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by yaix 16y ago
>That's the take-away idea, that there are still unexpected discoveries to be made all around us. Especially now, that we are able to store all the knowledge in a way that it is easily accessible and searchable. How much old "knowledge"
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by yaix 16y ago
And while we are at it: anything else is a _transliteration_
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by yaix 16y ago
Cool idea! Best URL shortener name of the year.
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by yaix 16y ago
>they are keeping a time-stamped list of nearby access points on my device, which effectively is a huge breadcrumb trail of everywhere Read again. They are not. Its not timestamped when "you" where there, but when some anonynous iPhone
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by yaix 16y ago
Just wow! How difficult can it be to have a backup dedi server with the DB mirrored running at some other provider to quickly switch to, just in case? Even many simple web sites have a config like that. Clouds have been around for decades,
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by yaix 16y ago
For programs that are permanently online, it is a good idea to have updating as a high preference. At least when your operating system is not doing the updating off all installed software automatically.
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by yaix 16y ago
apt-get remove unity; apt-get install gnome Done. What's the problem?
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by yaix 16y ago
>> Perhaps I’ve missed some obvious reason why the industry still does this. You have indeed. It is called "double opt-in" and legally required in many jurisdictions, before a web site can send you regular automated emails. Otherwis
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by yaix 16y ago
That's more than a bit creepy. "Disclose your files ... as we determine is necessary" means they can basically use it for whatever they want.
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by yaix 16y ago
I don't think that the OS "war" will necessarily lead to an open, web based standard. It may well be that one of the contenders manages to make their "platform" so irresistible to users that they flock to that one OS, and we all will have a
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by yaix 16y ago
After trying hard to understand their idea, I think you just delivered the best explanation. They even mentioned the possibility to integrate "coupons" in their system!
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by yaix 16y ago
"... and even uses the phone’s microphone to ‘listen’ to the ambient surroundings ..." Yeah, I definitely want an app that is listening to what I say all of the time. Great idea. The automatic Social Graph based on proximity is a good idea.
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by yaix 16y ago
Personally, I would definitely not put AS units on a page that discusses my AS income. I'd consider it too risky (for the reason, see AS TOS).
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by yaix 16y ago
The article gives the answer: because quite often it would just be embarrasing for the "journalist". So many stories get blown up/made bigger then they actually are, to get more clicks/readers for the story.
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by yaix 16y ago
About as many as we have earthquakes.
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by yaix 16y ago
That sort of app would be called a "web browser".
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by yaix 16y ago
That would be great. However, we just spent a trillion dollars to destroy a few cities in some desert in the Middle East, killing some 100k people on the way. For some reason that seemed to be a better idea than exploring space. :( >&#6
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by yaix 16y ago
Google is for search. That's what people know. As long as Google published apps under their Google brand, they will not fly. The popular servics Google has (Blogger, YouTube, etc) run all under their own brand. If Google seriously wants to
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by yaix 16y ago
They wanted software patents on trivial ideas. Now they have them and don't like them? Well, I hope the "troll" wins, maybe the big ones then start lobbying against "patents on ideas".
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by yaix 16y ago
Just tried it. Basically, it lets you browse flickr images (in a layout that does not fit on my netbook screen) and asks you to pay for that. The good thing is, it shows only Creative Common images (like Google Images or Flickr do too). May
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by yaix 16y ago
And you see it in the Quora design. It is centered on the content, and not on fancy graphics that distract from what the user came to find on the site.
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by yaix 16y ago
Good to know, thanks. I am actually considering moving to AUS, however not because of health care, being from Europe. Good to know its "socialist" in Australia too ;D
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by yaix 16y ago
It is broken ...and expensive. My health insurance (not from US) has worldwide 100% coverage, except for the US. To get a US coverage, I would have to double what I am paying now. The US health system is twice as expensive as any other heal
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by yaix 16y ago
It basically says "give us your idea for an app, so that we can code it and then put our own ad code in there." Great way to get ideas from the crowd for free.
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by yaix 16y ago
Has anybody tried a "grep stuxnet" on the email messages? Or is the Torrent still up? Then I could try it myself.
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by yaix 16y ago
> to sell any personal shares he still owned in Microsoft as soon as he was allowed. This is hilarious. The Nokia CEO inked a contract with his ex-employer MS that benefits MS hugely while still owning shares of MS. Um... what?! If it s
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by yaix 16y ago
He very correctly points out that people should simply fix the Wikipedia rules then. In an open system, once you start ignoring the rules, everybody will want their exceptions and you end up in chaos. Anyone remember the Wikipedia from ten
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by yaix 16y ago
Shouldn't the headline be "Bing explicitly allowing some results pages to showing up in other search engines". The wap.bing.com/robots.txt blocks all /search/ and then explicitly allows a few. What ever the reason is for that. Very weak art
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by yaix 16y ago
Knowledge is misery, so better leave them alone. Having knowledge about the world only shows you how much you don't know. And the more you learn, the more you are aware of all the things you have not yet discovered and will never learn in y
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by yaix 16y ago
There is also a european traditional medicine, only that it has been largely forgotten because scientific medicine was so much more effective. In China they never developed any scientific approach to healing, so the traditional stuff was al

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