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by fpgeek 11y ago
How, exactly, has Google's collection of personal information contributed to identity theft? I suppose, on paper, you're more vulnerable to Google employees or contractors using internal access to steal identities, but is that a p
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by fpgeek 11y ago
> I know exactly the criteria google uses to show the ad to someone, because that's what I buy when I buy keywords. No, you know exactly the criteria Google requests from you when you buy the ad. That's most likely a subset of
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by fpgeek 11y ago
Not necessarily. Android has an option (which is on by default) where Wi-Fi off really means off except for location assistance. If iOS has something similar and the issue even affects that passive scanning, it could be a deeper problem. I
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by fpgeek 11y ago
There's this thing called the home button...
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by fpgeek 12y ago
While there are plenty of mediocre aspects of the Kindle ecosystem, there are plenty of excellent ones as well. For example: 1. Return policy. Amazon has the best ebook return policy in the business. It seems essentially the same as their p
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by fpgeek 12y ago
While you're right about Amazon's bundling advantages (with both Audible and MatchBook), there are other audiobook alternatives (e.g. Downpour, which sells many DRM-free audiobooks).
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I think you have the causality backwards. It's not that Google doesn't care about getting indies on Google Play (though, to be fair, not enough to deal with the havoc their automatic discounting creates for indies, last I heard),
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Hmm... If you can port VLC to Chrome OS with ARC, I wonder what happens if you try to shove Firefox for Android into it. Are there fundamental roadblocks that would prevent it from working, or would you just end up with a slow and buggy wal
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by fpgeek 12y ago
If Apple's engineers have no other ideas, I'm sure they could improve search by scraping the result of the Google (or even Bing, I suppose) search: <terms> site:itunes.apple.com and then using that to drive their app search
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Is Wal-Mart's markup still bigger than Apple's once you take out the incremental costs of dealing with physical boxes in stores [1]? Considering the substantial markups we see on things like books and DVDs, I suspect not. [1] To b
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by fpgeek 12y ago
There is this thing called the Amazon Appstore. Perhaps you've heard of it? On anything but an official Amazon device, it works entirely by sideloading [1]. And considering the broad impact this particular use (not to mention other imp
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Creating Better User Experiences on Google Play(android-developers.blogspot.com)
22 points by fpgeek 12y ago|1 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
To take one example, the details of rental car controls can sometimes be unfamiliar. I've generally been comfortable pulling out the manual in those situations, but I'm sure some people would prefer a live walkthrough, if availabl
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by fpgeek 12y ago
There are rumors Google is working on it: http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/03/android-wear-ios/ and one developer has already gotten some basic notification functionality working: https://m.youtube.
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Technical committee appointments(lists.debian.org)
2 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
First, I'll note that plenty of people use Chrome without extensions. This issue wasn't a showstopper for any of them. Second, you cut out the rest of the comment: "If that causes great hardship for anyone and you want to do
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WSJ: Google’s carrier experiment could launch this month but only for Nexus 6(thenextweb.com)
1 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
No, she doesn't look empathetic, but, considering the broader context, how much empathy can you reasonably expect? He lost his job and got a new one "right away" (according to the article). She also lost her job, was bombarde
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by fpgeek 12y ago
There's a difference between saying no ("we think larger buttons on our bigger screen are easier to use" or whatever) and mockery ("you'll need to file down your fingers"). Apple could do one without the other.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I think what's unusual about Apple here is: 1. How vehement their condemnation is (especially since, in retrospect, they're already busy working on exactly what they're condeming), 2. How quickly and comprehensively they fli
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by fpgeek 12y ago
And, in fact, scrolling the card is exactly how it works for a square Android Wear watch too. The only difference is that (with the possible exception of ugly word-wrap cases), the truncation is only vertical, not horizontal as well. Consid
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by fpgeek 12y ago
That doesn't make sense. Huawei clearly believes the circular screen isn't a failing or they would have made a different watch. You may not like circular smartwatches (I certainly don't), but that just means this watch is not
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Lots of great discussion, but also lots of exasperating third-party comments. While reading some of them I wanted to shake the authors and scream: "A website can't stop a user from saving a password! All you're doing is makin
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Always? Really? So a bunch open, unprotected baskets in plain view are better than a single closed, locked and hidden basket? I'm glad you're not in charge of my security. As others have said, the single-basket concern is perfectl
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by fpgeek 12y ago
If I click on https://foobarbaz.com and get phishsed then I know that either foobarbaz.com had something to do with it or certificate verification has been compromised. If I click on http://foobarbaz.com anyone who c
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Did you even look at the kinds of attacks that motivate these restrictions before concluding that there was a nefarious agenda at work? I took a look at a Fullscreen API attack ( http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack
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Google reverses decision to ban adult content on Blogger(theverge.com)
4 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by fpgeek 12y ago
If it were anyone else, I'd say this was pretty dubious, but Google knows better than anyone else how to make search ads work for everyone so... we'll see.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
It's not that simple. Breaking even may be "good enough" strategically for Google, but, tactically, it is a problem for YouTube and everyone that works on it. The harder it is to concretely demonstrate YouTube's value to
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by fpgeek 12y ago
This really puts the whole Music Key controversy in perspective. If YouTube isn't making money, then of course they're going try to alter their deals, no matter how many indie musicians it pisses off.

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