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by arkem 13y ago
Disclaimer: I wasn't involved in this particular bug at all so I'm speaking generally. We definitely don't play the blame game but we do keep track of bug statistics so we know where best to spend our time and effort. It can
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by arkem 13y ago
Also compartmentalization helps (Keeping products in different javascript origins, e.g. mail.google.com, accounts.google.com, etc)
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by arkem 13y ago
You can customize it but the UI isn't particularly obvious. You can drag emails between tabs to teach gmail which is the most appropriate tab, you can also designate inboxes as a filter action. Personally I think it's a great feat
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by arkem 13y ago
Google's advertising revenues are not down 5%. Google's total revenue is up 19% year over year and 1% quarter over quarter. All categories of revenue are up except for network revenue (which is up 7% Y/Y but down 2% Q/Q)
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by arkem 13y ago
This is a discussion on an article that compares an NSA data center to the Stasi archives. I chose to discuss how I find that comparison fallacious. I am arguing that the NSA is not like the Stasi. They had different goals, different author
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by arkem 13y ago
I am comparing the official missions of the Stasi and NSA which are significantly different. If your argument is that the NSA is not acting in accordance to its mission, or that abuses are taking place, or that the NSA is acting like the St
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by arkem 13y ago
The National Security Agency is a cryptolgic agency tasked with gathering foreign signals intelligence and providing information assurance services to the United States Government (especially the military). The Ministry for State Security
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by arkem 13y ago
There are a few differing definitions of data and information but in general it goes like this: Data is a collection of facts. Information is data after context or analysis is applied. A database of phone records is data, a report on the pe
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by arkem 13y ago
The article compares the hypothetical amount of data to be stored in a NSA data center to the records storage area of the Stasi. That is, a guess at the amount of data one facility of a modern signals intelligence agency (belonging to a sup
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by arkem 13y ago
This is as useful as comparing the number of bullets the US Army has today with the number of rifles the 1985 Nationale Volksarmee (army of East Germany) had.
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by arkem 13y ago
While it's an interesting project (I had fun playing with it) you really shouldn't be relying on remote sources of entropy for security purposes. Generally the entropy needs to be secret to be effective so sourcing remote entropy
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by arkem 13y ago
The amount of effort to decouple Reader from Google's internal infrastructure is not trivial. I'm an engineer and not a business person but I imagine that finding someone to buy Reader and then executing the deal would also be non
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by arkem 13y ago
Google App Script might be what you're looking for it's an app development platform that can use internal resources (like GMail) https://developers.google.com/apps-script/
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by arkem 13y ago
Discussion of leaks takes up the first 15 minutes of the video.
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Director NSA talks about recent disclosures [video](slideshare.net)
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by arkem 13y ago
The approach tptacek and Matasano take is explained (for a potential candidate's benefit) on the Matasano site: http://www.matasano.com/careers/
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by arkem 13y ago
This is very specifically about the San Francisco city area. The peninsular and south bay are much more suburban and family friendly. Palo Alto isn't a lot cheaper that San Francisco it has a reputation as being much more family friend
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by arkem 13y ago
For business cards, stickers, greeting cards, labels, etc Moo has an API http://us.moo.com/api/ I haven't used the API but I've bought business cards from Moo and they were great.
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by arkem 13y ago
Sneakers the movie has my favorite NSA/FBI/CIA jurisdictions quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r6y4vjADwY (0:46)
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by arkem 13y ago
I think you mean EB status not E status, which refers to the priority level of the green card application. I was really confused because an E3 is a visa very similar to a H1-B for Australians and an E1 is a visa for traders from countries t
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Read your own documents on Google Play Books(support.google.com)
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by arkem 13y ago
The quality of the applicant's educational institution is taken into account by USCIS/DoL. The applicant provides a statement from a US education assessor as to the quality and scope of their non-US degrees. For example someone with a 4 yea
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by arkem 14y ago
Statutory minimum wages not rising are not an example of worker exploitation. Even if there were no minimum wage laws worker exploitation does not necessarily follow. Additionally, in your example while the federal minimum wage might not ha
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by arkem 14y ago
I don't think you can call it "planned digital obsolescence" since "planned obsolescence" implies that the provider had a specific life span in mind when launching the product. Google Reader is being shutdown but I doubt that when they laun
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by arkem 14y ago
Some of Google's API do have this, it'll be in their terms of service under "Deprecation Policy". The deprecation policy is a promise that if the service is going to be discontinued you'll have at least X notice. The examples I can think of
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by arkem 14y ago
Does anyone else think that his publishing contract is odd? He mentions it being a 50% revenue split after publishing expenses, I was under the impression that any contract that put any of the costs onto the author were considered bad to th
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by arkem 14y ago
[Disclaimer: I work at Google in an unrelated area] Google platforms like Cloud SQL generally have a deprecation policy that will give you an idea of the minimum length of time that they'll be maintained. For Cloud SQL it's 1 year (it's in
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by arkem 14y ago
Your employment agreement may include a broad intellectual property assignment clause. If it does and you don't live in a jurisdiction that has legislatively restricted IP assignment clauses the programming language and problem domain of yo
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by arkem 14y ago
64 bit Chrome on Windows is a possibility, Justin Schuh is working on it https://plus.google.com/u/0/116560594978217291380/posts/d93X...
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by arkem 14y ago
I may be wrong but I think that the Starcraft unit is always called 'Marine' and not 'Space Marine'

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