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541.
by gst 15y ago
I hope this is meant as a joke. I've worked in research for several years and we almost exclusively kept LaTeX documents in a Git repository. This worked perfectly: Multiple people can edit the document at the same time and you can also add
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by gst 15y ago
Telco companies in other countries are able to do this. Why shouldn't companies in the US then be able to offer such a model? E.g., see "Bob" in Austria: http://www.bob.at/gigabob The table (for one of their plans) says: Included volume p
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by gst 15y ago
Be careful when using PwdHash. The used hashing mechanism is quite weak. If you don't have a long high-entropy master password, it should be feasible for a site-owner to brute-force your master-password based on the site-specific password.
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by gst 15y ago
I don't see anything scary. Nobody forces you to use Facebook (I very very seldom use it). Most of its users don't care about their own privacy, so why should Facebook care about it's users privacy?
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by gst 15y ago
There's a simple reason why Apple was often the first one to put something into a product: They could afford to sell high-end products for a high price and know that they still have lots of users who buy their stuff. Most of the other compa
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by gst 15y ago
I don't think he even needs to make it to Germany. In theory it should be sufficient if he boards a ship sailing under the German flag that is located on international waters.
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by gst 15y ago
Nice to see that there are still markets where Google doesn't have a monopoly.
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by gst 15y ago
Nothing new. Skype also allows you to freely choose the sending number of your SMS (however, it first checks if you can receive SMS at this number).
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by gst 15y ago
Parsing Apache logs isn't hard. There's a well-defined spec for them. Of course you have to keep track of stuff like escaping, but that's pretty trivial.
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by gst 15y ago
Never heard of such a notation before. Probably only used in the US where people don't use mm.
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by gst 15y ago
Why does your search engine need to store your mails? Can't this be a different provider?
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by gst 15y ago
Did they get some kind of permission by Google or by the authors, or do they just hope that no-one will sue them for copyright infringement?
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by gst 15y ago
Why can't you just take a standard Ubuntu and install the KDE packages? As far as I understand Kubuntu it's exactly the same as vanilla Ubuntu, but just uses different default packages.
554.
by gst 15y ago
One important point not raised in the article is that this is not only a security decision. Yes, from a security standpoint each single one of us might be better off with using Gmail, instead of using their own mailserver or a service provi
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by gst 15y ago
If you use Google Apps (as suggested in my post) the "goodness in terms of security and spam filtering" would be EXACTLY THE SAME as when using plain gmail.com.
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by gst 15y ago
I assume that the chances for you being sued for your domain are much lower than the chances of Google randomly disabling your account. Which has happened in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=354593 and http://news.ycombinato
557.
by gst 15y ago
The point is that you're locked into a single provider and it's hard to switch. Using your own domain isn't much harder, looks more professional, and allows you to switch provider at any point in time.
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by gst 15y ago
The most important part of this: "With that said, I think it’s a bad idea to use a @gmail.com address (or any other domain name you don’t own). If Google – or your email service of choice – does turn evil or shuts down, at best you have to
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by gst 15y ago
Why should this be any more illegal than looking at someone elses website?
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by gst 15y ago
I still have the standard Dialer in my application menu that I can use for such cases.
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by gst 15y ago
I'm currently using T-Mobile with an unlocked Galaxy Nexus (GSM version). The only feature that I currently use from T-Mobile is their data connection. For voice calls I'm using Google voice and Skype: (1) With most of my friends I just use
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by gst 15y ago
DuckDuckGo (the search engine) is doing the same. E.g., search for something that returns Amazon search result, and the link to Amazon will have their affiliate tag included. A positive point, however, is that they are open about this on th
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by gst 15y ago
This problem has already been solved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling Yes, there are problems with OCSP stapling, but it is much better then what's currently used. In addition, it does not depend on a central authority as in th
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by gst 15y ago
Sending mailservers typically try to redeliver mails for several days if something goes wrong (and if your mailserver does not respond with a permanent error).
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by gst 15y ago
According to Wikipedia that is wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...
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by gst 15y ago
Just speculation, but I have the impression that alcohol "problems" are a larger problem in countries where the age required to legally buy alcohol is rather high. In my home country (Austria) I could buy alcohol at age 13 without any probl
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by gst 15y ago
Sure you can - as long as you abide by the GPL and release your own software under the GPL. iOS libraries aren't GPL, but that's no problem as the GPL allows you to link against non-GPL libraries if they are part of the operating system. Th
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Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?(laforge.gnumonks.org)
225 points by gst 15y ago|262 comments
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by gst 15y ago
I use suspend-to-disk which suspends to my encryped swap partition. No need to "shut down" your computer, just don't use suspend-to-ram.
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by gst 15y ago
That's just wrong. Android has garbage collection, yes. Since iOS5 there's refcounting available, but that's far away from garbage collection. Just add some circular dependencies and refcounting will fail. And no, that's not only a theoreti

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