joenathan

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by joenathan 11y ago
One would hope they were mature enough to understand an idiom, and not so delicate that they would need to be handled with kid gloves.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Well last time I checked operating systems don't install themselves, a user has to download the setup or insert a disk and there are quite a few user agreement prompts before anything installs.
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by joenathan 12y ago
>without asking the user first You must be kidding.
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by joenathan 12y ago
It can very easily turn into mockery when you don't understand a culture and then try to emulate it. Think parents trying to act hip, it just doesn't work. Why try to falsely disguise what it is and where it's from?
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by joenathan 12y ago
> my palm will brush against it, and the software will assume I'm clicking on something There should be palm rejection options available, or options to turn off touch pad clicks in the touchpad driver software. Most OEMs use Synapti
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by joenathan 12y ago
Additionally batteries degrade over their lifetime and will lose charge faster, also different phones have different wireless radios and different antenna configurations which would mean some phones would use more or less battery for the sa
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by joenathan 12y ago
People replace smart phones mainly because they are slow or have become slow, or they want some new feature that isn't available on their current model. As smart phone mature this becomes less common, the technology will get to good en
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by joenathan 12y ago
We call that a pawn shop here in the states :-)
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by joenathan 12y ago
>Everything you can do with closed source software you can also do with open, and there are things you can't do with closed source. This is just not true. Show me a completely open source smart phone... thing is you can't, the
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by joenathan 12y ago
Preordered the Lockitron when is was first announced, after ~ 2 years got tired of waiting and canceled my order and bought a Yale ZWave smart lock. I am very happy with it, it has a touch screen, I can open it with a pin code, from my phon
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by joenathan 12y ago
They haven't yet, but with Android Wear replicating its functionality while being much less expensive and more socially acceptable, it's not hard to see that Glass doesn't have much of a future.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Google abandons projects swiftly when they think that don't make sense; Wave, iGoogle, Reader, Glass?, Buzz, Plus?, Answers, Google Video, Google Checkout/Wallet, Orkut, Picasa, Gears, etc... When you are a large company you need
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by joenathan 12y ago
> including some here on HN - taking such extreme and unfounded positions on this? I think it's quite likely that they didn't do the hacking themslves. Perhaps they paid members of Lulzsec to do this... I'm struggling to s
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by joenathan 12y ago
If you want to really get down to it, there is no such thing as security, only deterrents, with enough determination and skill a way will be found through all defenses. There are many more script-kiddies out there than real hackers, IMO obs
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by joenathan 12y ago
If it doesn't DoS my firewall, a port scan like that will be easily detected and blocked. A stealthy port scan takes a good amount of time.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Obscurity is part of security. I have personally found that by using non-default ports for services that attempts to break in have gone down to zero. For example if you leave port 5900 open I guarantee your going to have bots trying to brea
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by joenathan 12y ago
Intel vPro chips have a VNC server built right into the chip, you can VNC in without the need for there to even be an OS installed. It would be very easy to hide a backdoor in one the hundreds of chips stashed in your laptop.
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by joenathan 12y ago
This will be a great way to automate Java and Flash updates, so users don't have play uncheck the adware every time there's an update.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Their Windows 8 app is utterly broken, and although I tell the Android app to remember my password it frequently makes me reenter it. I really wish they would focus on polish, I've very close to moving to a competitor.
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by joenathan 12y ago
A million Yuan is $163,000 US dollars, and 80 square meters is 860 square feet. I would imagine that is just about impossible for a migrant worker to manage.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Got mine from B&H Photo, went for the ASUS.
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by joenathan 12y ago
That sort of user would be afraid of the settings menu.
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by joenathan 12y ago
LG 65UB9500 with WebOS, it's a pretty great TV, I really like the WebOS interface.
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by joenathan 12y ago
In my experience DP doesn't work reliably @ 4k, at least on AMD & Intel GPUs. If you do a bit of Googleing you'll see that there are many problems with DP at super high resolutions. I personally went through 5 different brands
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by joenathan 12y ago
I just bought a GTX 980 because it supports HDMI 2.0, I am now running my HTPC at 4096x2160 @ 60hz over HDMI. As of right now the only graphics cards you can buy that support HDMI 2.0 are the GTX 970 & 980.
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by joenathan 12y ago
Don't know why you are getting down voted, I have (3) 3k displays (ASUS PB278Q) and I have frequent problems getting them to come back up after reboots or sleep. I've tried 5 different brands of displayport cables, a MST HUB, driv
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by joenathan 12y ago
Everyone crapped on Microsoft because there were no x64 drivers for Vista, and the 3rd party manufacturers didn't want to create new drivers for their old hardware. It's Microsoft's fault that 3rd party driver support sucks?
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by joenathan 12y ago
>Microsoft refused to support physical address extensions in XP Completely wrong "The original releases of Windows XP and Windows XP SP1 used PAE mode to allow RAM to extend beyond the 4 GB address limit. However, it led to compatib
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by joenathan 12y ago
I second the position of don't walk away from DoorBot, run. In the past month it has never rung my phone, I can check the history in the app of when the doorbell was rung, but it never triggered my phone. In the off chance it does ring
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by joenathan 12y ago
What stove doesn't use heat to cook?

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