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by furyg3 14y ago
It's tough, though. If you ask very happily married 60+ old couples, I think most will tell you that there was a patch or two they didn't really enjoy, and that they are happy they rode it out. The trick is knowing when to make that call.
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by furyg3 14y ago
It's an interesting public statement with no actual content. Let's break it down: * I think that these estimates are baseless * and very, very wrong. * It is a outrageous number * I’m not going to comment anything on a specific number * I b
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by furyg3 14y ago
Looks like they got the tracker back up, but the website is still taking some time. Torrent sites should just have an "export to XML" feature for all of the existing magnet links, in case of a site outage.
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by furyg3 14y ago
So how does this work in practice? Can I backup directly to Glacier? Or do I have to backup via S3 first? I use TimeMachine, but would like to have a "my house burned down" option that lives online somewhere...
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by furyg3 14y ago
Is there anything currently in the "let me access my files from anywhere" (aka Dropbox) space that supports private key encryption while maintaining some level of convenience? I'm happy to give up some features (collaboration, web access) f
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by furyg3 14y ago
Indeed. For example: I'm a big fan of Yammer which is a great name in English. Introducing it to my Dutch colleagues is hilarious, though, because the name effectively means "that sucks" in Dutch ('Jammer' is pronounced the same).
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by furyg3 14y ago
You can do what apple does for disk encryption: * Encrypt the data with a key (let the user print it out if you like) * Encrypt the key with the password of the user (or multiple users!) * Store the encrypted-encrypted-key on your server. I
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by furyg3 14y ago
This is just not true. I'm from the US, living abroad. I registered for my google Apps account and GV number while in the US (before I moved). I can log into GV just fine while abroad (no VPN). My wife also has a google account (non-apps
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by furyg3 14y ago
I'm pretty uninformed about the African startup scene, what are some of the more interesting ones that have had some success?
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by furyg3 14y ago
College? or Travel? Do both! Study Abroad!
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by furyg3 14y ago
You will be happy to know that the site mentioned in the article is still available: http://web.archive.org/web/19961227054127/http://ghg.ecn.pur...
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by furyg3 14y ago
It seems to me that the best idea would be for credit card companies to issue "Fraud" cc numbers to certain groups of people. Once a few these are processed, that merchant account can be shut down... it's a fraud.
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by furyg3 14y ago
How many of them buy something from/via Facebook?
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by furyg3 14y ago
Bah, just fine the car owner, it's easy enough for him to have control of his vehicle, unless he reported it as stolen. This isn't a murder trial, it's a minor infraction, like a parking ticket.
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by furyg3 14y ago
I agree with you that there is a "major" difference between the NYT and Wikileaks. But it's subjective. It's "freedom of the press" not "freedom of the reasonable press (as determined by the government)"
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by furyg3 14y ago
I posted this on another thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913985 ), but I think it's relevant here... I feel pretty double about VPN as a solution for masking my online activities. My reasons for using a VPN break down into the
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by furyg3 14y ago
Sorry, but I disagree. It's not about being trustworthy, it's about incentives and avoiding the appearance of bias. "Professional journalist" means you get paid enough money to conduct independent journalism without compensation from the s
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by furyg3 14y ago
No, this is not a nice sentiment. This is absolutely required if you want to have any claim on being 'independent' or a 'reporter'.
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by furyg3 14y ago
Knowingly purchasing stolen goods is already illegal in most places. The key is the "knowingly" part. You would have to have a ubiquitous BikeID system in a central registry of stolen bikes. It would have to be incredibly easy to check th
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by furyg3 14y ago
Maybe I don't understand what you're saying, but iOS corrects for the audio delay of AirPlay audio streaming. I don't have an AppleTV, but I do have an AirPortExpress. Streaming video to iOS with audio on my home stereo works great, with t
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by furyg3 14y ago
How are the rape victims' human rights being violated in this process? They have not charged him with a crime (rape victims should be furious about this). They want him for 'questioning' but refuse to question him in London (again, furious
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by furyg3 14y ago
The key word here is "suspect". We live in 2012: if you want to question a suspect you don't have to have him in your jurisdiction to do so. If you don't want to interview him in the embassy or by phone, you obviously don't care. If he d
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by furyg3 14y ago
You should not compare a 'driverless car' program with a cab program, you should compare them with a car-sharing program (technically driverless!) In Amsterdam, I use a car-sharing program called car2go. This system uses electric 2-person
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by furyg3 14y ago
Fantastic. Maybe this will put some fire under Stripe to launch in Europe...
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by furyg3 14y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I do. I have interesting results sometimes; Bank: I'll just need you to confirm your mother's maiden...um...um Me: Yes, it's a long string of random characters, want me to read it? Bank: No, that's ok, tha
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by furyg3 14y ago
The security questions business is hard, too. Many sites use things which are public information (mother's maiden name) but even question's like "Where were you on this important date?" or "what was your first car?" start to look pretty sil
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by furyg3 14y ago
Yeah, i just saw the link on the side to buy it for my Kindle (which is what I wanted anyway), so I deleted the comment. Apparently decades on the internet have made me immune to advertising, even for things I want. :)
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by furyg3 14y ago
I think your contract is the most interesting part of your comment. If the hardware can't handle it, then ok, that's a limitation. Artificial boundaries are a business reality in a world where the software is the phone, but Apple should
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by furyg3 14y ago
Why not do this with a geofence? Then you don't even have to remember to 'check out' with your phone when you leave the house...
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by furyg3 14y ago
Dud, Flood, & Bud. Duds are hardware that goes bad, like a disk drive, network adapter, NAS, or server. There are an infinite number of ways and combinations things can break in a moderate sized IT shop. How much money / effort ar

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