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by fattire 10y ago
Take this question for what it is-- I'm not blaming the victim here-- but how much responsibility do small and nameless developers bear for making a deal with the devil to begin with? Don't they go into this knowing that Apple ca
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by fattire 10y ago
It's ridiculously bad mustache-twirling dialogue that compares poorly to the grunts of an orc.
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by fattire 10y ago
Maybe they meant the major version number of the kernel wouldn't get an upgrade, though I suspect maybe performance/memory limitations are the real issue. It may be possible to backport whatever features are missing to an older m
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by fattire 10y ago
I think it's not so much as the vendors of the graphics card and such that only released closed blobs to go with the open drivers in the kernel. And while they may work with say, ChromeOS, getting them to work on Linux isn't as s
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by fattire 10y ago
Google calls them permission groups: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/android/docs/referenc... You can list all the permissions in the system, or just those an app uses or see all the "da
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by fattire 10y ago
Every device has its own kernel and drivers, which is signed and verified. See: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/... If you can unlock your bootloader, you can build your own version of
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by fattire 10y ago
Are you sure about that? I've got a Samsung chromebook (Snow) from about 3 years ago, and yet... localhost / # uname -a Linux localhost 3.8.11 #1 SMP Mon Sep 26 02:48:53 PDT 2016 armv7l ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
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by fattire 10y ago
I don't get the logic of doing this. For one thing, with the new runtime permissions model, introduced in Android 6, you need to request the permission from the user at runtime rather than in advance (in the play store when the app is
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by fattire 10y ago
What about using the post-kitkat Storage Access Framework and adopting the user-granted permission to access removable storage? That is, once your user manually grants access to a file or directory (in android 7) using the file/direct
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by fattire 10y ago
the excessively excited "omg how could you even be discussing this??" is a bit offputting I wrote that sentence minus the omg part, but I don't think I meant what you think I meant-- The "how could you even b
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by fattire 10y ago
I wrote something a while back that did this as a proof of concept/learning exercise... but it never took off: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2391493
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by fattire 10y ago
Well I have tried it plenty of times and have never experienced any negative effects. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly-- I have tried it plenty of times and have never experienced any negative effects.
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by fattire 10y ago
Also autopilot can only be used in certain scenarios (freeway driving). Are hours driven by autopilot in this ideal environment being compared with millions of hours spent driving in non-autopilot-eligible roads/conditions?
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by fattire 10y ago
Could the app be intercepting the confirm screen and auto-agreeing w/o user interaction?
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by fattire 10y ago
Maybe because much of what started as the goals and methods of "philosophy" were later appropriated and redefined as "science"? They are both human endeavors to better get at and understand the truth about ourselves, the
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by fattire 10y ago
For those who haven't played it, the original game is here: http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/narbaculardrop.html
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by fattire 10y ago
Agreed. My favorite quote was "In some ways I love being a millennial, because it’s so much easier to be better than the rest of our generation" I can't tell if this statement supports or contradicts the rest of the article,
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by fattire 10y ago
Yeah disabling copy makes more sense. I think the scenario is where you have to type your password 2x to avoid typos on a field where you can't see what you've just typed (to avoid shoulder surfers).. the first time the user type
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by fattire 10y ago
Yes, the thought that an English person might have a say in how foreigners should live their lives is unthinkable.
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by fattire 10y ago
Yeah the original post above is pretty starry-eyed and ignorant of American history. Forget the Shay Rebellion, we also had a civil war to sort out the "shared vision" thing. Lots wrong with such a silly analysis, so dunno why it
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by fattire 10y ago
They're still EU members for a while...
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by fattire 10y ago
The talk description for "The Complete ESP8266 Psionics Handbook": "But few realize that beneath the veneer of accessibility lurks a Pandora's box of perils straight out of the 90s... This talk will focus on exploiting m
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by fattire 10y ago
Communication is often WAY WAY faster when delivered via text than via a video presentation, particularly because written words come at you at the pace your brain can accept them, as opposed to the static speed at which someone can speak th
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by fattire 10y ago
Everyone links to that general page, but I'd think the EFF analysis on how it affects digital rights specifically might be even more persuasive for this crowd: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/how-tp
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by fattire 10y ago
FWIW in June of last year, Obama allied with Senate Republicans, beating his own party, to get TPP fast tracked, meaning that the vote will be all or nothing, up or down, and will receive little debate, oversight, and no amendments before t