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by Nelson69 14y ago
The same technology could possibly identify weapons that people had. A side effect of that would be that we could make a very legitimate argument to demilitarize the police force, if a crowd is unarmed, the police should not need guns,
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I think the 21st century trick for this is to "privatize" it. Public funds go to a trusted private partner who can operate in the dark. Then it seems like the billions are spent and gone by the time the questions are asked and the damage
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Because putting "topsecret" in the file name seems even more childish? It's an interesting double tap kind of announcement, hacking an FBI lapper seems like a pretty big win in and of itself, because he had java in his browser and went
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by Nelson69 14y ago
MAC addresses too? How do you propose to make networks work?
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Boot times is one thing. Upstart and systemd provide tons and tons of other features though. Restarting of crashed processes, dependencies, etc.. They also generally have much more simple config files instead of start up scripts. I don'
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by Nelson69 14y ago
What alternatives? How is it any less secure than another mail host?
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by Nelson69 14y ago
You're right, it's trading vs. investing. Didn't take a genius to buy Google or Apple 5 years ago, no highspeed tricks or anything and you've made a tidy chunk of profit. Whether or not they're drastically modifying the value of the mar
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by Nelson69 14y ago
It has its rough moments, no doubt about it. The way I've described it though is it really lives up to the hype.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
If you believe that the US spending isn't infinite, then spending on this helps aid his cause. Eventually, the spending shuts off and the US pulls out, right? We're talking about healthcare spending vs. military spending at some point.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
You misunderstand the MS hate to compare it to Oracle and IBM. Oracle and IBM want to make money, period. They'll run their products on a competitor's platform if they can get a bite of the pie, they don't care. Further, I'd guess 7/10 g
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Isn't it a little ironic that they don't matter to the "elites" and "geeks" and then this article was in Vanity Fair? There is another aspect of bubble bursts, there is a point in which every sort of starts to expect it. I'm of the belie
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by Nelson69 14y ago
There were some dark times during the 1990s for Apple. They fundamentally had a technology stack though. They had vast amounts of technology that made them look like an incredibly valuable target for purchase. There also had an army of lo
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I think it was sort of a perfect storm of a couple things. General dislike of mandates, especially from the DoD. It's Pascal like syntax. In the 80's there was a very real Pascal vs. C war, literally based upon "BEGIN" and "END" being too
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I think there is a bit of history missing here. When the DoD started what became the Ada mandate, they had some insane number of languages and projects scattered about. I don't remember the exact number but think something like 450-500 and
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by Nelson69 14y ago
The belief is that with China and Nokia building middle classes, there will be a gigantic market for $25 phones. Not smartphones, but just phones, like Nokia is really good at making. Thing is, it's a telco company, they are all horrible.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
I don't like this attitude. Sending that letter out is the honest thing to do. If you're gearing up to try and raise money, that is some important insight, your business is potentially in the balance right now. I've been trying to wrap my
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Seems possible that there could be 2 options, a Windows option and an unlocked option. You'd think the Windows option would be more expensive. How many vendors are really set up for that? Windows really took off because of this practice.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
There is this perpetual balancing game being played. The rules have changed for different US agencies over the years, originally it was only "100% made in the USA" or maybe some select partners (the UK and Israel perhaps) but due to c
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Well, he's dead. In some sort of spiritual way, he is liable. What's going on here isn't about the guilt or real liability, it's about trying to turn pain and suffering into money. The simple rules for that are if you're going to try
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by Nelson69 14y ago
Shouldn't MS's numbers be base lined against Apple's? Clearly the industry has had that kind of growth in it, Apple did it. While MS is printing money like no one's business, the growth seems to have stopped where as they are a very rich
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by Nelson69 14y ago
There is a flip side to that. You ever hear of an actual customer losing their money in one of these attacks on banks? It's all about the cost of doing vs. the cost of fixing it and who ends up paying.
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by Nelson69 14y ago
There is choice though, Opera and Dolphin both work on iPad and iPhone. Not as tightly integrated, I'll give that, but they are there. There doesn't seem to be the notion of changing the "Default" browser but you certainly can load them
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by Nelson69 14y ago
This very question scares the hell out of me. Language just seems so far away from what really matters. The language is a part of this, but assembling the right team with the right mentality is the key. There was the DOD Ada mandate and
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by Nelson69 15y ago
There are a lot of missing variables here, 10s of thousands of files a day sure does sound like a lot to a lot of people though, for all we know that's just a drop in the bucket. How many DMCA take down requests does a company like google
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by Nelson69 15y ago
No, I too also believe ARM has a huge hill to climb to matter any where else. Radical energy prices could affect that, but I've had SPARCs, MIPS, Itaniums, PowerPCs, and Alphas and Intel always wins, performance per dollar per ease of be
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by Nelson69 15y ago
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/09/12/140314566/the-retu...
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by Nelson69 15y ago
Well back to my premise, could you not sort of figure that out by the access patterns? Subsequently the people that give the permission have contacted you about it, what else are we needing? Perhaps you could have the notion of "private"
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by Nelson69 15y ago
Why exactly wouldn't you know? Couldn't you see who shared them, how they were shared and pretty much know? Or at least know enough to send an email or something to find out. A private backup that is only accessed by one customer could
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by Nelson69 15y ago
Maybe it's a function of where you live. I think I have witnessed it more often than that, relatively rare but with a $40k penalty just having it happen once is pretty extreme. Maybe running out of gas was the wrong analogy. I still think
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by Nelson69 15y ago
Many of the things that "brick" an ICE can be repaired at relatively low costs. And almost all of those things brick the car by using it, Teslas will brick when you don't use them, you lock it safely in the temperature controlled garage

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