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by xhrpost 12y ago
First I've heard of project Loon, sounds interesting. Is anyone familiar with the FAA implications of flying "anything"? Example, I presumably can go in my back yard and launch a kite on a windy day and let it fly a few hundr
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by xhrpost 12y ago
Start-up idea? (Minus the piracy of course). I'm not sure of the market but it could appeal to companies and professionals. Say for some reason you want the raw 4k render of Sintel but don't want to download hundreds of Gigabytes.
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by xhrpost 12y ago
If the ISP is letting a connection become saturated in order to place pressure on a third party provider to provide settlement, they are doing so at the cost of any other providers running over those trunks. Since switching to AT&T, I&#
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by xhrpost 12y ago
Wouldn't a retailer just buy a large bulk with the discount you're mentioning and then resell for a profit? Presumably that's already happening but if the gap you speak of is large, then I'm surprised no one is jumping i
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by xhrpost 12y ago
Yup. That argument tends to bug me a bit. It's not that users don't need it, but more that they can't use it because they don't have it. I'd love to backup all my computers to the secure encrypted cloud with somethi
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by xhrpost 12y ago
My point is that these announcements tend not to mean much to consumers until it actually happens. If it does. Sorry to be a downer, it's just kind of disappointing. My first PC from '95 had an optical drive capable of holding mor
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by xhrpost 12y ago
I remember reading articles about 400GB optical discs being designed back in 2001. Still waiting.
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by xhrpost 13y ago
The deletion charge is interesting. Does deletion guarantee a scrubbing of the data as soon as possible? If so, I could see that as justification for the fee since some sort of significant work is involved in retrieving data, implied by the
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I actually came to the comments just to talk about this. Not the flip-flop in the article you're pointing out, but I've often wonder when the switch happened in general. Old articles and even TV[1] will use Internet without the de
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by xhrpost 13y ago
They run fiber to their Uverse nodes and then apparently tell their salespeople to sell this as a feature. I remember one telling me the benefits of a "fiber optic signal" somehow going to my house over copper. I still ended up sw
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I remember reading about this. Even from the "intention of the law" perspective though, I still didn't get the argument of the MPAA. How is it that a private individual choosing a title to watch for themselves constitute as a
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Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week(washingtonpost.com)
129 points by xhrpost 13y ago|80 comments
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Not looking to down the work here but it sounds like in using this then, you're basically lowering DB admin complexity at the cost of increasing programming complexity. Does that sound right? I'm kind of torn as to when I would wa
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Pretty cool. Now, how long until I can take the compiled byte code and run it in an emulated PC that outputs to a canvas screen? :)
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Did some more calculations just for the fun of it. It looks like you'd need nearly 16 exabytes of storage to hold the MD5 table for every 9-character hash [1]. Not accounting for any database overhead. In high density, you can fit a pe
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Poverty and Violence Push New Wave of Migrants Toward U.S.(nytimes.com)
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Yup, hence rkuykendall-com's comment. Also this is where good marketing comes in. I tried some free Google ad credit and got tons of exposure but few clicks. My next guess would be to try large metro areas and retain old messages in ho
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I worked on a very similar idea for a while though admittedly failed to polish and market appropriately to gauge interest. I thought about a lot of the "issues" that people are bringing up here. My idea was mainly to try and emula
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I think this is essentially "Fuzz testing"[1]. Something I read about in a book years ago but never saw done in real-life. The term may be antiquated at this point. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testin
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I have the same legacy plan and had a similar sentiment. However, as pointed out below, the $10/mo for 1TB is technically cheaper per GB/mo than the $5 legacy package. Still, until I need it, I won't bother upgrading.
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Congressman Polis: Ban Dollars if You Want to Ban Bitcoin(polis.house.gov)
2 points by xhrpost 13y ago|0 comments
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Less than 500 four-character .com domains remain(123finder.com)
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A Construction Company Starts Accepting Cryptocurrencies(armstrongsteel.com)
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I had some great fun playing DK and it's sequel years ago. What amazes me is that there hasn't been any A-title clones made of it in all these years. Closest I've seen is the indie title War of the Overlord, still in developm
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FinCEN: Bitcoin Miners Need Not Register as Money Transmitters(coindesk.com)
1 points by xhrpost 13y ago|0 comments
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by xhrpost 13y ago
IANAL, but it appears that if you did all your purchasing and selling within Coinbase (a registered MSB), you would be complying with the law. In the end though, this stuff hasn't been decided in court.
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Not to mention there's a show just called "Alphas"
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by xhrpost 13y ago
Plenty of them for sale on eBay.
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by xhrpost 13y ago
I had a bunch of Sega consoles from that generation but don't remember the Sega Channel (granted I wasn't in a Time Warner service area). It just blows my mind that a system for essentially downloading games from the 'cloud&#
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Sega Channel(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by xhrpost 13y ago|3 comments

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