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by suprgeek 12y ago
(Without commenting on who won - Apple for getting some money or Samsung for having to pay far less than anticipated) This is a terrible list of some overbroad Patents: The Autocomplete 172 Patent is considered suspect enough that it is goi
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Darpa working on its own deep-learning project for NLP (gigaom.com)
11 points by suprgeek 12y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
First: Thank you Snowden for introducing Privacy as a Banner issue which makes things like competing on providing greater privacy a "Business Differentiator". Before the disclosures there was only a murmur of privacy violations t
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by suprgeek 12y ago
I wonder if rather than focusing on completely opting out, if the author had tried a deliberate confusion strategy in addition to minimizing her digital footprint would she have been "more" successful? (I recognize the difficulty
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by suprgeek 13y ago
After reading the paper that the researchers have come out with - this is really the key passage. "..that they could be re-expressed using modern mathematical and computing techniques—as the medieval scholar might have done if he had b
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by suprgeek 13y ago
I was reading this intently to find an answer to the central question that was alleged and provable beyond reproach. Did another developer "...rip out code" from the git repo due to personal issues? Almost every thing else could d
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by suprgeek 13y ago
None of the current generation of the "band" devices are in the finished category. I have tried the Basis B1, Jawbone up and my current device the Fitbit Flex. The Basis was the most sensor packed bundle of the lot and that is a d
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This is what happens when you piss-off such a large number of people. Suddenly end-to-end encrypted e-mail not only becomes a differentiator but something that could get regular <gender neutral grand parent> excited. For the hundredth
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by suprgeek 13y ago
"Draft Special Publication 800-90A Revision 1, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators." http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-90/sp800_90a_r1...
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by suprgeek 13y ago
I was completely sold on the Nest - going to buy it ASAP until I saw the following review and the related discussion: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1KD7Q92LDK4KK/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe... Gave me pause. Until Google bou
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Twitter parody account holder sought in police raid(arstechnica.com)
6 points by suprgeek 13y ago|1 comments
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U.S. venture capital investment is at its highest since 2001(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
At or very near the Big Bang, the Universe was in a state of minimum Entropy i.e. minimum entanglement i.e. maximum order (in some sense). Post Big bang the cosmological arrow of time is in the direction of increasing disorder i.e. increasi
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Indian Startups build business models around the General Elections(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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TurboTax maker linked to grassroots campaign against free, simple tax filing(arstechnica.com)
7 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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Chrome 35 will help developers build better mobile Web apps(arstechnica.com)
5 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
DropBox really shines when it comes to the capabilities of their client. I installed Box from few months ago at work, and used it to share a few screencasts that I was working on > 200MBs per file about 10 files. I got home and fired up
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LAPD officers monkey-wrenched cop-monitoring gear in patrol cars(arstechnica.com)
2 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Don't Fake it So that you Make it?
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by suprgeek 13y ago
A bit tangential to the Main post, however, taking a quick look at the so called "REST API" of Tesla: /vehicles/{id}/command/charge_port_door_open - Open the charge port. /vehicles/{id}/command&#
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This is tyranny sneaking up on us one "No-XYZ list" at a time. They can put you on it for any reason (lets say you oppose one of the Govt. policies - Drone Bombings for example), you will be unable to find out why you are on said
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This is in a perverse way a Great test for Mozilla's stated commitment to inclusiveness. Will they buckle under this pressure to have one of their Employees (CEO) leave because of a Personal Stated opinion, (Barring any evidence to the
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by suprgeek 13y ago
I guess what we are saying is that once you become CEO any and every opinion you hold is fair grounds to oppose/vilify you. If there were any suggestions that his private opinions were impacting Mozilla policy/road-map/work e
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Would love to be able to spend the asking price for such a (adjustable) desk. Surprisingly - two non-adjustible sturdy desks works out cheaper.
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by suprgeek 13y ago
After experimenting with standing desks for a while I have noticed the following (YMMV): 1) You should ease into it - go from one hour to two in a week, two to three in a couple of weeks 2) GET Anti-Fatigue MATS to stand on otherwise sustai
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by suprgeek 13y ago
The really unfortunate part of this is that when the reports started surfacing of this issue, Many people reacted with SCORN. No "lets wait for the facts" but outright derision about stupid drivers hitting the Accelerator and then
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This has been long time coming. These days if a student or young person does what Steve Jobs (phone device) or Bill Gates (exploiting bugs for more Computer time) did and got away with, they face lawsuits and decades in Jail. It is up to Un
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Spy on Others (Regular People) - it makes us safer. Spy on me (Rich Senator who is becoming richer) - it is an OUTRAGE! These congress critters really need to be a bit more nuanced in their double standards. This is the same person that pub
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by suprgeek 13y ago
NdGT is a rock star communicator and all around excellent proponent of Science - no doubt. However, does this statement from him make sense: "To be scientifically literate, I’m not going to require that you have a body of knowledge.&qu
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Embedded at the end of the Article is the critical information that reduces the Outrage-of-the day reaction a bit: "Judge O’Neill cited Rodriguez’s criminal past, which includes probation violations and gang affiliation, as additional

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