rob05c

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by rob05c 13y ago
That wasn't an insult. Jonathan Ive is a brilliant designer, and Microsoft is smart to create a public image if they have an equally brilliant designer.
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by rob05c 13y ago
It sounds like Microsoft is trying to market him as the next Jonathan Ive. Which is not to say he isn't.
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by rob05c 13y ago
> "As long as it's not me that's hurt, that's okay." Totally not what I was saying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by rob05c 13y ago
Right. It also does DNS poisoning, URL word analysing, deep packet inspection, and VPN identification & blocking. I meant it only directly blocks the worst IPs, as opposed to directly blocking all external IPs. I do wonder whether a US
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by rob05c 13y ago
Well, it depends how they do it, right? If they just block DNS, yeah, people who care can simply tunnel out. It still hurts, as the average non-caring citizen's knowledge is stunted. But not as badly. If they block IPs, and closely mon
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by rob05c 13y ago
The US is a two-party system. First Past The Post voting ensures a vote for a third party is wasted. No significant percentage of people will ever vote for a third party (excluding transition periods between party systems). The current ruli
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by rob05c 13y ago
I'm not sure whether I agree. I don't generally believe in violence. But the average American won't rebel unless they are actually starving, no matter how much they're repressed. As long as they have their McDonald'
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by rob05c 13y ago
> the darkest of the dark ages I agree this is a dark age for freedom, but to put things in perspective: Mao, Lenin, The Inquisition, Genghis Khan, Victorian Imperialism, Feudalism. The current US Congress, the CIA, Hoover's FBI, et
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by rob05c 13y ago
I fear Tyrannical Governments will create an "American Internet," a "Chinese Internet," a "European Internet," and a "Rest-of-the-world Internet." It will happen quietly, and no one outside the tech c
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by rob05c 13y ago
As an American, I wish news agencies would stop conflating the US with the CIA. It suggests US citizens generally approve of their actions. The "US" did not bug Merkel's phone. An agency under the Executive branch, which is a
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by rob05c 13y ago
I was just as shocked to see John Cornyn on the list. Shock and awe.
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by rob05c 13y ago
> Recognize that BMW/Daimler/et al really don't want true self driving cars. They don't have a passion to, but they must. Capitalism forces companies to adapt to competition, even when it isn't in their individua
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by rob05c 13y ago
Also, laziness. Knowing proper protocol doesn't preclude procrastination. "I'll lock everything down tomorrow."
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by rob05c 13y ago
I don't know how common my sentiment is, but I'd be far more inclined to eat crickets than cockroaches. I psychologically associate roaches with disease. Crickets are just another insect. I realize this is irrational, and that fau
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by rob05c 13y ago
> One where the ratio of a circle's circumference and diameter is not equal to pi You don't need a different universe for that. You just have to be in Indiana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
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by rob05c 13y ago
"You're getting warmer. Kip — I think they eat meat." - Have Spacesuit—Will Travel
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by rob05c 13y ago
How do you know dogs don't have repressed desires?
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by rob05c 13y ago
3. Are we alone in the universe? With regards to this question, I highly recommend http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-well-never-meet-ali... He makes a compelling argument.
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by rob05c 13y ago
I agree, but I realize not everyone else does. Same goes for Windows. You can make Linux look like anything you want. If what you want is a clone of your old OS, well, I can't help your aesthetic taste, but I can at least make you happ
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by rob05c 13y ago
offtopic: It makes me happy how often I see other people mention Tiling WMs :). I think they're awesome (pun totally intended), and I think Windowing was a mistake. I think most people would agree if it weren't for, as Torvalds pu
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by rob05c 13y ago
> I came from Arch Linux to OSX. I find the tight integration between hardware and software... I just went the other direction :). I agree, the hardware/driver issues are a pain. If you're using a desktop without wireless, you
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by rob05c 13y ago
> It looks worse (I recognize this is subjective.) Yes, yes it is. If you're using Ratpoison, well yeah, it's gonna be fugly. Gnome 3 and Unity look pretty sharp though, and Compiz and Clutter are at least as good as Quartz. In
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by rob05c 13y ago
I actually just switched from OS X to Linux about 3 months ago. I grew up with Windows, and started using Macs in college. There were 2 big reasons I switched. (1) I wanted to build a desktop; the Mac Mini is underpowered and the Pro is wic
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by rob05c 13y ago
> a programmer's text editor (such as ed YES. Clearly the capricious abregation of Ed was where we went wrong. Let the faithful return! http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
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by rob05c 13y ago
> It puts power into the hands of the government. True, in general. But the prison population is also overwhelmingly non-white, and non-white people statistically vote Democrat. Prisoners can't vote. As one of the two ruling parties
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by rob05c 13y ago
But the over-65 demographic is far more likely to vote, and with now-aging Boomers, there are far more of them. http://www.statisticbrain.com/voting-statistics/ (census.gov is currently down)
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by rob05c 13y ago
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Junior Spies are critical to Minitrue's operation to uncover Thoughtcrime. Hitlerjugend membership became mandatory for Aryans in 1936. Indoctrinating children, and especially getting children to spy on the
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by rob05c 13y ago
> As far as JSON I wasn't clear on that example. If he's talking about CSV, there's nothing wrong with that (though I wouldn't call JSON "bad"). If he's talking about delimiting text with the bell chara
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by rob05c 13y ago
> When the time comes to build a framework you'll know it You know it, but how do you know the old fart in the article knows it? I think the question being asked is whether the old fart has wisdom, or is just a mediocre/bad d
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by rob05c 13y ago
> a complete desktop environment I agree. I wish more Tiling WMs came with a GUI application launcher, better mouse support for moving and resizing, login screens, etc. Not everyone uses a Tiling WM because they're a masochist musop

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