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by irons 16y ago
For those who want to avoid having their text messages tapped, Mr. Tanjeloff suggested “keeping your phone close by, or make sure people trust you.” He really said that? Zoomed right past the event horizon of potential parody.
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by irons 16y ago
Amen to all of that. I didn't know until I tried it with an unsupported host that it would turn around and provide a j.mp short URL, which is great, but non-obvious. Until then, I'm wondering why I'd want to use a link shortener with a seve
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by irons 16y ago
i put "right to privacy" in quotes because whether it exists at all is debatable (i take no view on the issue). Whether its existence is debatable is also, apparently, debatable.
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by irons 16y ago
I don't really consider it a negative for my years-old untapped ideas to cost me a token amount of money per annum. If my unused twitter accounts did the same, I'd probably have a few more active projects, or a few fewer dormant ones.
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by irons 16y ago
The only downside to wildcard certs through StartSSL is that getting one requires high-resolution proof of personal identity, to be kept on file outside local jurisdiction (the company's based in Israel) until the cert's final renewal or re
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by irons 16y ago
Sure you can, but only once per story.
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by irons 16y ago
They would not. No plugins, no system infrastructure, not even System Preferences panes, just single-package apps.
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by irons 16y ago
Unless you can explain why it made sense to include Flash last week and it doesn't today. You may have noticed that Apple cleaned house on Wednesday. They announced the Mac app store, deprecated Java (and listed deprecated-Java as a disqu
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by irons 16y ago
Part of what makes CrashPlan so killer is that it's not cloud-centric. It also offers backups to local storage, backups over the internet to authorized peers, and in the pro version, centralized backups to one's own servers and storage, whi
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by irons 16y ago
You expect to find Java apps on Mac OS X which don't leverage the cross-platform angle? Crashplan is the best Java app I use on the Mac, and the Mac is a big part of their business. Apple itself uses them, from what I understand.
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by irons 16y ago
Only the freakishly excellent Crashplan, whose developers put out a statement on the Java contretemps this morning: http://twitter.com/crashplan/status/28403694811 (Alas, linebreaks stripped by the website.)
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by irons 16y ago
It's unclear if you're making a projection about the future or mistaken about the present, but Apple's Mac dev tools have been zero-cost for years. Nothing about that changed yesterday.
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by irons 16y ago
The sticky wicket isn't the protocols used to schlep the video, it's the session initiation. Apple's mapping phone numbers (for iPhones) and email addresses (for iPods and now Macs) to a central hub to initiate calls. That's how the FaceTim
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by irons 16y ago
Going by all the chaff it's thrown up, lumping in desktop Linux with Android was the article's main rhetorical innovation. I'm critical of Android's fragmentation problem, and I talk to other people who are too, but I've never heard anyone
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by irons 16y ago
My argument is that "Markets! Yay!" is not an argument. Most markets require some regulation, and some luck, to function optimally. This particular market needs more of both.
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by irons 16y ago
My point is that the "competitive market" you'd applauding was designed by the carriers with the specific goal of preventing anyone from ever doing what Apple did. That Apple was able to do it was marvelous, but it was also stupendously unl
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by irons 16y ago
If you want to make the claim that the carriers are likely to duke it out and deliver any net value to the end-user, you're going to have to make a much stronger case than handwaving about competition. We're already talking about wireless c
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by irons 16y ago
When, or how, is a wire transfer cheaper than Paypal? In the US, wire transfers through banks tend to have fixed initiation costs on the order of $25-$35.
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by irons 16y ago
When there are many more Androids out there than iPhones, iPhone dev is gonna be a tough sell. What do you think the ratio of Android-to-iOS installed base is going to have to be before the median Android developer is making as much money
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by irons 16y ago
And the new Apple TV is an iOS device. Who cares? The OS in both cases is an implementation detail. Neither the ATV or the Nook remotely exemplify the features people associate with "iOS device" or "Android tablet".
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by irons 16y ago
Neither of those even works out of the box with the Android Market. Even with wishing and hoping and squinting, it's not credible to put them in the same product category as the iPad. A some-assembly-required golf cart can't substitute for
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by irons 16y ago
Beyond de-politicization, which can cut a lot of different ways, the other factor in acrimony-reduction is the European social safety net. The EU legal system doesn't have to be the tool of last resort to the same extent as in the American
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by irons 16y ago
I am not a legal expert, but I doubt a court would award crippling costs to a little guy who brought a case with genuine merit against a big guy but lost, where the little guy incurred only modest costs but the big guy brought the whole le
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by irons 16y ago
He's not being downvoted for being un-PC, he's being downvoted for being reflexively paranoid, in a style that resists falsification and contributes nothing to the discussion.
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by irons 16y ago
The subsequent clarification that the proximate cause of the takedown was a photo of "a scantily clad lady with a bottle in her hand" seems to undermine your certainty that any particular .ly business model is safe. http://www.flickr.com/p
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by irons 16y ago
"The web"? He's asking how journalism is supposed to be funded, you're talking about how it might be delivered.
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by irons 16y ago
Could you explain what about this explanation you find the least bit reassuring?
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by irons 16y ago
I'm pretty sure those were AT&T commercials, not Apple commercials. And given that no Verizon customers have simultaneous voice/data, it's pretty clearly not make-or-break to the target market of a Verizon phone. Also, the limitation on
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by irons 16y ago
This story can be spot-on (Apple's producing a CDMA iPhone) without fulfilling the only aspect which US-centric HN readers care about (that Verizon will carry it). The story is framed in terms of technical capability, not in terms of a deal
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by irons 16y ago
Thanks for reposting this, but he claims it was $300K in legal fees, and an $850K settlement. Sounds like he got off light.

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