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Ten Thousand Cents 13 years ago

Look at the white block on the far right side about one-third of the way down.

edit: And the white block on the top, far right a little in. <3

And just right of the left hand side black border, about halfway down.

And the white block to the left of the F on the bottom right serial.

And the white block in the top of his hair.

Ten Thousand Cents 13 years ago

Here's the project description, I think it's probably safe.

"Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, new uncharted combination markets, crowdsourcing, virtual economies, and reproduction."

The test was run twice and the AI was released both times but the logs of the conversations weren't made public. Also all of the extra protocols weren't in place for either test meaning he could have bought the AI's release.

It's an interesting thought experiment but it's a bit ridiculous that the "tests" are mentioned on the page when they don't have any relevance to the rest of the idea.

10 Minute Mail 14 years ago

To be fair this site has been around for years. Since 2006 according to whois.

I almost never shut it down. Probably only once a month.

Waking from sleep is faster and I don't have to re-open my applications and documents. Shutting it down would save a small amount of power but that's rarely an issue (I'd shut it down if I was flying somewhere).

Are there some benefits to shutting it down I'm overlooking?

AFAIK a 0-day exploit is an exploit that was found in the wild. No one previously knew about it and there's a scramble to fix it.

In a week this exploit will be an "old 0-day exploit" because the "0-day" bit describes developer preparedness at discovery, not how long the exploit has been known.

The content posted on that Facebook page plays into the public stereotype of "programmer". Why would they think any of that would appeal to actual programmers? They must know some, someone had to make their site. It's embarrassing really (lol this shoe has a keyboard on its sole. It must be for programmers!!!11!!one!).

Sleepbox 14 years ago

Keeping these things clean would be very hard. Perhaps a better target market than single-night-guests is medium-term-guests.

I could see myself renting one of these things for a month in a city I visit on holiday.

>AS3 -> Dart -> JS, a bit much don't you think?

That's not what this is. The API has been ported, they haven't written a AS3 -> Dart compiler.

It's twisted but I always wonder the same thing. Why don't psychopaths "get" more people? If someone rings my doorbell I answer the door, I expect the person on the other side to be a rational human being. It wouldn't be too hard for the other person to just bum-rush me with a knife and take me out.

I think there may be an evolutionary factor involved, easier to survive in a group so there is an incentive not to harm those around you. Able bodies can warn of nearby danger and help fight off threats, as long as you aren't a threat to them and they aren't a thread to you you're golden. There's also the fact that most people are fairly content in society and like things to stay relatively constant. Nobody wants to risk the rest of their life by doing something dumb like even accidentally injuring someone, let alone purposefully killing someone.

Worry is still warranted. Removing a feature for new accounts is a very clear step in the direction of completely removing the feature.

Yes, current accounts keep the feature the whole point of grandfathering features is to eventually phase them out entirely.

The browser will treat the link as a download instead of content. You click on an image link, it downloads the image instead of displaying the image.

Seriously breaks using the folder as a simple content server.

I use dropbox a lot to send stuff to friends over IRC. Screenshots, save files, snippets of code. You can put up a HTML page that loads a SWF from your public folder, no worries. I have some music in there too and a HTML music player that points to the files so I have a simple music library on any computer with web access.

Sending you to a landing page instead of just serving up the content is unnecessary and disrupts all of these activities.

The specs page says the MBP has 2 ram slots, so it's the difference between 2x4gb and 2x8gb which is about 50 bucks here : http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

edit: But looking at the hardware pics it looks like it is single module but more than that, it looks like the RAM chips are soldered directly to the motherboard. Not a RAM module soldered to the board but the actual chips which means the cost to apple would be even less since you just double the ICs.

Yes, IIRC it's one of their big selling points. You can easily get your data out and use it for whatever you want. For example I believe many Jekyll blogs use Disqus for comments and periodically grab all the comments then write them into the html so that google will spider the comment section.

Sued? No they'd be served with DCMA takedown notices. Which is perfectly fine in my book.

If the content creators don't want their content on Imgur then they should be able to take it down.

Nothing is preventing people from linking directly to the content creators site, redditors are just apathetic and would rather just click through imgur links.