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by guan 15y ago
Of course, I meant, hopefully a successful remote wipe will prevent this method from working. (A number of things could go wrong, including no signal, MobileMe being down, etc.)
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by guan 15y ago
Hopefully Remote Wipe will still work by shedding the keys altogether.
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by guan 15y ago
The author of the original article is, at least for some of his tests: “(on an 8-core EC2 instance, c1.xlarge running Xen)”
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by guan 15y ago
Twitter has shown quite a lack of taste in recent months (e.g. dickbar). I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply hadn’t thought about these issues, and that it’s not a sinister plan to further encourage use of the official Twitter apps.
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by guan 15y ago
I realize that a lot of people feel deceived, and they should have been much clearer, but isn’t this kind of expected? TomasSedovic and I have commented on this before, but I still think there are so many features that suggest that this is
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by guan 15y ago
They probably want to make extra sure that there are no errors this time.
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by guan 15y ago
Yes, due to firmware bugs.
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by guan 15y ago
You buy insurance mostly to protect against costs that are expensive and unlikely to happen. The article points out that in New York, which has a lot of Zipcar customers, 3 percent of bodily injury liability insurane claims are over $300,00
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by guan 16y ago
Absolutely: http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...
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by guan 16y ago
You are absolutely right in terms of what is technically possible. My point was more that it’s not really realistic to use crypto like that with a Dropbox-like service.
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by guan 16y ago
Of course Dropbox knows the keys. If they didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to access your files on so many platforms (web, desktop, iPhone) and you wouldn’t be able to easily share folders with others. Even though it isn’t spelled out, I’ve alw
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Playstation Hacker Geohot Settles with Sony Computer Entertainment America(kotaku.com)
5 points by guan 16y ago|0 comments
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by guan 16y ago
April Fools’?
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by guan 16y ago
Don’t forget to click through to the original report: http://www.publicknowledge.org/files/docs/peak_bandwidth.pdf
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Report: ‘Peak Bandwidth’ Threatens Global Economy Unless Decisive Action Taken(crunchgear.com)
1 points by guan 16y ago|1 comments
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by guan 16y ago
I can’t resolve www.bbc.co.uk using any of the four name servers (ns1.thls.bbc.co.uk, ns1.bbc.co.uk, ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk and ns1.thdo.bbc.co.uk). The last IP address Netcraft saw was 212.58.246.90, which I also can’t access, but they defini
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by guan 16y ago
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.bbc.co.uk
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by guan 16y ago
$3,000 may be too much, but I basically like this idea. Isn’t the whole premise of (peer-reviewed) open access that authors would pay fees sufficient to cover the cost of publishing and peer review, so libraries aren’t ripped off by publish
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by guan 16y ago
Linus: “I (obviously) always compile my own kernels”
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by guan 16y ago
A lot of people I know don’t want to pay $500 up front for a phone, but I think there is a lot of path dependency in this. It’s a lot more common in Europe to pay $500 or even more for a smartphone. When I lived in Denmark I did that at lea
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by guan 16y ago
He seems to be saying that they are pretty much like record labels, but they behave a lot better.
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by guan 16y ago
+1 And they do provide a more or less generic fungible data product with the tethering plan. The price is $10/1GB data beyond the included data. It may be overpriced, a function of the scarcity of mobile bandwidth with current technologies
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$10 drug now $1500 after FDA grants monopoly(boingboing.net)
2 points by guan 16y ago|0 comments
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by guan 16y ago
You could. This lets you use it with your own number, lets you record outgoing calls, and is useful outside the US where Google Voice is not available. As an added benefit, you get two extra devices to carry in your pocket (this box and the
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by guan 16y ago
It won’t be valuable to everyone, but here are some cases off the top of my head: - On a popular news site or blog, if a particular entry becomes very popular, you may want to follow up on the story on the same day. - On a corporate or sale
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DIY iPhone Call Recorder(awaitinginspiration.com)
1 points by guan 16y ago|2 comments
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Laser-cut noise maker resembles violin(hackaday.com)
1 points by guan 16y ago|0 comments
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Something to Ruin Your Weekend(organizationsandmarkets.com)
2 points by guan 16y ago|1 comments
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by guan 16y ago
I know there are plenty of legitimate PayPal horror stories, but this I’m not sure this quite qualifies. The first parts of the story are vanilla PayPal evil, sure. But at the end, PayPal accuses them of offering an aggregation service. The
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by guan 16y ago
You could do a reverse lookup on crawler IP addresses to make sure that they match the User Agent. Google PTR records will end in google.com or googlebot.com. Maybe compare with the list at http://chceme.info/ips/ You probably can’t preve

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