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by tomflack 15y ago
Is it really a question of trust? Google go off the rails and the other manufacturers get together to fork android or stop using it. Consumers continue to not care. The only way a good outcome can come from this acquisition is if Google go
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by tomflack 15y ago
> Piracy is also much worse than theft because if a TV is stolen, you just lose that TV. Over time, piracy can ruin an entire product line. Not just that one copy. You'll need to be more specific if you want to assert that.
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by tomflack 15y ago
They don't have so many lawyers on payroll they can respond to a large increase in small claims court appearances though. They'll have to hire more, or send someone less qualified, or send nobody - all cases in which the consumer has "won".
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by tomflack 15y ago
It really seems like "what the author had laying around" stuff.
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by tomflack 15y ago
> I'm a big believer that what is easy to produce (blog posts, daily news articles) is generally less valuable than what is hard to produce (books, journal articles, working code). I agree with you, especially in light of your "generall
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by tomflack 15y ago
Thanks for your reply. I hope Ivy Bridge and Windows 8 can improve on that somewhat, or possibly better bootcamp drivers!
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by tomflack 15y ago
I hate to go off-topic, but you don't have any contact info in your profile... what's your typical battery life like with that set-up? I was under the impression 5ish hours on the 13" but The Verge said 4 this week... made me re-think adopt
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by tomflack 15y ago
You really need to list the benefits if you're going to make a statement like that. The benefits of people driving are clear to me but the benefits of mass-encryption are not. (hence what the OP is asking)
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by tomflack 15y ago
Yep, Sulfur Island. ( http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E7%A1%AB%E9%BB%84%E5%B3%B6 )
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by tomflack 15y ago
The stated goal of copyright protection in the United States is to "...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". Given Disney's fierce protection of ancient copyrights and attempts to have their length endlessly extended AND the imp
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by tomflack 15y ago
I agree with you and the parent. It's a conversation you need to have at least once. Explain your workflow, getting in the zone, etc. Explain why there is a ticketing system. Explain the disruption to the productive day that interruptions
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by tomflack 15y ago
Tight integration between a mobile phone and a desktop OS is IMO a misfeature. Based on your two examples it seems as if you feel this way because you've only experienced light integration or poor integration, and don't have the imaginati
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by tomflack 15y ago
I don't understand your reasoning..?
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by tomflack 15y ago
Even less users use the huge orange FIREFOX button that uses up vertical real estate, but they didn't hide/remove/move that? I see no reason it should be where it is, as big as it is and as bright as it is. Put it where chrome puts it.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Hardware performance attracts the games market The benefits of a homogeneous set of hardware far outweigh any performance advantages of the anything goes approach. The iPad is "good enough" and predictable.
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by tomflack 15y ago
praptak's reply above yours explained exactly what I needed explained. The encrypted data will just be written over.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Why can't I write a program that tries to expand itself to use any available space, then runs in to a wall if the "empty space" is actually encrypted data? If the space used by data + my program adds up to less than the total capacity of th
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by tomflack 15y ago
I've been wondering about this every time someone brings this up. So you use Truecrypt to secure your disk, and have say a "naughty" partition and two "clean" ones, for plausible deniability. Won't the police in the event they have compelle
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by tomflack 15y ago
"Except Fox, for some reason, won't provide the free content in a form usable to the OP on the device" I'd like to emphasize that Fox actively have done work to make it unusable on his device. If they'd done nothing it'd work fine.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Stick it in your phone? Your phone is still liable for a search. Get a MicroSD card and stick it in an orifice.
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by tomflack 15y ago
Would you like to actually contribute to the conversation? Or would you like to continue acting like a child?
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by tomflack 15y ago
I don't think they do unless their work covers one of the traditionally privileged cases.
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by tomflack 15y ago
I haven't read the whole thing yet, but a quick glance through shows Article 11: ARTICLE 11: INFORMATION RELATED TO INFRINGEMENT Without prejudice to its law governing privilege, the protection of confidentiality of information sources,
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by tomflack 15y ago
Force? Hardly. Read it for yourself: http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/21november2011/tr... In particular, Article 14. ARTICLE 14: SMALL CONSIGNMENTS AND PERSONAL LUGGAGE 1. Each Party shall include in the application of this S
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by tomflack 15y ago
You can change your last sentence to be about anything a consumer buys though. "Why should consumers have to know the healthy food? All they want is to pay for a solution to their hunger." "Why should consumers have to know which cars have
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by tomflack 15y ago
If you double tap on the column of text to zoom in and then scroll past the fixed element it will trigger it in this case. It happens to me on G+ and Techcrunch a lot. (iPad)
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by tomflack 15y ago
Got a citation? If that's the case then it isn't the case world wide. My mother is the author of two reasonably successful high school textbooks and did all the writing, image selection, etc long before an editor gets their hands on it to p
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by tomflack 15y ago
He never tested the power draw when using the three golden contacts on the side of the phone - the contacts designed for this kind of situation when the phone is docked in a car mount. He says: "I'd love to test the side charging pins but I
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by tomflack 15y ago
Two.
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by tomflack 15y ago
I purposely chose "power play" over "coup d'etat" to allow for less sweeping changes. There will certainly be a push by the military for a greater share of power.

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