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by admax88q 10y ago
Why does this vaporware still get news? This game is never going to be completed. They've already made their money and have taken on a job that's way more more ambitious then the developers or any of their backers realize.
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by admax88q 10y ago
Yes factory reset is pretty much the same thing I was proposing. The only missing piece is a easy way to restore the phone once I reach my destination.
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by admax88q 10y ago
"untravel mode" wouldn't be an option on the phone. Once you get home and want to untravel, you plug your phone in to your desktop and sign in to a cloud service that "untravels" your phone, restoring to the state i
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by admax88q 10y ago
If you're shipping malicious JS on your origin, you're fucked anyways.
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by admax88q 10y ago
Phone's should have a travel mode, where it backs up all your data to the cloud and wipes the phone clean.
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by admax88q 10y ago
You're right! The situation isn't perfect so we should just give up!
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by admax88q 10y ago
Adding E2E encryption and advertising based upon that if you're not taking it seriously is a disservice to the users.
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by admax88q 10y ago
What's the point of E2E encryption if MITM attacks are not in the threat model?
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by admax88q 10y ago
Protect your privacy by running this proprietary application!
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by admax88q 10y ago
Plenty of stories around it, but none of them seem to be gaining widespread adoption. The Brave browser is trying to integrate micropayments into the browser. It blocks ads by default and pays websites directly out of a monthly amount that
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by admax88q 10y ago
> sky: she > ski: shee > skill: sheeel For a moment there I hoped you were just going to keep adding e's to as you went down the list.
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by admax88q 10y ago
OpenDNS supports DNSCrypt. 208.67.222.222 Although they've been bought by Cisco recently. You could also just run your own local caching resolver that hits the real root nameservers for lookup.
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by admax88q 10y ago
I wouldn't trust whatsapp even before this revelation. I would never trust a closed source messaging app if I was an activist, regardless of what encryption they claim to implement.
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by admax88q 10y ago
Or maybe it's because the specific assembly you learn is far less important than the act of learning any assembly. Learning your first programming language is a challenge, but once you have done that, subsequent languages are easier be
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by admax88q 10y ago
Classic Hacker News, it's always the PM or the management at fault, engineers are faultless.
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by admax88q 10y ago
In University for me at least, a lot of those collaborative projects allowed the students to distribute their grade amongst participants. In my experience at least the weaker contributors to the groups success, even those that just coasted,
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by admax88q 10y ago
> Education isnt the goal, menial job placement is. I disagree. Plenty of times through school I heard complaints of "When will I need this in the real world!" and numerous comments online complaining about education (particul
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by admax88q 10y ago
> I assume, he's just abusing "editorial" powers in pretty much the worst way possible The platform shouldn't provide editorial powers that allow you to edit others comments. Removal of comments and banning of users
949.
by admax88q 10y ago
> *his words, not mine Who's words?
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by admax88q 10y ago
I'm not even sure who he's quoting as calling "dumb fucks"
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by admax88q 10y ago
That was my point with comments like "imo he's gained credibility" There are other comments celebrating what he did because it was again /r/the_donald "trolls." Lot's of people don't care what ac
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by admax88q 10y ago
Banning them would have been better. Silently editing their comments shows that reddit has very poor data management practices. It shouldn't be possible for the CEO to edit content like that.
953.
by admax88q 10y ago
"I don't care what he did so long as it was against those I disagree with."
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by admax88q 10y ago
Seems harder to exploit manual counting of paper ballots than the firmware of some closed source system that's poorly understood by those deploying it. The larger the election, the more manual counters you will have. Which means the m
955.
by admax88q 10y ago
Yes they vet the information, but if the information is true, then they publish it, regardless of who the source was. Vetting the information does not necessarily mean vetting the source.
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by admax88q 10y ago
> (in some cases deadly) Prove it. I have never seen any credible claim that wikileaks has had deadly mistakes.
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by admax88q 10y ago
What would you propose they do? Not leak documents based upon who the source is? If the documents are authentic, why does it matter who the source was? If A leaks documents on B revealing corruption about B, just because A's motives m
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by admax88q 10y ago
No, entrapment is when law enforcement induces you to commit an offense you wouldn't otherwise do. If you use a cp site of your own free will without encouragement from law enforcement, then it's not entrapment just because the si
959.
by admax88q 10y ago
Sure but are they buying the Yoga 900/900S? There are other laptop lines targeted for developers.
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by admax88q 10y ago
> Does this mean that if you do not accept what they ask for their work, you still will have the right to use their work? No

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