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by blocke 15y ago
This makes a couple assumptions. The first is that you wouldn't be fiscally responsible for the full cost if the device was stolen from you. In this case it would be worse than owning out right. As now you're on the hook for the cost of t
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by blocke 15y ago
We at work (a 4 year college) are busy moving all student email to Google Apps. The move will also cover network storage we currently provide to students. When evaluating our options we found that students didn't seem to care about Google
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by blocke 15y ago
I'd be really skeptical about them making it that flexible. There has to be some minimum timeframe involved to make it profitable.
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by blocke 15y ago
You are comparing watching TV to a vital communication tool that is essential to the student experience. It's fair enough that you may not have an issue with it. But in my opinion the thought of a large multinational being able to go "poo
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by blocke 15y ago
We'll have to wait for the details. This makes it sound like you are renting the device which would be a very bad direction for the industry to be moving in. If it's something like how cellphones have a monthly cost for X months with an ET
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by blocke 15y ago
"Who cares if they sound unprofessional to you? Very obviously they produce." Sadly we can't verify that in this case. Because you know, we're not the CIA.
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by blocke 15y ago
"Dear Google Employees reading HN: This exploit, along with VUPEN's affiliation to goverment agencies, scared the crap out of me. Having used Chrome since it's earliest days, I'm now forced to switch my main browser to FF4; it remains so un
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by blocke 15y ago
"They can either pay a nominal fee for doing their security work for them, or they can hire some equally talented people and fund this type of research on their own internally." What makes you think they don't already? You make it sound li
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by blocke 15y ago
"The box says Motorola. That means they signed off shipping it. Even if any problems with it can be placed firmly at Google's door, it still says Motorola on the box. I think that was the previous commenter's point." Fair enough. Motorola
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by blocke 15y ago
Fascinating article and videos. Thanks for sharing. Chaotic yet organized systems like this fascinate me.
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by blocke 15y ago
"That's not Google doing 'everything it can to hamstring' — That's Motorola shipping a product based on an OS that's obviously not ready. Motorola's fault." Google controls Android 3.0 completely. They very intentionally did not make a sour
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by blocke 15y ago
Google has done everything it can to hamstring this launch. The software sucks. Buggy, Crashy, Beta quality. The emulator's performance is so bad it's unusable. The tablet section of the market is empty of real tablet apps. The Android
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by blocke 15y ago
Why oh why did they buy Media Molecule. It sucks I have to chose between playing such awesome games and keeping my privacy and financial information safe. PS3 is the last Sony product I'll ever buy.
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by blocke 15y ago
"We probably shouldn't talk about viruses or security flaws, either -- might give someone the idea that it's ok to break into a machine. We ought to respect it by not discussing such things." I interpreted the OP to be more disgusted at som
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by blocke 15y ago
I'm not anywhere near being a Java expert but I've seen similar behavior with a non-Hadoop workload. In my case I had several virtual machines hosting Java VMs with 2+GB heaps running an app that liked to fork and run external programs for
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by blocke 15y ago
"Yes, because if Richard Stallman was wget'ing his daily webpages, he would have a lot of trouble interpreting that site without going into xwindows." Your indifference to the Blind is touching. But at least you got your off-topic troll in
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by blocke 16y ago
It's good that Microsoft is viewing integration into it's OS stack as a way to squeeze out performance but if that also doesn't translate into an accelerated ship schedule then who cares. One year is an eternity.
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by blocke 16y ago
It handles QuickTime and Java the same way it handles Popups. It puts a yellow bar at the top asking for permission to "Run this time" or "Always run on this site". Hit the "Always run on this site" button on Apple.com and your internal si
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by blocke 16y ago
This. So incredibly this. I love this damn feature and now that it's here I'm going to be impatient with any browser that doesn't. I can now feel safe leaving Java turned on.
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by blocke 16y ago
Haha, yeah, thanks. I'd correct that typo but I've already been nailed for it. ;)
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by blocke 16y ago
Are you sure every codec on your system is kept up to date against the latest exploits? Every single one? Which is updated more often... Your browser or your codecs? Browsers are taking over certain functions because the OS side (both OS X
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by blocke 16y ago
As someone who uses Chrome under Mac, Windows and Linux I applaud this move. The Quicktime plugin on Windows is HORRID. It is a prime example of how to make a user experience complete shit. And to be honest I'd prefer the Mac version not
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by blocke 16y ago
One would hope this would prod DropBox into offering more fine grained pricing tiers and a sharing tier less than $700/month but I'm not going to hold my breath. The money they are pulling in now is too good to bother.
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by blocke 16y ago
Hello cloud based iTunes.
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by blocke 16y ago
"Half the price of dropbox, this is just begging for a kick ass desktop/mobile app." And I want a pony. No client sync software, no sharing. I think the Dropbox folks will sleep well at night. Smooth client software is half the value of pa
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by blocke 16y ago
Not the first "you've been pwned" message on the Internet and won't be the last. It just happens to be the first I've seen use Google Analytics to track the lulz with CSS and @font-face. With that layout I was expecting to see a customer r
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by blocke 16y ago
I read it as: "Why is this crap in my INBOX? Really?" I'm sure the least compelling reason to keep X11 on Mac is because someone wants to use a C64 emulator. :)
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by blocke 16y ago
Kudos to the Google folks for releasing this. It took 5 minutes to figure out and setup and the price is very right. Looking forward to seeing this get improved.
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by blocke 16y ago
I believe Fortune 500 companies call this "maintaining a startup environment". </snark>
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by blocke 16y ago
The response on this is pathetic. Dropbox was made aware that some people have a valid objection to metadata being plaintext three months ago and now they only take it seriously when it shows up on HN? As a paid DropBox and Android user I'

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