protolif | 12 years ago | on: Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home
This may not be something we want.
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protolif | 12 years ago | on: Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms
16 minutes into Obama's "Fireside Hangout", the topic of patent reform is introduced. Watch for yourself.
protolif | 12 years ago | on: Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms
Thanks. I actually thought there was a bug. The paywall isn't obvious.
protolif | 12 years ago | on: What is Happening in Istanbul?
Turkey doesn't fluoridate their water. Just sayin'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Popular Websites Displayed in IE 5
Since you're OK with poking fun at other people's software, I'll point out that your left margin vanishes at 990px viewport, and readers need the left-right scrollbar to read below 750px viewports. Not a great reading experience (in Safari 6 on Lion). Cheers!
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Android users outraged over Motorola's broken promise
"But Android is such an open platform! /QQ" Meanwhile, my iPad 2 just asked me if I wanted to upgrade to iOS6. It did it over wifi, and the whole thing took maybe half an hour.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Slackware 14.0 released
Obviously, this is because PHP doesn't scale.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: A group of Finnish math teachers write an open textbook in a weekend hackathon
Y U NO i18n?
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Slackware 14.0 released
It looks like we 404'd the page.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Metro Apps Can Only Be Distributed Through Windows Store
Google wants you to think Android's open. It's not.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Myspace previews complete redesign
Opera excludes itself, by making its software difficult for developers to support. Most people have never even heard of Opera. So why should developers bother? Where's the value?
protolif | 13 years ago | on: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
Do you guys remember how unusable the previous version was? I mean, this feels like splitting hairs compared to that.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
I agree that they should change this, but I don't find it offensive, because I know that the GIMP project has been around since it was acceptable to get a cup of coffee while your app loads. I'm just saying, that they've got a lot of legacy code. I'm just happy that it works, for now.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: GIMP is Now a Self-Contained Native App for Mac OS X
The toolbox window is also set to 'always on top'. It's not a huge deal, compared to the x11 version though. I just open another virtual desktop for it in Lion.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Zynga creative chief quits
Thanks for that! I was somewhat interested, but not enough to subscribe to WSJ.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Linux Commands for Developers
To continue reading, subscribe? seriously?
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Don’t drink the startup Kool-Aid – just find a problem and try to solve it
modal adverts make baby jesus cry.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
I'd like to see some evidence before believing such a tale. If such punch cards did exist, then I'm sure that there would be a picture of one online. In other words: Screenshot, or it didn't happen.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
No, what I am saying is this is how drunk people act, and if one finds it too offensive, then the logical conclusion is to remove one's self from the equation, rather than demanding that the world change. You can't boil the ocean.
protolif | 13 years ago | on: Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
"It sounds like a lot of this stuff happens at bars during events, not at the events themselves.
How common is this behavior at bars in general, independent from a hacker con?"
This. Very much this. The formula is simple: Get a bunch of people drunk, and the lecherous ones will come out of the woodwork. This is not a problem unique to any particular field. In fact, I would go as far as to say this is a non-problem. If you can't deal with it, then stop choosing to hang out in bars.
Often, it is the women who cry the loudest, that crave and seek out the kind of negative attention described here, so that they can boast about their own attractiveness to other females, while pretending to be disgusted.
There are many more severe forms of oppression, that deserve our attention more than this.
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