vitriolix

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by vitriolix 2y ago
I'm of the opinion that we should instead work on destigmatizing people with mental disorders. I find it descriptive and don't buy into this superpower BS
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by vitriolix 12y ago
That and the fact that they do family preboarding which really makes everyone happier (no screaming crazy kids in the lobby) and probably increases boarding throughput (no backup while moms wrestle carseats into window seats)
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by vitriolix 12y ago
"funded by USG" When it's developed entirely in the open I'm not sure I see the concern here. If you have reason to believe they are somehow compromised or backdooring Tor please do share it, otherwise this is just FUD.
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by vitriolix 12y ago
"Why on earth does a random restaurant deserve my real name?" Maybe because some asshat is selling reservations without their permission or consent?
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by vitriolix 13y ago
many. PMs on several projects I work in do regularly
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by vitriolix 13y ago
very good points. check out guardianproject.info ... their whole mission is exactly this.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
He didn't backpedal, he explained his reasoning for making the first statement. Hard and a bit unvarnished, yes, but understandable.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
So C/C++ are also inherently broken because game engines break out to raw ASM at their mist critical points? Or Java because it exposes native code via JNI? This is actually totally standard behavior in pretty much every language.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
This is true, mostly because only one company in this space lumps all their phones under one name even when they are on different carriers with different radios and firmwares... until the GSIII that is.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
Keep telling yourself that. Yes, the industry plays number games, but when the multiple different indicators from many different analysts and direct numbers from retailers and actual usage numbers all point in the same direction, you can g
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by vitriolix 14y ago
Absolutely. The galaxy tab 10.1is really nicely made... sounds like they deviated when they shouldn't have here.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
I've been watching this one Because my wife does a lot of illustration so the pen stuff might outweigh the other issues with it. I just don't see anything else on the horizon. Win8 seems DOA to me. Considering the reviews though I think w
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by vitriolix 14y ago
THIS: So my message to Samsung is: If you can't do this correctly, stop skinning Android. You've been trying and failing for so many years and nothing good has come of it, so just stop. Even when you have a good idea, like split screen and
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by vitriolix 14y ago
Apple built a product that was innovative but clearly derivative of what Motorola had been selling for decades, why shouldn't Motorola defend itself in the market it created?
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by vitriolix 14y ago
You clearly have no clue how the legal system works. You use patents defensively by countersuing
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by vitriolix 14y ago
how is overusing the word "dice" being spammy?
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by vitriolix 14y ago
The ban in Germany took Samsung about 2 weeks to get around, not really very effective
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by vitriolix 14y ago
"I do also think that Samsung probably did cross the line between taking inspiration and wholesale copying and attempting to look like Apple." Most people point at the physical design of Samsung phones to make this point, but in all serious
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by vitriolix 14y ago
If we reformed the system to force the patent holder to actually market a real product using the patent in order to be able to sue to defend the patent, making them more similar to trademarks, this would solve the pure patent troll problem.
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by vitriolix 14y ago
Wow, the comment section over at ZDNet is embarrassing
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by vitriolix 14y ago
precisely. people like choice. some designers wish it weren't so, that we would just all get in line with their "one true design", but people like choice. that's why there are dozens to hundreds of models of tv, car, dishwasher, shaver,