darkane

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by darkane 14y ago
It's a running joke, because he was voted President of the Internet in a TechRepublic poll a few years ago.
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by darkane 14y ago
I recall President Laporte doing an interview at CES with a company producing headphones that already perform this functionality, and then some. I can't recall the name at the moment (CES was basically 85% headphones, too many to recall), b
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by darkane 15y ago
Those are more anomalies than exceptions, as neither group was beholden to a recording contract at the time of those releases.
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by darkane 15y ago
Just curious. Why are you ruining such a good domain by redirecting to www.chee.rs?
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by darkane 15y ago
Ignoring the absolutely horrible name, this will be dead on arrival because of the price alone. Even for a new or small company that doesn't have the industry clout or initial unit production numbers necessary for minimal component pricing,
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by darkane 15y ago
The reasons for this are obvious, and probably have nothing to do with the cost, difficulty, or politics of streaming. It's more likely due to the majority of their by-mail customers routinely going inactive for months at a time, while stil
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by darkane 15y ago
It's even worse than that, unfortunately, as it's already being reported (by people that should know better) as a "hack": http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/19/anonymous-hacks-doj-univer...
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by darkane 15y ago
That's a double-edged sword. If a significant portion of the population adamantly boycotted any particular industry, their response would be to claim piracy as the cause and use it as ammunition for their argument. It's nearly impossible to
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by darkane 15y ago
Consonances are sometimes described as being inherently more pleasant to the ear and dissonances as less pleasant. This is probably the only article I've read about harmony that properly uses ambiguity when describing the pleasantness of
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by darkane 15y ago
Where in Google's blog post do they claim to still follow the link? They provide no technical details for their process, so if we're speculating, it would make far more sense that rel=nofollow adheres to the same guidelines as a meta/robots
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by darkane 15y ago
Perhaps "most of" the tech enthusiasts. The average person has no idea.
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by darkane 15y ago
Out of the three high schools I attended in the late 90s, there was only one computer related class available, in one school, and in one grade. It was an intro to programming with C++, and the teacher was simply writing information on a whi
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by darkane 15y ago
Do you honestly believe that Chrome is gaining significant market share because there is a single, rather uninformative blog post on sites like Telecommuting Mommies and The Debt Princess?
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by darkane 15y ago
If the add-on is actually causing excessive page requests and erroneous support inquiries, this seems like a very reasonable response. And they didn't ask the users to uninstall the add-on, they notified them of a supplement to the agreemen
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by darkane 15y ago
Ah, good call. Very easy to miss that link.
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by darkane 15y ago
Interesting that this and the OP's solutions result in different answers.
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by darkane 15y ago
I don't think you understand how the government works. Most dystopian legislation is written and paid for by those "random" companies.
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by darkane 15y ago
I don't think those are proper analogies. The reason everyone is so outraged by GoDaddy's stance is because they claimed there are no moral or technical downsides to the bill, and being so intimately involved with DNS, they should know that
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by darkane 15y ago
Except they didn't cave. They made a press release that they thought would appease the general public as a stop-loss measure. GoDaddy still supports SOPA privately, and likely even monetarily. http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/godaddy-ceo-t
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by darkane 15y ago
The push for these bills really started years ago when pharma companies were desperately trying to prevent the purchase of drugs from Canada and other countries. The entertainment aspect is rather new and actually somewhat secondary.
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by darkane 15y ago
How could this possibly be patentable? We've been able to make calls and multitask from laptops for over 20 years. You can't claim it as inventive just because the laptop can now fit in your hand. In the patent world, this is the very defin
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by darkane 15y ago
Don't you ever get tired of being reasonable and/or logical, Nick?
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by darkane 15y ago
I would say any system whose failure quickly results in the loss of life should always have properly trained staff either on location or trivially close. Anything less than that would be, as you put it, criminally irresponsible, as is the i
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by darkane 15y ago
I wouldn't argue against contacting your representative, but I'm curious: Has there ever been a documented occasion where a politician actually switched their stance based on e-mails, letters, phone calls, or anything other than a significa