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by lamlam 8y ago
Very interesting! I had not heard of these incidences.
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by lamlam 8y ago
To add to this, while the Superfish issue only affected their consumer laptop lines (e.g. IdeaPad), the LSE issue was found on their enterprise lineup (e.g. ThinkPad).
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by lamlam 8y ago
So yes, in a normal case, one would expect to be safe because they are using their own built image. But Lenovo went much further than simply installing crapware, they added a firmware that updates files on startup in the OS to ensure that t
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by lamlam 8y ago
I'm always surprised that Lenovo use in the enterprise space didn't take a hit after all this came to light. I would have thought competitors like Dell and HPE would have used that opportunity to disparage Lenovo.
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by lamlam 8y ago
Here's an interesting discussion involving many of the players directly involved in the project. Ann Cavoukian from the Engadget article is on this. https://youtu.be/-2C2_ulRrXE Actually, what's really interesting
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by lamlam 8y ago
No one takes a company public for fun. They do it for funds. Especially for something like a car company that requires a lot of initial investment to get going. They can't start making money right away like a SaaS company might.
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by lamlam 8y ago
I've always been very curious, that given that the American health insurance lobby is as powerful as it is, why it hasn't successfully lobbied for more accessible abortions. It seems that they stand to gain a lot if women who didn
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by lamlam 8y ago
>How about screen time, do they watch them on tablets/devices or on a media player on a TV? Sorry if my comment implied I had kids, I do not. But in terms of access I see a lot of other comments further below talking about downloadi
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by lamlam 8y ago
If kids are known for one thing, it's their ability to watch and re-watch the same piece of content over and over. We have decades of good, high quality, children's media. Why do they need the latest and untested greatest?
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by lamlam 8y ago
Well I did say 1-2h in the GP.
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by lamlam 8y ago
I would not consider that acceptable. I guess the assumption is that you would commute into Toronto for work. But that is not what I was talking about. I meant that there were places close by that one could have a life. For example, Kitchen
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by lamlam 8y ago
I feel this is a bit sensationalized. If one didn't want to put up with Toronto housing prices, there are many other affordable choices within 1-2h drive from Toronto. No need to pack up and move to Winnipeg which, btw, is the murder c
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by lamlam 8y ago
http://archive.is/a0oAe
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by lamlam 8y ago
I like fastmail personally because aside from being a fast experience, I like their well written guides and articles. It helps me set stuff up without feeling like I'm just following instructions and helps me understand what I'm d
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by lamlam 8y ago
Could you please expand on this? My understanding was that hydrogen was produced through electrolosys. What process does one use to go from a hydrocarbon to H2? And does that process produce CO2?
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by lamlam 8y ago
Bitcoin? Visa gift cards? Temporary Visa cards from places like entropay?
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by lamlam 8y ago
Do ARM chips have ME or PSP equivalents? It would be great to be able to buy a new machine and use something like coreboot without having to use hacks to disable ME.
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by lamlam 8y ago
I'm a bit confused as to why adguard is being targeted here, but things like Disconnect.me which also use a "fake" VPN are not. Can anyone shine some light on this?
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by lamlam 8y ago
While many would not be able to afford a trip to Canada, I would think there would still be a sizeable number who live within 1-2h from the border who could drive there for non-emergency care.
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by lamlam 8y ago
I've often wondered if we could open up private clinics in Canada for Americans where we charge reasonable rates. Kind of start a medical tourism industry by the border.
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by lamlam 8y ago
>The security issue, which the security firm refers to as the Firebase vulnerability IMO, calling the vulnerability the "Firebase vulnerability" makes it seem like it's a problem on Firebase's side. But is it really t
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by lamlam 8y ago
I believe whatsapp is free now? I actually only remember paying once.
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by lamlam 8y ago
Huh. This is great! Might be a NameCheap (my registrar) limitation. The way it's worded in the management page on NameCheap is that DNSSEC is not supported for .ca period. Definitely something I'll look into. Thanks!
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by lamlam 8y ago
I like what CIRA (the .ca registration authority) does. The default is for them to hide your contact information. You have to opt-in to make it public. They then handle all communications people want to send to you. More registration author
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by lamlam 8y ago
Also not an expert, but since videos are transcoded as key-frames and changes applied to those key frames, I don't think it's as simple as segmenting something like a CSV. Transcoding is probably required just for the segmentation
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by lamlam 8y ago
Just to add onto this, there's a whole field of people who design things with human psychology in mind. For example, when you got onto Twitter, they _could_ show you how many notifications you have right away, but they implemented an a
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by lamlam 8y ago
Yes, making things _arbitrarily_ difficult would probably go against the spirit of the law, even if it technically complied with it. But as Alex3917 pointed out, as long as a company responded to GDPR requests by email in a timeline in acco
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by lamlam 8y ago
One important thing to not about some of these points is that they don't have to be made easy for users. For example, in relation to "Abilty it export data", there doesn't necessarily need to be a feature on the website
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by lamlam 9y ago
If you clicked the link and found the amount of information they have on your surprising, and now feel a bit violated, then good; you should. You'll probably try to do a bit of research and try to figure out how to opt out of all this
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by lamlam 9y ago
Yes, but they can be hit or miss, and I simply don't have the time or funds to be testing multiple models.

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