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by kamjam 13y ago
It will also hopefully help more people to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities, rather than selling them on the black market. A pat on the back is nice, but nothing says thank you like cold, hard cash!
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by kamjam 13y ago
Good point. What if we find out that it's someone like the Syrian Electronic Army that developed this and has now backdoored everyone! Could we have reasonably expected an announcement from the government telling us as such?
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yeah, it is but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6524826 which kinda sucks.
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by kamjam 13y ago
So how exactly would you communicate, share files and information if you were organizing an uprising for example? You can't always physically transport those files, and sometimes it may be more dangerous to do so (if you are wanted per
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by kamjam 13y ago
Plans that are actually reasonably priced, explicitly calling out handset subsidies and making them optional This has actually been the norm in UK for quite some years. Look on t-mobile.co.uk for example, they have a SIM Only plans. As an
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by kamjam 13y ago
I've been in Canada for a year using my UK phone, so I only get Edge due to the different bands. Surprisingly, I have survived and I didn't think I would. Sure things take longer to load and I can't really stream YouTube but
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by kamjam 13y ago
If you turn it a little more then it says exactly what it is...: http://www.theroar.com.au/2007/06/14/london-2012-the-logo/ Haha, ok, not quite but defo describes it :)
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by kamjam 13y ago
The term “y-fronts” never caught on the US because American underwear maker Jockey convinced the buying public to use the term “Jockeys” instead. I'm pretty sure I have seen "y-fronts" in US shops and in the movies. The pos
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by kamjam 13y ago
The London 2012 logo was a pile pants :) Fortunately, once the games kicked off people forgot about the logo and it was a very successful event by all accounts and there was a huge buzz in the air with everyone (I'm a Londoner). Still
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by kamjam 13y ago
If AirBnb was not a US based company and instead say they were based in Europe or some tiny little island with no laws whatsoever, would the US laws still apply? Their business model continues to work worldwide, no matter where they are loc
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by kamjam 13y ago
I think I done this "hack" several times when I started coding and scratched my head for a while before realising I was missing an equality sign!
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NY Attorney General Subpoenas Airbnb for Info on 225K Users(wired.com)
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by kamjam 13y ago
How could they have talked about it if they never knew about because they were never in bed with the NSA? You are assuming they were cooperating with the NSA behind the scenes like Google et al, but they are saying they were not and could n
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by kamjam 13y ago
I switched for the same reasons but kept FF around mainly for Firebug. After using and getting use to Chrome Dev Tools, it is actually no different and in some cases better. I don't do as much front-end dev as I used to though... But I
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by kamjam 13y ago
And then yesterday morning “t-shirt-gate” hit. My inbox was full of angry email from people inside and out of Yahoo. How dare I send just a t-shirt to people as a thanks? Guy tries to do something nice and gets a big slap on the face. I c
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yes, I am not arguing that. What I am saying is if you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys. You need to compare a $360 with a $360 phone, and you need to compare a $700 phone (iPhone) with a $700 (Samsung S4/Sony Z1/HTC Onc etc)
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by kamjam 13y ago
Linked from the original article is a case of a judge ruling patent exhaustion[1]: Helferich's patents cover the delivery of content (alerts with a hyperlink) to a cell phone. The issue is not with cases like this, the issue is with
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by kamjam 13y ago
Not in the UK, you may have to declare yourself bankrupt or sell your house or whatever, but nothing required up front. On the flip side, if you can't afford your defence the you can claim legal aid: https://www.gov.uk/
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by kamjam 13y ago
There's also the police, whose job it is to investigate crime...
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by kamjam 13y ago
Yeah, but even if it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt what's the likelihood they would get anything more than a slap on the wrist when they state it was to "defend your freedom"?
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by kamjam 13y ago
A lot of people did not donate either to Wikileaks for the very same reasons. Not necessarily on HN, but there was a lot of name calling and WL were evil etc etc. How times change.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Ha, didn't know that! Cool.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't bad looking either. I'm also a fan of the Sony Xperia line up. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
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by kamjam 13y ago
A Nexus 4 cost $359 at launch here in Canada. An iPhone 5 cost around $700, almost twice the price offline. You can't really compare the 2 products directly. It's like comparing a Ford with a Ferrari. You would be better comparing
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by kamjam 13y ago
But he script supposedly detects elements in page, css etc so this would not solve the issue of views, but I have no idea what the payment model is - is it just views or clickthroughs?
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by kamjam 13y ago
Please note that AdBlock is different to AdBlock Plus, despite the almost same names (I assume this was on purpose) https://getadblock.com/ But yes, agree with your point if you are a ABP user.
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by kamjam 13y ago
Sometimes it is not the positioning or the non-intrusiveness which bothers me, it's the following me around and tracking. I find it a little creepy.
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by kamjam 13y ago
One site that annoys the hell out of me for adverts is http://www.autosport.com/ I read an article every so often, they appear in some Formula 1 feeds I am subscribed to. They also already have monetization scheme (you can
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by kamjam 13y ago
Are you considering an Android version?
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by kamjam 13y ago
There was a great TED Talk by Elon Musk. He says every new product needs to go through at least 3 iterations before becoming mass market, and Tesla is currently at iteration 2. http://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_min

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