His account was created 106 days ago and has 7 posts, 4 of which are about Anon/Lulz. From this you conclude that he is a sock puppet paid by someone (the FBI?) to lead us astray with his constant one liners. Seems like a stretch, but hey that's just me.
I'm not saying he's leading anyone astray. But I do think it's a sock puppet account, yes. Just not a very effective one, that's why I made the mistake of trying to provide some feedback. But hey, that's just me.
Not a sock puppet, sorry to disappoint. Should I say more? I think "do no harm" applies when you claim to be an activist. I can't justify an attack as a protest or retaliation against governments, corporations who act contrary to the public interest, fundamentalists, or individual sock puppets when you harm others by disclosing personal information, disrupting business, etc. The fact that you want to "out" someone or some organization and you can't find a legal way to do it doesn't justify doing whatever you decide is the best course of action. And if you do decide to break the law in protest, perhaps you might consider manning up and identifying yourself like Ghandi or King.
Thanks for getting back to this, and for the clarification. So there is someone at home after all ;-) Btw, I get where you're coming from, and I don't disagree with you on this subject.
I don't understand the concern about typing non-ASCII Unicode characters on a Windows box. I know of at least 3 easy ways: charmap, alt+numpad, and editor-specific support.
Sorry, Comcast has been handed a monopoly franchise for broadband in many parts of the US, including Seattle. With their obscene profits comes an obligation to provide acceptable service in all reasonable cases. This is not an equal bargain between two independent parties -- the OP has ZERO alternative broadband providers and the real battle Comcast is fighting is against Netflix.
Sorry, but Qwest and Clearwire both cover nearly all of Seattle as well. You can argue about how broad you have to be to be called broadband, but they are both going to be suitable for a home user.
I have Qwest because Comcast can't provide reliable service to my 1920s apartment building, and I only get 2.6 Mbps down. I wouldn't think I'd have to explain on HN why that's not a viable alternative. It's certainly not for the OP's use case of streaming video.
Missing features:
- Mothball feeds I'm not reading lately but might want to pick back up in the future.
- Topical aggregation of feeds/posts.
- De-duping.
Not sure if I'd pay extra or switch readers for any of those features, however.
I used Live Mesh from launch up until about a year ago and had similar experiences. Lots of sync errors, lots of pain upgrading when MS decided to shuffle Live Mesh over to the Windows Live team.
On the other hand, Dropbox has been incredibly reliable and easy to use, plus it works on Android and Linux.
Unfortunately the obviousness test at this point is moot. Once the PTO signs off on it, overturning obviousness is very difficult. The prior art is a better way to go, especially if it is obvious the same technology as the patent.
BTW, what is the prior art on the two clearest ones (from the title -- which obviously doesn't mean the claims line up, but I suspect they do):
Meeting requets and group scheduling on a mobile device prior to 1997?
Common namespace for long and short filenames prior to 1993?
i hate that these bullet points are patent-able. i dont think the system was ever intended for this sort of granularity. we should protect big ideas, not functions necessary to run any modern mobile operating system.
