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by kbart 10y ago
"they need to build their devices out of standardized pieces that are secure." That's exactly the problem with IoT-- there's no standard, out-of-box solutions right now. Try to google for "IoT security": yo
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by kbart 10y ago
Yes. It is completely unreasonable to expect that manufacturers of cheap electronics will implement security solutions on their own for their 20$ home routers, IP cameras etc. Even huge, international companies' failing security doesn&
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by kbart 10y ago
Is it open protocol? If not, then it's pretty much useless anyway.
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by kbart 10y ago
""the most successful bird on the planet" is an interesting line considering that they are all killed and eaten." Moral questions aside, from the perspective of evolution theory breeding and passing of genes is pretty
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by kbart 10y ago
So, your home is always unlocked, door opened and anyone can simply walk in as they please?
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by kbart 10y ago
"I thought it was pretty easy to disrupt / censor torrents, hasn't that been going on for a while?" Not torrents themselves, only torrent search engines. Torrents are distributed by design, but traditional torrent dire
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by kbart 10y ago
Turing Award is the highest IT award (hence "the Nobel Prize of computing") given for a lifetime's work. If some junior scientists would do something as groundbreaking, I'm sure they will receive this award too (after so
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by kbart 10y ago
Receiving "death threats" from some thirteen years old troll is not quite the same as people actually getting kidnapped, tortured and killed by cartels on semi-regular basis.
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by kbart 10y ago
Sorry, I don't see how that's relevant. Iran doesn't position itself as a global tech center.
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by kbart 10y ago
"Plenty of HN readers make over 100k straight out of college." One bubble is not enough to counter data.
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by kbart 10y ago
Because here are many non-USA citizens on HN who travel to USA for work, conferences, business meetings etc. and are concerned that one day it might happen to them too?
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by kbart 10y ago
coal/oil/nuclear One of these is not like the others.
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by kbart 10y ago
Similarly in Lithuania, it takes me few minutes as well: 1) Login to e.bank (I use mobile signature attached to a SIM card) 2) press link to a local "IRS" equivalent 3) check and confirm the prepared tax declaration (usually every
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by kbart 10y ago
"they said they have no plans to sell any customer data." WhatsApp said that too. When they change their minds, it will be too late.
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by kbart 10y ago
How is print media any different? People get into heated arguments over the entries in encyclopedias, how they can agree on a common landscape, printed or not? Media is just a projection of people's views, so as long as there are diffe
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by kbart 10y ago
I hate 2-column format on screen, so I guess that's a matter of taste. Printed is ok though, maybe because you generally keep paper closer to your eyes than screen.
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by kbart 10y ago
China just reinforces the parent comment. How many online services do you use from China?
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by kbart 10y ago
I've never had such feeling, but yes, I agree that for most people that's probably the case. Work is just work for me, in spite of I like it a lot. I realize myself through different activities.
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by kbart 10y ago
"What's the point?" The point is that I get still acquire new technical skills and parts of (failed) projects might be challenging and interesting, even though complete project don't result in success (in business mean
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by kbart 10y ago
Well, it probably depends on your area. I work with embedded systems, so I rarely see "people actually use" my products anyway, even if the project is successful and goes to the production as these are mostly niche products and&#x
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by kbart 10y ago
Been there. Done that. For much shorter period than 10 years, but still -- as long as I get paid and interesting stuff to do/research, why should I care if it goes to production or not?
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by kbart 10y ago
That totally depends on location. In my city, price of Uber and taxi is pretty much equal or some taxi operators are even cheaper. Furthermore, there's a centralized taxi app that connects most of operators and you can also rate driver
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by kbart 10y ago
Apple is legacy hardware vendor, I don't see anything wrong making software for you own hardware to complete ecosystem. MS, on the other hand, tried to capture, lock in users' generic hardware and kill competitors, which is tota
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by kbart 10y ago
Try to call international company with thousands of workers and get somebody who knows anything on phone. Also, most workers simply don't care for a tiny chance of scam, it's not their money after all.
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by kbart 10y ago
Plane tickets, travel, hotel, catering alone can easily add up to few thousand dollars.
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by kbart 10y ago
I choose between tabs and spaces depending on existing code base, but prefer neither (or both). When writing code from scratch, it depends on language and text editor used.
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by kbart 10y ago
That doesn't necessarily correlates to real life identities. I never post personal information if given choice not to, that includes as many "other" as there is.
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by kbart 10y ago
Developers that attend conferences in USA are very small and biased subset of total developers worldwide. For vast majority of developers attending a conference in USA would cost few to several months worth of salary, so it's no braine
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by kbart 10y ago
Rocket launches have pretty high failure rate of 0.8 - 8%[0]. That is not acceptable for commercial flights. Would you fly a plane that fails mid-air one flight out of twenty? 0. http://space.stackexchange.com/questions&#x2F
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by kbart 10y ago
After having received several counterfeit items (cheap electronics, chef's knife, household stuff) I avoid Amazon altogether. Funny thing, nowadays I trust Aliexpress or Gearbest (Chinese markets) more than Amazon or eBay -- at least I

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