GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 9y ago
In either case, they would have to get a warrant first. Once they have that warrant, it doesn't matter what biometric locking method you use.
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Law enforcement would have to get a warrant first, according to a 2014 Supreme Court decision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California Border agents operate under more permissive rules, although a recently fi
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
I agree. It's small (both in file size and system resource usage), fast, and works very well.
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Fire ants have been known to kill people, especially those too young to escape an attack or those who are bedridden. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990923071322.h...
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Using high level encryption standards seemed to be the sticking point in early devices. Standard chips ran the authentication protocols too slowly. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/22/homekit-marke
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
The original iPod was 5 Gigs, which you filled over a 400Mbps Firewire connection. USB was limited to only 12Mbps at that time, so it only managed 3% of Firewire's transfer speed. Filling the iPod's drive took a couple of minutes
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
I should have been clearer that I was referring to how one turns off telemetry on MacOS.
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
I'd say the real issue is that Windows 10 not only defaults to having telemetry turned on, but that it also does not allow a system administrator to turn it completely off. However, I would agree that if preferences are changing withou
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
As far as telemetry goes, there is a simple on or off checkbox in the Security and Privacy control panel.
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Apple has never pulled a "You write a program for OS X and we'll take 30% of your revenue or block your sales" either. However, the last I knew, indie XBox game developers paid the same 30% cut to Microsoft to be allowed to s
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Here's another story that demonstrates the bias towards an existing hypotheses, featuring a newly minted recipient of the Nobel prize whose work was ridiculed by his peers and by a rather famous recipient of multiple Nobel prizes. htt
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
One of my friends from college has limited vision and the feature to read text aloud will be a game changing convenience. He has a magnifier in his home, but it isn't portable and is limited to working only with documents and images th
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
At the time of the first technology demos, the story was that Apple and Intel jointly developed it. https://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated...
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
In that time period, most laptops had one or two PCMCIA/PC Card/CardBus slots that had the same vulnerability. They were commonly used back then to add modems, network adapters and even hard drives.
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
So America has massively increased the tax burden on the poorest Americans (ever increasing tobacco taxes) while simultaneously cutting taxes on Capital Gains and Inheritance and now we are considering a large cut to the Corporate rate? Not
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Jim Allchin, who led the Windows client team, famously wrote an email to Gates and Ballmer during the development of Longhorn saying that Microsoft had lost it's way and that if he didn't work for Microsoft he would run OS X himse
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by GeekyBear 9y ago
Apple added a neural networking API that can leverage the GPU or CPU of a given device in the last version of iOS. https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apple-bringing-ai-revolution-i... There was an article last year dis