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by casca 15y ago
This shows particularly poor design by Google. There are a number of ways that mobile devices can be compromised and Google cannot account for all of them, but this is the most basic level. If you're trying to protect an application from a
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by casca 15y ago
Results from research "conducted by leading ad network Chitika". I'm not convinced that this result is true in the boolean sense of the word.
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by casca 15y ago
One thing that programmers like are decently formatted reports that present the information in a meaningful and elegant manner. Sadly this is none of those things.
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by casca 15y ago
Hats off to Apple. They managed to take a technology that was entrenched as a standard and kill it simply by refusing to support it on their mobile platform. For years people have been complaining about the lack of IOS flash support, but th
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by casca 15y ago
Wouldn't it be great if there was a branch of science that looked at how different people respond to sleep over time rather than some guy making personal assertions with anecdotal evidence?
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by casca 15y ago
Google have decided that the app maker is best equipped to decide what access the app should be allowed. This makes perfect sense if you assume that your average user will not install the app if it requests too much privilege. The reality i
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by casca 15y ago
Summary: Should you spend more and have a shorter runway to potentially get to market quicker? Answer: "it depends"
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by casca 15y ago
Amazingly, esr defines "hacker" in a different way to Mark Zuckerberg. Next thing we'll be seeing is people using "hacker" to mean people who break into other people's systems without permission and what a firestorm that will cause.
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by casca 15y ago
If you use networks and want to understand why access sometimes feels slow, you need to understand about bufferbloat. The longer video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D-cJNtKwuw
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Understanding bufferbloat - why networks are slow(youtube.com)
1 points by casca 15y ago|1 comments
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by casca 15y ago
In any collaborative endeavor, there will always be times that it's necessary for the Decider to pick between competing options. Compromise is a powerful tool but beware of the ATM (1) compromise where 53 bytes were chosen because 48 is the
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Court rules that theft of virtual goods is theft(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments
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FBI to perform large-scale social network monitoring(commondreams.org)
3 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments
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Fascinating interactive analysis of all Fortune 500 companies over 55 years(fathom.info)
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Why you won't quit your job(blogs.hbr.org)
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by casca 15y ago
The issue is not about economics, it's about morality. His economic arguments are sound, this is indeed how capitalism works. Apple (and many others) have made a decision to introduce a level of indirection - the Foxconn people are legally
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by casca 15y ago
Coming next week: How we moved off Heroku onto AWS after the Heroku outage. Cloud services go down. If that's a problem for your business, plan for it.
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Google's response to Privacy Policy furor(googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com)
2 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments
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by casca 15y ago
Summary: http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2012/press_0...
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Akamai's quarterly State of the Internet report(akamai.com)
3 points by casca 15y ago|1 comments
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by casca 15y ago
The source code for pcAnywhere was leaked in 2006. In all that time, Symantec hasn't bothered to do any work on fixing the security vulnerabilities that they should have been fixing anyway. All complex products have security issues, the dif
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Anonymous threatens, Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere(computerworld.com)
2 points by casca 15y ago|1 comments
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by casca 15y ago
This is completely false. Only a decent iOS app takes a lot of work. A crappy one can be done very quickly and cheaply.
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Twitter is growing up(wired.com)
3 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments
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How to Work with Someone You Hate(blogs.hbr.org)
3 points by casca 15y ago|1 comments
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Calling for Evidence-Based Elections(prospect.org)
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by casca 15y ago
Naturally torrentfreak has a completely unbiased view on this issue...
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by casca 15y ago
Here's the announcement from Google in April last year: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/04/introducing-ci... The most important thing to take away from this is "These functions aren’t suitable for cryptography". The requirement
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by casca 15y ago
This is a great product for the UK. Sadly, unless they get acquired quickly, they'll get destroyed by fraud. The Direct Debit Guarantee means that as the account-holder, I can tell the bank to give me my money back immediately, with no reas
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by casca 15y ago
This is a spurious comparison. Restrictions on piracy are immediately visible to people. They get blocked from doing something, they pay more for music or films, they go to prison. There is a tangible effect that gets media coverage. Privac

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