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by ben1040 13y ago
Considering they never actually exchanged money a single Q (the people who pre-ordered them wound up getting them free, as did I/O 2012 attendees), it doesn't seem to be so much of a failure as it was just market research on how t
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by ben1040 13y ago
>Google shredded 85% of the $13bn paid for Motorola http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/17/arris-closes-deal-to-buy-... To be fair they got $2.2bn of it back by selling off Motorola's cable STB and modem
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Google offering prescription frames for Glass(plus.google.com)
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by ben1040 13y ago
A Google search for "windows glacier backup" turned this up in the top few results, so this may be doable: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-glacier-storage-backup.a... And for Linux it seems like this one might
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by ben1040 13y ago
I've been using Arq lately for online backups: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/index.php It can act as a frontend to Amazon Glacier, just punch in your Amazon API keys. Considering ingress into the Amazon wor
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by ben1040 13y ago
Worst case, as someone mentioned in that thread, you could get a FreedomPop wifi hotspot for $50-$60 that includes 500MB/month of free usage. I bought a Samsung Chromebook a year ago so I can't remember what the exact price differ
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by ben1040 13y ago
Not wanting to watch the video, I was initially thinking this was some kind of diabetes management service based on the name.
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by ben1040 13y ago
>My bet is some private contractors hired by the film industry. Over on the private forums for Glass owners, the person reporting this story mentioned the company name of the person from the "Movie Association." Some folks loo
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by ben1040 13y ago
Not only that, but a recording that's been truncated at 25 minutes or so because either the battery ran out or the Glass device itself got too hot and went into thermal shutdown mode.
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by ben1040 13y ago
I opened up Media Player looking for CANYON.MID and was disappointed.
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by ben1040 13y ago
For a lot of people, the telcos are your only realistic alternative, and they're just as bad. That 6Mbps DSL from AT&T also comes with a $10 charge for every 50GB in excess of 150GB.
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by ben1040 13y ago
If you're using Glass for navigation, it generally stays out of the way. If you're approaching a turn you're due to make, it will beep at you and a voice will tell you what to do. Only at that point does the screen come on
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by ben1040 13y ago
The actual disclosure linked in the article is a little bit different than what the article is implying. http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Jan/64 The file in question is a log generated by the applicati
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by ben1040 13y ago
>wrote his first computer program in 1963 aged 15, went on to study at the Ma##achusetts Institute of Technology Scunthorpe bug in the CMS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by ben1040 13y ago
I've seen plenty of reviews along the lines of "This free app does everything it says it does, and does it extremely well. But it doesn't do <unfeasible thing that would matter only in some obscure use case> so until i
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by ben1040 13y ago
>Casio Bin Laden watch In case you are like me and didn't immediately get the reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Claimed_use_in_terr...
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by ben1040 13y ago
There are a handful of airports in the US, SFO among them, that were/are part of a program that used private security contractors that operated according to TSA SOP. If I remember right this was just a pilot program that was discontin
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by ben1040 13y ago
I think it depends upon the bank, because some are. My bank called yesterday to tell me they were preemptively hot-carding my wife's debit card because she used it at Target. It's a small local bank, though, so it's not like
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by ben1040 13y ago
>Terrorists don't use VPN dongles. The story isn't about VPN dongles, it's about a backdoor in an encryption product sold by RSA.
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by ben1040 13y ago
It's a bad image, because it conveys an idea that's different from the story, but I can see why they used it -- from the general public's perspective the tokens are pretty much the most recognizable symbol of RSA.
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by ben1040 13y ago
I didn't know retargeting existed until a few years ago when a family member died. I had pulled up the website for a cremation service provider to look up their number, so I could pass it along to the person in the family who was maki
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by ben1040 13y ago
>old by now, supporting iPhone 4 and iPhone 5+ screen sizes with optimized graphics Yep. Starting from May of 2013, they will reject any app that letterboxes on an iPhone 5.
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by ben1040 13y ago
What sort of official feature is hidden and can't be accessed via any user interface provided by the vendor?
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by ben1040 13y ago
Yep. I have gotten one-star reviews on an app of mine because they think I want to invade users' privacy, when I really just want to pause media when a call comes in. READ_PHONE_STATE means I have to decide whether I want a handful of
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by ben1040 13y ago
But with no clear user-facing way to activate it, meaning you have to use some unofficial app that accesses it in an undocumented manner, it has the smell of something that you could not rely upon as a "feature." If it's ther
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by ben1040 13y ago
I wonder how many people's GPA plummeted due to the fact that this was released straight into finals season at a lot of universities.
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by ben1040 13y ago
HN commentary from ~6 months ago when this story first was discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5973282
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by ben1040 13y ago
Apple even respects T-Mobile's wishes on the matter. I put a SIM connected to one of T-Mobile's $30/5GB prepaid accounts in my iPhone 5. When I try to turn the tethering function on, I get a prompt telling me to go to a T-Mob
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by ben1040 13y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by ben1040 13y ago
>Creation Date: 1997-12-18 05:00:00Z Considering the suicide happened in March 1997, I guess the name has already expired once, and someone re-purchased it.

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