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They are quite different: MEGA is a web-based file hosting, spideroak is a desktop app that syncs your local files to the cloud for sync&backup. Spideroak is for your own private storage (+ShareRoom for sharing with a group), MEGA is po
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Yes, Pidgin will stop working. I'm not aware of any Skype IM clients other than Skype itself.
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Users who log into Skype with their Microsoft account are offered a merge with the Skype account to have all the MSN and Skype contacts combined. The fun bit is the last step: "From now on, please use your Microsoft account "Firstname Lastn
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Microsoft Messenger will be retired and users migrated to Skype on March 15
(thenextweb.com)
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Launching a filehosting site that is end-to-end encrypted at the browser and using 3rd party nodes for the file hosting without being a torrent network sounds revolutionary, at least to me. By providing the encryption keys that only the use
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Out of curiosity, when storing new files how do you decide between Data and Development drives or is Data fully unrelated to Development context?
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A rather deep research and clinical practice on working with the mind to cure the body has been conducted by John E Sarno. The Mindbody Prescription [1] and The Divided Mind [2] are two of his books. My interest in this started with the mot
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Not sure how they play this out in the future but for IDEA 12 vs latest PyCharm they first added the new python-related features to PyCharm and then to IDEA python plugin. The codebase seems to be the same but release cycles differ. Also so
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The prices for EU seem to be wrong after adding to the cart. $25 PyCharm becomes 94.05 EUR. $50 IDEA becomes 189.05 EUR.
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Most e-mail users are using browser-based e-mail clients over HTTPS so in order to access the plaintext email one needs to tap the senders local network which would only work if the sender is not using an HTTPS webmail. Plaintext public int
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This article seems to focus mainly on digital signatures. Encryption does not necessarily involve ensuring data source authenticity. If you have an SHA hash as part of the request url and you can trust the SHA hash calculator to verify the
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I suspect they could use data URL scheme as in RFC2397. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme and http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt
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Why?
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"The new Mega encrypts and decrypts your data transparently in your browser, on the fly. You hold the keys to what you store in the cloud, not us." For me this is the most important bit of the website. That bit demonstrates the dedication o
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Website looks really good! Is copybar dynamically replacing the content and then next time when the page is loaded javascript replaces the content by fetching the value from copybar CDN? At least it looks like copybar is not changing the ac
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Most of the registrars top up the time your domain has with the current registrar at the point of transfer. At least Namcheap does. Be aware of the following 60-day restriction when planning the transfer from GoDaddy: http://support.godadd
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What is pseudo-shitting on gradients? Monochromatic noise?
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Facebook: 'Bug' Means Old Private Messages Could Be Appearing On Timelines
(huffingtonpost.co.uk)
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Just combine two browser extensions in Chrome: 1. Adblock Plus [1] to remove in-site social widgets [2] and ads. 2. A social extension, pick your favorite, there are too many. [1] https://adblockplus.org/en/ [2] https://adversity.googlec
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Love and hate are emotions taking you away from the real question - is this the right thing for you to do. If this one thing is your deliberate decision and goal then forget about emotions. Just do it.
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Open Season On Patents Starts Thursday, Thanks to Crowdsourced Platform
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If you're fine by wearing a headband while sleeping then Zeo [1] is your new friend with raw data. After some soldering I even managed to get the live serial output to my laptop with a python app. [1] http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/shop/featur
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Dave McClure post was framed as 500=APPL, YC=MSFT analogy. Artists vs geeks. Intuitivity vs analytics. It's not about being an underdog or a black swan. Both 500 and YC must differentiate. It's the only way for the founder to grasp the acce
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The initial 1 year charge was part of the recurring subscription. Users get automatically charged and the drop-off might not be that massive.
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"Stealthy" launch is like putting it online and hoping that no-one finds it :-) I think it's either launched and marketed or offline and no-one using it. Not knowing the exact product, just an idea: consider contacting small design furnitur
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Braintree's open for business in Canada and Europe
(braintreepayments.com)
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To see e-mail only sent before today feel free to use this bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){var d=new Date(Date.parse(new Date())-86400000);var t="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/"+"before%"+"3A"+d.getFullYear()+"%"+"2F"+(d
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Agreed on US problem. Innovation could be still developed in US, just all the customers must be non-US. I could be wrong but this has been my assumption. Some of these non-US customers could be selling back to the US customers and if the nu
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It depends on where your customer is located. Selling to a USA customer is opening you up to the US legislation for that specific transaction. IANAL.
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One experiment could be excluding Texas when selling to US. That could take care of most of the patent troll court filings and move you down in their prioritized attack list. AFAIK yet IANAL, if you have no customers in Texas then a company
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