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by ig1 13y ago
Netflix has subtitles for most things.
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by ig1 13y ago
I don't know if they've changed it, but when I had Lovefilm (late 2011) I found that they sent a huge amount of personal information to advertisers. This included what movies you were looking at (even if you just looked at a movie
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by ig1 13y ago
How does that matter ? - when a user clicks on a search result they expect to get the content described in the snippet. If you're unable to deliver that content on mobile then it makes perfect sense for you not to show up in the searc
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by ig1 13y ago
In theory if someone knew they were subject to data being collected about them they could bring a law-suit against the companies involved for breaching data protection and privacy legislation. The immunity that companies get from co-operati
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by ig1 13y ago
What has that got to do with length ? - entertainment value isn't a function of length.
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by ig1 13y ago
Nevertheless it's what practically everyone does. Typically the biggest part of an individual books cost are the retailer margin and publisher profit. It's also important to note that while the publisher profit margin on an indivi
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by ig1 13y ago
Buyers evaluate a books price by it's length. That is they're more willing to pay $50 for a 500 page book than a 50 page book. It's completely irrational, nevertheless it a behaviour that even completely rational people displ
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by ig1 13y ago
"Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that Twitter was invited to join the Prism programme last year, but rejected the approach from US authorities." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22824379
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by ig1 13y ago
The Microsoft certificate revokation list for Flame: Microsoft is providing an update for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows. The update revokes the trust of the following intermediate CA certificates: Microsoft Enforced L
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by ig1 13y ago
SHA-1 should be assumed to be broken in any case. The Flame malware was distributed using a fake certificate that was generated via a brand new (publicly unknown) chosen prefix collision technique against SHA-1.
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by ig1 13y ago
Berlin is Germany's startup hub. I'm guessing Munich is where most of the developers are.
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by ig1 13y ago
It seems like what you're describing is close to what GetSatisfaction provides. The obvious advantage of running your own is integration with your CRM system and moderation powers.
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by ig1 13y ago
"The law enforcement and security officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the agencies that normally conduct such investigations, including the FBI and Justice Department, were expecting a probe into the leaks to a B
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by ig1 13y ago
No, if anything it supports the Google/FB interpretation. From this slide it appears the distinction between the two types of data collection are between "indirect" on-the-wire intercepts and "direct" where the data
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by ig1 13y ago
Well I mean sources which are either primary (i.e. tweets, blog post which are from eye witnesses, people involved) and also secondary sources such as WashPo when WashPo acts as the sole conduit for a primary source (i.e. WashPo publishes i
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Ask HN: Is there a news startup for collating sources?
3 points by ig1 13y ago|2 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
Have you read the full WashPo article (all four pages)[1] ? - it goes into extensive detail of how it's used including "live surveillance of [Google] search terms" and access to Skype audio streams. It's obviously far mo
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by ig1 13y ago
Google has specifically stated that they don't take this ("drop box") approach: "We cannot say this more clearly—the government does not have access to Google servers—not directly, or via a back door, or a so-called drop
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by ig1 13y ago
Google have also denied providing any kind of locker-room facility. Also given slide 2 (talking about network traffic routing) it seems unlikely that it's describing FISA requests.
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by ig1 13y ago
The key takeaways: 1) There's at least one tech company that was approached about joining Prism. Presumably similar approaches were made to other companies. 2) The participation was at least in this case voluntary 3) Without that parti
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Twitter refused to join PRISM(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by ig1 13y ago|11 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
Buried in the article is the key line: "the BBC has learned that Twitter was invited to join the Prism programme last year but rejected the approach from US authorities." So we now have a confirmation from a third party that at le
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by ig1 13y ago
No it isn't. You can run it through plagiarism software which is specifically designed to take into account scenarios like your suggest and it'll be flagged. For example why do they all use the word "provide" there are h
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by ig1 13y ago
It's not the phrase "direct access" (which they could reasonably use given it was used in the original leak story), but rather the construction of the whole sentence. There are millions of ways you could phrase the response (
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by ig1 13y ago
Facebook: "We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers." Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers" AOL: "nor do we provide any governme
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by ig1 13y ago
The term direct access was first used by the Guardian in their original story: "but the Prism program allows the intelligence services direct access to the companies' servers." - most of the early denials (where the companies
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by ig1 13y ago
The phrase "direct access" was used in the original Guardian article that made the accusation and was a core part of the accusation, hence it's not surprising it's been used in the denial.
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by ig1 13y ago
It depends where the data is coming from, but generally (in government analysis) flat sharers aren't treated as members of the same household.
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by ig1 13y ago
I had a nice two-bed flat in E1 for £300/week, which is about 15,600/year. If you're two people earning 25k/year each, you're household take-home will be around £40k making the rent perfectly feasible.
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by ig1 13y ago
That's /r/coding you're thinking of, but reddit has a bunch of tech/dev communities (for example /r/webdev) that might be closer to what you want.

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