sorbus

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by sorbus 16y ago
> Have you ever been to a bar that played music you don't own? Did the bar steal from the artist by letting you and others hear something you don't own? Should the DJ call the artist first to get permission? Actually, yes. Bar do get su
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by sorbus 16y ago
No actual information about how they're going to do it. Or, for that matter, what they're going to do (something involving community-owned last-mile infrastructure?). On the other hand, a very large number of buzzwords.
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by sorbus 16y ago
It being in a virtual machine doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the problems; Audio/video sync in lots of flash content doesn't even work properly outside of virtual machines.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Transmitting messages such that the intended recipient is impossible to know for any third-party observer. If you're sufficiently and justifiably paranoid, you'll want to obscure both the content of your messages and who you're talking with
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by sorbus 16y ago
If everyone agrees that cell phones in prisons are a bad thing, when why not use jammers to stop the signal? A small cell phone jammer can be gotten for ~$130, and it probably wouldn't take many to blanket a prison. This would lead to issue
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by sorbus 16y ago
500 thousand times. 16 million dollars donated, but only 500 thousand donors. EDIT: Paragraph wondering about A/B testing removed, as two people responded with links to the results of A/B testing, which I was not previously aware of.
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by sorbus 16y ago
But it would be useless if you're the first person in your social graph to have a need for particular information; similarly, for it to be very useful you would want your users to push almost every website they visit into it, or any website
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by sorbus 16y ago
about:network doesn't seem to work in normal Chrome either.
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by sorbus 16y ago
We're talking about information being stolen via evesdropping or looking over shoulders, not by physically stealing the media the information is in. Linking to the google news results for "stolen laptop" is therefor irrelevant.
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by sorbus 16y ago
[Citation needed]
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by sorbus 16y ago
If you object to software patents, then it's a good thing - but only when it's over. During Patent Armageddon, software is going to suck. There will be injunctions on the import and sale of all sorts of products (read: you won't be able to
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by sorbus 16y ago
Your last three comments consist of you claiming that piracy is theft. Either you actually think that repeating a belief will make people agree with you, or you're trolling. Either way, please come up with a better argument (each of these t
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by sorbus 16y ago
> “The guy is a hacker. It was password protected, he had wonderful skills and was highly trained.” > ... after finding her password written in a book next to their shared laptop.
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by sorbus 16y ago
So, what does belong here, then? "Anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." This certainly gratifies mine, as it's another example of how behaviors can be explained through game theory as well as replacing - or at least adding
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by sorbus 16y ago
... says an economist. So, what we have is someone who doesn't know much about climate change (and puts it in quotes whenever it appears, which is always a bad sign) claiming that it might not be so bad, because it would get warmer, and the
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by sorbus 16y ago
Spanish had the second largest number[1] of native and secondary speakers in 1999[2] (417 million) behind Mandarin with 1052 million. It's also still the second most spoken language when counting only native speakers. However, English is cu
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by sorbus 16y ago
Did you really just say that not being able to speak English means that an individual is uneducated? I'm having trouble understanding how your first sentence could mean anything else.
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by sorbus 16y ago
The key bit of that explanation: "The organization that established P3P, the World Wide Web Consortium, suspended its work on this standard several years ago because most modern web browsers do not fully support P3P. As a result, the P3P st
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by sorbus 16y ago
Sort of like being gay, then: if you support it then it's not a choice, if you dislike it than it is a choice. I wonder how many other things there are which function in the same manner ...
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ah. I must have missed that. However, the opening to the post pretty clearly says that he had not done so for this particular problem, and so I'm forced to assume that he's either lying (intentionally or otherwise) or that he's referring to
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by sorbus 16y ago
There's no indication in the post that he made any attempts to do anything using a phone, and he in fact was refusing to do so towards the end of it. Do you have any evidence that he did try to call them and encountered the same difficultie
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's factually incorrect and demonstrates a lack of basic understanding of the subject. It seems that HN frowns upon that. On the other hand, I doubt that the downvotes represent the opinions of a huge number of users (as it doesn't show lo
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We don't need freedom of religion(ottawacitizen.com)
77 points by sorbus 16y ago|92 comments
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by sorbus 16y ago
"It isn’t just a feeling but your brain releasing dopamine" Is there actually any difference between the two? Emotions are extremely chemical things, after all.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I may be missing something, but from the article it seems like they've just demonstrated that Pavlovian conditioning works on bees. On the other hand, the real story is kids getting excited about science; I would like to know how many of th
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by sorbus 16y ago
Which, from the view of customers, is websites which support their phone, not a phone which websites support. If enough of your customers use WP7 for it to be cost-effective to support, don't piss them off by not supporting it just to be vi
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by sorbus 16y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=piloerection
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by sorbus 16y ago
So spambots should take into account the response rate (in the form of the number of people clicking on links, or the percentage of people merely reading the message) and optimize for that, instead of merely trying to deliver content to inb
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by sorbus 16y ago
I recall reading it in an article about child porn a while back, and so don't have a citation off-hand. A bit of googling hasn't turned up that exact fact from any reputable source, although I have seen some other people mentioning it, alon
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by sorbus 16y ago
No, of course not. However, it isn't an excuse for censorship. It is an excuse for going after the people producing it, and monitoring those who consume it (in the USA, the FBI is the largest distributor of child porn, with the goal of arre

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