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Patch for Android bug security bug 8219321?(jira.cyanogenmod.org)
3 points by fpgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Intel and MIPS have Android ports to their respective architectures - enabled, in part, by Dalvik. So far, neither company has made a significant dent in the Android smartphone or tablet market, but that may be about to change for Intel. Th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Ugh, not Tegra 3 - dual-core Snapdragon S4/400 or better, please. And LTE (HSPA+ and lesser standards are and 802.11b equivalent, at best). But, thematically, you're absolutely right. We're very close to actually good $99 sma
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You might consider asking Intel and MIPS about the point of Dalvik - especially Intel given the current rumors about Bay Trail performance.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Absolutely. The contract model clearly isn't going anywhere. Outside the US, the contract model has had trouble taking root in many developed countries. And it has been flat-out rejected in the developing world. Of course, given those
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Sigh. No. The expensive smartphone book may have peaked, but that's not the important one.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Unless you're paying cash for books and not using any sort of membership/discount card when you do, your privacy is just as gone at a physical bookstore as it is at Amazon.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Where did mst say that they didn't plan on clicking on any ads? I'd imagine that most of the time people would only consider clicking on ads they found "not annoying" in the first place.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
FYI, on mobile, Adblock Plus and Adblock Edge (among others) are available for mobile Firefox.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Some of those unsophisticated consumers are still using Windows XP (or Android Gingerbread or ...).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Not entirely irrelevant. From what I've read, downloading directly from the Play Store has been taken care of. That probably also means the Play Store / Play Services verifier for sideloaded apps is checking for this exploit. That
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by fpgeek 13y ago
These slides are not nearly as clear-cut as you imply: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130701/00444723675/newly-...
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by fpgeek 13y ago
It's worth noting that (for a while), the Play Store / Play Services has offered to verify even sideloaded apps. I notice this regularly when I install a new build of Firefox Aurora. It's never rejected an update, but I belie
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by fpgeek 13y ago
From what I understand, Google Reader was fairly tied into Google's infrastructure (e.g. piggybacking off of Google's web crawler for feed updates), so there wouldn't be much left if you separated Google Reader from Google.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
I've had more than my share of Android devices, going all the way back to the G1. It's always been trivial to bypass the Google account login, should you want to (I even did that for a while on a spare phone that I was lazy about
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by fpgeek 13y ago
From what I understand, the ultimate goal is to remove them all (i.e. exile them to about:config, add-ons and the like).
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by fpgeek 13y ago
To me, the specific and carefully explained experiment is the big contribution here. In other comment threads I'd heard the opposite: that when new iOS devices were activated, they didn't get access to past iMessage threads, just
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by fpgeek 13y ago
No maybe about it. You can't trust someone you're paying either. See: - Sparrow and all the other companies who were acquired and saw products killed - the countless other companies that just went out of business - the problems yo
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by fpgeek 13y ago
> AFAIK, people skilled in prior art are often called into courts in order to arrive at the decision. Well, yes, but they're typically experts from both sides whose goal is to promote their side's case, not accurately inform th
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Exactly. Pretty much from the beginning of the Readerpocalypse, I'd decided to go with whatever the developers of my apps did. Both Press and gReader decided to support Feedly, so that was simple enough. There were a few hiccups in the
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by fpgeek 13y ago
jwz is just a bit behind because he's on iOS. As of this writing, only one iOS app (Newsify) is ready while two Android apps (Press and gReader) and a widget (Pure News) are. See: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/06&#x2
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Hmm... that makes me wonder what would happen if the system required the jurors to be skilled in the relevant art. I suspect that even if they limited that to people listed as inventors on at least one patent in the relevant area, that the
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by fpgeek 13y ago
You think premium cable doesn't have advertising? Even putting aside shilling for their own shows, what do you think "sneak peeks" at new movies are?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Sell out the the first big tech company interested? Make sure one of the co-founders is a kick-ass patent lawyer? Don't? Moving to another country is problematic. Other countries have their own software patent quagmires too (though, ad
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Complaining to DannyBee about the tech lobbying presence is missing the point. In terms of what he might be able to influence, Google actually has a significant (and growing) lobbying presence on a number of issues: http://www.op
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Sadly, since 2010 the mountain has gotten a bit higher: the "no software patents" side has lost Stevens' vote and his replacement Kagan's position is unclear.
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by fpgeek 13y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, he's using it as a necessary test for being an non-patentable abstract idea rather than as a sufficient one?
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by fpgeek 13y ago
For the most part, with the exception of keyboards. Without a physical keyboard, you're either giving up screen real estate (i.e. text you can read) or the keyboard is appearing and disappearing (which I find breaks my immersion in the
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Technically, the rule is "no interpreters that download code". To get around it, it bundles a decent chunk of the if-archive in the app and then registers as something that can open z-machine game files (so you can use Frotz to op
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by fpgeek 13y ago
Applying multiple tests only works if the tests are independent. When you're searching for the proverbial needle in the haystack, you probably don't have enough needles to let you reliably calibrate several independent tests in th

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