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by DCKing 12y ago
> What about the Chromecast and Android Wear APIs? The Chromecast does not operate over a local connection. It is actually operated 'through the cloud' - if you are controlling your Chromecast, you're sending operations to
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by DCKing 12y ago
They deprecated a mapping API in AOSP because AOSP is not tied to a cloud service and should not depend on cloud services. AOSP on its own cannot assume that a mapping service is available, and neither can Android apps. For the same reason,
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by DCKing 12y ago
I think you misinterpreted some of Google's documentation here, or are deliberately FUD'ing. You made me look around in Android's documentation and the web and I did not find anything about this. Care to share a link?
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by DCKing 12y ago
You have to be specific here. 1) How many apps will flat out refuse to run if Google Services are not present, as opposed to have reduced functionality? Having a dependency on Google's Services library only means that the app will use
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by DCKing 12y ago
> The non-free Google Play APIs, which are heavily used by many Android apps. I think this is an exaggeration. Some developers make too many assumptions, sure, but I don't think you'll find many high-profile non-Google apps tha
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by DCKing 12y ago
What are they talking about, exactly? It's perfectly possible to "unbundle" Android and Google's services. Google goes furthest in unbundling possibilities for any popular operating system, since they give away the sourc
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by DCKing 12y ago
Just for my context - is the browser plugin DOM interface used for plugins (the <object> tag) a W3C standard as well? I fully agree with point 2. Even if all browser vendors assumed this point to be true however, I think Netflix and o
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by DCKing 12y ago
I don't understand how this is any worse than Firefox supporting (and reluctantly promoting) closed source plugins for years. In fact, this situation will be far better than Flash, Silverlight and all other plugins ever. Why is support
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NASA’s Kepler Reborn, Makes First Exoplanet Find of New Mission(nasa.gov)
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by DCKing 12y ago
Spotify has enabled ad-driven free accounts on mobile for almost exactly one year now.
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by DCKing 12y ago
The practical record for Shor's algorithm is definitely 3x5 = 15. A different style of quantum computer factorized 143 using another method, which seems to have also have theoretical complications in addition to practical ones. It is d
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by DCKing 12y ago
Ah, my apologies. It's been some time since my courses on this.
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by DCKing 12y ago
If you would have looked at two more Wikipedia articles you would have known the following: Integer factorization is likely not an NP-complete problem at all. It is suspected (but not proven) not to be in the class of NP-complete problems
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by DCKing 12y ago
Wow, I didn't expect people would read so much in my poetic language. Qt used to be relegated to KDE on Unix but is now also used by Unity and LXDE. People prefer using Qt because it is much more cross platform friendly than GTK+ and h
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by DCKing 12y ago
As an additional point: in the spectrum between centralization and decentralization, there's a clear difference between Linux and FreeBSD. This is what I highlighted in my post: FreeBSD's greater degree of centralization seems to
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by DCKing 12y ago
My comment was not intended as a comparison of this to other desktops, or to imply one. FWIW, I think Gnome 3 and KDE 5 are beautiful.
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I'm just going to leave a comment to contrast the usual negativity. What I like about this is: - The developers are not attempting to reinvent the wheel. - Material Design is well-regarded on mobile devices, and it's interesting t
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by DCKing 12y ago
(These answers are guesses) > What does Material even offer to a Desktop OS? A sense of (generally well-regarded) design direction made by professional designers. Familiarity to Android users. Not reinventing the wheel and doing a worse
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by DCKing 12y ago
The most intriguing part of FreeBSD (any BSD really) from an outsider's perspective I find the fact that "the FreeBSD project" has a bigger, more directed scope than "the Linux project" or "the GNU project&quot
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's still someone's own choice to install a Wi-Fi router and powering it on. The fact that many of them don't exactly understand that it might be privacy issue (if and only if they put identifying information in the SSID) do
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by DCKing 12y ago
Neither of these have either: 1) The same accessibility for a passerby outside of your house. 2) The same constant, location identifying properties or information content. The things you mention cannot be described as beacons .
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by DCKing 12y ago
> you're arguing that there's a clearly defined category of broadcasted signals that can be clearly defined as public; This is another strawman. I'm not arguing for a particular clear-cut definition of "public" a
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by DCKing 12y ago
How about we stop being so condescending, educate people to make an informed choice, and stop asking Google, Mozilla and anyone with a smartphone to think for them?
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> I still don't find "anything that can be picked up passively from public property is fair game" a very compelling ethical standard This is a strawman. Any public information that can be picked up passively from public
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by DCKing 12y ago
> the only thing most people most of the time mean when they set up wi-fi is that they want to be able to connect their ipads and chromebooks to the internet at home. These are not the people I'm arguing against, and I mentioned tha
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by DCKing 12y ago
I don't understand your comparison. An SSID broadcast is meant to be public information. An IMSI catcher actively exploits weaknesses of implementations to MITM non-public connections. IMSI catchers do not catch public information at
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by DCKing 12y ago
The difference being that having a Wi-Fi router means actively powering a device that sends a signal beyond the perimeter and privacy of your home. A signal that, as evidenced by this app, can be passively [1] picked up and processed by any
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by DCKing 12y ago
As someone who works in IT, I always feel ashamed to see outrage over this. We somehow want both privacy as well as a freaking radio beacon spreading out a signal to hundreds of meters away. Let there be no mistake: using a Wi-Fi router i
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by DCKing 12y ago
> "Your language sucks to deal with in computing because your native country didn't develop computing machinery first." What nonsense, the article says the complete opposite of that . All of the article deals with example
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by DCKing 12y ago
Indeed. At $99 [1], equipped with 802.11ac [2], a far more powerful processor that is capable of playing 4K video [3], you could ignore Google TV in its entirety and probably justify your purchase just to use it as a Chromecast Deluxe. [1]:

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