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by sailormoon 17y ago
Interesting. I'll have to think twice before upvoting my housemate's comments.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I am beginning to feel the same way about people using non-SI units as I do about people using non-standards-compliant browsers and non-unicode character encodings. Calorie? What the hell is a calorie? I always have to look it up. Oh, it's
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Sigh. What is really annoying, is that conspiracies really do happen. Things go on all the time that many people would like to know about. Theories abound, and then decades later we find out a lot of it was actually true. ECHELON used to be
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Well the worst thing is it seems like there doesn't even need to be a legal basis! Everything's under a "license", no-one owns anything. What's to stop a newspaper company retroactively editing the news? Their news? Hell the system is in
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Really cool, thanks. Looking forward to seeing where this goes. Not quite ready for prime time yet, though. Crashes on this MBP - well, kind of runs, but error messages everywhere and something spinning uselessly at about 50% CPU. Still,
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Geeze, you weren't kidding. 9.05M according to Safari.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
"We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances." I would prefer "We are changing our systems so that in the future we can not remove books from customers' devices
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by sailormoon 17y ago
How could anyway be expected to find that companion blog post? If writing lists of "Motivations"-poster style truisms helps her keep her goals in mind, then great, but the resulting product is of little value to others. Anyway I've already
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Well sorry to be so blunt, but if it's "vague", has a need to "fill in the details", and has been left as an "exercise to the reader" - then I do not want to see it, no matter who it's from.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Well why didn't you say that then? If you have to explain what you meant, you didn't communicate it properly the first time. And "wanker" is not a verb. Agreed that FF have done very well. (edited to remove "helpful hints" which, on further
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by sailormoon 17y ago
This is ridiculous. 19 lines of mediocre catchphrases, half of which don't even make sense: "8 - don't wanker in technology". OK, I won't "wanker in technology". Even if Ms Culver is some kind of mini-celebrity in the startup community - an
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by sailormoon 17y ago
No, but absolutely nothing against those who do, which is perhaps 60% of my friends. In my opinion it is not good for my hacking abilities, in that I find it very difficult to take seriously the concept of "work" at all when high. I can be
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by sailormoon 17y ago
An "opinion more valid"? I don't think so. He might be able to offer a "this is how it made me feel" angle or something, and I liked hearing about how it's his favourite book, but otherwise he has no more insight or information than anyone
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by sailormoon 17y ago
What could Amazon possible say to defend their actions? The facts are plain to see. Personally I could do without their lame corporate spin, anyway. edit: why the downvotes? It's a sincere comment! When Sony installed frickin' rootkits on p
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by sailormoon 17y ago
How could a user prove their annotations ever even existed?
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Huh? Does owning a Kindle give you some special insight into the question of DRM, copyright, consumer rights, etc, inaccessible to others? How would owning a Kindle make you more qualified to comment on this development? Maybe a lot of peop
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Your comment goes a little too far (this is not the full realisation of 1984, not yet anyway) but you do raise a good point. It introduces the first actual working memory hole ; one of the key enablers of the 1984 regime. Imagine some litt
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Yeah, but the problem with that is that with PDF the page layout is really set in stone. What's appropriate for a 24" monitor may not be appropriate to read on your phone, or netbook, or what not. The best format, IMO, is plain HTML. It c
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by sailormoon 17y ago
I do not know what I am talking about when it comes to this topic. Neither, it seems, do most others here. We are intelligent laymen, but laymen all the same. So what do we do in order to intelligently judge this blog post? Well, first, let
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Do you really think your casual pondering of the matter has revealed an insight not obvious to the experienced, professional scientists who designed and are now running this large scale, multi-decade experiment? It beggars belief they have
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Why the downvotes? It's absolutely true. "I heard something" is not a proper argument, and the claim that CR has no effect on lifetime is at odds with everything I've heard on the matter. One of my friends (Chemistry PhD) is crazy about the
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by sailormoon 17y ago
What if the call gets cut off just because it's a bad line? What if the jammer takes effect 500m before the first vehicle? What if the phone runs out of battery, which it will within hours if it's active on a call? Not to mention that findi
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by sailormoon 17y ago
Ah, good explanation! That certainly seems like the path of least resistance.
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by sailormoon 17y ago
That would probably require a more advanced manipulation of the phone. When they trigger on ring, it's probably just using the power to the speaker or something built-in.