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by sern 17y ago
Just because their authors say that doesn't mean that it's true. Worse still, no corporation is willing to perform a patent search because such an activity could open a liability should it be discovered that something they already use is co
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by sern 17y ago
You can register ("patent") a design.
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by sern 17y ago
That patent is on NeXTSTEP's NSDistributedNotificationCenter [1], which admittedly might actually be enforceable (I'm not sure of any prior art in this regard). That said, after reading the claims of a lot of the other patents Apple is citi
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by sern 17y ago
I quite doubt Apple's going to attack Google directly. Their weird App Store rejections and now the HTC lawsuit (read, not Google) indicate that Apple prefers a passive-aggressive stance. If Apple sues Google, Google will stop paying Apple
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by sern 17y ago
There's also a perma-delete a couple of levels deep in the help system that will deactivate your account forever. (Like deactivation, it probably doesn't delete anything, though.)
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by sern 17y ago
No, because that one person, having placed thousands of connectors, is most likely better at the job than you or anyone you know. Also, these are connectors - it'd be obvious in testing if they didn't work.
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by sern 17y ago
Are you sure? Vista added something called Boot Configuration Data to replace Boot.ini. Not somewhere they needed backwards compatibility. At the very least, they could have designed/adopted a sane binary database format. But no, instead th
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by sern 17y ago
Yes. (at least mine from three years ago)
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by sern 17y ago
Normal Googlebot IP addresses resolve to names like crawl-blah.googlebot.com. These ones don't. You could use whois to detect them, but it's a lot slower than DNS. I guess that Google expects the SEO guys not to be smart enough to use somet
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by sern 17y ago
Too simple. The banks will never adopt it.
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by sern 17y ago
You can file a regular "mini" SIM down to size.
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by sern 17y ago
And it's a promo produced for General Motors. If only today's advertisements were as informative and modest.
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by sern 17y ago
I think that part of the problem is that the Netscape plugin API only allows the plugin to draw when the browser explicitly allows it to. This is also the case on Windows, but for some reason it's much slower on the Mac. Switching to Core A
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by sern 17y ago
The people who push for anonymity are those who don't understand the Internet (or anything else, quite often), usually politicians - the antithesis to the scientist or engineer.
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by sern 17y ago
Snow Leopard
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by sern 17y ago
Objective-C only continued to exist past the 80s because of Apple/NeXT. And the closest thing it has to a formal definition is the source code to Apple's GCC fork.
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by sern 17y ago
Interesting that the Objective-C runtime has a VS solution file and Windows #ifs: http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/objc4/objc4-437.1/
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by sern 17y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689 : "CNNIC is an evil organization. Reproducible: Always"
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by sern 17y ago
Sure, UTF-8 sucks for Chinese and UTF-16 is bad at English, but in practice, high-codepoint languages are rarely mixed with low-codepoint ones. Notice that when sending an email many mail programs will select the most concise encoding that
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by sern 17y ago
And a team from the People's Liberation Army's signals intelligence branch will find themselves in jail soon for embarrassing the government...
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by sern 17y ago
The x86_64 ABI mandates a 16 byte aligned stack. I think Apple's just doing it in their 32-bit ABI as well to keep it consistent. Regardless of the rationale, it really isn't a big deal at all. He'll need to jump through the stack alignm
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by sern 17y ago
It's more work to write a client library for XML-RPC/SOAP, but a single one of those libraries is likely to work with any such service you encounter. Most users never have to write one themselves. On the other hand, it's easy to write an HT
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by sern 17y ago
It sounds more like a private version of Google Dashboard, which indeed only shows subject lines as the hackers apparently managed to obtain.