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by skymt 15y ago
Adobe never declared desktop Flash dead, they're just hedging their bets with HTML5 tools.
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by skymt 15y ago
Most modern games use various tricks to minimize or eliminate loading screens, with varying degrees of success. Common ideas include using low-quality assets for far-away objects, dynamically replacing them when the player gets closer; crea
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by skymt 15y ago
This appears to be the relevant bug: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5654
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by skymt 15y ago
Now you have a situation where a large part of the population is forced to pay a private middleman for the privilege of interacting with their government. That's not an improvement.
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by skymt 15y ago
Early fire departments were run by insurance companies to fight fires on their customers' properties. Those who couldn't afford insurance would be left to burn. http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/FireMarksAndPayments.asp
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by skymt 15y ago
That was the first way Wii owners got homebrew software running: the Wii version of Zelda: Twilight Princess didn't do a bounds check when reading the name of the player's horse from a save file. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Twilight_Hack#Expla
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by skymt 15y ago
The story I saw claimed that Malekpour developed open-source file-upload software that was later used by porn sites without his knowledge. Do you have a source for your claim that he was directly involved with the porn sites themselves? ht
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by skymt 15y ago
The Kindle version of the ESV Bible makes clever use of the Kindle's index feature. All the verses in the Bible are indexed using abbreviated book names. So if I want to reach John 3:16, I hit Menu -> Index and type "jn 3 16<enter&#
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by skymt 15y ago
I'm don't know about the Kindle app, but Kindle devices have Facebook and Twitter sharing built in. Once you link to your account, you can just select some text and tweet it.
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by skymt 15y ago
That's essentially how Go handles polymorphism. http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Interface_types
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by skymt 15y ago
Go right ahead. Name some uses for a censorship-resistant network that doesn't violate the law of the country in question. (It doesn't count if the use merely breaks a law you dislike, as in Chinese or Iranian suppression of dissidents.)
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by skymt 15y ago
I don't quite follow the reasoning. Wouldn't it make more sense to make legit media consumption easier in countries with lax copyright enforcement and widespread infringement?
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by skymt 15y ago
It's simple: we change the license agreements. Media licensing right now is controlled by people who want to pretend that the Internet can easily be split into regions just like their physical distribution networks. Distributors have a lot
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by skymt 15y ago
This feels like a publicity stunt. DigSin is single-oriented (that's even what the name means!), and it's far from unusual for labels to release a free single to promote the album. Meanwhile, plenty of independent artists on sites like Band
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by skymt 15y ago
> Each time you use a credit card, each time you read your bank statement, all of your IP information and your search history will be required by your ISP to be stored for 18 months at all times. Where did the author get that idea? I ju
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by skymt 15y ago
And what about political TV programming and editorials? Should those be censored as well?
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by skymt 15y ago
Censorship of the top-content list is actually a valid point against them. It means Megaupload had some system to identify infringing files, but rather than flagging them for investigation or deletion, they simply removed them from the publ
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by skymt 15y ago
In practice, it just means any site under a foreign TLD. See PIPA § 2, Para 9. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:2:./temp/~c112BGM... :
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by skymt 15y ago
> Under SOPA they can only go after .com, .org and .net sites. I'm afraid you've got that backwards. SOPA's DNS-blocking domain-seizure provisions apply to all domains except US-based ones like .com, .org and .net. (Those are consider
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by skymt 15y ago
The hash in a magnet URI is of the info dictionary in the .torrent file. It's used to query the BitTorrent DHT for peers running the same torrent. Once another peer is found, your client will download the full metadata file from it, and fro
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by skymt 15y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, the patent covers a very specific implementation, even mentioning use of EJB. Presumably an implementation on a different stack couldn't infringe.
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by skymt 15y ago
On the other hand, with the common understanding of the word "hacker", do we really want news stories mentioning a site called Hacker News opposing SOPA?
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by skymt 15y ago
Is there really an obvious 1st-amendment issue here? SOPA is a censorship tool with great potential for abuse, but as written and intended it targets IP infringement, a very narrow category of speech that our society has already decided to
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by skymt 15y ago
Why wouldn't they have the right? The DNS servers in question are physically in US territory. And due process is part of the bill: in the current version a domain takedown requires a court order. Weak protection to be sure, given the army o
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by skymt 15y ago
It's not a coincidence that the amendment only exempts domains that the US can already censor via ICE. Hardly a concession at all, really. http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1011/101129washington.htm
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by skymt 15y ago
The official extension is quite basic. Here's a screenshot that shows literally every feature: http://i.imgur.com/sMVY5.png "Save to Pinboard" and "Read later" work exactly like the bookmarklets, and the four items below the divider are j
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by skymt 15y ago
Here's the Ars Technica article on the matter: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/umg-we-have-... YouTube's statement was added as an update at the end of the article.
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by skymt 15y ago
SOPA isn't just about copyright: the blacklist is also intended to be used against foreign product counterfeiters, and fashion, drugs & shoes are among the most counterfeited products.
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by skymt 15y ago
SSH and VPN software aren't "designed or marketed...for the circumvention or bypassing" of SOPA. Neither, come to think of it, is Tor.
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by skymt 15y ago
Both of those bills attempted to create new restrictions on speech. SOPA simply creates new censorship measures against forms of speech that are already illegal.

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