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by aray 13y ago
Why not intentionally put someone in the "surveillance spotlight"? Have them checkout on the wrong books from the library, join the wrong forums, frequently make phone calls to foreign malign actors overseas. Then lay all of thi
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by aray 13y ago
Just responding to the specific example, I've been very happy with square / square wallet in this regard. The system recognizes my card, and offers to send me an itemized receipt via email for any transaction. I can use this to
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by aray 13y ago
Are they doing their own payment processing, or doing it through another provider? I couldn't find out poking around their developer site.
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by aray 13y ago
Cyanogenmod should have a big asterisk beside it noting that it's system is signed with PUBLICLY AVAILABLE KEYS. Also they have just the same proprietary blobs (most of them) that other android devices have (radio firmware, camera dri
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by aray 13y ago
Pretty sure its just google sites, because otherwise you might get false positives as other sites change servers/ips/certificates/etc
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by aray 13y ago
Is this video clip to highlight how the government/defense/anti-terrorism causes are important to Palantir, especially in the wake of the Snowden leaks?
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by aray 13y ago
$2M is quite the goal. I don't expect this project to make that much funding.
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by aray 13y ago
Why the ISC license? The site just says "Kore is licensed under the ISC license allowing it to be used in both free and commercial products." but don't Apache 2, BSD, and MIT all satisfy this as well. IANAL, but here's
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by aray 13y ago
The Economist article title is "A pile of wood", and it actually discusses battery technology, so I think the title isn't bad.
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by aray 13y ago
Title doesn't (really) reflect that this was part of a test, and not that someone was found to have smuggled a 3D printed weapon in. Also, the article does not mention whether or not ammunition was smuggled as well; I'd imagine th
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by aray 13y ago
The biggest thing for me has been that you're old enough to die for your country -- required enlistment for the armed forces selective service ("the draft") -- but not old enough to buy a beer.
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by aray 13y ago
Looking at those photos it seems like they just have a staged segment where you can get a "climbing the tower" picture taken, not actually climb the tower. http://www.flickr.com/photos/parksconservancy/se
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by aray 13y ago
Why don't they support TLS 1.2?
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by aray 13y ago
First off, it was $200M cash and $400 newly issued stock. They'll have to get the shareholders to approve, but seeing as they're pretty well up in after-hours, I don't think that will be a problem. Also they had a $10M round
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by aray 13y ago
And of the computer science and other researchers that were at Bell Labs at the time, many now work at Google.
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by aray 13y ago
Aren't name changes in the US a matter of public record?
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by aray 13y ago
As a social mechanism, I think this is a great idea. This is vetted members of the scientific community (as well as just about anyone) speaking their support and hopefully lending to the thought that punishing this girl is unfair. This is
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by aray 13y ago
My vote would be thomask@sdf http://sdf.org/tour/sdfers/gen.cgi?thomask@sdf . Searched around the internet archive for versioning of SDF tutorial pages, and matched language in the voidnull page to his contributions to the various tutoria
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by aray 13y ago
Unfortunately this is where most companies kernel pushes end (just the tarball w/ nothing else).
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by aray 13y ago
I think part of it is that for NPR, "smartphone" resonates with a larger audience, while Ars Technica or Slashdot might be more specific with "Android phone" or even "Nexus One". Also, its a Linux phone as well, standing on the shoulders of
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by aray 13y ago
Regardless of where you stand on this issue, this is (to me) why being able to export your data is a first class requirement of a service. For these listed, there's takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout/ Backing up your online data f
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by aray 13y ago
Thanks for the explaination. Even if this is a protected and valid use of DMCA, it doesn't strike me as a strong move for a company confident in its product. This isn't what I would consider "technologically sophisticated cryptattack", but
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by aray 13y ago
Wow, that sounds pretty terrible. Hopefully stackoverflow isn't hit that hard with a takedown like this. Did your friend blog/write about it at all at the time?
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by aray 13y ago
That's not exactly how this works; you can just maintain simultaneous connections over both network methods. This consumes a very small amount of data on both, but will intelligently shift the bulk of data between the two as connectivity/p
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by aray 13y ago
This is an important point. Not only should your online services have an easy way for you to get data out of them, but you probably should have a reasonably sane backup schedule, just like you would for hard drives/physical media/etc. That
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by aray 13y ago
The tech description lists an "Android Runtime" ( https://sailfishos.org//about-technology.html ), so maybe it'll be able to run older/smaller android apps like the new blackberry phone. Good for users and developers, and not a bad way to
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by aray 13y ago
The tech talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0ctPi5cw ) explains how MPTCP can be implemented on top of existing TCP without interrupting the client, the server, or both.
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by aray 13y ago
This is a great short summary, followed by the Tech Talk (on youtube) which goes into a bit more depth about the how and why of the design considerations. What isn't mentioned is basically, because the change is 10KLoC to the kernel (unprec
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Ubuntu Touch builds are available for testing(theorangenotebook.com)
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by aray 13y ago
Pretty good summary by the Verge, but definitely worth reading the whole thing: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4241486/eric-schmidt-and-j...

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