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by brownleej 16y ago
Apparently the author agrees with you, because he complains about "how sluggish some manufacturers are to release critical operating system updates for their devices." I'm curious to know how he reconciles that with the comment that you hav
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by brownleej 16y ago
True, but my point was that the actual key exchange (that is, the exchange of the symmetric keys used for the bulk of the encryption) is done using asymmetric-key encryption. Since this was in response to the question of how keys are exchan
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by brownleej 16y ago
That is the only way to battle spam with 100% effectiveness, yes. But there are other ways to do it that can still be very good, even though they're not perfect. The filtering for comment spam in Ping is subpar, and I don't think the diffic
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by brownleej 16y ago
I don't think this is the method SSL uses, because what you're describing is just a variant of symmetric-key encryption. I think SSL uses asymmetric-key encryption. The better metaphor for that is a lock that anyone can lock, but only one p
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by brownleej 16y ago
Actually, Apple allows interpreted code under certain circumstances. Link provides more details. I'm not sure how helpful it would be in this case, though. My understanding is that the main motivation for having scripted languages as a smal
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by brownleej 16y ago
Unfortunately, that still leaves us with the trouble of getting the content providers on board. I would love it if I could use, for instance, a Hulu app on my tv. I'd even put up with having to use both an iPad and an Apple TV to do it, if
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by brownleej 16y ago
If supporting "piracy-centric formats" were a turn-off to content providers, wouldn't the same thing have happened with the iPod, which support everyone's favorite piracy format, the mp3? Granted, the tv and movie studios are in a much stro
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by brownleej 16y ago
That seems unlikely if the breakdown in negotiations was as last-minute as others have speculated. Asking someone to implement an open API the night the product ships would be a bit extreme. It's possible that Apple had implemented such an
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by brownleej 16y ago
In the study, they controlled for caloric intake by giving everyone a limit. This would seem to point toward an effect other than the fact that water makes you eat less. It's possible that the group drinking water actually stayed below thei
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by brownleej 16y ago
It's also possible they were referring to Microsoft, which also is about 850 miles north of Redwood Shores. Edit: After looking at the quote in context, this is supported by a comment three paragraphs earlier, where the author says, "Oracle
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by brownleej 16y ago
This site could work well for someone who is not that technically proficient, but had a tech-savvy friend who created a group. A layperson could easily handle visiting the site to look at other people's photos, and e-mailing pictures to the
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by brownleej 16y ago
I disagree. I think that if, for example, someone offered you a free foot massage, and broke your foot, you would have every right to complain. Even if a service is free, you have a right to complain if the person does not deliver what he p