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by josho 10y ago
> pricing will limit its market to very small size I'll give Google the benefit of doubt here. I suspect they priced it high either because their production isn't fully in place to handle a massive surge. OR they are signalling
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by josho 10y ago
Let's put aside the politics for a moment. Is it really that easy to compromise a server, or is a high profile high value target really handling security so poorly? It makes me wonder if one of my machines were actively being attacked
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by josho 10y ago
This is where I remind everyone about S/MIME. A bit awkward to setup for the first time, but with good email clients it is a pretty transparent experience once you have it setup.
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by josho 10y ago
Assuming we restrict the solution to this problem space. Since I trust the service to send the message, then I trust them as well to generate the encrypted package and communicate the passphrase needed to decrypt. I trust them enough to not
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by josho 10y ago
This is a really great idea, with a really poor execution. I'm just a regular guy, but the messages and details that I would leave in a service like this are too sensitive to be put on someone else's server for a period of years.
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by josho 10y ago
This is a design patent so it is more limited than a business method patent that software usually falls under.
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by josho 10y ago
I don't understand why Apple, ms, Cisco, etc don't just set up a shell company that works to invalidate patents owned by these companies. For example, set up an EFF like non-profit whose mission is to invalidate bad patents. Then
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by josho 10y ago
For the last year I've been doing exactly that with an iPhone dock. Yes it's an additional accessory, but if you have a $600+ phone plus $600/yr for service then you can probably afford a dock. So, let's move on from thi
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by josho 10y ago
That really puts in context police shootings. I wonder why the police are given so much more weapon's autonomy than the military?
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by josho 10y ago
The article buried the lead, so here's your TLDR summary: - GIMP & Photoshop use the same O(n²) algorithm - GIMP's implementation is single threaded, while photoshop's is multithreaded and therefore performs much faster o
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by josho 10y ago
The finance industry loves cap and trade schemes as it creates a new market to trade and create financial products for. The generally accepted solution is a carbon tax that increases over time. The tax can even be revenue neutral with every
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by josho 10y ago
Yes, it is interesting how the companies have evolved. IBM lost the consumer space and is dominant in F100, while Apple won the consumer space and abandoned the enterprise. With both IBM & Apple behind Swift the language is being positi
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by josho 10y ago
I suspect that the financiers will make that very same argument.
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by josho 10y ago
Or simply require verification of income. In Canada if you want a mortgage loan you are required to show proof of income, ie. a gov tax return showing your income. My understanding is that in the US verification of income was often waived m
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by josho 10y ago
Or you know we could enforce our laws. Many of those loans were fraudulent and outright criminal to grant. The threat of years in jail is a pretty good way to keep people honest.
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by josho 10y ago
This is a bad law. The solution is to prosecute those discriminating, not force information to become contraband.
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by josho 10y ago
Most ISPs have a clause in their Terms of Service stipulating that you won't use the service for criminal activity. I'm pretty sure a DDoS can be argued as a criminal activity. So, it is in the ISPs right to stop service to those
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by josho 10y ago
I'd love to learn more about these botnets. I wonder about things like What's the average time that a compromised computer stays in this net. What is the typical computer (grandmas old PC running XP). Do the ISPs ever get involved
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by josho 10y ago
> Google runs the tracking and advertising infrastructure Oh, is that what this is all about? AMP caching is a mechanism to extend Google's lock-in on user tracking. Smart, in an evil sort of way.
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by josho 10y ago
Can you elaborate on this? Is OSX deleting iCloud documents if you run out of space?
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by josho 10y ago
Yes. I was deploying our system in a physician's clinic when their HP printer suddenly refused to print with a cryptic error, even after all the toner was replaced it refused. Only when I stepped in & suggested they buy the brand n
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by josho 10y ago
For those not familiar with the NIST 2000 Switchboard evaluation[1] it is a series of 8kHz audio recordings (ie. crappy phone quality samples) of a conversation, including things like "uhhuh" and other pause words. So, 6% seems pr
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by josho 10y ago
What struck me as interesting about Tesla's approach is they are using a much cheaper sensor suite than Google/Uber. If they succeed it means they'll have developed algorithms (patents) to achieve a self-driving car on cheap
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by josho 10y ago
If that's the end game google can license their software to other car vendors. No need to giveaway the data.
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by josho 10y ago
You can't be serious? Are you!? please tell me that you have a source.
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by josho 10y ago
Platform lock in. You are right that Apple needed iWork for iOS/Mac because they couldn't depend on Microsoft. But, now that they've got iWork it's another tentpole Apple can use to keep consumers locked into their platf
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by josho 10y ago
Regarding cable integrity. Am I the only person to have had headphones pop in my ears due to (un)plugging the cable or causing some kind of friction at the connector? I assume that issue disappears with the new plug. Oh, and your complaint
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by josho 10y ago
The issue is a design defect--Apple designed a part that has a high failure rate. The article is implying that it is an error in Apple's mfg process and should be fixed even on out of warranty phones.
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by josho 10y ago
And a physical analogue: The potential impact of breaking and entering is massive... So, B&E is a relatively minor offence, it's the crimes that follow (theft, destruction of property, etc) that are significant. The same should app
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by josho 10y ago
A corporate whistleblower gets a payday (a good thing). While whistleblowers like Snowden that reveal illegal government programs risk the death penalty if they ever sit foot in US soil again. This is progress, but we've got farther to

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