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by cxseven 10y ago
Even with a light, the self-driving vehicles could use precise knowledge of the signal's timing to coast towards the intersection at just the right speed so that they don't have to fully stop and waste momentum.
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by cxseven 10y ago
Self-driving tech would make vehicle sharing much easier, which would in turn allow people to use vehicles properly sized for their current need. In other words, people wouldn't need a big honkin' SUV or truck most of the time,
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by cxseven 10y ago
Reducing RAM usage will reduce disk activity, though, so there's that.
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by cxseven 10y ago
Forcing boot passwords to be the same as what unlocks the screen guarantees that they're so weak that they might as well not exist. Meanwhile, users who want real security are fucked. The same kind of boneheaded removal of features in
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by cxseven 10y ago
I don't see how anyone can call this a developer edition laptop if it has the same keyboard as the rest of the XPS line. XPS keyboards are mushy chiclets with big gaps between keys. Meanwhile, Dell's Latitude line has excellent ke
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by cxseven 10y ago
Latitudes also have a WAY better keyboard.
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by cxseven 10y ago
Too bad Google made the boot password the same as the screen unlock password. Since virtually everyone wants to be able to quickly unlock their phone, this makes security a Hobson's choice.
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by cxseven 10y ago
All the other comments seem to be misinterpreting this as "the passwords were changed to lowercase before hashing and storage", which is entirely different. Lowercasing after hashing increases the likelihood of a collision, but it
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by cxseven 10y ago
I don't envy him: "When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team. While the
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by cxseven 10y ago
And if that malware can't liberate USB access, and still needs to read data (rather than just writing it), it could exploit the capacity for various devices to emit detectable EM radiation. The fake keyboard/mouse, being inside th
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by cxseven 10y ago
It's pretty odd to see all of these energy-saving LED bulbs being made "smart", totally killing the energy savings. (Not to mention the Rube Goldberginess of needlessly using wifi when you could use a few million fewer transi
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by cxseven 10y ago
Strangely, half the time I try to use Google Now on my phone, it doesn't seem to understand basic queries that worked two years ago. And in the meanwhile, features and APIs that used to allow more reliable and explicit control (e.g. li
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by cxseven 10y ago
It's strange that Yahoo once had a very popular suite of multiplayer online Java games (mostly board games) and failed to use them to gain an early advantage on mobile apps.
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by cxseven 10y ago
What did you mean about their strictness? Does Ubuntu not push out fixes for critical problems like this except at certain times?
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by cxseven 10y ago
A paranoid civilian could use a dedicated random number generator like this device to implement one time pad encryption, which doesn't depend on the unproven security of one way functions or a complicated codebase inside the linux kern
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by cxseven 11y ago
Here's a big example: a lot of what they release these days is for mobile first, and if the desktop-geared version is ever released, its design is just the mobile app in a bigger window. Example: Google Photos. (Related: WTF did they h
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by cxseven 11y ago
Of all the Google things that doesn't need to imitate a spare Apple design, it's APPENGINE
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by cxseven 11y ago
Unfortunately, a lot of blogs have shut down from a loss of traffic. Also, Google Reader's "sort by magic" worked incredibly well at giving me something interesting to look at, and not just the most popular things. Can Feedly
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by cxseven 11y ago
Except that it was likely investors pushing Google to come up with a response to Facebook that caused them to create Google Plus, even though in the process they had to kill several more vibrant social networks that had organically grown a
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by cxseven 11y ago
Gmail, and webapps in general, should support efficient client-side encryption and signing.
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by cxseven 11y ago
Google probably has a better key to profit via Maps than it could ever hope to get by building a completely new social network. So dumb that it was so desperate to imitate Facebook and Apple that it let its best products languish or die, ev
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by cxseven 11y ago
You can get a pretty good standing desk in the form of $25 plastic shelves from Walmart. It's what I use every day, and works brilliantly. If all you're using is a laptop, there may be no need to adjust the height of the desk - ju
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by cxseven 11y ago
A lot of people here are focusing on network effects or feature comparisons between G+ and FB. However, I think the biggest reason for G+'s failure was that the spirit that permeated it was corporatism and inauthenticity. It's fru
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by cxseven 11y ago
4. Disarm nearly all civilians AND police 5. Make secure live streaming from public locations cheap, easy, and hard to block
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by cxseven 11y ago
Yes, except the idea is to have one within walking distance for most people, and it could possibly be automated and unstaffed.
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by cxseven 11y ago
Every neighborhood should have a delivery nexus where packages are to be picked up / dropped off! That'd make more sense than everyone needing a dedicated Amazon landing pad in their backyard. You could also have fresh baked goods
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by cxseven 11y ago
I get that for any URL it doesn't serve
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by cxseven 11y ago
I wonder how patenting a specific implementation of an already-known thing is allowed. Why is this considered an original invention? Among other things, it violates the intent of patents "To promote the Progress of Science and useful A
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by cxseven 11y ago
There's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convection_microwave , but I'd rather stick to flavoring my food in some way other than generating a bunch of carcinogens like acrylamide.
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by cxseven 11y ago
It's not just apps. The server side seems to have been rebuilt independent of Google+. Like OP, I'm wondering why Google didn't just find a way to give people outside of G+ direct access to the features inside it, which were

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