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by roc 13y ago
Maybe it's regional, but it's been more than a decade since I've been around a 2-7 year old that wasn't spending a significant portion of their time with dvds and games. I wouldn't be so quick to rule out such socia
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by roc 13y ago
I never understood the expectation for the 5C to be introduced so cheaply. Apple's M.O. has been good/better/best, with increasingly older models making up the cheaper slots. Without a 5C, everyone would have expected 5S&#x2
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by roc 13y ago
> "Most HUDs fail for one reason" And that reason is: most people, for most trips, just don't need it. [1] Driving a passenger car is simple and boring. That's why people distract themselves. That's why they
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by roc 13y ago
I think average people tuned out everything aside from "Galaxy", which Samsung noticed and thus began Samsung Galaxy Everything .
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by roc 13y ago
'Desirable' usernames are, technically speaking, as close to irrelevant to privacy as you can get. Your behavior with an account is what matters for privacy, not the account name. [1] Yet the article is entirely about the acco
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by roc 13y ago
I don't have a problem with an attempt at privacy. I grok that: I have no social networking accounts, nor does my wife, nor is an electronic record of any child of mine tagged, tracked and overshared online. What I don't get is t
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by roc 13y ago
Sure, the spoken lesson is: be careful what you share, there are risks. But the article isn't about privacy conscientiousness, it's about brand conscientiousness. The author isn't talking about how she might construct rul
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by roc 13y ago
To be fair, many 'new parent' classes urge people to record a good bit of that information, in the event that the child is having trouble gaining weight, has an illness, etc. Mix that 'good advice' with the 'quantif
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by roc 13y ago
This seems incredibly odd to me. On one hand, they indicate strongly valued privacy with the "no posts about the child" rule; seemingly recognizing the hidden costs of permissive 'oversharing'. But, on the other hand, th
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by roc 13y ago
> "But as surveillance technology improves, the distinction between public spaces and private spaces becomes less meaningful." Or more to the point: as the NSA mandates access to all private data, the distinction of recording
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by roc 13y ago
1. sleek devices are more generally-appealing in the store/advertisements 2. it's easier to effect a rugged case on a sleek phone than a sleek case on a rugged phone. 3. oleophobic-style coatings cut down on finger-smear
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by roc 13y ago
animated gifs are used instead of video, because the restrictions lend it to less cruft, fast(er) downloads and widespread browser support without plugins. Building extensions/plugins to increase quality is not only missing the point,
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by roc 13y ago
Sure; it's my subjective impression. It just didn't seem any more additive than any other story on the subject. Maybe if celebrities bring it up in forums the larger public can't/won't ignore, their visibility would
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by roc 13y ago
> "This is the first instance I am aware of where a mundane celebrity not known for an interest/connection to tech has spoken out against the NSA on this topic." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack&
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by roc 13y ago
Which would be a great point if not for the oversight, subsidies, reserves and incentives that affect staple foods.
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by roc 13y ago
If the goal is to celebrate the free market, food production is probably not a great analogy. In the US it's heavily subsidized, regulated, watched and manipulated to ensure that the market doesn't act too much like a free market
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by roc 13y ago
The real point to them being elective luxuries is that the would-be consumer can actually walk away entirely. You needn't get lazik from anyone . The same can't be said of many/most medical procedures. You can't resea
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by roc 13y ago
> "Most people are unaware that if they don't use insurance, they can negotiate upfront cash prices with hospitals and providers substantially below the "list" price." Substantially below list, but still well a
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by roc 13y ago
The comment I was replying to (IIRC; seeing as how it's now-deleted) explicitly claimed they weren't just disagreeing with the stylistic choices in iOS, but were taking issue with specific broken sorts of things (yellow text on wh
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by roc 13y ago
Then why have so many of those glaring mistakes from the first dev build actually been fixed/changed in subsequent builds?
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by roc 13y ago
What's "reasonable" ?
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by roc 13y ago
A bit of the trick and appeal to animated gif is no sound (at all) and (typically) low cruft: it's the 'money shot', looped. no padding, no channel begging, optimized for download speed, no buffering, no pop-ups, no ads, no c
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by roc 13y ago
> "Whatever happened to personal responsibility?" Nothing. But we've long since drawn a line between reasonable expectations of responsibility and being the victim of fraud, deception, etc. One can certainly argue that
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by roc 13y ago
Or the US Government is just like any other large organization, and when low level employees screw up, or a report looks bad, everyone at every level on the way up tries like hell to bury, burn or spin it, so that it doesn't reflect po
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by roc 13y ago
I'd imagine it's not seen as an improvement because (most) people don't value it. You might as well say you're improving a service by localizing a service for Esperanto. To some (small) audience, that well may be an imp
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by roc 13y ago
This can be applied to any system, not just the US government.
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by roc 13y ago
So... as long as there are two or more parties within the State, squabbling about issues unrelated to the over-reach of executive power, spying, police militarization, etc -- it's not a Police State? Surely every police state has had f
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by roc 13y ago
... Harry Wayne Casey?
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by roc 13y ago
I think you can generalize that to just one reason: the crowd became too large. It grew to the point that most articles were about things that any given reader wasn't deeply informed on. So the deep technical discussions produced far
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by roc 13y ago
If adding SSID is helpful, then it can be included in the "location" definition that I'd still rather manually specify.

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