higherpurpose

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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I remember a big argument in the early years of Android. Google kept promoting it (to the users) as a liberating "open source" OS - except it only worked that way until it reached the manufacturers and carriers. After that, comple
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Is this US-only?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Sounds just like Beats. Maybe Apple should buy them out and make gold lights for $6,000.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Right after another "error" on Google's part (which they never admitted to actually): https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-major-torrent-sites-o... Saying torrents sites need to be blocked because they migh
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Indeed, it's the whole whitelist vs blacklist [1] debate. Whitelists are radically safer. [1] - https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/16418068728_b8dd8aa200_c...
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I wish Android allowed power users to create "root accounts" on Android, similar to how you can create Admin accounts on Windows, but be completely isolated from the default safe account.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
So when is OpenBSD getting rewritten in Rust?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Doesn't seem to include Dan Berstein's more recent fast code-based McBits: http://binary.cr.yp.to/mcbits.html
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I know there are sites that ask "how much you're earning as a software developer" or whatever, to get an idea about how much people are getting paid for a type of job. But is there a website where it basically gives asks you
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Well it's not meant to be a sports car, but this may be more to your liking: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/17/8994649/new-tesla-roadster... My guess is it will also have at least a 500-mile range,
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I wish them good luck. The car market could use more players that attract attention to high-quality electric cars. However, I'm not so sure about this sort of "all-star" unnaturally born companies. I think they usually fail.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Would it end up acquiring Tesla and bankrupting it?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
The US government's "cybersecurity policy" is completely and utterly inadequate. Their thinking so far has been "well, let's leave aside the actual security stuff, and focus on getting cyber-weapons - the more c
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/516
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I think Uber sees self-driving cars much more as an opportunity than a threat - unless they are afraid they won't be able to buy self-driving cars from anyone but Google, and Google won't sell to them. But I'm sure there will
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Maybe do a "How an electric car works" site/page in the future. I imagine it would have quite a bit less content, though.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
This comes at the right time, as the Tories are also trying to pass much worse surveillance legislation where they want to bypass the judges and only have the Home Secretary sign the "warrants" for mass surveillance (so even worse
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
To which they always make sure to also add words like "other serious crimes" in such legislation, or even shamelessly add "drug crimes" in there, too.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Or even big time drug dealers: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sin...
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I wouldn't get too excited about it yet. The 9th Circuit Court tends to side with the copyright maximalists. And the Supreme Court hasn't been favorable to something like this either so far.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> And that hero image that's actually 1600px wide and then resized in CSS to 400px? It's there because that was the source image from the external agency and no one thought to modify it. And because of retina iPads and Macbooks
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> When first formulated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore 50 years ago, this suggested that chip power could double every 12 months. What? I don't think it was ever 12 months, but 18-24 months. > Now, improvements are expected app
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
We're at least decades away from making secure digital voting (if something like that is ever going to be possible). I also believe it will be somehow based on blockchain technology that can't be easily altered to fraud the vote
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Well Apple backs-up iMessages by default anyway. So even if it is end-to-end, they still have a copy of everything on their servers, unless you disable the iMessage syncing. Also, just like Whatsapp's "end-to-end" crypto, jus
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
What's causing the prices to be so high? Is it the complexity of U.S. law? Would it help if you had 5 pages laws instead of 500 pages laws, or would that make things worse? (more room for loopholes) I'm inclined to believe simpler
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Tracking is a feature, not a bug, in Chrome.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I wish we didn't push outdated crypto protocols such as PGP. So many companies seem to want to invest money or development time into making PGP "better" - with one exception: they can't make it forward secure, which I th
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Can we have a Google Moderator/User Voice-like tool with a "page" for every representative, where they can then be encouraged to look to see what their constituents want most from them?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
To me the more interesting thing is that the Chinese government is making such a big deal about a relatively unknown app such as Telegram, but isn't saying or doing anything at all about iMessage, which is supposed to be end-to-end e
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Electric car infrastructure is "cheap" (compared to say hydrogen stations or even gas stations). Chargers will be everywhere by the time 20% of the car market is electric. I wouldn't worry too much about it if you're

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