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by ewzimm 11y ago
More accurately, it's set as default and requires a user changing their region to turn it off. Still not great for freedom of information, but not quite as bad as mandatory.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
So wrong it's almost a parody of tech journalism. In a couple months, Apple sold only 2,000 of a luxury item that required making a special appointment to buy, grabbing an extra $20mm. It recently rose to take 92% of the profits of the
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I have a 10-year-old Athlon 64 x2 desktop which doesn't seem obsolete at all. It's about the same speed as the docked Atom tablet from last year I am using right now as my regular workstation. It even runs most modern games pretty
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The kind of paternalistic thinking in this article is wrong on so many levels. Basically it comes down to complaining about a "lack of leadership," meaning that Twitter should be doing more to tell people how to use it instead of
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Judging the effectiveness of organizations and actions is definitely useful, but this summary seems to ignore the complexities inherent in ethical decisions. It seems to me that the most important problems we have to address are various for
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You should try it in Hyper-V. GPU-accelerated desktops are still no good, but everything else performs really well.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Let's say they're not in the same location. They can send encrypted email. It doesn't even have to be email. They can paint an encrypted message on the side of a fleet of commercial airliners and read it out loud during a foo
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Either they want to catch terrorists and haven't thought through the consequences of what they're saying, that people should be denied the right to communicate privately, or they're just using fighting terrorism as a convenie
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by ewzimm 11y ago
But in that case, you could leave your private residence and whisper to your friend in a microphone-free park. If our goal is to ensure that terrorists have absolutely no means of private communication and we don't know who might be a
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Herbert said his whole point in writing Dune was to criticize the tendency of people to rely on Messianic figures for salvation, to show how our reliance on charismatic heroes and saviors can destroy us. Ironically, there's so much pro
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The arguments here are pretty well-considered, but I also disagree with almost all of them. The problem is that it is using measurements invented by those who rose to power through the industrial revolution to prove how it was more impactfu
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Or, like a lot of books, most of the stories were about rich men who had things others didn't. That part isn't glossed over at all. But that's just about the Bible stories. If you're talking about my comments on early hu
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by ewzimm 11y ago
That's definitely the tone, but it's pretty funny since it's talking about the erosion of traditional marriage. Polygamy is almost certainly the most traditional marriage there is. Groups of people dedicated to each other who
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The hope expressed here, which I share, is that settling marriage equality can help move us to a world in which politics isn't dominated by a discussion of what or who people consent to do with their own bodies. You don't need to
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by ewzimm 11y ago
There's definitely progress being made, but I'm sure we could do better. Soviet-style central control of wealth distribution is at an all-time high with banks and corporations colluding in place of a political dictatorship. I&#x27
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Taking the wealth produced by the hardest working people in poor countries and redistributing it to lazy rich people sounds exactly like the current state of global capitalism.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You only have to have headphones plugged in. At least the Windows Phone radio app has software switch for where you want the audio output to go. You can plug in headphones and play on the speaker. If other radio apps don't have this, i
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by ewzimm 12y ago
One mistake here is that moving Bitcoin is not essentially free. It is also getting more expensive. The essentially free part is moving value within a private network, but that could be done with any currency.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
There are a lot of good streaming music services, but Spotify is the only one that seems to be committed to working everywhere on every device. That means a lot more to most people than having a specific artist or audio quality.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Stallman liked GNU because it's unpronounceable. When Europeans first discovered the animal, Africans referred to the first sound in its name as a click, which the Europeans didn't use in their languages, so the "g" in t
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by ewzimm 12y ago
They support Android too. It works through the Amazon store app.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You bring up a good point. If people want to figure out how to do Material Design in a non-Google context, all they need to do is get a Windows Phone and see how it's implemented in apps there, both dark and light themes. Google's
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Also, Eich said he chose to resign because of the political pressure from the people, not pressure from Mozilla. You may believe this was a lie, but Mozilla never publicly did anything but support him as CEO. Also, there was no large reacti
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You could look at Passmark: http://m.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html Low-end Xeons are on top, but the first you might want are the FX-6300 and 8320, followed by the Pentium Gs. Since you are not comparing equal c
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by ewzimm 12y ago
But you're commenting on a press release about how this architecture's main benefit is gains in performance-per-watt. AMD has a reputation for using more power right now because they slowed down to focus on unifying architectures.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Intel makes 160 wH chips too, but you would probably compare something like a 95 wH Core i7 with a 125 wH FX. That's about $42/year in the USA, but that's assuming running at full power 24/7. Real cost would be a lot low
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by ewzimm 12y ago
They may not manufacture the highest-performing cores, but they have consistently provided the best performance for the price. Who cares who's fastest? The consoles went with them because they were fast enough and better priced.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Good point. The important part is that it illustrates just how vulnerable Komodia products are. That password will likely get people access to other things as well.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I'm glad to see more differentiation rather than everything being .com, as if it were a technical requirement. If we reach a point where gTLDs become an issue, it wouldn't be hard to replace DNS with something like Namecoin. It wo
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by ewzimm 12y ago
|||->Options->Advanced->View Certificates SSL works by verifying a certificate against an authority, so if there is anyone you don't trust on your list, you can't trust site you are visiting. Superfish distributed their p

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