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by kbuck 14y ago
Putting aside my opinion on do-not-track, I think it's perfectly reasonable that it's off by default, simply because that is the current behavior of the browser. If they enabled it by default, they'd be changing it out from under current us
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by kbuck 14y ago
Forcing the user to choose something and refusing to run if they don't, even when it's a non-essential setting like this? That's a terrible idea. I'm annoyed enough when browsers ask me if I'd like to set them as default; the last thing I w
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by kbuck 14y ago
Sorry, Lenovo, I'd rather have "dropped 3 feet onto tile floor and still works fine" than "thin and sleek". This is why I buy ThinkPads, not because they're trendy and look cool. My laptop is for getting things done, not acting as a fashio
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by kbuck 14y ago
Gestures are one thing, but I've got a laptop now that has "virtual buttons" on a trackpad (the trackpad even physically clicks down) and it's excessively annoying to use. I can't feel which "button" I'm pressing, so mistakes are made. I'd
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by kbuck 14y ago
There's a third class as well: single-byte UDP and/or TCP SYN: designed to overload the routers and/or switches close to your machine (and if it it's a VM, the hypervisor as well). TCP SYN can also end up overloading the OS's TCP stack (alt
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by kbuck 14y ago
Why install fail2ban? You already have SSH password auth disabled, and you only allow SSH connections from your office. Won't this just risk banning your own office if someone's SSH client is misconfigured?
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by kbuck 14y ago
Frankly, I think a lot of the people currently working with C/C++ are avoiding Go because of the garbage collector. You can't trust a garbage collector; you don't know when it will run, how long it'll take, or how quickly it will free the
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by kbuck 14y ago
I recently bought a NAS after a string of DIY fileservers, and I'm glad I did. It does a better job of taking care of the disks than I could, and has a nice web interface for managing volumes. The biggest thing it has going for it is hard
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by kbuck 14y ago
802.11n on the 5GHz band (most implementations use 2.4GHz) already does this. The real problem is the 2.4GHz band, which is simply over-saturated. 2.4GHz also penetrates walls really well, which is a drawback in apartment situations becau
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by kbuck 14y ago
I really don't like the trend of apps installing to the user profile. Chrome does this too, and I think it's a mistake. I'm still using Thunderbird because I can't find a nice client with true threading (not the 'conversation threading' th
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by kbuck 14y ago
Having it is easy (which is what they've decided to do in this compromise), it's supporting it that's hard.
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by kbuck 14y ago
The prices are easy enough to verify independently. I looked up the iFixit teardown[1] which confirms that the SSD connector is proprietary (although I'm sure someone will eventually start selling compatible drives). I find it very disappo
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by kbuck 14y ago
I had annoyances as well. With JS disabled, I had three scroll bars on the right and a banner at the top saying "qz.com works best with Javascript enabled" (no joke). With it enabled, dragging the scrollbar is broken because it removes abo
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by kbuck 14y ago
I don't really like the parallel the title here draws between "big brother" and people filming with their own cameras. The difference between the city having cameras everywhere and citizens filming is that the city would be recording every
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by kbuck 14y ago
The court required that they use 11 point font[1]. They didn't before, and the court made them change it. It had previously been hidden as a item in that tiny bottom navigation bar. [1]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/01/apple-told-to-r
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by kbuck 14y ago
It's not illegal for the telephone company to not try stopping them.
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by kbuck 14y ago
Calls where you already have a business relationship with the company are legal. "Robocalls" in this context specifically means auto-dialed telemarketing calls, usually with a prerecorded spam message, where you have no business relationsh
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by kbuck 14y ago
I haven't seen or heard one of these calls actually play out, but they might not even be trying to sell something - they could just be scammers out to steal credit card information. (I get one all the time that's a prerecorded message from
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by kbuck 14y ago
The U.S. also has a do-not-call registry that you get fined for violating (donotcall.gov). The problem is that they don't know who to fine, because it's really easy to spoof caller ID and the businesses aren't dumb enough to identify thems
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by kbuck 14y ago
Apple's connector isn't going to automatically support any signaling they decide to add in the future either. It has to have the proper transceiver in the device as well. If they do decide to add new signaling formats, they'll end up with t
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by kbuck 14y ago
Even so, I doubt they want to pay damages either.
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by kbuck 14y ago
I disagree. Apple is both a hardware and software company, and I would argue that most of the decision to buy a Mac lies in software, not hardware. People don't say "I need this computer because it has an aluminum case"; they say "I need
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by kbuck 14y ago
This may be due to settings carrying over from an older Firefox install. In my experience, Firefox has been quite good at not clobbering settings unless they decide to remove the feature entirely. I had forgotten they added "tabs on top"
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by kbuck 14y ago
It's unfortunately not that easy. Many phones require proprietary drivers and tweaking to get working. For a while, Cyanogen on my phone (Samsung Vibrant) didn't have the ability to dial 911 due to missing software. I still don't have GPS s
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by kbuck 14y ago
They chose an interesting location for the Print Screen and Page Up/Down keys. I don't see Pause/Break or Scroll Lock anywhere, or an option to use part of the keyboard as a numpad. The Fn key remains in its oft-complained-about location.
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by kbuck 15y ago
Article also available here: http://torrentfreak.com/5-torrent-files-that-broke-mind-bogg...
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by kbuck 15y ago
Widespread usage of self-signed certificates might have the unfortunate effect of training people to click "allow invalid certificate" when they shouldn't (such as what happened with Vista's UAC). I would also argue that unless your users a
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by kbuck 15y ago
You memorize it.
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by kbuck 15y ago
It's even easier to just disable password authentication. SSH agent forwarding makes public key authentication even more convenient.
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by kbuck 15y ago
CyanogenMod recently dropped support for the Samsung Vibrant because they don't have source code required for dialing 911, so the fact that Samsung is also refusing to push ICS means that Vibrant owners are completely out of luck. Reference

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