fl3tch

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by fl3tch 15y ago
In an age when most computers come with 4+ GB of RAM, I think people focus too much on memory. Of course there are older computers, but their OS should be using comparably less RAM. WinXP takes up 100 MB at login, so if you only have 1 GB o
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by fl3tch 15y ago
People are already working on this: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
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by fl3tch 15y ago
True. We'll have to wait and see, but I imagine that price and integration with other Google services will be the main benefits.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Moving your data is much easier than moving your entire social network. It could be a matter of installing the GDrive sync client and pointing it at the same folders you're already syncing.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Like the politicians who kept the Vietnam War going long after victory was impossible, they don't understand sunk costs. They are all in at this point. No prosecutor of a case this big will accept the embarrassment of merely dropping the ch
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> It is a fact of reality that it is morally right to give people ownership rights > precisely, like physics. There is no place in the universe where the laws of physics do not apply, however there were and are societies without a n
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Well, they're not really creating a distro from scratch in the way that Debian maintainers pull source code from various upstream projects and spend weeks to months doing bug testing. The RHEL sources that the SL folks pull have already bee
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> the hospital he works at still has Internet Explorer 6 installed on all computers there and they refuse to upgrade it for fear it might break compatibility with some ancient software program Meanwhile your ability to do everything el
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That is what Steve Jobs saw on acid.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I get what you're saying, but imagine that someone stole your TV, and the police found the guy, but they didn't get your TV back because the courts hadn't convicted the perpetrator yet. They should at least hold the assets in escrow until a
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Quite right. Aside from backports, you can get things like the latest Firefox and LibreOffice on Ubuntu 10.04 thanks to PPAs. To those complaining that the 6 month update cycle is a turn off to "normal" users: put an Ubuntu LTS on their com
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college And he presumes he and his staff are uniquely qualified in identifying those 20 out of 60,000?
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by fl3tch 15y ago
But did give him a chance, in person and directly. > Thiel did not respond to requests for comment. Which is a bit better that quoting other comments that might be construed as out of context.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Even has dynamic DNS. Looks interesting. Does it work with ddclient?
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by fl3tch 15y ago
It's funny how the author uses published studies to support his claim that science is broken. What's statistically more likely, that 80% of articles conflate "statistical significance" with colloquial "significance", or that one study mis
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I've seen a few talks created with that tool and the "flying around the screen" gets old pretty fast.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
It's interesting because the FBI was in a perfect position to perform the most well-known attack on Tor: a correlation / timing attack. "If your adversary can watch both ends of the connection, you lose." They could watch his end and probab
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by fl3tch 15y ago
No, actually ZDI was right, because VUPEN broke out of Chrome's sandbox in the Pwn2Own contest (not Google's contest) and refused to explain the vulnerability, because it's far more valuable to sell to their customers: http://www.wired.com
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by fl3tch 15y ago
The savvier kids have been maintaining multiple Facebook accounts for years: one where they friend their parents, family, church pastor, etc., and the other (under a pseudonym) where they have fun. It's like the social equivalent of a TrueC
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That problem is not specific to SSL client certs. It potentially affects every authentication mechanism (on the same computer). Typing in your passwords? Keylogger. Using a password manager? Stolen passwords. The password database is encryp
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> they should clearly separate tablet and desktop interfaces... like what Canonical is planning to do with their "Ubuntu for Android" What? The whole point of Unity is to have a single interface. Canonical is making the exact same mista
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Apparently, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark#Trademark_er...
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Mozilla throws 'freedom' at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks(theregister.co.uk)
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Kind of limited with VPNs too. It would be great if you could simply import an OpenVPN configuration file, but in some cases the only solution is to skip Network Manager and start/stop the service from the command line.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> I just don't really put a high value on anything he has to say Isaac Newton wasted the last decade of his life trying to turn stuff into gold, but his physical model of the universe was still quite correct, at least as a first approxi
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Good news. It should be noted that Ubuntu has included this fix since their distro version 3.0.0-13, and other distros may have backported the fix, too. But now it's in mainline.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
It's already Constitutionally protected as speech. That's why it's not illegal anywhere in America, even though other "vices" like alcohol are.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> Google India meanwhile has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political... leaders That's the most dangerous part.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I'm a graduate student in the sciences and every biology, chemistry and physics class that I took had a lab, except the evolution class. You could put the lectures online, but universities will never be completely replaced, as long as peopl
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> you just replaced one roadblock with another. One is technical and the other is financial (buying a Mac) I think you hit on an important point. Most people seem to be approaching this from an adult / professional perspective. I'm thin

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