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by scrod 16y ago
Notational Velocity was designed from the ground up as a desktop password manager and follows all of these rules, using PBKDF2-based key derivation with a default of 8000 iterations, adjustable in units of measured CPU time. Security featur
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by scrod 16y ago
What do you mean, you have complete freedom! Why, all you have to do is simply to start your own international payment processing system, convince enough people to use it, and voila; convenient money-transfer freedom by your own rules! Oh,
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by scrod 16y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the first web browser was indeed written in Objective-C, using the AppKit framework.
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by scrod 16y ago
From the web page: > Chrome OS is for people who live on the web. It runs web-based applications, not legacy PC software. Google apparently thinks that being in control of your own computer is a "legacy" concern. I guess directly empow
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by scrod 16y ago
> Except on mac your data can leak into tmp or swap. Only if you let it: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/118...
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by scrod 16y ago
The graph shows a continuing decline, with a sizable difference between even now and 1990. In fact, almost the entire trend since 1918 has been roughly linear — hardly what your hypothesis would suggest.
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by scrod 16y ago
Easy — just make it a CouchApp.
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by scrod 16y ago
Perhaps the U.S. State Department should think about hiring the MPAA's legal team.
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by scrod 16y ago
I can confirm that the Senz performs quite well in Chicago weather, even in the wind-tunnel areas. The problem, though, is that fabric is removed from the front of the umbrella to create the wing shape, and the result is less coverage than
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by scrod 16y ago
> Why are we content allowing Washington to replace the judgment of millions of private investors with the whims of a handful of bureaucrats trying to score political points playing with taxpayers' money? Nice try, but two can play at
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by scrod 16y ago
Searching in Mac OS X's Mail.app is instantaneous, because the message content and metadata are already included in your Spotlight database.
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by scrod 16y ago
> I am coming to believe that ideology inhibits thought. Your comments demonstrate that quite clearly.
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by scrod 16y ago
Why don't you just give them back the money you stole from them in the form of profit? I'm sure they'd have plenty of cash to buy your company then.
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by scrod 16y ago
The sarcasm ended after I pointed it out.
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by scrod 16y ago
> You pointed to one, single, crazy group that may or may not even be affiliated with religion. Would you like some more? http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/hate.htm http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map (Click on any state) L
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by scrod 16y ago
> When you say freedom of religion, you don't mean complete freedom. What if my religion states that I shouldn't pay taxes? Obviously this religion would not be tolerated. That's why we have laws which define the boundaries and interac
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by scrod 16y ago
It would be pretty easy to make an argument against many sects of Christianity on the same grounds (yes, really: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/146438 ); literally thousands of people have been incited to violence by radical r
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by scrod 16y ago
Just remember that on a Mac, which is the post's focus, Dropbox doesn't sync any metadata at all. This has important implications for Spotlight searching, preservation of text encoding formats, custom application bindings for documents, and
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by scrod 16y ago
Fortunately it's completely sarcastic. The only thing more outrageous than that customs officer's behavior is the implication that a person's religious beliefs could ever be used as justification for preventing or controlling their entry in
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by scrod 16y ago
> Of course, the Customs Officer ignored the other four books and while holding up the book of quotes from the Prophet, proceeded to repeatedly scream “Do you believe in the words of the Prophet Mohammed?” over and over again while stan
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by scrod 16y ago
If only we could discover a series of rules that would explain how perfectly self-interested robots behaved in a fictional market with no government/community interference in business on behalf of workers, where capital could be employed as
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by scrod 16y ago
>It seems to me that you've started with a conclusion and found facts that fit your thesis. That's the wrong way to go about reasoning. So let's look at it logically then. In nearly every example I gave, did or did Apple not make a prom
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by scrod 16y ago
>When it means instead "give us the power to force you to comply with stupid and inefficient rules about who can do what" (e.g. most modern union shops that I've encountered), that's bad for society. You've somehow managed to bring two
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by scrod 16y ago
>An App Store isn't that great for developers ... when it's the only option available. That is not the case with the Mac App Store. I keep hearing this, but I've yet to be convinced. Over the last 5-10 years Apple has pushed developers
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by scrod 16y ago
And in fact, companies that hire illegal immigrants benefit greatly from stricter immigration enforcement; the more pressure from the state that's applied to immigrants, the easier it is for employers to lower their pay, subject them to da
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by scrod 16y ago
>Its not like they send you a PGP key to go with it.. Sounds like a good idea to me.
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by scrod 16y ago
It's (mostly) already been done — Apple called it the Cocoa-Java bridge: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000024.php It became officially deprecated about five years ago, but quite a few important apps used it, Cyberduck ( http://cyber
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by scrod 16y ago
Now if they're really serious they'll find a covert spokesperson to represent their views — someone down-home and earthy, perhaps like Joe the Plumber, who can express their political position in terms and with voice that the great majori
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by scrod 16y ago
This is merely another downside of competition within groups, where a boss or other administrative entity would compare individuals' relative performance, and as a result create a group incentive to maintain lower productivity. When group m
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by scrod 16y ago
Actually, I implied that he sounded like an ass . And it's disingenuous of you to pretend that the purpose of his comment was to purely, disinterestedly disseminate facts. Instead of hearing the wisdom of the article writer, he demonstrate

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