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by gwu78 13y ago
I use the word "rent" in a general sense; I could have just as well used the word "licence". I'm used to the old days when you bought music and it did not come with terms attached. But times are changing as more pe
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by gwu78 13y ago
I forgot to mention a point that's probably significant. I cannot use iTunes. The OS's I've used do not support it. (I do have a Mac desktop but I never used it for connecting to the internet and never ran iTunes on it.) M
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by gwu78 13y ago
In your case (if I'm guessing correctly), it's probably better to keep using the provided Music and Video apps. This is because (if I'm guessing correctly), you get your music from something resembling the iTunes store or a
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by gwu78 13y ago
I'd like to see Music and Videos go the same way. These apps are useless. Opening them up, one is greeted with "Store". But I don't want to purchase anything, I just want a place to store my files. And I know for fac
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by gwu78 13y ago
A well crafted comment. But I have a thought experiment for you. "One of the main questions about this is who would do boring, low paid work..." First, let's assume we are starting from scratch and reassigning what "work
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by gwu78 13y ago
Or we could just sign the OOB letters, on company letterhead, with an ink pen.
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by gwu78 13y ago
From the Schneier article: "The good news is they [NSA] went for a browser exploit..." - Roger Dingledine, President of Tor project It seems there are assumptions among parties that employ "browser exploits" against unsu
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by gwu78 13y ago
Certificates could be initially delivered out of band, e.g., in person, or by postal mail. Perhaps in a printed format that can be scanned in. But then there's no way of telling which postal mail is actually from Google, right? :)
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by gwu78 13y ago
Yes, non-existent. That's what I was suggesting. As I remember it, a lot happened between 1983 and 1991. I did not own a PC that could run UNIX in '83, but I did in 1991. Perhaps it was the same for Torvalds. No, I don't
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by gwu78 13y ago
Linux met the need of people wanting to run UNIX at home, on a PC. To that market, it became available earlier than BSD by a couple of years. And it was free (save for the cost of a long-running internet connection to download it). Were
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by gwu78 13y ago
Assuming this is true (filters are faster than slurping) how do we explain the perception of Perl and the many similar interpreters that followed as being "faster than the shell" (i.e. UNIX standard utilities and pipes). Since th
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by gwu78 13y ago
And search results (the data they have obtained via crawling others' sites) is not among the data that can be crawled. What are you suggesting?
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by gwu78 13y ago
Yes, I do. It's called "Share" where the only options are Facebook and Twitter. Why can't Apple let iOS users use the underlying universal, open protocols directly to do file transfers (data export) without installing a
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by gwu78 13y ago
Kudos to the WP for ongoing coverage of this case. There are important issues being litigated here that could affect everyone, and I'd argue they are worth discussing without regard to this particular defendant and the sheer stupidity
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... where the client relies on a trusted source (their ISP's DNS server..." Well, for several major ISP's, maybe even most ISP's worldwide, you can't trust them not to use their DNS servers to show you ads or
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by gwu78 13y ago
A thought experiment: What if just the enclosure was replaceable? For example, if an iPhone 5 user could purchase an iPhone 6 enclosure and transfer his iPhone 5's PCB to the new enclosure (perhaps as easily as moving a SIM card from o
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by gwu78 13y ago
Instead of trying to make improvements to Apple's (or whoever's) stuff, let's stimulate consumer demand for great looking _enclosures_ for (small form factor) hardware. There should be a market for enclosures that look as go
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by gwu78 13y ago
Thanks for this. If I can use U-boot with Nexus 4, I will certainly investigate.
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by gwu78 13y ago
It might meet some. Does it boot from external media? Can I use my own bootloader? Android or Ubuntu are both Linux. What about something like BSD or Plan9? To be truthful, my "requirements" include first and foremost, a great
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by gwu78 13y ago
How about we produce an enclosure that looks about as good as an iPhone or iPad (as some are already doing; hello Samsung). Inside we put cheap electronics, but with no barriers to what software can be run (hello Apple) and no barriers to
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by gwu78 13y ago
OpenVPN uses SSL for encryption. It's an "SSL VPN". Any more questions? There are more reasons than just current events to avoid using SSL. But if this NSA hoopla is what it takes to make people aware of how poor SSL is as
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by gwu78 13y ago
The regulations should require that the disclosures be provided in both human and machine readable format.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Some caches, like dnscache (and thus OpenDNS), may not respond to non-recursive queries. Would this break your dns_peek function?
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by gwu78 13y ago
There are certainly alternatives to Lucene. What about idzebra? It's written in C, it predates Lucene and it was used as the indexing system for Harvest (the origin of Squid). What is more likely than "low memory footprint"
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by gwu78 13y ago
There is no substitute for reading source code. grep -A20 -ri "usage:" src-directory should get you started. But if you rely on looking only at usage(), you'll miss "undocumented" features. Try reading the OpenSSH
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by gwu78 13y ago
"It's a game only..." What about governments who collect the fees? For example, how much have software patents ("junk patents") contributed to the USPTO's balance sheet? Is this relevant? In this position, ca
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by gwu78 13y ago
The parent asked for "lightweight". Have you considered the size of the charlesproxy binaries?
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by gwu78 13y ago
8 bytes at a time. Wouldn't that mean 100's, 1000's or 10's of thousands of requests for nonsensical subdomains of the same domain name (and that domain name is probably a silly one if you got it recently for 10 bucks).
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by gwu78 13y ago
mitmproxy sounds like a lot of overhead if all you want is your own raw HTTP traffic. You can get this without Python, and without mitmproxy. Also, I thought mitmproxy was intended for HTTPS. Even in that case, I'm not sure installi
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by gwu78 13y ago
http://d1snlc0orfrhj.cloudfront.net/presentations/13-apr-des...

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