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by smhinsey 17y ago
i probably don't have any info you don't (assuming you're following the story) but i do know that satellite dishes are very common in the middle east. it wouldn't surprise me if satellite phone and internet service are equally popular, part
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Did you check the source? I have never heard of this feature, which certainly doesn't rule it out, but I try to keep abreast of issues like that and haven't heard anything about it.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
> But ASP.NET MVC was based on ASP.NET. Which checks for the existence of a file before running any scripts. This is not correct. When you configure an ISAPI filter in IIS, such as ASP.NET or PHP, you can choose whether or not to verify
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I can't argue that most newspapers and the media in general are pretty weak these days, and I work for one of them. I don't think this is about creating a new right to internet access, per se, instead, I think that the point is being made t
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by smhinsey 17y ago
A driver's license is a privilege, at least in the US, whereas speech is a right. I don't know if things are different in the EU/France.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
> If the history of science has taught us anything, it's to not underestimate the power of the undiscovered. well said
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I am not sure I follow your analogy. I think the key distinction here is that you are not being convicted of a crime prior to having your rights taken away. In the US, this would be analogous to losing the franchise, e.g., without being con
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by smhinsey 17y ago
The article is not that great, but my reading is that they based their decision on the 11th provision of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which is confirmed by the contemporary French constitution. "The free communic
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Good point. There is definitely a distinction of intent that is reflected in the tenor of the two sites.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I'm not sure when it was introduced but I understand that reddit does this as well. It's a pretty clever idea, but it really hasn't helped much there so far.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Wow, if this is successful, it could be huge, particularly in combination with the various free/cheap laptop programs. I really hope this plays out well.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I'm not sure that I have any better suggestions, although the title of that original post was definitely clearer. It's too bad I didn't see that one.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Their tone on the matter in general is not great from an editorial point of view. It sounds almost petulant. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/06/if-you-didnt-get-a-pre-... I wonder how the "old media" organizations that are syndicating b
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by smhinsey 17y ago
This is remarkably interesting. I wish it'd been better titled so that I didn't keep skipping it.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
That Hanlon was a real optimist, eh? I think that in the super-competitive startup arena, emotions are going to run high. When you have so much at stake, it's easy to overreact. I sometimes wish I could have a mental equivalent of my ubiqui
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I think the OS itself was built with this in mind, so the default apps are probably fine. The real question is going to be the 3d party apps. I know apple is already having to deal with this to some extent with some of the resolution indepe
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Can you give an example?
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by smhinsey 17y ago
Does anyone actually advocate over-regulation?
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by smhinsey 17y ago
It's been awhile since I've actually read any discussions on slashdot, but it seems like the default presumption of bad faith that ruined so much of the conversation when I did hasn't gone anywhere. This is an unfortunate phenomenon that se
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I agree, it isn't pure charity that motivates them, but nonetheless, it's a real gesture.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I actually deleted mine when I first heard this story, then heard their denials, wasn't sure, and spent a period of time thinking "well, that was kind of dumb, look before you leap next time" because my account dated back to the audioscrobb
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by smhinsey 17y ago
You certainly raise a valid point. I found info on how the Minnesota state bar views the matter here: http://www.courts.state.mn.us/lprb/05bbarts/bb0205.html It's not that I miss the import of what you're saying, it's that I am suggesting
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by smhinsey 17y ago
[Sorry, my original reply was so incoherent that I wanted to delete it before it caused any trouble, I couldn't even find a salvageable edit.] I'm not a lawyer either, but if I were in this guy's position, I would make sure I was as well in
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by smhinsey 17y ago
> We’d like to provide you with legal counsel at our cost. You know, I don't always see eye to eye with Michael Arrington, but that is a remarkable offer, and I applaud his honorable deed. (I hope I don't end up eating my words after so
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by smhinsey 17y ago
That's sort of what I was getting at, in other words, you don't really need to make a choice between silverlight and WPF because they are essentially the same thing. Maybe this is just another example in the litany of awful branding mistake
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I am not totally convinced that WPF & Silverlight are even in competition with one another. They are both based on the same core technology, XAML. Without knowing what Microsoft's long term plans (presuming they have them) for the two t
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by smhinsey 17y ago
I will concede that point, I misread your comment. I deleted my original to hopefully avoid that discussion.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
what makes you say that WPF has been all but abandoned? the upcoming visual studio 10 release has a WPF based editor.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
i am not sure if you think i was saying something else, but i agree 100%. this is extreme foolishness.
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by smhinsey 17y ago
He can be right (i.e., there is a risk from bioterror) and still be misleading. His complaint boils down to: dangerous bioagents can be easy to grow. we know this.

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