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91.
by gcb 14y ago
because safari requires work arounds from most sites to work 100%. remove ads, and the efort to suport that browser just die.
92.
by gcb 14y ago
All insurance companies are/will have to spend billions on data mining... ...says the guy who sells data mining.
93.
by gcb 14y ago
I call spam anything that is in my news feed but ask me to buy something instead of informing me. Sorry if you took it personally. Ironically, i wouldn't call spam if done by you (assume the authors) with the "show hn" shenanigans...
94.
by gcb 14y ago
You already got the traction. Offer something complete now. It's already better.
95.
by gcb 14y ago
Yep. looks like Spam to me. Smells like Spam to me. Flagged as Spam.
96.
by gcb 14y ago
would changes to the windows kernel by the update require user action? will it end up being the "press OK to allow administrator rights to this application" but at boot time. or if it's the same signature it just updates silently? btw, this
97.
by gcb 14y ago
Summary: China asks nvidia for weird list of cpu support, oy maybe opensource drivers (not clear). Nvidia says no. Article wonders Chinese will knock on amds door. ...who might say the same, given track record.
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by gcb 14y ago
You sir, are correct. People ignore that this has nothing to do with desktops, but the newly forming tablet (or whatever is to came) market. How many touchpads run webos now? Heck craigslist is filled with $50 offers to install Android ther
99.
by gcb 14y ago
You seem to be new to all this "centralized control" thing... Here's your complimentary link http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-malware-was-si... Then you can proceed searching for ssl cert fiasco...
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by gcb 14y ago
No. You're wrong. We want open source because we want control of what run on our machines. That standard goes against it. Why not have a per machine signature that you sign your code against? Centralize it and have no more control. That's n
101.
by gcb 14y ago
Any and every malware will be signed with windows (version of the year) private key. They will have way less difficulty to run than oss
102.
by gcb 14y ago
Translates like this: if you bought a safeboot system, you're helpless It has absolutely no security soundness. It may protect you against evil maid attack. But even so, less than decent fs encryption. It's nothing more than a ploy to help
103.
by gcb 14y ago
http://antheacarson.hubpages.com/hub/The-1952-Paper-Chess-Co...
104.
by gcb 14y ago
Works in Android better than hn's textareas.. /me wonders how can you screw up a text area Only draw back is having to give up Swype for hackers keyboard, thanks to Swype lack of esc key.
105.
by gcb 14y ago
...of undocumented behaviour.
106.
by gcb 14y ago
if you can't do that trivial change on some convulated release system... You don't change php version either. Unless you are addressing security changes. I think its very professional to not bump versions just for the sake of it. release no
107.
by gcb 14y ago
Remember when i was 3 and typed commands on a XT to run games (Sokoban, etc) Learned to use dir and cd by just watching my father doing stuff. Soon i took more fun exploring other files than playing the games
108.
by gcb 14y ago
Wasn't implying it leaks by the holes :) just that nobody (i didn't use to) think it was a sheet of metal there only
109.
by gcb 14y ago
Sans the creativity.
110.
by gcb 14y ago
Interesting fact. Or urban legend (who can tell the difference nowadays?) What blocks microwaves is thin metal plate in the door. With holes so you can see inside. It's a Faraday cage. And if you read specs in the manual, it' says the perce
111.
by gcb 14y ago
someone send that post to the gnome lists... hopefully they will be using xfce and hence be able to read it. Then just hope they get the analogy
112.
by gcb 14y ago
everything is context. banks used to that to gain customers. Some time ago, every developer working at banks knew that customers were measured in cost per customer. You'd had the cost to please them, and then you'd make money investing thei
113.
by gcb 14y ago
The wii app is the worst piece of software i've ever seen. totally lack of understanding of system. dumb choices all around. the most limiting search ever conceived by mankind. absolutely no way to see related content from one movie like yo
114.
by gcb 14y ago
i'm pretty sure the previous one already covered all of that.
115.
by gcb 14y ago
The fact that they had this api made me choose to be their consumer in the first place. And i was already looking for a reason to ditch them since the price changes and recent focusing 100% on series instead of any film.
116.
by gcb 14y ago
Conclusion is over the better dumb, sorry. Remember the story about tire companies buying trolley routes, running them out of schedule, people opting for other means of transportation because trolleys were never on time, than municipalits m
117.
by gcb 14y ago
No redundant power supply?
118.
by gcb 14y ago
You don't want manpower for file system stuff. All my prepare and forget servers runs openbsd just because they have less people adding features (and bugs) and the few people there have awesome attention to quality (not just security) to th
119.
by gcb 14y ago
All the bugs happen in implementation.
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by gcb 14y ago
Freebsd it is

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