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ASneakyFox··on My Car Got Broken Into – How an Arduino Kit Recovered 65% of My Stuff
I feel like the arduino is irrelevent and the story has nothing to do with technology. Pretty cool how you tracked your stuff down though.
ASneakyFox··on California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests
It doesn't have to be legal for the government to do it. Look at the nsa.. any one who wants to give the government a kill switch to your phone is very uninformed. This level of protection for a phone makes zero sense.
ASneakyFox··on Can We Trust the Libraries We Use?
You could. But you'd miss those bugs if you write that code yourself any way.
ASneakyFox··on Saying Goodbye To Windows 8
I make use of unnaximized Windows all the time. You don't need to see the whole window to use it. For instance when debugging a prism I only need to see the "output" panel portion of my ide window. Some people only use one program at a time. But the win7 system already works well for that. If they want to change how windows work it should be after some testing and exprimentation. Don't just change it to be different.
ASneakyFox··on Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute
This would be crazy if fish start to understand the cannon. Use it on their own and then continue on to find their destination (rather than be totally lost and confused)
ASneakyFox··on Motionlead Makes Mobile Ads Effective Again Thanks To Interactive Design
Adblock was invented on the browser to stop ads just like these.
ASneakyFox··on Can We Trust the Libraries We Use?
Typically you test your software to your needs. If there's a bug in a library you use it would show up when testing your code that uses the library.
ASneakyFox··on Is a Hard Life Inherited?
What about the middle class thing where EVERYONE thinks they're middle class? If you ask some one who makes 30k they'll say they're middle class. If you ask some one who makes 130k they'll say the same thing.
ASneakyFox··on GUN Linux: On the range with TrackingPoint’s new AR-15s
I don't even get what the scope does.. dows it like aitomatically adjust for range?
ASneakyFox··on Secrets of amazing teachers: What both sides of the education debate get wrong
Whoever taught this person to write an article didn't do a good job.
ASneakyFox··on Letter I Used To Get Back 100% Of My Security Deposit From A Hostile Landlord
I've been a day or two late before. I've never been hassled. Unless this guy is r ed gularly late id give him atleast a week before you start bugging him. Your just making enemies imo.
ASneakyFox··on A breath reveals a hidden image in anti-counterfeit drug labels
It doesnt make sense to me either. How would any one know this label should be there? Unless it was required to be on all drugs maybe.. But then thered still be other issues
ASneakyFox··on Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
It might be a little fud. But its also a little true. Google is becoming everything online. They even want to be your internet service provider some day. All that control in all aspects of the internet could be abused quite easily.
ASneakyFox··on How a Site That Streams People Playing Games Became a Billion Dollar Business
Yeh I feel like the term billion dollar business" is meant to reference revenue. Its a bad article.
ASneakyFox··on Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
The monkey stole the camera. Either way though its the monkeys work. Not his
ASneakyFox··on Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
So why should the ownership go to the camera owner? Who owns the land? The monkey? Lots of people could claim ownership for "helping".
ASneakyFox··on Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
In that case I claim ownership. As far as I can tell I did the same level of creative input as mr batteries. So I should be just as entitled to the work.
ASneakyFox··on Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
Studio camera operators actually would be the ones creating the art.. its just that its work for hire so the copyright goes to their bosses.

I don't think you can sign a work for hire contract with a monkey.

ASneakyFox··on Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey
I agree with wikimedias stance though... its not a legal technicality, its just not a common topic. The law is quite clear. If an animal or nature makes some thing then it belongs to no one. Its public domain
ASneakyFox··on Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio
Why is this bad? They ought to pay for the music like every one else. Twitch isn't a free radio system.
ASneakyFox··on Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet
I wouldn't just randomly start taking aspirin every day because of this article... Im sure the next big aspirin discovery will be "oops all that asprin is actually bad"
ASneakyFox··on Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength
That's not just some thing they happen to do once a day. Its what they do ALL day, in addition to many other things. The purpose of the exoskeleton isn't really to increase how much you can lift. Its to make it so it is less tiring.
ASneakyFox··on A Simple Strategy for Shaking Confirmation Bias
The only way to deal with confirmation bias is to know it happens, and consider that when drawing conclusions.
ASneakyFox··on Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads
If the official Twitter app wasn't so bad I would use it. Twitters problem for me is how hard it is to browse its content. Its website has the same problem. I think they need to look more in to how people want to use their service. I'm sure its different for different kind of users. Eg some one following celebrities vs some one folllowing businessses vs some one following politics
ASneakyFox··on Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser
I really like the idea of shadertoy. Learning to write shaders is some thing I really want to learn to do.. I just wish shadertoy was a desktop application because it doesn't run so well in my web browser.
ASneakyFox··on Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media
The purpose of sopa was to censor websites from Americans. Same law same damage.
ASneakyFox··on Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media
"Draconian"? The us almost went this way a couple years ago with sopa.
ASneakyFox··on [dead]
That proves that it doesn't mean anything in Latin. It doesn't prove that the true crypt devs know latin. They could have used google translate too... or perhaps they used a mistranslation on purpose to help establish plausible deniability.

Conspiracy theories are fun :)

ASneakyFox··on Why Andrew Ng left Google and joined Baidu
So about the same as googles ad business? Not shocking to me.
ASneakyFox··on Hey – Personal commandline assistant
This could be good if you figure out how to support advanced arguments etc. Right now it seems to be a system to handle a large number of aliases for common commands.
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