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721.
by graue 14y ago
We've got a reading comprehension issue. You're responding to my post about how easily you can disable data on an Android smartphone, which I proposed as a way to avoid tracking.
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by graue 14y ago
I don't disagree, but in this case the sex toy joke was obviously not relevant to the product and could be easily removed.
723.
by graue 14y ago
Yeah, but doesn't that work by polling the APs then sending the poll results to Google over 3G/4G? If data is off how could this work?
724.
by graue 14y ago
How is Google's wifi data relevant here? Unless Google themselves operate the hotspot, they won't know what devices polled it or connected to it. Near as I can tell, the privacy threat here is very specific. You come within a few hundred fe
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by graue 14y ago
You can call 911 even if you don't pay for cell service. We gave my grandmother an old, deactivated cell phone just for that purpose. "The FCC's basic 911 rules require wireless service providers to transmit all 911 calls to a PSAP, regardl
726.
by graue 14y ago
How would that work? Are you suggesting 3+ of the access points within range working together to triangulate me, and saving that information, along with the phone's MAC address or similar?
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by graue 14y ago
If I heard a joke about naughty toys in a movie? Or some good friends made fun of me while out drinking and said something like that? Sure, no problem. But in a finance app? Not okay. If I'm trusting this company's app to manage my finances
728.
by graue 14y ago
Even in a sparsely populated area, you could keep your phone in your car, turned off, and just turn it on if you did have an emergency.
729.
by graue 14y ago
You could also turn off 3G/4G and calls on your smartphone, but keep wifi. I just tried this on my Android ICS phone and it's pretty easy to accomplish. Enable airplane mode — which will disable calls, data and wifi — then re-enable wifi. T
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by graue 14y ago
I agree. While the article got me interested, the video was disappointing. I expected Dalton to show me something, not just talk for three minutes. In the article, he writes "This isn’t vaporware." So where's the screencast? Worse, he's not
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by graue 14y ago
This looks very cool. I play a lot on http://iggamecenter.com , which has a zillion games, but is kinda clunky and does have the extra friction of requiring players to create an account first. What you've made is definitely better for the
732.
by graue 14y ago
Me neither on Ubuntu 12.04, Chromium 18.0.1025.151. (I'd assume it's supposed to work on Chromium as well as Chrome?) It installs without a hitch, but the comments pages are totally unmodified — no percentages or color like the screenshot.
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by graue 14y ago
As someone who quit facebook a while back, I can't help but feel that this kind of event vindicates me. Sometimes I'm tempted to re-create a minimal account on the service just for findability, but even that small step would have been enoug
734.
by graue 14y ago
What if you combine this model with how Mozilla handles trademarks? Firefox is 100% open source, but if you distribute your own binaries, you can't use the name "Firefox" or the logo. That arrangement would seem to address your concerns.
735.
by graue 14y ago
Thank you! I keep seeing these kinds of comments and feeling like I must be the poorest person ever to post here. I have yet to make even $15 an hour (which is a mere tenth of what adamjernst apparently gets paid).
736.
by graue 14y ago
Surely I can't be the only one who prefers PageUp/PageDown to flip through webpages? This breaks PageDown pretty badly.
737.
by graue 14y ago
This seems like something you need to fix. Pretty important IMO... if someone's trying to find you, don't send them to the wrong site.
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by graue 14y ago
Don't worry about it, Eric. I think a lot of HNers have found PadMapper useful, support what you're doing and want it to be successful — hence, this making the front page.
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by graue 14y ago
At first glance, this looks similar to PadLister ( http://padlister.com ), the companion service from the guy who did PadMapper. Both post your listings to multiple sites and can accept online applications and do a credit check. Is there a
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by graue 14y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. I'd appreciate either signed packages or SSL, otherwise this is very, very insecure.
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by graue 14y ago
You know PadMapper is a one-man operation? I don't think Eric (the guy behind it) even has investors. It seems like something he just hacked up in his spare time.
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by graue 14y ago
I didn't interpret that as a dig at HN, any more than "GooBook" is a dig at Google and Facebook... He just changed the names to make it clear his story is fictional.
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by graue 14y ago
It's not entirely untrue to say that teabags are "swept off the floor", though it may be misleading. Typically, ALL tea is sorted on the factory floor. http://www.discoveringtea.com/2011/06/21/in-amgoorie-the-fac... However, it is true t
744.
by graue 14y ago
A related nitpick: since Python's integers are arbitrary size, technically operations like - and / are not constant time, so your claim of an implementation "with constant-time and constant-space operations" is not true. However, I understa
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by graue 14y ago
Didn't know those people and wasn't that strongly motivated to go... it was just one of several possible things to do that night. "Relentlessly resourceful" is great, but part of that is to make sure you're solving the right problem. And in
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by graue 14y ago
I think you're making the same point as me: "Facebook supports existing friendships. It doesn't create new ones." That's my experience too: Facebook did not turn my acquaintances into friends. But the person I replied to claimed otherwise —
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by graue 14y ago
Facebook has over 900 million monthly active users (google it and you can easily confirm this from multiple sources). It may not be "cool", but the time when you could proclaim it a fad has long since passed. That's like saying TV's not coo
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by graue 14y ago
When I signed up for Facebook, that was my dream. That I would post stuff like "who wants to get ice cream tomorrow night?" and, just like that, people would take me up on it. Never happened. On the contrary, people I met would "friend" me,
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by graue 14y ago
I'd argue though that a news aggregator can separate signal from noise and still provide no value. On HN I catch myself reading very well-written, thoroughly researched and fascinating articles... that have nothing to do with my life. That
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by graue 14y ago
The OP looks like a legitimate user to me. Thoughtful comments on other stories, and recent submissions from a wide variety of sources, with no publisher clearly favored. I immediately thought the same as you when I saw an Atlantic link, th

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