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by xsmasher 13y ago
It sounds like "use a passcode on your phone and NEVER unlock (enter the passcode) while the phone is plugged into this charger" is also a defense. Unlock to check your email while plugged in? Compromised.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
It'd be nice to have the option of viewing the data without the tiny slices, but just dropping them or putting them in an "other" category would blunt the message here - "There are more android devices under the sun th
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by xsmasher 13y ago
This is one of those things that requires a balance. I do not want a junior asking me something that they could just as easily Google. I DO want them to ask me about some company- or domain- specific tech, so I can save them a day of rese
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by xsmasher 13y ago
I see a lot of people with the "get your head down and code" attitude, and it MAY be appropriate at the junior level. At the senior level - as you note - someone has to make sure that the RIGHT work is being done, not simply that
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Wonder what the false positive / false negative rate is? Either one could lead to a dangerous situation.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Contrary to the headline, Apple is not making them free. TUAW corrected their story already.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Has anyone seen the previous shorts, and are they any good?
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by xsmasher 13y ago
Relevant: A group of kayakers rode down the LA river to prove that it was navigable and therefore eligible for protection. http://laist.com/2010/03/02/documentary_following_kayakers_i...
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by xsmasher 13y ago
The methodology seems obvious - interpret every three bytes in the text as a pixel in an image, compress the image, then reinterpret each (post-compression) pixel as three ASCII characters. This is not about OCR.
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by xsmasher 13y ago
This is gross, not net, right? If they're spending 500,000 a day on advertising / paid installs then it's not as impressive. They have the volume, but are they making a profit?
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by xsmasher 13y ago
One image that has been associated with the protests is actually of the marathon. If you see a photo with only one lane of traffic blocked and the other flowing, it is not from the marathon. The bridge pictures here appear to be legit. h
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by xsmasher 13y ago
> Er, no. Fair use is actually fairly broad. You are right, I didn't take fair use into account, and Fair Use does take "Transformative nature" into account. Fair Use does not help the parent poster "make sure [they] don't get sued" t
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by xsmasher 13y ago
There's one simple trick: pay the copyright holder whose work you are exploiting. Once you have a license you have nothing to worry about. If you don't do that, then any recognizable* use of someone else's image is a copyright violation. *T
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by xsmasher 13y ago
It sounds like he's talking about double-buffering "model" data - like an array of all actors and their positions. You can't have one thread reading the data while another writes to it, but you can have the reading thread work on an "old" c
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Interesting repercussions for the Teampixel Kickstarter / Indiegogo campaign for "Homeworld Touch" and "Homeworld 3." They were successfully funded but lost the rights auction, and are now legally prevented from delivering on their Kickstar
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by xsmasher 14y ago
That's exactly the question: was the t-shirt was inspired by the artist in question, or not. And I'm starting to come around. The dress of T-shirt Alice bears more resemblance to the artist's original than it does to the Disney version: h
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by xsmasher 14y ago
In the US, I would never say "The government have shut down" or "The team have lost." I would treat them as singular entities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun#Metonymic_mergi...
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by xsmasher 14y ago
"Disney have used it" is correct here, in British English. "It’s one of my favourite images I created at University" could use a [while] to my ear, but it's not so bad. The world is a big place.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
The Alice stories are long out of copyright, So you're comparing apples to oranges.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
The entire idea? No. But under US law, someone can claim ownership to derivative works. I think we agree that the artist has an uphill battle proving that the second drawing is a derivative work.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
The cosmetics bag looks like a straightforward copyright violation. The second example, where no artwork was copied but there may have been some influence, is more complicated. How do you prove the inspiration came from the "stolen" art, an
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by xsmasher 14y ago
FYI this is not skeuomorphism, it's more like anachronism. Different 50-cent word.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
There's a lot more to having a hit game than making a game that could be a hit. The world will not beat a path to your door.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
>they are unlikely to go down the overly skeuomorphic route as seen in the Podcast app. The worm has already turned - the reel-to-reel tape deck is gone from the podcast app, replaced with a simpler cover art + buttons view.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
The advertising identifier does not change on every call. Using "CFUUIDCreate" IS WRONG , though. It generates a GUID. That's what CFUUIDCreate is supposed to do. But it's the wrong method to call to get the advertising identifier. You get
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by xsmasher 14y ago
That's interesting from a cultural perspective. Our feelings about fonts are deeply rooted in culture. The poster they show is NOT the one I've seen. The poster I've seen has a handwriting typeface, and a diagram of a(n American) football p
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by xsmasher 14y ago
There's too many plugs on this thing for a living room box. Way too many. One USB, one HDMI, that's it. Need a headset? Use bluetooth. The Mac Mini has fewer ports than this, and it's an honest-to-pete computer.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Maybe it's because I am not signed in, but it looks like you are missing a lot of the tools needed to spot sockpuppets / shills, like history of votes / edits for a user, and list or voters for each answer. If your site gets popular you wil
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Amazon "search this book" says "0 results for space marine" and "0 result for space marines." Starship Troopers is about "Mobile Infantry." This is about the term "Space Marine" not the concept of marines in space.
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by xsmasher 14y ago
Doesn't Starship Troopers use the term "Mobile Infantry?" This is about the term "Space Marine" not the concept of marines in space.

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