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by akadruid 16y ago
I did the exact same thing at reusableimages.com a few years back, but gave up due to lack of traffic and a growing sense of being out of my league. The site just uses Yahoo image search now.
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by akadruid 16y ago
Flashing LEDs on bicycles are legal, as of October 2005, providing they are of a sufficent intensity. The actual law (The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 2005) can be read online here: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/20
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by akadruid 16y ago
I suspect this must be a European thing then. I'm in London and I'd assumed that leaf blowers were a universal thing, and I had to google "supermarket bagger" - it seems like a weird gimmick, is this common?
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by akadruid 16y ago
No. It's never reasonable to prevent a record being made of the actions of a police officer. In the case of undercover officers, it is reasonable in some cases to to hide the fact they are police officers. I believe there are cases in whic
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by akadruid 16y ago
It's worth mentioning that there is no point clicking on this link unless you happen to live in the United States.
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by akadruid 16y ago
You're right. I'm normally first in the Facebook-bashing line, but suggesting that Facebook should pay it's users because they provide network effects is like suggesting the phone companies should pay users for hosting terminals. Or the p
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by akadruid 16y ago
In the long term, ugly, hard to use websites will loose. It can be a very long term in some cases. Just be patient.
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by akadruid 16y ago
You've got the nail on the head. Capatcha publishing sites are already weeding out the idiots who will jump through hoops to join and blog comment argument or whatever it is - now they can sell the idiots to the highest bidder. Even if th
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by akadruid 16y ago
Also, the android Market is available in far fewer countries, and sometimes apps don't show up in different regions even when they have a Market there. This is not considering the potential difference in disposable income between purchasers
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by akadruid 16y ago
It's not just a U.S. thing. I'm a UK father of 3 small boys, and it's a given over here that you should be very wary of interation with any child unless you have some kind of relationship with their parent. It's somewhat relaxed where par
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by akadruid 16y ago
You're only considering one of the three parties; the spammer. Party #2 is the spammee: "they can always unsubscribe" shows a callous and naive disregard for the depth of the problem. The spamee has incurred a small cost in time to deal wi
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by akadruid 16y ago
We're running HP-UX on PA-RISC and AIX on RS64. Don't know whether you can buy these architectures still, but these are real production machines in a datacentre.
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by akadruid 16y ago
This article argues seems to be suggesting that Google have a unique responsibility - almost as if they have somehow removed something that already existed. I disagree with their fundamental premise that Google is "the world's last digital
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by akadruid 16y ago
Unless you have a distinctive name, and the internet gets a lot better at remembering over the long term, there's still nothing to worry about. Try finding anything from 10 years ago or for anyone named Smith, Jones, Taylor, or Patel. I'll
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by akadruid 16y ago
Does anyone know if this affects Postini? We've switched once already this month - our new office was assigned an IP by C&W business that is in the same block as thousands of Virgin home cable-modems, so we got blacklisted by Spamhaus a
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by akadruid 16y ago
Just noticed the historical chart at the bottom. It seems that practice of releasing updates is definitely increasing - at the beginning of the year, the average version was actually _decreasing_, as already obsolete 1.5 and 1.6 phones were
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by akadruid 16y ago
That's very interesting - 3 months ago it was just 27%, and Eclair has been out over 9 months. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/30/only-27-3-of-android-phones... That's a pretty huge jump. Maybe we're seeing an attitude change for manufactu
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by akadruid 16y ago
There's increasingly mainstream coverage of apps which are incompatible with almost every android phone out there - requiring 2.1 or even 2.2 like this does. I wonder how long it will take for manufacturers to take upgrades seriously? Some
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by akadruid 16y ago
The thing that those 3 have something in common with their search engine and Adwords; they all inspired the same initial reaction: "Someone's finally fixed what's wrong with incumbant market players - this is a game changer". Do you rememb
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by akadruid 16y ago
It's an ostentatiousness toy; I'm geniunely interested how it could function in any educational environment?
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by akadruid 16y ago
It doesn't seem strange to me that anything unique enough to be described as a hobby will have it's detractors. Even massively mainstream activities frequently attract meaningless dismissives: couch potato, exercise nut, more money than se
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by akadruid 16y ago
"Spend a penny" is British slang for urinate. It started with coin-operated toilets and continues precisely because pennies are no longer spent individually on anything.
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by akadruid 16y ago
actual announcement: http://www.quakelive.com/#news/site_news/22
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by akadruid 16y ago
The same way you secure your wallet. I can't imagine why anyone would leave their laptop / phone / other device lying around. I go out and about in London, and I don't see anyone doing this. I suppose LAN parties are an exception, but prop
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by akadruid 16y ago
The cost model to this is proven - there are MMOs that operate this way already, with monthly subscriptions but no upfront cost. EVE Online works like this - you start with a free trial for 21 days, then pay for each 30 days of access to t
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by akadruid 16y ago
The "intellectual property" of art is a blip. For thousands of years, people have made art. Currently, we are in the odd situation where the is value in the idea alone, and the artists are not selling art, but selling instructions. It see
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by akadruid 16y ago
The argument that art will disappear without copyright has been comprehensively disproven. People have been infringing copyright on musical recordings with increasing efficiency for decades. If this argument were correct, the Top 40 would b
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by akadruid 16y ago
I think the debate is about the digital representation of the design. Obviously the art form has existed for far longer than copyright, let alone the internet. The design which is discussed in the linked article is called "Summer Blackwor
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by akadruid 16y ago
What's so frickin surreal about this, is that this new "industry" (selling digital embroidery designs on the internet) didn't exist until long after people were already freely sharing such things online. How it suddenly be a surprise to th
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by akadruid 16y ago
Things might be better post-invasion - they damn well should be - but surely the point is that the US, British and other armies must be held to a higher standard than the Taliban? No-one expects them to be perfect, but they do expect avoidi

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