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Commented on Rule 34
(Have I said how much I don't like Amazon recently?)" I agree... so why is there no ebook edition other than the Kindle? It's all well and good saying that Amazon has an 80% market share of ebooks, but by...
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Moderator Alan commented on
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Why? It's the difference between your cleaner leaving your windows open, and a burglar actually breaking in through them. The former is negligence, the latter criminal, and both ethically and legally, the latter is considered much worse....
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Moderator Alan commented on
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More like accidentally not fully locking the front door on leaving. Whereas Sony have wandered up and are trying to slide a credit card in through the door jamb to release the Yale lock before coming in and rifling your clothing drawers, when you just wanted them to deliver a letter. (Writing software to have no bugs in is hard. Perhaps not impossible, but I know of no cases where it's been achieved.)...
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Moderator Alan commented on
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Not fixing a bug instantly (which is what you're demanding) is as culpable as rooting? No, not even close. Even if I leave my front door open, repeatedly, that gives you no right to walk in without permission....
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Moderator Alan commented on
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Error: Infinite loop detected Error: Incorrect reply link 2 errors detected. (And yes, I should have qualified it as 'software of any reasonable complexity'.)...
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Charlie Stross commented on
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That's a bit ass-backwards! What you can do instead is: get yourself a new gmail account. Use the new gmail account to register a new account with amazon.com. Do not give it a credit card. Instead, use your existing amazon account (the UK one) to log onto amazon.com and buy a gift voucher. Apply the gift voucher to your other amazon.com account (the new one). Tell Amazon you live at [insert street address of US publishing company here]. At this point, you should be able to authorize a kindle device (say, Kindle.app running on an old iPod Touch or something)...
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