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by flurpitude 11y ago
Wow, that's impressive for an 8-bit computer in 1979. Especially within 8KB of RAM. Elite (1984) was more sophisticated on essentially similar hardware but had a little more RAM to play with.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Could there be an element of self-fulfilling prophecy explaining why intelligence analysts, on whose advice governments decide their actions, have a better success rate at prediction than others who do not so closely influence government de
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by flurpitude 11y ago
So you'll be using the clipboard to copy and paste passwords on Android, which is (I believe) much less secure.
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Final version of TPP's Intellectual Property chapter leaked [pdf](wikileaks.org)
3 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Two steps forward, one step back: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/07/uk...
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Stagefright 2.0: over 1bn Android smartphones vulnerable to latest bug(theguardian.com)
1 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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Following Volkswagen scandal, cheating may become easier due to copyright law(autoblog.com)
4 points by flurpitude 11y ago|1 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
>"When the news about Volkswagen broke last Friday, Carder heard from some of the heavy diesel engine manufacturers that were part of the consent decree. >"They saw what had happened and called to say: 'Good job, you gu
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I agreed with you up to the last sentence. I see no reason to call rational only wholly selfish behaviour.
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Volkswagen emissions scandal could snare other companies, whistleblower claims(theguardian.com)
2 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
From Wikipedia: "Skype originally featured a hybrid peer-to-peer and client–server system; however, since May 2012, Skype is entirely powered by Microsoft-operated supernodes. The 2013 mass surveillance disclosures revealed that Micros
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Microsoft confirms Windows 10 is downloaded to PCs whether or not users opt in(theinquirer.net)
11 points by flurpitude 11y ago|1 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
>I never quite understood what makes people that make 100's of thousands of dollars per year so cheap that they would balk at paying a few hundred $ for their main tool of choice. You make an assumption that we developers make hundr
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“Spookiness” Confirmed by the First Loophole-Free Quantum Test(fqxi.org)
96 points by flurpitude 11y ago|44 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
No, in 20 years history will have been revised so that these events never took place.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
"zizi" too.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
The potential big difference here is that it affects people's work computers, where they do things for organizations that have a strong interest in keeping information from leaking out. Such companies probably were never happy with cor
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by flurpitude 11y ago
But professionals now have a very good, non-ideological reason to choose a Linux OS over Windows. How many professionals are comfortable with an operating system that collects and sends everything they load, type or save to Microsoft and th
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Interesting that page 29 has an article saying flexible displays may be just around the corner. And all the laptops cost $7500, and a digital camera was $10,995.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
To your first question: they're rushed out of the door in a hurry to catch the next trend, and have poor cooling and poor software. To your second question: other high quality routers don't enable Google to spy on you quite so eff
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by flurpitude 11y ago
In my case it's different because: 1. I don't use my smartphone for work. I have to use Windows for work, and some of this is dealing with confidential information. 2. I don't use my smartphone to write sensitive documents. I
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by flurpitude 11y ago
That's good news, but in my experience Ubuntu One file sync never worked very well. Maybe someone can improve it now we have the code. It's also worth noting that this is a centralized, server-based file sync, unlike the peer-to-p
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Everything Is Broken(medium.com)
14 points by flurpitude 11y ago|2 comments
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Protect your mobile device from Stagefright – new Android vulnerability(avast.com)
1 points by flurpitude 11y ago|0 comments
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Windows 10: Here are the privacy issues you should know about(thenextweb.com)
8 points by flurpitude 11y ago|2 comments
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by flurpitude 11y ago
So it would be wise to change the LastPass master password and also regenerate the Google Authenticator key. LastPass does enable you to regenerate this key from the account settings page.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
The software would only be a small part of this project. The issues they discussed in the clip (risk of sudden failure, radio interference) were hardware issues.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
Pedantic, but if it's an Amiga 2000 (which it appears to be from the video) then this can't have been running since 1985, as the Amiga 2000 was released in 1987. But the guy does say the computer came from eBay, so perhaps this is
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I'm not keen on Typeform's scrolling form presentation. When I'm filling in a form I like to have a mental map of where I am, whereas this feels like stumbling through fog.
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by flurpitude 11y ago
I had three OCZ SSDs - a Vertex 2 and two Vertex 3s. One lasted a month and a half; the others lasted a month. It's surprising that Toshiba would want to be associated with this brand.

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