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871.
by gcb0 9y ago
by definition, only the manufacturer can "lock it back" if the manufacturer keys are in the open, then it is an even worse state of affairs.
872.
by gcb0 9y ago
Google is the source of most of those ads. think about it.
873.
by gcb0 9y ago
you don't see users getting smarter about ads. trust me. you see your close circle of acquaintances getting smarter about ads. the general population is going downhill, by all metrics we have access to. In one case, people were trying
874.
by gcb0 9y ago
everyone that I know in tech that was involved in this one, with half a brain, just walked out of discussions. left was the corrupt, lobbists and idiots-puppets-think-of-the-children. really, early on nobody thought this could ever be taken
875.
by gcb0 9y ago
would be great if it had actual real examples for each item
876.
by gcb0 9y ago
act on data instead of baseless silly preconceptions, like the one you opened your comment with ;)
877.
by gcb0 9y ago
wow! I had no idea forced arbitration could trump labour laws. ...oh wait, US has none of that.
878.
by gcb0 9y ago
its not that clear when you international subsidiaries. companies, when it comes to taxes, can have the cake and eat it too.
879.
by gcb0 9y ago
hence you can only do that if you have enough money. and that is exactly what visa is doing.
880.
by gcb0 9y ago
apple did that for over a decade on ios and fanboys loved it for the "security". google still does that, since every android webview is a chrome instance with default setting (i.e. send tons of info to google) that you can't
881.
by gcb0 9y ago
so, legal euthanasia for the rich?
882.
by gcb0 9y ago
this is pretty much an advertisement for google docs instead of email. The article paints gdoc over email as the holy grail to fix communication. Gdoc barely fix document sharing! There is no concept of groups. Well, there is, but it is bro
883.
by gcb0 9y ago
well, using the current fad terminology: it is because every tab is a Native App. (i.e. an electron app -- i.e. a web page)
884.
by gcb0 9y ago
i thought everyone knew that every browser saving password was completely insecure and only good for throw away accounts (e.g. hackernews :) I honestly assumed the warning dialog i saw all those years was to tell me that, not that i needed
885.
by gcb0 9y ago
unless they knew beforehand to not enter plain text messages there. ever.
886.
by gcb0 9y ago
how does the dutch tax payer like that they paid those folks salaries for some 3 years while all they did was play global recreation drug police?
887.
by gcb0 9y ago
I guess the first questions have the same answers as: if a boat crashes on another in international waters? only difference is that satellites can remain aflot years after their owners bankrupted...
888.
by gcb0 9y ago
your wrong preconceptions don't fit :) the downside was power usage. Motorola made one that was power efficient, used by nokia in the 90s and its pretty much the same chip in google's phone line today (just even more power efficie
889.
by gcb0 9y ago
It would be extremely easy to implement. Ad is easy. You don't have to understand context. Just listen for a thousand or so keywords related to products that are paying you. Then if detection happens apply some rudimentary sentiment an
890.
by gcb0 9y ago
that's not praising paypal (or btc:), just picking the lesser of two evils
891.
by gcb0 9y ago
And that might very well be siri. Which explain the race to voice assistant, that are used maybe once or twice a year, yet everyone invest millions. from cortana to Echo.
892.
by gcb0 9y ago
If you want to get paranoid... Maybe it can detect jailbreak and do nothing. or even better, detect jail break, use it to detect if there is hooks into the audioRecord interface, if no hooks, record even more with it's new found powers
893.
by gcb0 9y ago
you seem to miss the point. 1) get US phone 2) register google voice to US phone 3) stop paying for US phone 4) you can't de-register you US phone, unless you register a new one 5a) if you never sign up for a US phone, anybody can get
894.
by gcb0 9y ago
It definitely does not look like you describe. The original article is self-reported income, which i agree is crap and proof that it can be interpreted any way one wants, as is show in this thread: this is clearly PR damage-control from ube
895.
by gcb0 9y ago
windows only had ie4 and then 6. mac had a great version of ie5 (really) but ie crashed if you used xmlhttprequest or innerhtml too much. so despite them forcing it on the world since ie4, it only became usable on later ie6 versions (window
896.
by gcb0 9y ago
gnome3 problem is NOT js. its that a few devs took over when nobody was looking, changed everything, and released a new version without ANY of the features hundreds of people contributed over the years. now, years later they are at 30, mayb
897.
by gcb0 9y ago
both microsoft a george lucas had connections to the boards of ibm and fox. it's hardly examples applicable to the real world, and both of those most likely involved some sort of insider winning something on the side. one have to be ve
898.
by gcb0 9y ago
this site is so broken on firefox mobile they should be embarrassed.
899.
by gcb0 9y ago
> Another theme that pops up sometimes is someone who says that they used to take stimulants and they were super productive, but they don't anymore, but actually they still do. or never were. I mean "super" , just regular
900.
by gcb0 9y ago
You can add a controversy to the new controversy presented in the article, because even that conditional speed improvement only happens if you ignore the rest of the environment. Meaning, it will be significant if the user is arriving from

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