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by cooldeal 14y ago
>If the OS refuses to boot when you disable Secure Boot, then you can't dual boot the pre-installed OS, and it takes a lot of effort to get things working again. What? Which OS refuses to boot when you disable Secure Boot? >This is
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by cooldeal 14y ago
This is because the primary goal of most malware writers is not to make the machine unusable, but to hide the malware and use the machine to spam, DDoS, collect site and bank credentials etc. Also, you can go and turn secure boot off to boo
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by cooldeal 14y ago
EU had already previously responded to this and I believe this complaint by a "8000-strong" body is not going to change it. >The Commission is aware of the Microsoft Windows 8 security requirements. According to these requirements, in o
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T-Mobile Makes Bold “Un-carrier” Moves(newsroom.t-mobile.com)
2 points by cooldeal 14y ago|0 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Google probably thinks they are being benevolent by taking an anti-weapons stance I think consistency is the bigger issue here. If they take that stance, the should go after Amazon and others and not just the site linked here.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Google has such a large percentage of search traffic that your competitors who are not flagged will have a huge advantage over you.
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Major Windows 8 built-in app updates due Tuesday, Google Calendar sync disabled(theverge.com)
1 points by cooldeal 14y ago|1 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Aren't they making releases faster with IE11 compared to earlier cycles of taking years between versions? IE10 is from 5 or 6 months ago.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It's becoming increasing clear that on HN you're a second class citizen if you don't use Chrome on a Mac and develop on RoR.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
> A standard should NEVER ever be controlled/represented/defended by a group of companies with monetary interests. You mean like VP8/WebM by Google?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
They should've stated that the data comes from StatCounter upfront. I thought they had their own metrics. Pasting from an earlier comment: One big difference is that NetMarketShare tries to measure unique clients, while StatCounter measures
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by cooldeal 14y ago
For the life of me I cannot fathom why PlayHaven went to the extreme step of firing the dev in question. What he did was certainly wrong, but certainly not a firable offense. A stern warning from HR would've sufficed. Also, I don't understa
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Couldn't SendGrid have offered the guy a job and apologized profusely. I can't imagine the office environment with these two working together as anything but cordial.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Nooooo.... this is NOT a good thing. The good thing would have been PlayHaven reinstating the fired person, and everyone apologizing to each other for bad behavior. Firing is NOT the answer for such minor transgressions. Yes, there were mis
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I believe that the PyCon staff noticed the tweet and took action, I don't think she complained to them.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
How do you "root" people out who are using random Twitter accounts to post garbage?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>If you are not willing to fix/adapt/improve the framework you are using, you better not be using ASP.NET also (try a google search on asp.net issues), of any framework at all. In fact, developing larger more complex software might not
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Is this hosted on Google Drive? Anyone know if they did a post-mortem post explaining the Google Drive outage from a couple of days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5394475 The post quickly disappeared off the HN front page despi
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by cooldeal 14y ago
How does Gorilla Glass even come close to enhancing the state of computing technology like Dennis Ritchie did?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
By commoditizing PCs by licensing to Compaq and setting off a pricing war among OEMs leading to lower prices and massive uptake of PCs. By releasing a free browser when Netscape used to charge people for access to the World Wide Web (howeve
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Ubuntu to halve support length for non-LTS releases(h-online.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>It's their bread and butter. Don't they get more bread and butter because they charge advertizers for the fraudulent clicks too and profit from them? It's not like the advertisers can ignore Ad Sense and go to a competitor easily witho
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Interesting this post is getting flagged off the front page. http://hnrankings.info/5394475/ If this was news about Skydrive being down, this post would be #1 for days. The flag abuse by HN moderators with good karma continues...
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by cooldeal 14y ago
This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inaccessible.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I don't think they do. http://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/ http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd https://www.system76.com/laptops/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ And a bunch more.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>But when I performed an Internet search, the Assistant sent my search terms to the Microsoft site, and also dropped a session cookie on my machine. OMG, an internet search sends keywords over the internet to an internet server! Stop
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Oh, please. A Windows RT system is not a Windows 8 certified machine, not even close, the capabilities are vastly different. Might as well point out that the "ARM-Based iOS systems" come with a locked bootloader.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
All Windows 8 certified machines need the Secure Boot to be able to be turned off. I seriously doubt turning off an option in the BIOS/UEFI setup screen is going to hobble them. http://www.top-password.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
That makes even less sense. Why blame a platform that is barely selling? You might as well blame the iPad for not making it easy to install Linux. Or just grab a Nexus Tab 10 or Asus Transformer or even a ARM Chromebook, slap their version
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>but it's because we can't buy computers (anymore) without operating system. So were they buying computers from OEMs like Lenovo and Dell, installing Linux and then selling them? Why not assemble desktops from components? I believe the

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