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by furyg3 14y ago
How well do these devices work against encryption (like that on the iPhone)?
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by furyg3 14y ago
"Seen" is not enough information for a sender. It immediately triggers more questions: Are they reading it now? Are they responding now? Are they ignoring me or everyone? Do they not think this is important? Where are they anyway? I
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by furyg3 14y ago
Also: > That means we don’t need as much energy-intensive air-conditioning, and our employees get to wear shorts to work. As someone who is in warm datacenters often, "get to" is a bit of a positive spin on it...
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by furyg3 15y ago
I wonder if this has to do with mobile. A laptop on a broadband line can keep track of all the P2P nodes necessary to keep my contact list & chats up to date, have a 3-way video call, and top it off by routing for a few less-well connec
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by furyg3 15y ago
I feel pretty double about VPN as a solution for masking my online activities. My reasons for using a VPN break down into these (related) categories: 1. Security. I don't trust this network at all, such as unsecured wifi in coffeeshop. 2.
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by furyg3 15y ago
Since people can lie, Enforcing the "can you work here" problem at the border is not the correct way to handle this situation. It should be enforced at the moment of employment.
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by furyg3 15y ago
I grew up in Fremont, and worked for many years there, as well as in San Jose, SF, Mountain View. Then I moved to Amsterdam. There are many 'quality of life' reasons why I'm here, but probably one of the biggest is that I'm a 10 minute bik
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by furyg3 15y ago
If you're interested in Murphy bed-style furniture, these guys make some amazing looking stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAa6bOWB8qY I'm much more interested in buying/engineering something like this, instead of raising my floor and
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by furyg3 15y ago
Here in NL we have "Chipknip" which is exactly the same as you describe. The advantage this system has over debit is that the terminal does not need to have a network connection. So individuals can make small purchases at coffee machines,
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by furyg3 15y ago
I've thought about this a lot and I can't really come to any alternative solutions. Three months ago you found out you're pregnant. Finally! you'd been trying for almost a year! Today you walk into work and find out the company is bankrup
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by furyg3 15y ago
While this is annoying for the Raspberry Pi guys, I don't think their innovation is being stifled... Requiring certification when you're planning on making a few hundred units and selling them yourself to a few schools (or whatever) in the
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by furyg3 15y ago
The secret phrase that makes the troll let you cross the bridge is "Am I free to go?" You're an American citizen, they can't deny you entry.
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by furyg3 15y ago
It's not a speech-jamming gun at all. It's a speaker which plays back your speech to you. It could be easily circumvented with $.10 earplugs...
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by furyg3 15y ago
So, let me see if I have this right. The tax department approached telecom providers to intercept a bunch of calls with high-profile people (Radia tapes) conducting money laundering, tax evasion, buying media influence, etc. These were lea
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by furyg3 15y ago
I wonder how hard it would be to set up a server running Skype, which just auto-accepts incoming video calls and dumps them to YouTube...
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by furyg3 15y ago
You can get the Messages application in beta form here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/messages-beta/
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by furyg3 15y ago
A 'clever' intern of mine was taking the pastebin dumps from some recent anonymous hacks, and pasting all the email addresses into Dropbox's referral system. It's a bit more unethical than buying ads for referrals... but certainly cheaper.
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by furyg3 15y ago
I've been using GV for a while now, which is certainly a next step in solving the problem (short of cell phone DNS). The problem is that I get the impression that GV has stalled. I still can't forward my GV number internationally, after yea
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by furyg3 15y ago
I live in Holland (US Citizen) and get a long series of questions about 50% of the time when crossing the US border. "Do you live in Holland? What do you do there? What are you doing on your visit back home?" I usually (happily, respectfu
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by furyg3 15y ago
Counter-example: Normal guy, going to a conference, history of overstayed visas. He can get on the plane from Paris to New York, but he's not getting in (rightly so). TSA is not CBP, nor should they be. I'd much rather that all that money
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by furyg3 15y ago
You're confused. It's the job of the TSA (or security guards at foreign airports) to search and clear you and your possessions for flying. They are preventing short-term threats, this is the last line of defense. This story is about US Cust
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by furyg3 15y ago
So they will publish the tweets they censor, eh? Idea: 1. Check the list. Get @username and text of censored tweet. 2. Mirror the tweet. 3. Lookup followers of @username 4. Send followers a tweet with link to censored tweet of the @user.
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by furyg3 15y ago
They'll just make an exception for legislators, as is the case amongst so many other laws that don't apply to those who wrote them.
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by furyg3 15y ago
I live in Amsterdam (I'm an American used to US-car-culture). I have a bike. It lets me go almost anywhere in Amsterdam, cheaper, more easily, and generally faster than any other mode of transportation. Sometimes you get a bit wet. There
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by furyg3 15y ago
The pirate bay doesn't host content. Megaupload did.
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by furyg3 15y ago
The whole debate about stealing is irrelevant, and not very interesting. 1) The way that the internet is configured means that distribution is now nearly free for everyone. 2) People will (and are!) using this to distribute things that othe
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by furyg3 15y ago
I'm not quite clear on how large-scale piracy has anything to do with security (cyber or otherwise).
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by furyg3 15y ago
A long, long time ago, Compaq was demoing some gigantic new server which had redundant, hot swappable everything. As the presenter mentioned that you could simply pull out a DIMM on the fly, my friend reached in and did so, which powered o
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by furyg3 15y ago
> Medical care is the most highly regulated industry in the economy, and so nothing you see happening is going to bear very much resemblance to reality. This is a pretty big logical jump. I'm American, but have been living in the Nether
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by furyg3 15y ago
Seems to me a better idea is that you put in a code, which locks your account for a few hours and displays a "this ATM is broken" message, taking it offline for a few mins.

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