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arjuanon Jeff Sessions Announces Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

If you want additional perspective on how it's actually used, then checkout John Oliver's segment on Civil Forfeiture.

arjuanon AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

No, I don't think there is much value during the design phase. Punch Lists are created when the building is near completion. The architect walks around the building, taking notes of what's not acceptable, and sends photographs + descriptions of an issue to the other contractors. With a portable version of AutoCAD this process could be made more efficient by allowing the architect to enter notes in the drawing file while at the site (and maybe attach images to it taken with iPad with the help of a macro or some other add-on).

arjuanon AutoCAD Coming to Mac (and iOS) for First Time in Nearly 20 Years

Architects will love using this on the iPad once the construction phase begins on a design and they have to do their Punch Lists.

arjuanon Don’t Buy The HTC EVO, It Is A Seriously Flawed Device

I had 4G turned on overnight as well (where I have full 4g/3g service). I've heard that leaving 4G on while in a 3G-only area will drain the battery, but hopefully that problem will be fixed with an update.

arjuanon Don’t Buy The HTC EVO, It Is A Seriously Flawed Device

There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has been just fine.

I left my phone on, unplugged, last night, drove to work listening to a podcast, and have been at work for about two hours and my phone still reads a full charge. Advanced Task Killer is showing 18 apps running in the background (power user here :) )

Also, if you read the EVO forums there are plenty of other people who are getting great battery life out of this powerful device.

arjuanon BP Damage Control Leaks Online (buying oil phrases on Google/Yahoo)

The article paraphrases the situation as if they bought the first search result, when all they really did was buy a targeted ad at the top of the search results.

arjuanon Dear Google, who I am supposed to use google wave with?

1. Do a search for with:public

2. Be sure to save the search with the archive option checked (this makes sure your inbox doesnt get flooded with public waves)

3. Wave with everyone!

arjuanon Photorealistic image composition from simple sketches [pdf]

any chance you can post the binaries on mediafire? seems like their server has gone down.

arjuanon HN: share your unneeded Google Wave invites

Thank you! Great idea!

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