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by sdbryan 6y ago
Why would it have too be a pornapp in App Store? Apple allows movie players which play any movies of the right data format (mp4, etc). Why not a VR player with data files obtained elsewhere? The game consoles already have VR playing capabil
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by sdbryan 6y ago
megablast, you might have missed the possibility that it allows the octomom to not die immediately after tending the eggs.
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by sdbryan 7y ago
What has the Roman Empire ever done for us?
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by sdbryan 7y ago
Why are the headlines so often so misleading? Requiring the unwitting cooperation of the victim and treating it as a footnote seems borderline dishonest and certainly clickbait. Yes, I clicked to see what the actual much more nuanced situat
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by sdbryan 7y ago
That was my reaction as well. How can one's judgment even be worth considering after such a confession?
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by sdbryan 9y ago
This rhetoric might be tiresome except for the FACT that it is so devastatingly true. A significantly different copyright legal framework might be defensible but the current system is simply laws bought by the highest bidder
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by sdbryan 11y ago
I can't find the source for this quote but it may be apropos: It isn't against the law to be poor, but it may as well be.
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by sdbryan 11y ago
Probably refers to "PI", the 1998 movie written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The main character was an eccentric mathematician who was obsessed with patterns in the decimal expansion of the transcendal number pi. If you have
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by sdbryan 13y ago
Really? You think a four digit security code that users have to enter repeatedly is more secure than obtaining a 2400 dpi clean image of a specific fingerprint and a nontrivial lab procedure? It might require some patience but if you have a
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by sdbryan 15y ago
How does this make any sense? Apps from the iOS App Store can use webkit views where webGL could apply but native apps have had direct access to OpenGL ES for years (only the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and the first iPod touch iOS devices
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by sdbryan 15y ago
Why is this tabloid journalism featured in HN? Nowhere in the article is there any indication how root access could be obtained. There should be at least some description how privilege escalation could occur. I don't want arbitrary code exe
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by sdbryan 16y ago
I thought Microsoft was burning something like a billion dollars a year in losses in order to in order to be in the video game console market. Is that impression wrong? Has MS made a profit yet in games?