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Comment · 13 years ago
CFAA is a ridiculous mistake. It's like if you used a programmable coffee machine and the company's policy forbade making decaf you would be a felon.
Comment · 13 years ago
Oh those damn stickers. And every time I get a pair of scissors in that indestructible plastic...
Comment · 13 years ago
I thought those were running interpreters via javascript. User-generated code is really okay?
Comment · 13 years ago
At least one of Ruby Motion or Xamarin Studio is compiling source code into iPhone apps.

Furthermore iPhone apps are definitely allowed to embed interpreters (caveat: no JITC's) and run scripts included with the binary or downloaded as part of an in-app purchase.

Comment · 13 years ago
And damn it, that's not a Scotsman, either!
Comment · 13 years ago
I love Vim so much but I sure wish it had a proper scripting language without requiring me to recompile the whole binary to get partial functionality.

Has anyone used Vile? I tried to compile it once and it looked to be quite onerous to fix all of Clang's whinging. Evil?

Comment · 13 years ago
> So they'd rather have something show up to show that "the system is working".

Haha, that's such a ridiculously poor argument. Why not just email yourself something or ask a friend to email something? How bewildered by the internet are the people you imagine? "Oh good, 'embolden my penis'. It's still working. I was worried for a second there when I closed all the internets on my screen."

Comment · 13 years ago
USA! Calls should be charged at both ends, internet should be charged at both ends, and if a company like Youtube is making too much money Comcast should be allowed to fine it for not sharing the profits it gained on the bandwidth it already bought.
Comment · 13 years ago
Maybe the dad stays home, or it's a gay couple, so it's modern single earner.

Unless I have been grossly mislead, if singer-earner salaries had appreciated like CEO salaries from the 1950's to now one parent could afford to stay home or just work part time. I don't know why it should be necessary for both persons of a marriage to work full-time on average.

Comment · 13 years ago
He didn't leave the killing of Egyptian children to humans, nor the razing of Sodom. You flat-out ignored my first question, though, so I can tell you really don't want to debate. Let's just stop this here.
Comment · 13 years ago
Reports claim it's buggy as anything, so I'm sure they'll have an easy time of finding an exploit.
Comment · 13 years ago
There's a package that can accelerate all the iOS animations if you've jailbroken your phone. It's quite a nicer experience and for me another reminder of why it's important to have a libre phone in the future.
Comment · 13 years ago
> Not always is possible to save everyone.

False. God is omnipotent :)

Comment · 13 years ago
Easy? Haven't they got a Turing-complete language hiding in there?
Comment · 13 years ago
> What would you do if injured your hands and could never type again?

I don't even disagree with you, but have a tangent to share:

Have you seen modern robotic prosthetics? I don't want to make light of anyone's situation, but I honestly think we are mere decades away from replacements that are better.

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