kbart

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by kbart 13y ago
You have missed few important parts: 1) It (supposedly) happened in March 2005, when world's (and US agencies') eyes were on Iraq war. 2) "<...> US authorities admitted to their Indian counterparts the complete failure
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by kbart 13y ago
It's really easy, only few mouse clicks, doesn't even require to restart Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo...
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by kbart 13y ago
Anyone knows what band is going to be used for wireless communication? And are there any plans for the certification in EU?
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by kbart 13y ago
> Is this a common practice? Yes. Looks like 3 Interviews, 3-5 months of interview process is pretty normal in Europe. I have applied for a job in Norway as well once. > I can understand if you have another job and end up interviewing
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How GSM was born(gsmhistory.com)
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by kbart 13y ago
Take a look at Kernel USB source code. I did. Once.
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by kbart 13y ago
Well, that might not be true as well. Sometimes you just want to to check information from more than one source or the result is correct but you want more on that topic and hope to find it in the next results etc. For example, you search f
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by kbart 13y ago
> "there were several times where we got you the right result even though it didn't have the exact words you asked for" How do you know that? Just because I click on a result doesn't mean it was the correct one. I usu
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by kbart 13y ago
Heh, I find myself in the same situation. Recently I use Google mainly as a shortcut to Wiki, Ebay, Amazon, SO etc. For a "real" search I prefer DuckDuckGo (that doesn't modify search results based on my browsing, search hist
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by kbart 13y ago
> It's a lack of critical thinking and problem solving ability, that's all. Exactly these abilities that most people do not have. And those who do are usually called "engineers", "programmers", "doctors
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by kbart 13y ago
That's an issue with plain text data. However, nowadays absolutely no sensitive data should be transferred/stored unencrypted. The problem is, that it seems like eavesdropping is not enough for some certain governments and now the
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by kbart 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but I would bet that can be classified as "destruction of evidence".
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by kbart 13y ago
That's harsh, but I'm glad to (finally) see an appropriate companies reaction to all this mess. Sadly, most non-technical people will not understand what such companies do and these stories unlikely hit headlines or have bigger im
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by kbart 13y ago
Hah, good point. I bet most of Americans (no offence here) imagine that "3rd world" means "people still live in caves and hunts wild animals for food". However, a very good counter example is Skype which went worldwide e
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by kbart 13y ago
But they still need proper, court issued warrant. At least there would be no invisible laws or secret agencies involved.
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by kbart 13y ago
On the contrary, I believe millions of angry Gmail and Facebook users (and voters) COULD have influenced some politic decisions on this matter.
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by kbart 13y ago
I second to that. If you want security (at least on a servers/ISP level) choose some 3rd world country which government (preferably not very fond of USA) does not have technical means on surveillance. I live in a small EU country and g
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by kbart 14y ago
I gave it a try and the first thing I noticed on the top of Popular category "Memes: How Many Can You Name?". So no, thanks.
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by kbart 14y ago
Totally agree that HN should not be a place for local news. I come here for interesting _technical_ stories, topics and discussions and I would go to cnn.com, nytimes.com etc. if I'm interested in USA news instead.