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by fpgeek 12y ago
> Deja News could have ended up anywhere, including at the Internet Archive. This is exactly what I'm talking about. The idea that a company that is falling apart and selling itself off in pieces was going to donate one of its last
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I really hope this comment was intended sarcastically. It disturbs me that I can't tell. It disturbs me even more that other commenters believe it wasn't.
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Kinda skipping over the part where they grabbed it at death's door, aren't you? Suppose Google had done nothing. The alternative wouldn't have been a beautifully indexed, easily searchable completely up-to-date Deja News arch
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Even granting your premise that a Google employee could leak the gag order undetectably (and I'm not confident about that, since the universe of people to investigate would be relatively small), there would still be serious repercussio
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Keeping the current system and not doing YouTube Music Key isn't very difficult - but there are more than a few reasons to think it is worth doing (all the people who block YouTube ads and/or use unauthorized downloaders, for ex
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Um, last I heard, unless you pay them, Github requires you to make any code you upload open-source and publicly available. In many ways that's even more far-reaching than what YouTube is asking, but that hasn't stopped programmers
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I really don't understand the scandal here. This just confirms that Google is offering musicians the choice that's been suspected ever since YouTube Music Key just a rumor: (a) Go all in on monetization (ads, Content Id, Music Key
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> Spill resistant keyboards - Are most PC laptops outside of the toughbook market? I wouldn't have even thought about this. Who cares if the keyboard is spill-resistant if they'll sell you accidental damage protection for a rea
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The End of Trickle-Down Technology(stratechery.com)
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin have majority voting control of Google. Tim Cook doesn't have the same at Apple. No matter how well-respected, he's answerable to shareholders in a way Page is not. Arguably we see some of this when Icah
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I'd say a fixed cadence, especially when combined with a relatively inflexible scope (pre-announced features, features tied to new hardware, etc.), is, at a minimum, a significant contributor to the problem. If there's an unexpect
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Yes, it's a contract. It's a contract that moves the world in a direction the EFF thinks is bad. You may disagree with that, but they (obviously) don't. What do you expect them to do? Ignore what they consider a serious probl
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The tears may have been predictable (and maybe even planned), but they most certainly aren't crocodile tears. These are issues the EFF and its membership deeply and sincerely care about. The whole point of the organization is to call
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by fpgeek 12y ago
People talk about regulating telecom like the power company, but the trend over the last 30 years has been to deregulate the power companies as much as possible. And it's not like anything has happened since then that has made people
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Applying Kushnick logic to another industry: if Apple raises prices on Macs and uses that cash to bankroll iPhone development, well that's something that requires a federal investigation. Yes, if Apple claimed in an SEC filing that
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'm a big fan of Self-Destructing Cookies (on the desktop and on mobile).
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If the EFF didn't develop the application and release the source, what exactly is this: https://github.com/EFForg/actioncenter-mobile And quoting from the README: "Although it works on both iOS and Android, t
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by fpgeek 12y ago
I'm having a hard time seeing how they're going to prove the Beats / HTC deal was a sham transaction. The partnership went as far as HTC including Beats Audio and/or bundling Beats headphones with some of their phones, w
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Apple didn't screw up. The disadvantages you cite are inevitable consequences of the strategy they consciously chose (selling premium devices differentiated by user experience). If Apple hadn't waited until carriers (especially Ve
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by fpgeek 12y ago
FireTV was a much, much easier product to develop. It was pretty clear an Android STB was worth doing. In this case, Amazon wisely took the simplest path to get there: Google TV + better content deals and updated hardware and software.
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In the past, when you were having a problem with an Apple app you had a relatively large window during which you could just update that app without touching anything else to see if the upgrade fixed your problem. In trickier cases you might
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by fpgeek 12y ago
To take a simple example, faster OS updates combined with more aggressive OS version requirements for Apple apps (e.g. iPhoto) mean that getting the latest app bugfixes demands much more upheaval in your computing environment than it used t
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The decline of "It just works" is one side of the problem. The other, more painful side (driven by the iOS-ification of the OS, I suppose) is: "When it doesn't work, you're helpless".
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Easy or hard isn't the issue. The problem is there's an evil catch-22 at the intersection of copyright law and DRM: She's allowed to take the screenshots and clips, but it's illegal for her to get the DRM removal tools t
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Actually, I think I now understand where we disagree. It isn't exactly where I expected. You want a New Improved Transport Protocol that is a sharp break with HTTP's past. I agree that would be a good thing. We both agree that HTT
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I agree the developing world wasn't an explicit consideration, but mobile most certainly was. And since better mobile performance and behavior is what developing world Internet clients most need from a new protocol, many of their conce
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The score most certainly not even. HTTP is still way, way behind. There's a qualitative difference between a spelling error in the document describing the protocol and a spelling error in the protocol itself . In my opinion, the subst
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> Bandwidth is cheap. Says someone who I'm certain doesn't rely on a prepaid SIM for their primary Internet connection. Not that I do either, but I'm far more aware that tens (if not hundreds) of millions of these people e
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by fpgeek 12y ago
> There are places where a device running Android 4.2 are the best one on the market. Where? With the possible exception of China [1], after the Moto G and Android One, I'd expect that you could get a KitKat (or better) entry-level
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Um, as the comment thread in the bug demonstrates, it isn't that simple. Android does support downloading .ics files, you just need to install a third-party app to handle the calendar integration. Is that ideal? Of course not. But it i

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