RottenHuman

oh no. Another "flat design" theme. A button must be distinguishable from other design elements in my opinion. I hope this fad goes away soon, it's even more annoying than the glossy look or skeuomorphs.

Don't you run into limitations of raspberry's real time capabilities with a task like this? A REAL, microcontroller based, appliance, which is connected through a serial port to any PC, would be more suitable.

That might be true, but imagine you phone company or E-Mail provider is ploughing through the content of your messages or even actively filtering your phone calls and is deciding what you can communicate and assumes control over whom you are able to reach.

It might be perfectly legal, you still would not want that to happen and people expressing their concerns should never be shrugged off with the simplistic attitude of "but they are allowed to do that".

A lot of things which are allowed for a company is still not the right thing and should be called out.

I'm certain that you can disable pdf.js in about:config

how do you work for someone without them knowing your age? Do you keep that out of your CV? How about credentials and signing your contact? Seems very strange to me.

maybe from a different Mario game?

Have you tried using your E Reader as a VNC client? I did that with my Kobo to use my Laptop in daylight and it worked quite well.

I don't know about that. I'm just honestly confused what Facebook offers for those purposes that "traditional" tools don't.

Maybe it's because I'm old, but I do all this with email phone calls and text messages and it seems to me to do the job just fine.

What is the advantage of using Facebook to keep in touch with people that I'm missing?

And how does this exclude it from being called radar?

Make a catchy video, presenting the idea, create an kickstarter. Hope to get viral (hire an ad agency who can make that happen). Research the market. Know the market. Hire someone to build a sound business plan for you. Go begging for that money shower. Cry for the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours already spent which you may never see again.

What you're completely ignoring is the consequences such bailouts have on the market dynamics[1]. It creates a massive morale hazard which can and will incentivize market actors to take part in risky behaviour. If you are seeking to stabilize the "free" market, you are not going to do it by rewarding the losers or picking the winners.

Failing is just as important aspect of a self-regulated system as is the price, since the government voided that mechanism since forever we have an entirely disrupted market perfectly conditioned for too-big-to-fail participants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

>The media industry is so backward. I can't believe most of them still live in the 90s and these problems haven't been solved yet.

Part of the problem is the broken status of international copyright law and the many incompatible local laws and regulations. If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for consumers.

What I want is a messenger which has all my friends in it.

Sadly at the moment that's only WhatsApp and Telegram to some extent. If only there would be some protocol or standard that would allow me to communicate across different providers.

But unfortunately such a standard must be technologically impossible, otherwise it would be implemented and widespread already.

And why should LibreOffice not be able to integrate a "cloud service" into their suite?

The extension interface of Libre Office even lets me think that this would be technically a triviality to integrate.

Maybe with an open standard instead of a propriety and closed eco system,

with the freedom to choose whom you trust with your data, or to host it yourself.

> replaced nearly nonexistent with irrelevant to make my point clearer

I'm afraid your point is still not clear. What's your metric for declaring a market irrelevant?

A conventional office suite is still the solution which is overwhelmingly dominating the market. Maybe look outside your own bubble and bias. A lot of business will never give away there confidential documents in the hands of third party cloud hosts. (which is the sane approach). So what's your criteria for calling that niche, irrelevant or even non-existent?

The Dark Ages never happened and are an rethorical tool used by Enlightenment thinkers to elevate their own position. Europe did not slack during the middle ages. Far from it.

stupid question. of course they are. Islam does not know a separation of church and state and does not consider itself a private matter at all. With that religion there comes a mandatory political and societal system, with strict rules on Kuffar and Moslems alike. Wherever Moslem settle in great numbers, Sharia will follow and they will try to implement it.

They really are not a good argument against genetic causes of heritability of lower IQ scores in other groups. Their example (if true) only serves to proof that in their cases low IQ was cause by environment, which as partial cause for low IQ is not debated by anyone credible. It says nothing about genetic causes in other groups at all.

the whole 1.4 seconds of it.

And your opinion is based on what? What you just said is true for any software. Any reason why you pick out tox in particular?

>None of these tools are "capturing everything I do on the Internet". They could be used to target an individual in some sense. But not capturing everything that everyone is doing.

That claim contradicts what Glenn Greenwald says. Why is he wrong?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-...

In case you lived under a rock the last two years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

Being an idealist and entrepreneur who wants to be successful are not mutually exclusive at all.

If you were to be assigned to astroturf certain demographics, what better target than HN would you chose to reach tech-professionals?