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by fpgeek 13y ago
So Amazon's fork gets to Jelly Bean before official Google TV (still on Honeycomb) does? Ouch.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Unless they had an enormous amount of personal information, Bitcoin wallets couldn't possibly calculate your taxes for you automatically. At best, they might be able to calculate the potential trading gains and/or losses of your B
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Let's put Google's denial off to the side for one moment. The core of Arrington's accusation is broken: "The source had corresponded with me from a non Google email account, so the only way Google saw it was by accessing
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Moving from Amazon to Google (Play Movies & TV, YouTube [especially given the perennially rumored subscription service]) doesn't really move the needle very much for Netflix in terms of depending on a competitor. I doubt Google wou
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by fpgeek 13y ago
As a Firefox user, I thought of Firefox Sync first, which seems to have enough documentation to make a third-party client: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Firefox_Sync I find it a bit surprising that Chro
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> The equivalent of web standards that would allow an Android app to do responsive design in the manner of a web app, devices don't have or respect. Oh, really? Let's take a look shall we: 1. Using new APIs if available and fa
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I have a similar situation - domains I'd rather open in my main browser rather than Link Bubble. I'm trying use Link Bubble in incognito mode, but some sites aggressively check that they can set cookies and fail if they can't
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I think an interesting middle ground would be to connect to existing browser sync storage. Personally, one of the (few) disadvantages of Link Bubble is that my Link Bubble history is separate from my main browser history (I don't reall
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by fpgeek 13y ago
For me the biggest issue is that Apple went too far in trading utility for portability with their adapters. For instance, there's at least one model of MacBook Pro (from a few years back) that, when it's running flat out, drains i
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Windows 8, for all of its faults, comprehensively demonstrated that it isn't Microsoft that's unwilling to let go of Windows - it's their customers (which isn't surprising for a company whose products are in the process
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. And sometimes they put out products that many people th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You're missing the point. Once you have a subsistence diet (i.e. the cabbage, egg and rice), better and/or more food isn't strictly necessary . It's just desirable. So your tablet argument becomes: "if I can't
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Well, no one knew it at the time, but Safari was horrifically unfit for purpose as a web browser for over a year (goto fail). Or we could talk about the random reboots (worse than any of the many Android devices or Windows PCs I've use
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by fpgeek 13y ago
My understanding is that bank ATMs aren't on Windows XP proper, they're on Windows XP Embedded. According to this document: https://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/en-us/product-life... The equivalent
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Absent a time machine, how could a hire in January have been working to clean up this mess "months ago"? Blame the CEO and the rest of the management team for not hiring a good HR person sooner if you want, but I don't see ho
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by fpgeek 13y ago
One way or another, an employee has to be part of the workplace - it's their job. An non-employee doesn't have to be there, so access to the workplace is a privilege (and one that not all employers permit). When a non-employee mis
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Swype's issues with spoofing date back to before they were a paid app (that only happened last year). At the time, there were only two ways to get Swype: 1. Your device manufacturer paid to include Swype in their default keyboard (no I
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Based on the quarkslab link upthread, Apple wasn't using certificate pinning for iMessage at least as recently as October 2013. Even worse, also as of that article, Apple was sending the AppleID and cleartext password over this MITM-vu
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Can't you pay some sort of penalty and switch to one of AT&T's new, cheaper T-Mobile-like value plans? That might not pencil out on its own terms because you're relatively close to the end of your contract, but I think th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Is this a (belated) reaction to Google Docs being "good enough" for many use cases? We also just heard about Chrome OS pushing Microsoft to cut the price of Windows licenses for low-end laptops. Plus we have Nokia (soon to be Micr
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You don't need a card slot. If your device supports USB-OTG you can get one of these: http://www.meenova.com/st/p/m3r.html Mine works great with my Nexus 7 (no root required thanks to Nexus Media Importer).
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Researcher: Array of Apple Apps Vulnerable to “Gotofail” Attack(recode.net)
24 points by fpgeek 13y ago|13 comments
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Will that really hold up, though? Netflix isn't just going to absorb those payments, they'll have to pass them along to customers. Customers will want some explanation for why their bill is going up . And if Netflix's per-use
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> This wasn't the case in the 90s, and had Hacker News existed back then ISP startups would have appeared frequently. Indeed. The late 90s / early 2000s were the golden age of the CLEC. There were certainly pain points (like ge
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by fpgeek 13y ago
If you'd read the article, you'd know that a federal case brought in a federal court in New York came out the other way, so the impact of this decision is geographically-limited until the Supreme Court weighs in (oral arguments co
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I don't know about that. This same judge was a big part of SCO v Novell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_v._Novell He seemed pretty reasonable there, IIRC.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
It's worth nothing that the FCC has a speed test app which is trying to gather exactly that kind of data: http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-unveils-mobile-broadband-spe... (source available here: https://
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Themer Suspended From Google Play Due to Copyright Concern of Apple(droid-life.com)
1 points by fpgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I remember trying to replace a T1 with Comcast Business Cable. It was faster in the office, but variable latency, dropped packets, less usable remote access (just ssh and scp) and more frequent maintenance outages killed it. IIRC, SDSL turn
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> If this was true for media use on tablets in general, Amazon would not be pouring as much effort as they are into tablets. Amazon, unlike Netflix, is worried about being kicked out of the iOS ecosystem. Kindle (and all the other major

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