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by sigkill 14y ago
Not to forget that Microsoft is pushing metro everywhere. If somehow Windows 8 becomes a success with the consumer market, I see limitless demand for Metro tablets and consequently metro phones.
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by sigkill 14y ago
The priests did not write research papers and publish it in peer-reviewed journals. Neither did they bother with controls in experiments. So please don't be snarky.
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by sigkill 14y ago
And SoftwareMaven said that you don't have a control. What he meant is that, if these values hadn't been reminded there's a very high probability that honest people might have done dishonest things, and dishonest people might have done dish
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by sigkill 14y ago
I actually like this idea. The idea of Flesch-Kincaid tests. There was a guy on reddit who analyzed the words on different subreddits and he came to the conclusion that the average word was 'because', and average word length was around 6.7
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by sigkill 14y ago
Although I want to agree with you, I'm highly skeptical on the super-downvote feature. In my relatively short time here, I've seen comments by certain top contributors being argued viciously(is that the word, English is not my first languag
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by sigkill 14y ago
Oh, thank god for that. Generally I've lived without an Amazon account because they don't work outside the US. But this one, combined with the post that helped generate fake US addresses pushed me to do it. Actually, now I'm pretty sure why
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by sigkill 14y ago
But with a clear cut system like the one mentioned above, why shouldn't new members get to downvote as well? The system would clearly convey its intended usage, and in the process bring new members up to speed faster. If you still want to i
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by sigkill 14y ago
Your experiment matches Dan Ariely's experiment very well. In his book, "Predictably Irrational" when people are made to remember the ten commandments or even the thought of ten commandments, or any such honesty pledge, their dishonesty lev
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by sigkill 14y ago
I just bought it using the button "Buy it with 1-Click" and I found it a bit scary. I mean, no confirmation and all. It's like just click and, BOOM, a confirmation email saying that you've already bought it. It's quite jarring as compared t
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by sigkill 14y ago
You could tether a blimp. I just saw it done a day before yesterday night here.
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by sigkill 14y ago
Hey, this looks really interesting. Does it need root access? EDIT - Nevermind, it does. Dang.
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by sigkill 14y ago
To the browser, unless you have a pre-populated list, the autocomplete URLs are just a list of strings. How should it know if penisland.com is a website that sells pens or otherwise? Also, where do draw the line really? therapistfinder.com?
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by sigkill 14y ago
If I may add on to your points, I think if this would've blown up out of proportion it wouldn't actually have helped even if Apple came and made an official statement saying that these rumours are false. Nobody believes Apple in such cases,
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A nice TED talk on IP and derivative works - Everything's a remix(youtube.com)
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by sigkill 14y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't take this as a chance to try out cobbling up a "radiation box" and put commercial equipment in that. Surely, that would be a good experiment data point that could be used in future endeavors.
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by sigkill 14y ago
I'm just wondering if you're not working on any of the three ideas at all, why not mention them atleast? Someone else may benefit out of it. On the other hand, if you plan to re-visit them in the future...
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by sigkill 14y ago
I'm interested in this pricing psychology? Till what point would people say, "Fuck it, I don't care". $9.95? $14.95? or even $19.95? I think $20 bucks is pushing it. Maybe $15 might be the largest "throwaway" money for most people.
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by sigkill 14y ago
Not sure if they're charging for incoming/outgoing but you could use this to set up a Google Voice number from outside the U.S.A.
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by sigkill 14y ago
When you say build quality is crap, what exactly do you mean? Is it because it doesn't feel "heavy"?
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by sigkill 14y ago
Google have their own problems with Youtube's aggressive Content ID system and pulling down of public domain NASA videos on the grounds of (wtf?) copyright infringement.
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by sigkill 14y ago
This is crazy and creepy, but during weekends, one could possibly stalk out at malls looking for people discarding receipts. Pick it up and hurry towards them. When you accost them, mention in no unclear terms "Sir/Ma'am, with this receipt
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by sigkill 14y ago
But if you have enabled a 4-digit pin, why worry?
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by sigkill 14y ago
Bank of America has been doing this for over 3 years. It's called SiteKey. But iirc certain banks in India have a alphabet board behind the card with letter-number pairs, right? Something like A-14 B-65 and so on. Then they just ask you to
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by sigkill 14y ago
In that respect it's like a bcrypted safe with a 4 character password and limited bandwidth.
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by sigkill 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but technically the hacker didn't "hack" the computer systems. So I'd wager that you can't slap a data protection law. But on the other hand, they definitely are legally liable for even a social-engineered attack. Maybe th
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by sigkill 14y ago
There's this joke about hiring the cheapest security guard to watch over your most prized possession. I'm not only talking about the wages being paid to the Apple CSR, but also of their technical ability to know the value of the data they p
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by sigkill 14y ago
That's a good point. But wouldn't prepaid cards defeat this? I'm not an American so I don't know how the address verification on prepaid cards work.
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by sigkill 14y ago
Ah well, then I stand corrected. So, now the question becomes, should you be allowed to add credit cards over the phone? Or does it become, how long should Amazon wait until they accept the new credit card as a valid ID? For the second que
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by sigkill 14y ago
Calling it an "application specific password" is actually a misnomer. WE create the app-labels. For all practical purposes it's a backdoor entry into your account. So, I'd say for absolute 2FA, you must give up Chrome browser profiles, devi
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by sigkill 14y ago
Why is it stupid for Amazon to show the last 4 digits? Let's say I have 3 cards on file. If I want to modify card #2 for some reason (billing address, expiry date) what do I do? Sure, I can look at the other details and take a guess, but we

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