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by rpedroso 14y ago
I didn't take this quite as literally as Mr. Smith put it. He doesn't mean websites might need to hire voice actors to read out your content. What he means is that you must actually use HTML's alt and title attributes properly so that scree
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by rpedroso 14y ago
Google Reader tracked a lot of data about your feed reading habits, including but not limited to: - Average items/day published by subscriptions - Number and percentage of items that you actually read - Number of items you actually clicked,
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No. Square and Cube offer very similar products. If I started a fruit distribution company and called it Rhombus, there probably wouldn't be an issue. I can't say whether there is definitive trademark infringement here (Cube seems to offer
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> It is the responsibility of the wearer to communicate this and ask permission when entering private spaces. I'm not sure about that. You go on to talk about decorum and respect for the privacy of others. If someone walked into a resta
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> People don't want cameras pointed at them all the time. As he explains in the article, the camera does not (when functioning properly) store anything permanently. His photos were only possible when the computer stopped overwriting the
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I'm not sure who you're referring to as "the lunatics of the philosophy world", but I'm skeptical of the idea that philosophers have "answered" any question in the way science answers questions. There is certainly a debate to be had about w
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by rpedroso 14y ago
Ah, thanks, I missed that bit.
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I'm not sure that the argument is the important part of this article; a lot of it was about lamentation. The author admits to having little knowledge of patent laws, and is offering their story for perspective. As far as I can tell there we
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People in the business of video editing are one example. They need/use more RAM and processing power than you can get on any new model of Macbook Pro.
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That's very alarming, but also pre-exists this DOJ precedent. Hopefully this gets tested and validated in court soon.
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"officers must not search or seize a camera or recording device without a warrant." The seizure clause of the Fourth Amendment would seem cover any case in which they wanted a copy of your data.
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The official title of the article is "How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect", and the writing itself is much more neutral than this submission title. I'm still not sure why people are afrai
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I thought that bit was really interesting. The MPAA and other SOPA supporters adamantly maintain that the law would only serve to enforce copyright infringement. Is Chris Dodd trying to say that Google, Wikipedia, etc. have an interest in p
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Simpler solution (which GTD practitioners already know): keep a Waiting On list. Put due dates on it. Follow up when you hit the due date. I use Todoist, but this will work with many todo systems, including pen & paper ones. When popula
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Magazines like Slate want to believe two things: 1. Customers are unwilling to pay for high-quality content 2. It costs a lot to produce high-quality content. Both are wrong. Many people would happily pay for high-quality content if they ha
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by rpedroso 15y ago
It would be nice if I could confirm that I 'know' words, and that I could opt for those words to not appear (or perhaps be grayed-out) in lists.
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Not if you're a writer. Not that I want to read novels or papers that sound like a thesaurus threw up on a keyboard, but it's good to always have the right word to express a thought.
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Agreed. Also, up the max password length -- 20 is far too small for those who use password managers. Not that I am terribly worried about someone breaking into my WordStash account, but I don't want to have to change the settings on my pass
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That's part of the reason for the KiTTY fork: http://kitty.9bis.com/
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I work principally in academia, and I recently bought a Kindle to cut down on printing costs for PDF files (acquired from various sources, principally JStor). I find it increasingly unsatisfying. 1. I have to cross-reference page numbers fo
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Netflix updates UI, shifts focus to streaming(brokecontroller.com)
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Back in the early days of iTunes, I bought an iPod Mini and synced it on a Windows machine. Occasionally, I would sync my iPod, and something like 20 songs would disappear (purchased and non-purchased). This happened without warning, with a
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by rpedroso 15y ago
That analogy does not really hit the mark. Facebook lays claim to the data you upload to its website, and profits from that information. Sure, it's not quite the same as a financial exchange, but at the very least they should treat their us
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That was indeed my problem, now it's fixed
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Great work! P.s. real-time syntax highlighting is not working for me
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Nintendo has a new system that will be more powerful than the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360. I would hope so when competing against consoles that were released 6 years earlier. I'm curious to see how they will implement a "large touch-scr
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It's the same aversion we recall our childhood selves and react to anything our parents "force" us to do. Force isn't so effective -- it would be best if parents found creative ways to entice their kids with chess and chess-like activities
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Not to be a pedant, but I believe that this is not a Ruth Goldberg machine, but rather, a Jolly Ball track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qlXjhUHvg
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You make a number of very valid points. When a program is distributed without its source code, users don't have as much control as they would otherwise. Internet censorship is on the rise and presents a serious and credible threat to socie
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I honestly feel like such a mentality is at odds with the overall philosophy of the open source software RMS loves to extol. Community engagement drives such products, and a big part of this sort of communication is disagreement. It's not e

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