smallblacksun

805 karma · joined November 13, 2009

smallblacksun··on Journalists to Other Journalists: Call Out Windows

Not just reporters, everybody except a small group of techies. Just look at the Mac vs. PC ads, which were really Mac vs. Windows.

smallblacksun··on EFF: Dissecting the Gizmodo Warrant

Because he is the one who (allegedly) received stolen property.

smallblacksun··on Journalists to Other Journalists: Call Out Windows

The entire premise is flawed. Microsoft gets called out all the time in the press for bugs and security flaws.

smallblacksun··on On Geeks and Gays

Murderers and pedophiles are okay then? No? So all doesn't mean all, but some subset of all.

smallblacksun··on That Old College Lie

Repeal title 9, kill the women's sports that produce no revenue but have large costs, and the problem is solved.

smallblacksun··on That Old College Lie

If you eliminated sports, alumni giving would drop significantly, almost certainly by enough to offset the small gains you got from eliminating sports.

smallblacksun··on Police raid Gizmodo editor's house

I see nothing at all unreasonable about this search and seizure.

<edit>oops, didn't mean to downvote you. Can someone fix that for me?</edit>

smallblacksun··on Not Even In South Park?

No. If south park had shown Muhammad, and someone had gotten killed because of it, the only people to blame would be the ones who killed them, not anyone involved with south park.

As cliche as it is, if we let them dictate what we do and do not do, the terrorists win.

smallblacksun··on Not Even In South Park?

If by credible you mean not a raging anti-Semite, then no.

smallblacksun··on Not Even In South Park?

"the catholic church threatened excommunication"

How dare they threaten to remove someone from their own organization!

smallblacksun··on [dead]

Can someone explain how this works (I mean how the lady can look like she is rotating in either direction). If I focus really hard on her foot I can make her change direction, but I can't figure out the illusion they are using.

smallblacksun··on Most Digital Photocopiers Save Every Page Ever Scanned

reference?

smallblacksun··on McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machines worldwide

Old (meaning a year or two) viruses are still around, and can still do a lot of damage. A large part of the reason they don't is because people run virus scanners that catch them, and stop them from spreading.

smallblacksun··on Hitler “Downfall Meme” gets taken down

Artists like Weird Al use entire songs for parody, so I don't think a 5 minute clip would be too long.

smallblacksun··on Torvalds: git vs CVS

Perforce works well with large binaries and text (costs a fortune, though).

smallblacksun··on 100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.

All those "500 lb mom", "the 1000 pound man" show on the discover channel (and similar), not to mention the Biggest Loser tell me otherwise.

smallblacksun··on 100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man in a circus sideshow.

You also have to remember that the guidelines for what is considered obese was changed in 1998. It changed 30 million people from being considered normal weight to obese.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/guideposts/fitnes...

smallblacksun··on Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors

Not for the male students who don't get responses from the professor due to the stereotyping.

smallblacksun··on Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors

So it's okay to be sexist if you aren't doing it because you're attracted to the person?

smallblacksun··on Opera Mini takes over the App Store Charts

By this argument, Firefox/safari/chrome should just copy what IE does, because IE has the biggest market share.

smallblacksun··on Anger at Apple over flash: screenshot speaks for itself..

Most people aren't really angry about flash, they are angry about all the languages that apple has banned to get rid of flash.

smallblacksun··on Scheme is also dead on the iPhone

Interpreters that run on the iphone have always been banned.

smallblacksun··on New iPhone Dev Agreement Bans the Use of Third-Party Analytics and Services

Generally companies don't get $30 billion in cash by turning down opportunities to make money.

smallblacksun··on Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad

Because embedded interpreters in iphone apps are already banned in another part of the developer agreement?

smallblacksun··on The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone

That's a misleading statement, because five billion subscriptions does not mean that there are five billion people with cell-phones (many people have multiple subscriptions).

smallblacksun··on [dead]

"It is a system in which the top 10% of earners -- households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 -- paid about 73% of the income taxes collected by the federal government."

And yet we keep hearing about how the rich get out of paying taxes.

smallblacksun··on Ask HN: Emailing users their passwords outdated?

It's always been a bad idea. The server should not be storing your password in plaintext, let alone transmitting it over email.

smallblacksun··on IPad Case Moleskine

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20001749-243.html

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ipad-wifi-wi-fi-overheating-wire...

smallblacksun··on IPad Case Moleskine

Wouldn't a case like that exacerbate the overheating issues the iPad (reportedly) has?

smallblacksun··on Half the people in human history who reached the age of 65 are alive now.

Just because we want to do something, doesn't mean we can.

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