnesandnoble.com With regard to
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by robtoo 15y ago
Originally discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2845485
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The truth behind the Shady RAT(symantec.com)
2 points by robtoo 15y ago|0 comments
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by robtoo 15y ago
From the outline presented here, it sounds like generic web vulnerabilities, rather than something ChromeOS-specific. But with content like "hackers could have a field day accessing data on Chromebooks. [...] With Chromebooks, no data is st
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by robtoo 15y ago
What this article calls "body hacking", the rest of the world calls "good diet and exercise".
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by robtoo 15y ago
Something to do with pussies, I think. Also... Apple working on a touchscreen smartphone? [So Google] spend billions from another business and copy everything you can, down to swipes and apps. Apple used profits generated in one business
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by robtoo 15y ago
Thanks. It was interesting to see how strong my expectations are for what a search box looks like that I will simply not see something right in front of me if it breaks the established conventions. Also: putting it on the front page only do
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by robtoo 15y ago
There clearly is a market for patents at the moment because large numbers of them have been changing hands, often with multiple bidders.
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by robtoo 15y ago
No search facility? Really? Yes, I know you can URL-hack, but a search-engine with stemming would make the site a lot more usable/useful.
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by robtoo 15y ago
I'm getting tired of lazy reporting gushing about how many patents are involved in this or that deal, but with little or no discussion of which patents these actually are and what they cover. A few good patents trumps a big pile of trash
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by robtoo 15y ago
It's not plagiarism if it's attributed. (edit: looks like the submission url was edited. I guess it wasn't snopes earlier.)
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by robtoo 15y ago
See also: Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-oper...
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Groupon's Worst Nightmare: Amazon Entering Daily Deals Space(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by robtoo 15y ago|1 comments
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by robtoo 15y ago
Okay, fair enough. But I do think it is exaggerating to say that "everyone downloading the free app is harboring illusions that they're supporting the developer." I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of downloaders get no furth
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by robtoo 15y ago
To be honest, this is true of every product that Amazon sells.
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by robtoo 15y ago
thanks to Amazon’s secret back-door deals, we made $0 on that day. These secret back-door deals that were so secret that they were written in bold in the email, so secret that they noticed this and wrote back to amazon, and so secret that
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by robtoo 15y ago
Unfortunately, none of your image links work. The S3 images return "Request has expired", and Twitpic is blank (and doesn't seem to be referer-checking)
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by robtoo 15y ago
It sends malformed SQL queries carrying the payload which in turn forces the servers to exhaust their own resources. SQL injection and sending slow queries? Or hammering regular HTTP pages which run slow SQL queries (such as an unoptimise
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by robtoo 15y ago
I'm a Brit and have never heard "middle-end" used like that. "Middling", yes. "Middle-end", no. And to answer the grand-parent: building infrastructure that will help other parts of the project -- part of why I call myself a ‘middle-end pr
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by robtoo 15y ago
Cache clearing doesn't affect Flash cookies [LSO's] This is coming soon to a Chrome near you: http://blog.chromium.org/2011/04/providing-transparency-and-... Presumably other browsers will follow.
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by robtoo 15y ago
How then are they able to track the same user using a different browser? Flash cookies. Presumably Silverlight has an equivalent. (And I even heard once that Windows Media Player shares cookies with IE regardless of the browser that it is
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by robtoo 15y ago
grand-parent's point is presumably that bcrypt (or similar) is a better choice than md5.

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