xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Tribler Makes BitTorrent Impossible to Shut Down
Skype would seem to fit the bill.
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xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Richard Stallman's Computer Setup
If you ever license a product to another company (ie. GitHub FI), you have to be GPL compliant.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Ubuntu TV unveiled
> Canonical shares post-purchase services revenue from the sale of content, applications and subscriptions through Ubuntu TV products with OEM’s and distribution / channel partners.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: My 3 hour weekend project: Fix My Movie Subtitles
I found it in one of their demo applications. They hide a lot of stuff in there.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: SOPA could ban TOR
Small technical correction: I2P uses Garlic routing, which is based on the same basic ideas, but is implemented very differently.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Novel Optical Trick Creates Ultra-Secure Cash
It's much cheaper to counterfeit old currency that is still in circulation than to invest a lot of money in trying to replicate the latest security features.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Google is working on integrating terminal emulator into Chrome
NaCl doesn't have the low level networking capabilities needed for SSH, Telnet, etc. because they would be a security risk (a "game" could run a portscanner or look for open SMB shares on the network).
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: C++ Versus Objective-C
This is pure speculation, but its possible that the runtime does some tricks for performance (possibly in the method dispatch routine) that the NaCl sandbox doesn't allow.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is a hacker anyways in today's context?
Hackers are not defined by a degree, skill or field. Hackers are defined by a thirst for knowledge and a motivation to improve or manipulate the world around them.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Enable Safari Web Inspector for iOS5 Simulator
And to only enable this in debug builds, you can do:
#ifdef DEBUG
[NSClassFromString(@"WebView") _enableRemoteInspector];
#endifxorglorb | 14 years ago | on: IPad disrupting global DRAM market, causing chipmakers to lose billions
I believe HN automatically capitalizes the first letter.
(I may be wrong, I vaguely remember this conversation going on in an iOS post a few months ago)
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Oracle checks in -XX:+UnlockCommercialVMOptions in JVM
BizSpark is a program that gives free Microsoft software to startups and small businesses for three years. From my understanding, it has nothing to do with cloud platforms.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Apple Approves Tethering App For the iPhone
Chances are NetShare reused existing code from an open source SOCKS proxy implementation, which would probably just use standard UNIX APIs. Combine that with the simplicity of the GUI, and it's very possible that none of the APIs it is using have changed since release.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: FSF Europe launches peer-to-peer search engine
Well, it sounds cool, but the first result for "Google" is a Youtube Video Converter, and it appears to randomly change between German and English.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
The mobile phone market has been disrupted time and time again, the most recent example being the iPhone. The iPhone was a revolutionary new technology on the market, and was quickly followed by Android, which improved on many features leading to benefit for the consumer.
If you are referring to cell carriers, there is a high infrastructure cost, however even that does not prevent disruption. A standard cell tower can cost upwards of two million dollars, however the OpenBTS project has shown that software radios can significantly reduce the cost to the tens of thousands of dollars per tower. This, combined with a limited initital rollout can keep the infrastructure costs under one hundred million, not an unreasonable number for venture capital funding once the technology is proven.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
By the way, if you are interested in the Austrian School of economics, which advocates a free market, the Ludwig van Mises Institute has a very expansive collection of over 4100 articles, books and essays freely availiable as PDFs and eBooks here (http://mises.org/literature.aspx).
Also, I recommend reading about the Keynesian School of Economics, which advocates central planning in the form of a central bank (The Federal Reserve), so you can best make your own decision. Wikipedia has very good introductions to both schools, and can provide a basis for your further readings.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
If the US were to attempt to remove the barriers to entry, it would have to be very carefully with a scalpel and not destroy them all in one blow with a hammer. One approach which would help curb corporate power would be to start removing the civil liability limits on many sectors. To use the oil industry as an example, the reason BP got off so lightly after causing damage to nearly all industries reliant on the gulf coast was that there was a $75M cap on civil damages, where without that cap, BP easily could have gone out of business after being sued under Tort law.
The United States in it's early days was a decent example of a near-free market functioning, as there was no central bank and minimal regulation on business.
Also, I'm glad to see you're interested in learning more. Economic theory is a very nuanced subject, with many differing opinions, studies and models. One that I wish I knew much better.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: FCC finds AT&T's purchase of T-Mobile not in the public interest
The late 1800s and early 1990s were crony capitalism, encouraged by a corrupt court system and naive immigrants who bought into the political machines. A fully free market actively discourages monopolies by removing all barriers for competition, and encouraging disruptive startups.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Hackers destroy water pump via SCADA abuse
I'd go for unpatched VxWorks system.
xorglorb | 14 years ago | on: Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
Okay. I'm stopping this here. We do not need HN to turn into /r/politics.
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