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Re: Phone vendors are not updating their Linux kernels

Donny Viszneki — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 05:56:17 -0000

Oh haha thanks. Somehow I misread...

Re: Phone vendors are not updating their Linux kernels

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:26:30 -0000

"I found only one company that updated their kernel" which company?

Re: Kristen Stewart Is Right: <em>1984</em> Is Kind of an Epic Love Story

Donny Viszneki — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:33:12 -0000

FANTASTIC article Noah!

Only a few minor disagreements here:

Orwell's thesis seems to imply that love and personal life have already been effectively destroyed by the state. Your own incredulity at the love affair is spot on: The characters do not know what love is. This perhaps differs with CJ as well, but maybe not.

O'Brien would say that their love never existed. O'Brien says reality is mutable. Denial plays a role in ideology.

Oh well. Down the memory hole, I guess. Doubleplus ungood.

Re: Programmable Character Sets: A Simple Alternative to Bitmap Displays

Donny Viszneki — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:59:08 -0000

Very cool article! It's great to find this kind of information on the old days. Keep writing!

Re: Final Fantasy VII demonstrates why words are stupid - Destructoid

Donny Viszneki — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:33:43 -0000

I completely agree with this, but, I didn't enjoy the article or the video.

Re: The case of Brandon Raub: Can the government detain you over Facebook posts?

Donny Viszneki — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:08:42 -0000

In 1984 The Party was unconcerned with the proles, only with the elites. In our world, proles can be exalted out of obscurity and irrelevance partly by risking their lives to defend the country. That tends to give their thoughts political weight.

Re: WikiWeapons: 3D printed guns for everyone

Donny Viszneki — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:58:09 -0000

"Only works once" does not sound like a self-defense weapon against the oppressors he claims: International kleptocrats. Not until you can mass-produce competitive armor and weapons. And then what? Fight a civil war of ideas with guns?

Re: Man in rural China loses arms in industrial accident, makes his own prostheses

Donny Viszneki — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:40:09 -0000

For those who are not HuffingtonPost fans:

http://www.dailytimes.com.p...

Re: The invention of interactive science education

Donny Viszneki — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:14:01 -0000

> You cannot learn just by watching something behave the way it's supposed to

Sent from my iPad

Re: Kirby Ferguson's TED Talk: "Embrace the Remix" - a must-see

Donny Viszneki — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:15:28 -0000

Stolen from Douglas Hofstadter's article in Scientific American, "Variations on a Theme as the Crux of Creativity" which you can pirate here http://www.scribd.com/doc/3...

Re: France's batshit HADOPI copyright law on life-support; three strikes is dying

Donny Viszneki — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:24:59 -0000

Center for Copyright Information, ho!

http://www.copyrightinforma...

(Scroll down to FAQ#13)

Re: How does the brain think?

Donny Viszneki — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:22:00 -0000

His response reminds me strangely of The Perspex Machine (the work of James Anderson, of "nullity" infamy.)

Re: Help fund Lizz Winstead's PSA for reproductive rights

Donny Viszneki — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:14:20 -0000

I'm making this judgment entirely from the red and blue picture. I don't think this is a very good PSA. I think I agree, vaguely, with what it says. But it's just terrible.

Re: What a "self-made" man owes to the world

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:10:14 -0000

Pro! Con!

Re: Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

Donny Viszneki — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:34:50 -0000

How long until Microsoft's private keys are cracked/leaked?

Re: It's an ostrich running down the street in Saudi Arabia

Donny Viszneki — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:13:22 -0000

Nice of that one driver to gently bump him off the road. Too bad he took a tumble.

Re: 10MM images from Guatemala's National Police go online: disappearances, STD experiments, more

Donny Viszneki — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:16:23 -0000

This isn't journalism. If individuals do not review each item *before* info is released, it's just an indiscriminate opening of unknown floodgates. Clearly this has been precipitated by anarchists, and they will be dealt with.

Re: Anything an Ultrabook now

Donny Viszneki — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:18:35 -0000

> now consumers will have to go back to checking the size and weight specs carefully

awwwwwwwwwwwww

Re: At SXSW, homeless people become WiFi hotspots

Donny Viszneki — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:16:52 -0000

PayPal's description of its fees (with gross omission):

https://cms.paypal.com/us/c...

Other good stuff:

http://www.paypalsucks.com/

BitCoin transaction fees right now basically don't exist because there are so many computers performing them for free.

Re: Another Occupy Wall Street activist's Twitter account subpoenaed

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:07:57 -0000

> Who are the other four?

They were probably #hashtags

Re: At SXSW, homeless people become WiFi hotspots

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:14:22 -0000

:%s/PayPal/Bitcoin/g

Re: Committee to propose blogger ethics guidelines

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:21:11 -0000

Can we finally get some standards in place to display advertising from another service? I've been reading gripes about aggregators for well over a decade. I've never seen a single service say something like, "Hey, carry an ad that generates revenue for us, and we'll call it even."

I'm positive there are flaws with this approach as with any if one attempted to apply it evenly across the entire terrain, but that I've never even seen it once suggests a fundamental lack of good faith on part of the "content creators."

Re: Time-lapse video of an ant colony eating a scanner, captured with the scanner in question

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:11:36 -0000

lolcory, xeni posted this in 2010 http://boingboing.net/2010/...

Re: Canada's Parliament summons Anonymous to testify

Donny Viszneki — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:44:32 -0000

TFA does not specifically anywhere say Anonymous has been subpoenaed. The majority of the article is hyperbolic poetry, including the title.

The only concrete thing that the article says has happened is that Vic was invited by the House Speaker to "send the matter to Procedure and House Affairs for further consideration."

Though a better knowledge of Canadian government might inform me that this subpoenaing Anonymous is a more imminent consequence of taking this issue to "Procedure and House Affairs," it seems to me this may just comedic extrapolation.

Re: Hactivistas protest brutal Spanish copyright law with flood of complaints

Donny Viszneki — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:29:24 -0000

Haven't the supposed difficulties, latency, and expenses of individual attention (much less judicial attention) involved in handling copyright infringement claims been one of the factors which copyright maximalists claim in support of the argument that copyright infringement claims should be handled in a shoot first, question later approach?