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by ugh 15y ago
Damn you, XKCD!
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by ugh 15y ago
That sounds a lot like trademark infringement, not copyright infringement.
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by ugh 15y ago
Most family homes I know in Germany are plastered brick houses†. Both exterior as well as interior walls are constructed using (different kinds of) bricks. Wooden constructions are definitely very rare and more a fashion thing than anything
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by ugh 15y ago
I’m not sure whether they really are blowing up more stuff? Maybe someone should check that myth? There were some really awful myths this year (I hated the Green Hornet show and that other show where they promoted some other stupid show on
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by ugh 15y ago
The nice thing is that it is no problem to test Newton’s first law of motion again and again and again. If you do it right you will always get the same results. That’s what Mythbusters is all about. It’s not about rigorous mathematical demo
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by ugh 15y ago
“Their copyright infringement is very clear.” Wrong translation, wrong statement or different laws? Other than that: Boring.
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by ugh 15y ago
Because – as a buyer – PayPal is quite awesome.
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by ugh 15y ago
I get a consistent slight delay on the iPad. Nothing really long (maybe 500ms?) but if I pay attention I can definitly notice it.
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by ugh 15y ago
Well, one of the reasons to look is certainly to figure out what kinds of solar systems are typical. Are all solar systems like our solar system? What are the differences? How common are rocky planets? Its mission is to give us a more detai
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by ugh 15y ago
If you look at the diagram for the habitable zone in our own solar system you can see that Nasa would class both Mars and Venus as habitable planets. They already place pretty generous bounds around the habitable zone. Given the very real p
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by ugh 15y ago
Those are some nice technical details and it’s right to correct them when someone gets them wrong. They ultimately, however, don’t matter†. If scrolling on one device makes me want to throw the device at the wall while on another device I d
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by ugh 15y ago
Here is an interview with Notch and Jeb about the change: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/38917/Persson_Hands_Minec...
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by ugh 15y ago
If Carrier IQ on iOS only collects information about calls and location data during those calls and if it is turned off by default and if Apple is explicit about the data they collect† then there is no problem. It seems obvious to me that c
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by ugh 15y ago
First sentence: “We stopped supporting CarrierIQ with iOS 5 in most of our products and will remove it completely in a future software update.” That doesn’t contradict what you are saying at all.
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by ugh 15y ago
Your comment made me look for a video of the setup process. The relevant step is at 2:40: http://vimeo.com/24789410 Turns out there is a default and it defaults to being turned off. You can immediately tap next and Diagnostics will be tur
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by ugh 15y ago
But a keylogger? I can understand how information about which apps crash, where calls and messages are dropped can be valuable but beyond that?
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by ugh 15y ago
As far as I know you are explicitly asked whether you want to enable Diagnostics & Usage when you first set up the device. (It’s one of the steps in the setup process.) I don’t know what the default setting for that is, though.
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by ugh 15y ago
Why do they love data? What do they use it for?
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by ugh 15y ago
If they knew they wouldn’t be hedging. They don’t know, they just think it’s very unlikely. What this tells you is that HTC (claims they) didn’t do anything with WP7 phones.
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by ugh 15y ago
Again: Does that matter? What – specifically – is the problem? Ignore the word ownership and its definition for a second: Is the amount of stuff you can do with files compared to CDs really a problem? It’s clear to me what I can and cannot
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by ugh 15y ago
So then you don’t. Does it matter, though? I don’t think so. It’s pretty clear what you can and cannot do as compared to CDs. It’s a non-issue.
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by ugh 15y ago
With the music I buy in the iTMS I can do most of the things I can do with a CD I buy in a store somewhere. Some things I can’t do. That’s all. It’s not dramatic.
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by ugh 15y ago
Your definition of ownership is outdated. (I’m also not sure what you are responding to.)
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by ugh 15y ago
You have to personally test that. (You should obviously do a blind test. When I did this I didn’t go all out and fired up R, but some statistical analysis would certainly not be overkill.) I can’t tell them apart but other people might. It
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by ugh 15y ago
There will always be idiots who downvote great comments. I have on occasion been such an idiot myself (it happens). I wouldn’t let me bother by that, it usually all works out in the end. (Remember: It can take only a single person to grey o
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by ugh 15y ago
That’s very interesting. Wouldn’t it be very easy for Apple to break the app with an OS update? You would almost expect that an app stops working after so many OS updates (not because someone purposefully made it stop working but rather co
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by ugh 15y ago
Does that app still work with the current version of the OS?
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by ugh 15y ago
That seems unlikely. I think there already was a tethering app which Apple pulled from the Store but didn’t pull from devices. I do think that Apple is serious when they say that their ability to remotely pull apps is reserved for malware.
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by ugh 15y ago
I think it has something to do with expectations. When you study psychology you don’t expect to sit around and do math all the time. When you study biology you don’t expect to sit around and do math all the time. When you study economics (e
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by ugh 15y ago
Funnily enough that’s actually one of the reasons why I have always been fascinated by social science. Not as something where the results and methods are fascinating but rather as something where much is to be done and all problems are hard

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