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by ryusage 15y ago
It depends on your contract. In general, by default, you pay a bit for every text (10 cents maybe?). But you have the option of paying a flat rate for unlimited texting, which is generally something like $10/month. Most people I know choose
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by ryusage 15y ago
It's clear to me that my own consciousness is dramatically influenced by my physical environment. After all, anything that physically interacts with my brain will affect my consciousness in some way. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that would
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by ryusage 15y ago
It's pretty common to teach children a little bit of sign language before they can talk, actually. I remember being really impressed that my niece was able to ask for more of something (generally food) using sign language long before she sp
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by ryusage 15y ago
Interesting that geek.com says the picture is from 1995, while the article you've linked here says the monitor was newly announced in May of 1997. I'm guessing geek took some liberties with the details. EDIT: Not that it matters...just some
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by ryusage 15y ago
Yeah, minimum wage for non-tipping jobs is $7.25 where I live, and somewhere around $2 for jobs that rely on tips. Since a 10 - 20% tip is the norm, a server only needs to serve maybe $40 of food every hour to hit that minimum wage. For the
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by ryusage 15y ago
As to your last question, it's actually pretty much always running, listening or not. At least in my installation, clicking the X to close the window actually (by default) just minimizes it; to really close the application, you have to use
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by ryusage 15y ago
I think you're severely misunderstanding what it is they did in this experiment. The overall emphasis was not at all on the gender of the participants. As the article took pains to point out, they formed the groups based on a variety of in
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by ryusage 15y ago
If you read his discussion of how it works, though, that's very much not what this is. What you're asking for doesn't even make sense, to be honest. It's not about who you search or view. It's all just a big guess at who you might be inte
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by ryusage 15y ago
The results of this sound amazing, but the article is frustratingly vague about what role the HIV virus plays. The interviews in the video don't mention it at all. I think most people will assume the patient is being infected with some var
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by ryusage 15y ago
> Airbnb wasn't vouching for their renters any more than a hotel booking site does The victim in this case stated that, before using Airbnb, she would normally perform background checks on potential renters. Airbnb, though, marketed th
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by ryusage 15y ago
Activists tend to break laws, no?
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by ryusage 15y ago
Civil Disobedience is (by definition) illegal, so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't make much sense for there to be any rules or requirements around it.
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by ryusage 15y ago
Until the supreme court rules on it themselves, I'm pretty positive other judges are still free to make their own judgments on the matter.
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by ryusage 15y ago
I like your breakdown of the DDoS vs the sit-in. The requirement of many people vs a few does make an important distinction when considering the effectiveness as a form of protest. But I think the analogy to a bomb threat or breaking windo
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by ryusage 15y ago
I think the other part of that problem is that, even if they could be guaranteed to win and have their costs paid, the whole process could take a very long time, and they have to be able to pay all those costs in the meantime.
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by ryusage 15y ago
From what I've heard, travel costs are shockingly cheaper once you get out of the US.
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by ryusage 15y ago
You're right, but I suspect you're referring more to holding a door for someone, rather than making them wait a moment while you go out of your way to open it for them. I've had a female friend write off a first date because the guy serio
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by ryusage 15y ago
Because there's no reliable way to identify which files were pirated and which were legitimately obtained from non-iTunes sources. The files all look the same, for the most part. I guess some do have tags that say who ripped them, which wo
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by ryusage 15y ago
No, the whole point of the iCloud service is that the music is stored on Apple's servers. It sounds like it is then synced from their servers to your devices. So presumably, if they wanted to, they could remove or block your access to par
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by ryusage 15y ago
Got it. That does make sense; the article and comments just didn't really seem like that was specifically what people were worried about. Given that I see no other reason to care, though, I assume you're correct. Personally, I'm not so wo
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by ryusage 15y ago
Tagging is a pretty fundamental feature of Facebook, in my opinion. That being said, there actually already is an option in the privacy settings to prevent anyone from seeing the images you're tagged in. That's slightly different from pre
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by ryusage 15y ago
Am I the only one who doesn't see any big deal over this feature? Normally, I'd be all upset about them forcing an opt-out approach, but I just don't really see this as changing your level of privacy at all. If it's a friend of yours, and
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by ryusage 15y ago
I'm going to say that's definitely naive. It's a well-known fact that the US government has gradually been placing more and more emphasis on "cyber-warfare" over the last several years. A 0-day vulnerability allowing code execution (in a
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by ryusage 15y ago
Personally, if I had a PSN account, I would do this immediately. Sony's announcement specifically stated that the hackers got email addresses, PSN usernames, and passwords (among other things). Assuming they properly salted and hashed all
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by ryusage 16y ago
Huh...I guess that makes more sense, but actually my first impression of the name was to think of Candyland. Like the Yellow Brick Road, but with gumdrops and such. Cheesy, but positive. I wonder which interpretation is more common?
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by ryusage 16y ago
I think you're misunderstanding Poole's stance on this. Zuckerberg seems to be pushing for a huge reduction in anonymity - maybe to the point of removing it altogether. That is definately because it would benefit him directly. Poole, thou
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by ryusage 16y ago
My impression from the article was not that Poole thinks Facebook is evil, or that anonymity is always better than a clear identity. His point was simply that it would be a mistake to eliminate anonymity from the internet entirely. Both s