/dev/nikc/blog » In English http://blog.nikc.org Kuolleiden purjehduskenkien seura Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:24:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Androids’ march against pirates http://blog.nikc.org/2010/08/26/androids-march-against-pirates/ http://blog.nikc.org/2010/08/26/androids-march-against-pirates/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:18:55 +0000 nikc http://blog.nikc.org/?p=2141 Tim Bray also says that “the best attack on pirates is to make their work more difficult and expensive, while simultaneously making the legal path to products straightforward, easy, and fast.” Right on Tim, but… Google’s Android Market lets you install paid applications only if you are in one of the 13 supported countries. The [...]

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Tim Bray also says that “the best attack on pirates is to make their work more difficult and expensive, while simultaneously making the legal path to products straightforward, easy, and fast.”

Right on Tim, but…

Google’s Android Market lets you install paid applications only if you are in one of the 13 supported countries. The “legal path” is neither “straightforward, easy, or fast” if you don’t live in one of the 13 countries that are supported. Maybe instead of focusing on developing anti-piracy services, Google should add more locations to the paid Android Market.

Android Market and Piracy

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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

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But in reality, we had no idea…

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]]> http://blog.nikc.org/2010/08/12/frustrated-by-the-web/feed/ 0 So long, and thanks for all the fish! http://blog.nikc.org/2010/02/28/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/ http://blog.nikc.org/2010/02/28/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:40:49 +0000 nikc http://blog.nikc.org/?p=2102 By the looks of it, this blog seems to have failed the test of time. I’ve had fuck all to say for over 2 months now. Not even a single link worth posting. Not a single photo worth showing. So, until I find a new boost of inspiration somewhere, the status of /dev/nikc/blog is discontinued.

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So, until I find a new boost of inspiration somewhere, the status of /dev/nikc/blog is discontinued.

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]]> http://blog.nikc.org/2009/12/13/help-saving-mysql/feed/ 0 Continuity http://blog.nikc.org/2009/12/08/continuity/ http://blog.nikc.org/2009/12/08/continuity/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:26:46 +0000 nikc http://blog.nikc.org/?p=2098 Continuity

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]]> http://blog.nikc.org/2009/11/06/kerixep/feed/ 0 Creative Chair Design http://blog.nikc.org/2009/11/06/creative-chair-design/ http://blog.nikc.org/2009/11/06/creative-chair-design/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:50:21 +0000 nikc http://blog.nikc.org/?p=2092 Creatively mutilated Vespas and more

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]]> Being a subscriber to a plethora of photo blogs, I was very pleased when I recently learned that Google Reader was equipped with a feature to give a lesser preference to “spamming” (i.e. frequently updating) streams by choosing the Sort by Auto, thus diminishing the urge to use the “Mark all as read” button when the reading list grows to numbers uncomprehensible to all but the most brilliant mathematicians in world history.

It was almost like magic, and it seems Google now thinks so too.

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