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by gst 16y ago
Too little, too late. Free Wifi was interesting a decade ago. Nowadays in most countries 3G is so cheap that nobody bothers trying to find an open access point. I currently pay 4 Euros per Gigabyte per month (or optionally 9 Euros for 9 Gig
752.
by gst 16y ago
This system already exists. * Wuala (using encryption but somewhat insecure deduplication) * SpiderOak (using more secure deduplication: https://spideroak.com/blog/20100827150530-why-spideroak-does... )
753.
by gst 16y ago
Just read between the lines. This is not about giving OpenOffice.org to the community, but more about stopping in-house development on the project. I guess they finally noticed that LibreOffice is quickly overtaking OpenOffice.org and that
754.
by gst 16y ago
I think that up until now .com was considered to be a "neutral" domain, with individual domain names falling under the jursidication of the country where the registrar is located. However, in this case at least for ub.com the registrar is l
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by gst 16y ago
No. It's not a disaster. Just the end of the .com/.net/.org era. As soon as people realize that .com/.net/.org are not neutral, but under US jurisdication, they will move to other TLDs operated in countries with more liberal laws.
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by gst 16y ago
Up until now for all of those seizures that I've checked the registrar has always been located in the US. In such a case I understand that the domain name falls under US laws. However, in this case it is a little bit unclear: The "ub.com" d
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by gst 16y ago
While the legal system is different and courts cannot define new legislation, they can decide how to interprete existing legislation - if they do so it's possible that other courts will follow (however, they do not need to follow).
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by gst 16y ago
I use it too. The nice thing is that in the default config you don't need two-factor auth when using public-key auth. So from your trusted terminal you use public-key auth, and only from untrusted terminals you need to use two-factor auth.
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by gst 16y ago
First, if this data has been obtained via a service such as 23andme cloning wouldn't be possible anyway, as the identified SNPs are only a small subset of the full genome. However, lets assume that this is a full genome - in regard to cloni
760.
by gst 16y ago
It does not need to be that complicated :) When a company I worked for was bought the new companies tried to lay of some (most) of the employees. At this time our team was working on a product that was to a large degree implemented in Schem
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by gst 16y ago
They are based in the US, so I think that the amount of their users that use a French keyboard layout is quite small.
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by gst 16y ago
As a European I always had the impression (from what I've read) that at most US-based IT companies there's not really a work-life balance. I currently work 40 hours a week and get 5 weeks of holiday per year (+ public holidays + sickdays) a
763.
by gst 16y ago
What was so bad aboout Chernobyl? Just for comparison: According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster ): "It is estimated that there may ultimately be a total of 4,000 deaths attributable to the accident, due to in
764.
by gst 16y ago
While SIP is widespread and the only commonly accepted VoIP standard (besides death protocols such as H.323) the whole protocol is just one big mess. Google's open XMPP-based Jingle protocol does a much better job at common use-cases. Unfor
765.
by gst 16y ago
You can also see your Chrome bookmarks in your Google Docs interface - so not everything gets encrypted.
766.
by gst 16y ago
I think most people would perfectly be able to do this, they just don't care. So why force privacy on them if they don't care about privacy? Even with this warning message I guess that 99% of the users will just click it away without readin
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by gst 16y ago
There are some lawyers in Germany that already now presume that Google Analytics is illegal: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/11/24/google-analytics-illegal... . And due to the German "Abmahnung" law (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abmahnu
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by gst 16y ago
If you don't want to be tracked with a long-term cookie just configure your browser to not accept long-term cookies or to delete all cookies on shutdown. Problem solved.
769.
by gst 16y ago
What I'm really missing is some option to sync all of this stuff (passwords, bookmarks, ...) to my own server using Webdav (or FTP or SFTP).
770.
by gst 16y ago
I've recently switched from SipDroid to CSipSimple ( https://market.android.com/details?id=com.csipsimple&fea... ) - which in my opinion works much better. The main difference is that SipDroid implements almost everything in Java code,
771.
by gst 16y ago
Amazing that they use Yate (which is unfortunately not that widely known). Years ago I've examined different VoIP engines for a project: While Asterisk is one of the most widely used VoIP engines the source code and the whole architecture (
772.
by gst 16y ago
On my last flight to the US British Airways at first didn't allow my friend to board the plane, because they told us that her name is on some watchlist. An airline employee then phoned ~30 minutes with the US department of Homeland Security
773.
by gst 16y ago
"who's only commercialization of their technology is to sue other people" There's a very good reason for this behavior: If you are a small company that sells a product, enforcing a patent related to this product is nearly impossible. If you
774.
by gst 16y ago
Why is someone abiding to the patent law a "troll"? What's wrong with suing 397 companies if (i) you have a valid patent (ii) the law says that those companies violate your patent? If you don't like how the patent system works lobby your go
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Security concerns over new Thunderbolt I/O technology(h-online.com)
50 points by gst 16y ago|13 comments
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by gst 16y ago
In addition, the transliteration also depends on the target language. E.g., in English Qaddafi seems to be the more common form, while in German almost always Gaddafi ist used: 866,000 Google hits for: '"gaddafi" site:de' 9,090 Google hits
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PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning(couragetoresist.org)
83 points by gst 16y ago|70 comments
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by gst 16y ago
Is it possible to print directly to the fax service? That's what we've did once for a very similar service: Provide a server using the Internet Printing Protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol ) that clients confi
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When does Google abide to a foreign subpoena?(quora.com)
2 points by gst 16y ago|0 comments
780.
by gst 16y ago
I wonder if the public ever will become educated about the value of privacy. A few days ago I've tried to explain a friend who often uses Internet cafes how to use Google's two factor authentication for Gmail. Her answer was: "Why should I

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