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great work! i did one the runs on osx a couple years ago. might be broken now, haven't run it in a while. https://github.com/helloandre/cam2ascii

This is a fantastic example of a company embracing technology (or more generally newer forms of business) and not holding on to the "old way" of doing business. The fact that their…

I think since Ford is sending the upgrade USB sticks directly to customers it would now be quite easy for someone with malicious intent to send out fake "upgrade" USB sticks to uns…

Atwood's Law alive and well.

but absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.

i completely agree. i didn't mean that it would in any way be wrong, i am just really interested in how they did it, and wanted to look at the source. yet another example of a need…

Is the source/a paper/a blog post going to be released so that we can look at (read: poke holes in) it?

I like this simply for the content on the page, not necessarily the actual project (tho it's cool too). It's snarky, self-deprecating, and dryly funny.

I think it's interesting that the idea of deleting an account on a web service is "incomprehensible" (a bit out of context, but still relevant). It's kind of funny how reliant we'v…

while you may not support the company and it's methods, the point they are trying to make is more honorable: making the dmca more complicated is pointless.

I was thinking of the NYT articles. Even if I don't have to pay to read them, the principle is the same. I shouldn't have to register on a site to read the content. I can understan…

Recently there have been several HN links on the main page to stories behind paywalls. I am a college student, and can neither afford nor have the desire to pay for that content as…

This is a really good article when considering use cases for your users. Sometimes classifying it under 'stupid user syndrome' just isn't good enough, you have to understand that t…

not only is that filed in the wrong place, but by someone clearly not understanding _what_ they're filing. you can't fix stupid.

I see the biggest problem being SEO. How can you guarantee top placement (as your example shows) in search results?

oh, ok, thanks! i would have made the assumption that this would have fixed it and been frustrated.

Did I miss something, or why are these in your head tag? Why not put them in the body tag so they don't load until after the browser has rendered the page?

I think you're simply showing your lack of exposure to new technologies. As 1053r noted, there are tons and tons of new things coming out all the time. Yes, it seems that with the …

thanks. i fear confrontation might be the only available option at this point.

you're absolutely right. Thanks for the reality check. I just needed to get it off my chest and that was the inappropriate way to do that. The post has been updated to be a bit mor…

i always heard it was a spoon. or was that someone else?