theevocater

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by theevocater 14y ago
strange. maybe i read too much reddit :(
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by theevocater 14y ago
I know people celebrated Microsoft's decision to do this in IE10, but this is what many of us were saying would happen. The relationship with the Do Not Track flag was always tenuous so flagrantly ignoring the spec (which indicates that de
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by theevocater 14y ago
I think the author is trying to point out that you don't have to be a jerk about it. Its one thing to say "Hey guys when you run X, your computer literally catches on fire" and another to say: "HAY GUYS, AUTHER X SUX0RS AND THERE APP BLOWS.
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by theevocater 14y ago
This may come off as a joke, but dead serious: It seems you have never gone to get coffee in San Francisco.
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by theevocater 14y ago
I would say he is more similar to Perez Hilton than Paris Hilton.
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by theevocater 14y ago
Constant surveillance is one of those societal boundaries where the line is hard to find. We all agree that public spaces are... public but if a plane can follow everywhere you go and record all of it, you start to get into weird creepy st
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by theevocater 14y ago
If only there was competition in even the largest cities. Large parts of NYC (largest city in the US) are offer only Time Warner. As in you cannot get anything else other than wifi/dialup.
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by theevocater 14y ago
I see this all the time. "Run the speed test at blah.ourdomain.net and let me know the results" "Okay, this is reporting great but when I try to..." "Awesome is there anything else I can do for you?" "Yes I'm still seeing packet loss and re
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by theevocater 14y ago
stuff like this really drives home my fear of a dystopian future where police bots patrol the skies using all sorts of cameras and sensors to find 'the bad guys'. Facial recognition, thermal cameras, speech patterns and other tech we haven'
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by theevocater 14y ago
Honestly the modern moral of the story is bandcamp or indiegogo or kickstarter or some other service. I'll be the first to say it is going to be much MUCH harder than taking a record deal but we do live in a time where its possible to stay
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by theevocater 14y ago
If they code some "secret" features and then release the code... why does it matter it was coded in secret? This seems to be such a non-issue. In fact, Shuttleworth's mistake here was talking about it at all. He is paying to have code dev
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by theevocater 14y ago
yeah watched their status site off and on for the last few minutes and it seems their git endpoints are intermittent while the site is out.
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by theevocater 14y ago
It appears that their http endpoints are down, but their git endpoints are working fine EDIT: or not anymore. I was able to push but now I am not.
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by theevocater 14y ago
I saw that and was confused. YouTube seems to be working for me
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by theevocater 14y ago
That is fine, but it is a flaw on your part to not listen to good arguments. Good arguments can be made by the worst of people.
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by theevocater 14y ago
There isn't anything wrong with bringing up the hypocrisy, I just see many people dismissing his point. He isn't wrong to say we should reform patents. Even if he has some ulterior motive it doesn't make his point not valid. You can mark
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by theevocater 14y ago
Ah, you may be right. I've always heard it described as a kind of straw man because you are discrediting an argument by discrediting your opponent in a specific way.
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by theevocater 14y ago
People have already been making this mistake: calling out Jeff Bezos over Amazon's one-click patent is a strawman by the name of tu quoque ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque ). This is a non-argument. Being a hypocrite doesn't make yo
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by theevocater 14y ago
steam isn't an open 'app store' though. It is entirely curated through valve. Valve chooses the games to list and if they aren't happy, they will not ask you to list with them. They could easily refuse to sell games if you did that.
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by theevocater 14y ago
So the internet should just be a simplified app store and hypervisor/VM? I like the text based internet! The fact that I can go to a website, right click and view source is the greatest part of the internet!
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by theevocater 14y ago
Is this something really unique to tech? I see articles golf clapping efforts like this all the time and I wonder. This really isn't that different than printers or razors. If you are selling a service, give the 'product' away for as chea
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by theevocater 14y ago
I find it super useful to get a quick insight into a random page. As I'm still learning a lot about HTML, I can go to a website and see a quick visual breakdown of how the elements are composed together.
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by theevocater 14y ago
Neil Gaimen was likely included to drive people to the bundle. You get a work that you know will be good (if you like Neil) and a bunch of works that are possibly risky to you. Plus, think of the valuable marketing you get from Neil bloggi
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by theevocater 14y ago
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/ <= good source of case studies Also, your complaint about them being 'strawmen' is true, but makes no sense. They are common 'myths, which is to say exaggerations of things people claim every
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by theevocater 14y ago
I've personally been to a few Microsoft stores and they all have that distinct cargo cult feel. They feel like a designer walked through an Apple Store once and then designed the rest from memory. The biggest difference I noticed was layou
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by theevocater 14y ago
I think that is pretty self-evident given that cell phones are banned at any casino table I've ever been at. The real question is "Where else they will be banned?" Government buildings? Court rooms? What if I'm going to the bathroom? Walki
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by theevocater 14y ago
I am... very impressed. This is some pretty bad news for the current king of MMOs. I wonder if someone finally stole a GM's account or if this is a live hack. I'm more inclined to believe someone just made off with an account but hey craz
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by theevocater 14y ago
A related but important case is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_S.A._v._Costco_Wholesale_... . Costco, through another company, would buy watches abroad from authorized Omega dealers at low prices. Omega, wanting to keep its prices up
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by theevocater 14y ago
That is a very interesting thing especially considering that one would assume that a western 'flesh searcher' would live in a country where political dissent is not punishable by disappearing.
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by theevocater 14y ago
It seems to be silly to think this is only a phenomena in China. In the West we have 'doxing'. That said, this sort of thing is what Internet activists always cite as being what a free internet can do for the world. Citizens can hold thei

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