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by ihsw 13y ago
> And all of this should justify damaging the w3c reputation forever, what are they thinking?! Thinking isn't required to accept your paycheck -- in fact damaging the reputation of the W3C is their goal. There are fewer ways to frag
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by ihsw 13y ago
Environment control is an excellent complement to self-driving cars, especially if/when they become ubiquitous.
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by ihsw 13y ago
Will we get an apology for being so obstinate and narrow-minded, too? How about a promise to never again shove always-on down the throats of their customers, and admit that it's a fruitless effort to exert absolute control over the way
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by ihsw 13y ago
And they wouldn't be wrong -- the US is quite timid towards China, despite all of the saber rattling in American politics. Methinks China would prefer this timidity to be obvious to everybody rather than quietly hidden among diplomatic
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by ihsw 13y ago
I prefer to see it in a bit more relaxed light -- they're checking to see who will pick sides, and which side they will pick, when the shit hits the fan. So they're poking and prodding mainly from a curiosity's standpoint. It
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by ihsw 13y ago
> display of global ambition Ding ding ding! China is slowly but very noisily attempting to tighten it's grip along her Pacific coastline, and it's a very wide grip that stretches from the far north to the far south. The regi
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by ihsw 13y ago
This is mentioned in the article: > Like so many others, he believes bitcoin can free the world from the control of big banks and big government. “It helps us fight the machine,” he says. I cringed reading this, mostly because normal p
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by ihsw 13y ago
No, the kid didn't log into the website and make some postings to their internal communication systems (forums, email listings, etc). He attempted to contact them through official channels but was ignored. After that, he went to the lo
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by ihsw 13y ago
And thus, once again, it's proven that full and anonymous public disclosure is the only way to notify website owners of their vulnerabilities.
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by ihsw 13y ago
You're taking what he said and swinging it so fully in the opposite direction it makes you look as crazy as him. Can't we both agree that corporations and governments abuse their power as a matter of fact?
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by ihsw 13y ago
Oh, most definitely is it a good thing. Their initial foray into consumer products -- the HTC First -- was an absolute disaster. Strategically speaking I would not at all be surprised that this quells the fears surrounding Facebook's f
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by ihsw 13y ago
Not necessarily: https://www.google.com/search?q=golang+%22func+New(%22+site%...
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by ihsw 13y ago
In actuality it would be `email.NewEmail()` -- the lack of namespace specificity is due to the code examples already being part of the package. The issue with a simple `New()` 'constructor' is that there is ambiguity as to what st
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by ihsw 13y ago
And so Facebook encroaches upon the physical world to anchor itself -- storefront businesses will come to rely on Facebook to sell personalized ads. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook gets to access data about who purchases what and w
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by ihsw 13y ago
> Google uses not Docker (that I know of) but containers for a lot of their development. https://github.com/google/lmctfy Interest in it seems to have died down.
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by ihsw 13y ago
> Yes but it only takes one eval or config flag set wrongly for that to be moot. The same could be said about any language, however 'never use eval' is usually shouted quite loudly at anyone learning a scripting language.
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by ihsw 13y ago
It was enough for the author to write a good story on it. Wastefulness be damned, it got the job done.
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by ihsw 13y ago
The point is Snowden's revelations made headlines, and Room 641A didn't. The lionization of Snowden is baffling when it was already well-known. Personally I disagree with the parent quite strongly -- the recent revelations made it
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by ihsw 13y ago
Google's Moto G seems a lot more interesting now -- their marketing effort has been summarized as "getting the next 1 billion people online." This alludes to anticipating urban migration and knowing 1) who moves where 2) when
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by ihsw 13y ago
DAVIDsTEA is also good, they have a few retail locations around. https://www.davidstea.com/ https://www.davidstea.com/store-locator $20 for 250g (1lb) of earl grey tea, for example.
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by ihsw 13y ago
Rogers (Canada's Comcast) does the same thing, but for warning you about your bandwidth usage.
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by ihsw 13y ago
Maybe it would've been better for this news to have been broken a month or two ago, for maximum financial impact. In all seriousness, one has to wonder how shipments get diverted, and how easily this process can be taken advantage of.
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by ihsw 13y ago
That's the idea -- it's OK to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into offensive operations, but defensive operations? Nope, we can't be too quick to put up the walls otherwise our enemies will learn of our 'defensive&#
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by ihsw 13y ago
Somehow I doubt Al Qaeda is using Juniper, but our allies (read: economic adversaries) are. I hope the companies listed -- Dell, Cisco, Juniper, IBM, Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, et al -- are happy with themselves. The government'
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by ihsw 13y ago
The 'kids' part deserves emphasis. In recent times the military has been lowering its admission standards, and as such all manner of emotionally immature and mentally unstable are being allowed in. This isn't new, but it&#x27
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by ihsw 13y ago
With the advent of 3D-printing we should be prepared for the inevitability that everything will eventually be just as difficult to tinker with. 3D-printers enable you to construct devices that are so intricately and tightly closed.
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by ihsw 13y ago
I have a personal policy of upvoting an article before reading it, and after careful consideration I'm going to change that (at least for wsj.com links).
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by ihsw 13y ago
This seems like a business opportunity for Github.
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by ihsw 13y ago
Please don't get confused, I'm referring to normal people rather than the technologically adept. Is it so difficult to acknowledge that the blow-back from Snowden's documents would've been diminished had the news been pr
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by ihsw 13y ago
The target was never bored, horny 14 year old kids -- it was the likes of WikiLeaks/Snowden sympathizers. Currently, military personnel and other public servants are barred from viewing any and all 'classified' content (WikiL

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