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541.
by devx 13y ago
You can't have total power without total surveillance. Communist dictators and others knew that very well. To remain in power you need to crush any and all dissent, as early as possible. For that you need near perfect surveillance&#x2F
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by devx 13y ago
This is from the Guardian: Among the specific accomplishments for 2013, the NSA expects the program to obtain access to "data flowing through a hub for a major communications provider" and to a "major internet peer-to-peer v
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by devx 13y ago
I don't think they even got very important ones. Nokia kept the most important ones for licensing.
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by devx 13y ago
So, should we re-evaluate if Intel/AMD's chips (and possibly even the new ARM ones) contain hardware backdoors for the NSA?
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by devx 13y ago
That concept looks good in photos and videos, but who's ever going to turn their laptop upside down whenever they feel like using the "tablet mode" - so a few times every day? I might do it in the first few days, but I think
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by devx 13y ago
Why? I'd rather see them push Android as a increasingly more mature OS alternative to Windows . And you'll be able to run Chrome on Android anyway. What exactly are you expecting to get from the mythical "ChromeOS and Androi
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Members Of Church Commission Tell Court NSA Has Gone Too Far(techdirt.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Until they get in power that is...
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if that Internet filter they've just added to their platform policy will be used to censor websites like that. My guess? Definitely . It may be why they even decided at the last minute to introduce that, to stop this sort of
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by devx 13y ago
I see that nothing has changed, even with the new CEO that promised us Paypal would have more reasonable policies in the future.
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by devx 13y ago
I read an article recently about how Leaf had a range between 22 and 45 miles. I mean, I know it's cheaper, but yikes. This is why a company like Tesla was so important for the electric car adoption. The others would've moved way
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by devx 13y ago
Congress should be following Bruce Schneier's advice, and appoint a special independent prosecutor with full powers to see everything that's happening within NSA, and to be able to take confessions from NSA employees, without them
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by devx 13y ago
"These schemes must be tough in practice, not just on paper, and include strong, state-based enforcement efforts, backed by adequate funding." Ah. There it is. That's what they're really worried about, if the "war o
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by devx 13y ago
Android has just passed 1 million apps (so clearly more apps are added to Android, faster), and has more app downloads than Apple now. It's also just passed 1 billion devices. Whatever the story of Android has been in the passed, thing
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by devx 13y ago
If his math is correct then 8k, which is 4x the pixels of 4k, would need 4x that bandwidth, and even Intel's Thunderbolt 2.0 is "barely" at 20 gibabit/s, which means we can't go much further yet. It will be a while
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Windows Is Dead, Google Killed It(businessinsider.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
This is the sort of "nightmare scenario" I'm afraid of, and why I'm still not using 2FA. I'd rather risk having only a weaker password, than risking losing my accounts for good. You can't get back into your acc
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by devx 13y ago
I don't think cloning HN is bad. But has PG open sourced his code, or will the voting algorithm not going to be as good?
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by devx 13y ago
I don't think the agency model was bad per se, it's just that all of the publishers decided to have the same prices with the agency model, which made it very unlikely that there wasn't price fixing, since with an agency mod
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by devx 13y ago
Then there would be a war on piracy. How would you like it if they kept 20 years of your downloading habits? Do you think that in 20 years time they could find something to incriminate you? And that's why it's so wrong to keep d
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by devx 13y ago
What the hell - so there won't be Android 5 this year, when there are already 2 years since the Android 4.0 release? If they miss the spring deadline, too, and keep 5.0 for next fall, Android's (really major) versions would be upg
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Feds Waged Hundreds Of Cyberattacks On Other Countries(techdirt.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
563.
by devx 13y ago
I love this guy. He almost always "gets it". If Microsoft was forced into buying Nokia's phone business, then if I were a WP phone customer, I'd be even more worried for this division's future, because it means they
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by devx 13y ago
Seems like Elop stayed true to his nickname - of a trojan horse. He never really worked for Nokia. He's been working for Microsoft the whole time, just to sell it for this low price. How the hell are the shareholders okay with this? I&
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by devx 13y ago
The whole point of it is to help 3rd party developers with the API's, so they homogenize the API's through Play Services. However, you're right about the user part. It will help the users slightly, better apps with latest A
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by devx 13y ago
Apparently there's no money in being a WP8 vendor either. Why do you think Nokia is selling out? And no other WP vendor makes any real money since all of their market share combined is less than 1 percent of the smartphone market.
567.
by devx 13y ago
I think that's for "normal" quantum computers. D-wave is a different kind of quantum computer.
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by devx 13y ago
Sounds like we need a couple more Snowden's to come out from NSA.
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by devx 13y ago
I think it would be good for it to die because it would mean the current way of making chips has to die. Maybe after that we'll be forced to think of new ways to make processors and computers. Perhaps we'll make them more like the
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by devx 13y ago
This is starting to become a trend, which was to be expected. When you spy on your allies, and they find out, they won't trust you or your companies anymore, and they will isolate themselves from you as much as possible. Maybe this wil

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