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10y ago
My two favorites vulgarization approach about nuclear radiation: - The XKCD radiation dose chart http://xkcd.com/radiation/ - The pretty bad-ass documentary "Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail" where th
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10y ago
"Backup your data" is actually a requirement when you schedule appointment to the Genius Bar. It's written on the web page after confirming and if I recall correctly it's also written in the confirmation mail. The OP sai
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10y ago
I guess as always it will mostly depend on your use case. However this recent announcement from IBM might emphasis the need to reconsider theses year old arguments to take accounts of new facts : https://www.jamf.com/blog&#x
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10y ago
I don't now where you lived the past 20 years but theses are maybe the most classical arguments against mac in business. Mac have never been "for Pro" if you go that way. So I guess it confirm that it's not the company t
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10y ago
Sorry I was lost in translation. I'm French and I shamefully forgot the most importa part of the expression. I meant direct universal suffrage.
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10y ago
Maybe time for the US to finally consider Universal suffrage... The scenario look like G.W.Bush first election over again...
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10y ago
Please let it be like "This is about an exploit that rigged the us election, an anonymous group have successfully demonstrated at real scale that electronic voting will never be sufficiently auditable to be trusted. Now let's brea
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10y ago
Well English is not my mother thong so maybe I was harsher than I though. However the current top comment is basically saying that the OP is a poser and that it might have been a viral campaign for codegophers this don't qualify as not
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10y ago
I really dunno people also come here to read tech advices. And even if I appreciate the effort, it would really be dangerous to use this service for real confidential uses. I mean unless someone personally know the author how can you tell t
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10y ago
"We take privacy seriously" With an unencrypted service, without any way for others to audit your code, without even basic contact info and with a misleading company name... Who are you kidding? Is that some sort of social science
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10y ago
Beside if the new elements are accurate it seems that the alleged "side-account" was actually the first he registered before creating the other one specifically for dash... I agree that it's on everybody best interest that Ap
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10y ago
So maybe we can agree it relate to faith, not facts. I choose to focus more on the actual phone recording than to the dev post because at least you can hear both positions. Indeed something had gone wrong in the process they agreed on phone
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10y ago
Well it's more like Apple asked him to post an explanation on his blog. As far as I know this asked blog post was never published and then Apple realease it's response. So again this might well remain unsolved because probably no
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10y ago
Wether apple is inhuman or the developer is a prick is quite an open question. Both were faulty and they obviously didn't come to an agreement. Apple phone offer would have gave both of them a clean exit and it might always remain shad
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10y ago
The fact that they are willing to reinstate him show only on thing, a good customer policy. And this is quite a similar to what you might experience if you ever go to a Genius Bar when you are somewhere in a range of grey as I once was.
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10y ago
I'll just assume you don't live on planet earth in 2016 where iPhone is the top sold model of high-end smartphone basically since it's introduction (because yes the article refer specifically to phones over $400)
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10y ago
And it reminded me to donate to Qgis too! http://qgis.org/en/site/index.html Kudo to all FOSS GIS developers!
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10y ago
Most of the drawbacks of iCloud have been totally overcome years ago, and 5Gb is totally sufficient since only personal data is backed up, media file (music,video,Apps) are not. Go to the next Apple Store and enjoy a free unlimited in time
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10y ago
Meanwhile with iMessages encryption is standard and "quick reply" + "App interactions" are available... So basically at Google encryption is a separate feature and come at the cost of the others cool features. This combi
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10y ago
TL;DR; "We had to react very quickly to Apple updated iMessage so instead of updating one of our existing clients we rolled out this new App which is a carbon copy of iMessage*" PS: Oh and yeah we have made this useless encryption
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Though critical reading of raw data can reveal fake entry, witch is equally interesting. I agree that replication will always be better and should ideally be mandatory. But meta-review is still way better than nothing. And sometimes you jus
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10y ago
Well to be fair the title might be: iTunes will never work well ON WINDOWS. I was always wondering why I can read so much rants about a good product I've been using on a daily basis for years... Well it seams that the Windows version s
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10y ago
Wait a second, if I got it right you use an external tool to generate Xcode project? So basically the external tool don't properly set the 'development team' variable in the generated Xcode project. May I ask how this is supp
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10y ago
This could have been great but to be useful to me it would need to have a way to use parameters in DB functions. I know this is specific so here I go to find the source code and see if it's possible to add this... After 5 pages... No c
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10y ago
Thank you since 5 years now I kept myself out of Google SSO as much is I could and carefully use a bug tracker outside my favorites sites because I don't trust Google for privacy matter. Sometimes I wonder if I'm too much paranoid
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10y ago
I totally get that Apple should pay more tax. However I also understand that it must not be pleasant to be caught between two hammers. UE want them to pay more taxes to them because of this wrongful loophole... USA want them to pay more tax
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10y ago
> which, while "scary looking", is at least immediately readable by anyone who knows even the basics about REs Nope, I'm mostly a DB guy very fluent in SQl and I use regex like two dozen time a year.But every time I nead t
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10y ago
This project "visual changelog" usually blow my mind at every release. https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog216/ind... And this is exactly the opposite of a git commit only chan
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10y ago
Please don't start on AIDS, you can find studies that say one thing and the other about which population is more exposed to risk. It's really far from trivial and they already have been several comparatives critical studies about
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10y ago
A friend of mine work in medical drugs research. Secrecy is definitely the norm in this field and they even prefer to keep formula in a safe than publish a patent, because they think patent system is not protective enough to get they R&
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