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Google, Oracle Java API Copyright Battle Lands at Supreme Court(arstechnica.com)
3 points by yohui 12y ago|1 comments
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by yohui 12y ago
The Play Store does allow app launchers (alternative home screens and themes are even popular), but they do still ban other non-malicious apps, most notably: pornography, apps that block ads in other apps, and YouTube video downloaders. Tho
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by yohui 12y ago
Grouping "US tech companies" together based solely on their place of origin, and tarring them all with the same brush, is naked nationalism.
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by yohui 12y ago
> Yeah everyone will start about Chromium but it's not equivalent. There is no sync, PDF viewer, Flash Player implementation, print system (and print preview), auto-updater, AAC, MP3 and Opus codecs, and maybe other things I'm
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by yohui 12y ago
> a lot of things that work in Chrome are not available in Chromium, and that gap has been widening Hpw so? The gap narrowed considerably recently when Google and Foxit open-sourced the PDF plugin. In terms of capabilities, the most vi
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by yohui 12y ago
> Chrome isn't open source, chromium is. What are the extra bits in chrome? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo... Plus, if you're on Windows or Mac, the auto-updater f
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by yohui 12y ago
That could just mean Google's algorithm isn't perfect. And Google only needs to ensure that the disclaimer appears often enough so that people won't assume its presence means results were removed. I definite recall it being s
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by yohui 12y ago
Why are we guessing when you can just install Chrome Remote Desktop and try it out? I've used Chrome Remote Desktop, and the speculation in this thread about automatic extension sync is absolutely baseless: you need someone at the keyb
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by yohui 12y ago
They could have chosen other ways to make a living. Patent trolling is hardly a blue collar enterprise.
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by yohui 12y ago
If we didn't find patent trolls worthy of blame, where would the motivation to stamp out their behavior come from?
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by yohui 12y ago
Google Trends also tracks "Go" (Programming Language) as a topic: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr For which the order of regional interest is different and somewhat less lopsided, thoug
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by yohui 12y ago
Perhaps the brand they had been using switched to organic? I suppose it's also possible that someone just assumed organic == better, or there were both organic and non-organic versions of the same cat litter, and a mix-up resulted when
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by yohui 12y ago
Someone elsewhere posted an image of the actual Google email: https://imgur.com/Km8tYbH Is the letter legit? It claims the Google Nest parody went so far as to create fake Google employee profiles on social networking sites
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by yohui 12y ago
The fact that "speed" or "good performance" were not options did raise my brow. As well as the fact that the EFF called an internet poll "published research". The poll in question: https://webwewant.
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by yohui 13y ago
First, free software can be developed by one entity, or even one person. Second, that's a list of contributors to the "Google C++ Testing Framework", not WebM.
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by yohui 13y ago
There's also http://gfycat.com , which seems fairly popular on reddit. And there's https://vine.co , too, though it's aimed at a different niche. But imgur support would really drive the replacement of G
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by yohui 13y ago
RetailMeNot was also featured on their sister site, BugMeNot, when they debuted. https://web.archive.org/web/20061101212617/http://www.bugmen...
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by yohui 13y ago
I agree that in practice elections are won by those who manage to cast their ballots, but I disagree with the notion that this is not a defect but rather how democracy ought to work. I'm all for the option to not vote, but I want it
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by yohui 13y ago
Neither OkCupid nor Proposition 8 appear anywhere in that list: it records donations to the Republican Party or candidates from ordinary employees of OkCupid's corporate parent, IAC. Also, almost all of the donations predate OkCupid&#x
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by yohui 13y ago
> That's the way democracy works, though. > It's the people who turn out to vote who get to decide. If you don't care enough to vote, tough beans! Democracies with more complete voter participation don't seem
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by yohui 13y ago
> until they decide it is appropriate for that control to change Or, perish the thought, they die* (wills aside). * Though see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_(company)
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by yohui 13y ago
Link expired. Try: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=77660789&caseType=SERIAL_N... IANAL but I don't think the trademark is an issue. Might make it a bit hard to search for, though, when "calibre app" is
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by yohui 13y ago
The whole point of entering your email address on that page is to "receive product information from Motorola". That's what signing up for updates on the Moto 360 is: asking to receive info on a Moto product.
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by yohui 13y ago
Your reaction makes for an interesting contrast with: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/20q8qf#cg5q70u > bicyclemom: As a woman who really wants a smartwatch but who absolutely hates the big, man
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by yohui 13y ago
It's nice to see Mint acknowledged. Ubuntu stuff usually runs fine, but official support is a plus compared to the usual attitude of letting the user sort it out.
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by yohui 13y ago
> The restriction is only in place for Windows RT apps, of which Microsoft has a rather negligible marketshare of the tablet market. The restriction against using browser engines other than IE's Trident applies to "Windows St
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by yohui 13y ago
Regarding #4, Microsoft doesn't allow competing browsers on Windows RT anyway. So even the users forced to use Metro would never experience Firefox's Metro mode. As noted in the linked blog post: > At first, it looked like we
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by yohui 13y ago
What's with the scare quotes? Are you suggesting it was not an accident?
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by yohui 13y ago
Just assume that "like" means they're expressing interest, sort of like a public bookmark. The "like" model is a bit of an awkward fit for sad stories, granted.
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by yohui 13y ago
> Or is it that depression is becoming so pervasive that even successful people are opting out of life? In addition to what csense said, it's not clear to me why these "successful people" would be much less likely to com

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