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by jsz0 13y ago
The numbers still don't seem to add up though. For the same price you could get a (much) cheaper/lighter ARM tablet that gets much better battery life and a better desktop. I'm not sure what the point of convergence is here
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by jsz0 13y ago
First step stop making $1B worth of devices no one wants to buy.
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by jsz0 13y ago
Aren't games pretty damn portable these days? It seems like most non-firsty party titles are all multi-platform now. I don't know anything about game development but they must be developing with portability in mind.
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by jsz0 13y ago
I don't think the weird zealous paranoia does much to change their minds. If anything it might motivate 'normal people' to steer clear of questioning privacy issues.
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by jsz0 13y ago
Besides, does anyone think Apple can resurrect the watch industry? No but I do think they can make a huge splash in wearable computers. The type you happen to strap on your wrist. I don't think they'll market it as a watch. They
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by jsz0 13y ago
They cause quite a few Internet outages too. We have a lot of change management tickets filed under 'squirrel damage' so at some point I started using it for some of my change management requests. BGP blip? God damn squirrels.
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by jsz0 13y ago
The Google+ push is annoying but expected. Somewhat off topic but I really wish Google would normalize the volume of ads/videos. These days I tend to get super loud ads then often a quiet video so I'm constantly adjusting my audio
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by jsz0 13y ago
You don't have to ponder this much to see what kind of abuse of power this is How so? These countries have every right to deny aircraft entry into their airspace. Seems like they don't want to take any risks getting involved in
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by jsz0 13y ago
For most people the bigger threat is going to come from the wifi networks they connect to at work, school, coffee shops, etc. If I owned a Motorola SmartPhone I would stop using wifi on untrusted & semi-trusted networks immediately.
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by jsz0 13y ago
I doubt the NSA would build such a sophisticated system without layers of security and extensive audit trails to prevent misuse. If not only because misuse of the system would be a disaster for the NSA and potentially be a bigger national s
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by jsz0 13y ago
The NSA does a lot more than just fight terrorism and of course the US invests a huge amount of money in mitigating the impact of other risks like natural disasters. They have to look at all these different threats and divvy up the money a
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by jsz0 13y ago
The smart ones never used such unsecured communications in the first place. I think the OP's point that it may have sent them off the grid with paranoia is valid. The weird thing is many of these folks have semi-normal lives. They mi
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by jsz0 13y ago
The comparison to automobiles is interesting because this is another example where we do sacrifice freedoms to enhance safety. At the state level we have licenses, registrations, speed limits, mandatory seat belt laws, insurance mandates, e
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by jsz0 13y ago
Just how many lives has terrorism claimed in the past decade? It's easy to answer that question now. No one knew the answer to that a decade ago. No one knows how many lives terrorism will claim in the next decade. The government doe
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by jsz0 13y ago
In summary, countries spy on foreigners. Always have. Always will. That's exactly why we have an intelligence arms race developing. Country A spies on citizens of Country B. Learns all sorts of useful information that could be used f
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by jsz0 13y ago
Being that he has already confessed on video and presumably there's a good amount of other evidence the government would have nothing to gain from an unfair trial.
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by jsz0 13y ago
If for some reason she was the target of an investigation it might be safe to assume they could listen to her side of the conversation at least.
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by jsz0 13y ago
Why would that be necessary? If they are targeting an individual for investigation at this level certainly they have already determined their citizenship status well in advance. From there obtaining permission to investigate citizens who ar
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by jsz0 13y ago
I may be in the minority here but that seems completely reasonable to me.
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by jsz0 13y ago
Not how I read it. Obviously the technical ability to do so exists so "cannot" can only mean "aren't supposed to" in this context. Honestly I think people would have to be grasping at straws to read it any other way
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by jsz0 13y ago
Not sure why it doesn't appear in the screenshots but it's definitely there. Used it today on iOS7 B1.
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by jsz0 13y ago
You could put Android, WP and iOS side-by-side and they are going to look (and work) more alike than different in most areas. That's what happens when these products reach a huge mass market. There is too much risk (for established pla
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by jsz0 13y ago
I don't recall Apple ever promising that but if they did they wouldn't have explained why they can't or won't do it because they don't want to have it both ways. They are fine saying nope it's not open deal with it. Google seems to want it
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by jsz0 13y ago
I use OSX with a Windows & Linux VM on standby for anything that I can't easily do on OSX natively. I don't have to use them very often but I like having options. Occasionally I need a Windows-only app or need a bleeding edge release of
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by jsz0 13y ago
With DPI and other methods it would be possible for the carriers to identify and block most tethered traffic. From what I've seen none of them are doing that yet. If you can enable your device to tether technically you can do it but unless
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by jsz0 13y ago
The way Android handles multi-tasking is a battery nightmare. I get random battery drain problems constantly and have had the same issue on all 4 of the Android phones I've owned so far. I don't care about 'real multitasking' so I wish Goog
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by jsz0 13y ago
I doubt it will happen but I wish Google start to refine and simplify the Android UI. It's starting to get bloated and overly complex. There's only so many buttons, long presses, drags, and gestures you can jam onto a small screen. I've bee
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by jsz0 13y ago
save $1000, and that feels good If price/value is the main concern a used 4-5 year old x86 laptop is a way better deal. I have an old HP nc8430 for this purpose. Sells on eBay for about $100-$150 these days. Blows away a low end ARM Chrom
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by jsz0 14y ago
Yep no one should under estimate how many people are using SmartPhones almost exclusively for FaceBook and texting. That's why Messenger is so front and center in FaceBook Home. It covers both of the 'killer apps' for a lot of people. As fa
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by jsz0 14y ago
10Gbit is very commonly used in SANs now.

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