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by ParkerK 13y ago
They're starting to make moves to. They recently overhauled the app to make it a lot less fun and social, and it has more ads now and the focus seems to have changed form fun to a yelp alternative, as others have pointed out.
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AT&T Whines About Sharing Utility Poles With Google Fiber(dslreports.com)
3 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments
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The Psion MC 400 Mobile Computer (1989)(retrocosm.net)
2 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>worth the damage to our antibiotic stock It isn't worth damaging our future by needlessly speeding up drug resistance either
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>By doing this you make yourself a target. If any one of those are compromised, attackers will attempt to try that against a lot of popular sites (including banks). And if you use the same email for everything (as is the alternative), at
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>And that Google isn't limited by the Constitution I'm pretty sure it is...
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Building the kernel, xnu for OS X 10.9 Mavericks(shantonu.blogspot.com)
1 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments
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by ParkerK 13y ago
Most responsible disclosure is normally posted about sooner though. I think what the OP meant is that waiting 2 months later, and then giving the post this title, makes it seem as though it was a more recent bug
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>can't do this on iOS. It can, and has been done, it's just Apple won't allow apps that do this in the store, hence the need for jailbreaking
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by ParkerK 13y ago
1) What? 2) Read the article, he never "snitched", DPR was just afraid he would
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security. Agreed. Complaining about this hack would be like people saying lock
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by ParkerK 13y ago
It's not the DOCSIS standard, it's the providers that's holding it back.
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SR9009 - A new drug that mimics the beneficial effects of exercise(scripps.edu)
2 points by ParkerK 13y ago|1 comments
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by ParkerK 13y ago
It would be nice if Apple would implement/actually enforce this as well. I have ads pushing out notifications on "deals" or whatnot daily. Good on Google for making this happen
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>Finally, a DEXA scan is really silly in this scenario. It's for old ladies and others at risk for osteoporosis. Actually, DEXA can be used for very accurate calculations of body fat %, so it could be used to show how much lean body
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>But what is the point? Having had an opinion before the trial started doesn't preclude someone from talking about it today. I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss it, I'm saying the discussion should be focused on t
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by ParkerK 13y ago
I'm saying the majority of people arguing will have unlikely watched the entire trial from start to finish, and even those that did will likely have already had an opinion from before the trial started
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by ParkerK 13y ago
Before people get into heated arguments, remember that this was a high case trial with tons of media input in an attempt to get ratings and neither side was reported without bias. The jurors who reached their decision know a lot more about
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Icelandic parliament has a bill that would give Snoweden Icelandic citizenship(translate.google.com)
2 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments
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by ParkerK 13y ago
It means Apple doesn't have access to the encryption keys, as it's done peer to peer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>Like newly authorized devices being able to somehow retrieve the chat history. That's like saying it's suspicious that I can make an encrypted backup of my laptop, and then "magically" get that data unencypted on my
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by ParkerK 13y ago
>why when I do an iCloud restore on a brand new device, all existing messages are recovered Because they're stored locally on your phone, and then encrypted as a backup file. The statement is saying that the messages aren't sen
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A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program(nytimes.com)
308 points by ParkerK 13y ago|43 comments
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by ParkerK 13y ago
PRISM costs $20 billion USD per year, if I recall correctly. So that $3 billion, which is already minuscule in comparison to the federal budget, could actually be $17 billion saved.
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by ParkerK 13y ago
Google, Face, Apple, etc have to comply with law enforcement, so the point of the lawsuit is to end the program that's forcing them to cooperate under such vague circumstances.
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by ParkerK 13y ago
No, ideally when they lose, the judicial branch will call for the closure of the PRISM program and citizen's rights will be restored.
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by ParkerK 13y ago
While there's a high possibility of that, hopefully if enough people care about the issue, the public backlash could (in a perfect world) lead to the case being looked at
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Obama, NSA, Verizon and DoJ sued for $3B over PRISM(scribd.com)
406 points by ParkerK 13y ago|93 comments
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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) coming to iOS and Android(theverge.com)
2 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments
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The Court order ordering Verizon to give the NSA its telephone data(scribd.com)
1 points by ParkerK 13y ago|0 comments

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