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Living Room / Re: Supreme Court Invalidates Software Patent...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 11:51 AM »

There's far too much influence peddling and politics surrounding IP on the regional circuit and appeals court level in the federal system. Having a centralized IP court system would go a long way towards eliminating the "venue shopping" and "rogue judge" problems we're experiencing today.

-40hz (June 20, 2014, 11:47 AM)

That's the justice system in general.

Imagine if I told you that in a courtroom, a judge said "if you wanted to follow the rules of law, you should have hired a lawyer.  without one, the law is what I say it is."

Now, take off the imagine.  I was struck with a definite blow to my belief in the justice system when I heard that.  And realized that many judges believe that.

*sigh*

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Living Room / 58 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Everything We Do

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 11:39 AM »

58 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Everything We Do (via Business Insider)

We like to think we're rational human beings.
In fact, we are prone to hundreds of proven biases that cause us to think and act irrationally, and even thinking we're rational despite evidence of irrationality in others is known as blind spot bias.

The study of how often human beings do irrational things was enough for psychologists Daniel Kahneman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, and it opened the rapidly expanding field of behavioral economics. Similar insights are also reshaping everything from marketing to criminology.

Hoping to clue you — and ourselves — into the biases that frame our decisions, we've collected a long list of the most notable ones.

More at link.

I realized some of these... but not all.  And a very good reminder and article (with examples no less).

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Living Room / Re: Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 11:37 AM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 11:12 AM »

This image never gets old...

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Living Room / Re: Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 10:57 AM »

Indeed, both of your posts indicate what I was thinking of when I posted.  I didn't want to be too cynical in my posting, however.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Good bye. (originally About buying books, etc., especially at amazon's)

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 10:55 AM »

^     

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General Software Discussion / Re: TrueCrypt alternative

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 10:49 AM »

@IainB - thx for sharing that. For once I find myself almost entirely in agreement with WindowsSecrets about something important.

(Note: I do however have a problem with Cryptainer's tiered pricing scheme. In the past I've always had trouble recommending it (as in not) because of that. But that's likely more just me being me.  )

-40hz (June 20, 2014, 09:31 AM)

Well, in the past, there were more alternatives   I wouldn't recommend diskcryptor just because they say that OSes are not supported.  Just because it seems to work when you encrypt it now, there's no guarantee that it won't stop working if they don't support the OS.  They presumably say that for some reason...

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Living Room / Supreme Court Invalidates Software Patent...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2014, 10:33 AM »

...because it's a software patent. (via boingboing)

Ruling at End Soft Pats

It's a step.  Not 100% done... but a definite positive step.  And a blow to patent trolls everywhere!

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 05:47 PM »

Just took some pictures on Saturday while we were hanging around outside.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CodeSpaces site (company) destroyed

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 03:20 PM »

  

They have square ones that are the same size as graham crackers... I wonder if they have them person sized... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Gitbook.io

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 03:19 PM »

Update: Updated original post with response from gitbook on real names.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 01:37 PM »

I finally got around to taking pictures after my last build...

http://imgur.com/a/6c7Lo

I'll also attach one of them here.



The two monitors on the left are the new pc. The one to the right of those is the old one... and the other one is my mac. Oh.. the floating one is my ipad.

I use multiplicity to control my old PC, though I have a bluetooth Logitech k811 attached to it, my mac, and my ipad.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CodeSpaces site (company) destroyed

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 01:27 PM »

Sorry guys I can't really muster up a tear for that one.

-Stoic Joker (June 19, 2014, 11:35 AM)

Perhaps not... but we can still roast the guy if found.  They made mistakes, and someone took advantage of it.  I still want that person to burn, no matter the mistakes made.

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Living Room / Re: URL Rewrite Problem

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 01:24 PM »

To get more traction, I'd suggest copying the text of your question here, in addition to linking to it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: CodeSpaces site (company) destroyed

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2014, 10:37 AM »

I hope they find the person and roast them.

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Living Room / Re: Ignorance is Strength - Censorship just got VERY real

« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2014, 07:07 PM »

Some don't even need that much. Terry Pratchett once said it's amazing the terrible things people will do for money - but even more amazing are the terrible things they'll do absolutely free.

-40hz (June 18, 2014, 06:54 PM)

This.

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Living Room / Re: Switzerland-based ProtonMail, yet another secure email service

« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2014, 05:33 PM »

Well, it appears that ProtonMail is going crowdsourced to keep up with the demand.  Just received this e-mail today...

Dear ProtonMail supporter,

Thank you for patiently waiting for the activation of your account while we increase capacity. Since ProtonMail beta launched one month ago, a huge number of people from around the world have requested ProtonMail accounts. The world is ready for privacy.

We want to provide free ProtonMail accounts to everyone so we have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for additional servers. If we hit our target, we should be able to accommodate everybody on our waiting list by the end of July.

If you would like to contribute to our Crowdfunding campaign, you can visit it here:
https://www.indiegog.../projects/protonmail

This is how real change happens: every contribution, no matter how small, gets us closer to enabling privacy for everyone. Online privacy and freedom touch each and every one of us. If we all stand together, we can build the future we want.

Thank you for supporting our fight to restore privacy.

Your ProtonMail Team
Andy, Jason, and Wei


===============================
We sent you this email because you are on our waiting list.
If you no longer need a ProtonMail account, consider taking yourself off the waiting list to make room for others:
https://protonmail.c.../invite-settings.php

This email was sent by:
ProtonMail, Case postale 575, Geneva 1215, Switzerland

One might wonder, however, if the initial invites were to generate a critical mass, which this is taking advantage of...

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Living Room / Re: Google's new "Hey Indies! Pay or your video won't play!" subscription service.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2014, 03:29 PM »

I don't even know why people would use a video site for music anyway. Why not just use BandCamp or SoundCloud?

-Deozaan (June 18, 2014, 02:42 PM)

See above about YT penetration.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2014, 12:34 PM »

Full note view was a really smart addition!

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Strike Vector 4-pack

« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2014, 08:52 AM »

I sent you a PM Josh... one of the purchasers fell through... though if you get enough for the second 4-pack, then don't worry about it.  Just let me know.

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Living Room / Re: Building Another Budget Gaming PC...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2014, 06:58 PM »

I suppose it would be nice to spend a little more of the budget on the video card..

-mouser (June 17, 2014, 06:56 PM)

From what I've found, there are three price points to look at: the lower $100s are definitely bargain.  You get into a standard gaming PC that can handle most things at high frame rates at $200 (which is my usual price point).  And over that, you're looking at $400+.  I spent that once, and while it was nice, I didn't think that the price for performance was worth it.  Sometimes things dip into other price points... but this is in general where the tiers stand from my experience.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Strike Vector 4-pack

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2014, 06:50 PM »

Yes, that's fine... and that's also all of them.

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Living Room / Re: Building Another Budget Gaming PC...

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2014, 06:38 PM »

Well then, you can stop calling this a "budget" build -- it's a proper gaming rig.

-mouser (June 17, 2014, 06:19 PM)

I think the budget part comes in the video card realm.

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Living Room / Re: Google's new "Hey Indies! Pay or your video won't play!" subscription service.

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2014, 06:06 PM »

Why are people still using youtube anyway.

-SeraphimLabs (June 17, 2014, 05:53 PM)

It just works.  And by default, other sites hook into YT.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Note5

« Last post by wraith808 on June 17, 2014, 03:52 PM »

And I must say... thanks for turning me on to 5iler.  Yours is cool and a very well done clone... but having the web sync and always available no matter what is killer...  a simplified version of what I use now... simplenote.