lunarscape

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by lunarscape 15y ago
Most of these benefits can be achieved from being a contributor to popular forums or support sites (StackOverflow etc). I think blogs suffer way too much fragmentation, are too difficult to find and require a lot of effort just to keep peop
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>and also due to other nice touches like its ability to open PDFs without launching Acrobat. Just as a side note- Mozilla has a cool project called pdf.js [1] which opens PDF docs in browser using HTML5 and javascript. [1] https://git
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by lunarscape 15y ago
No. You're not the only one and, contrary to what detractors will say, it's far from paranoid. As an example- a friend of mine was wondering why it would occasionally catch his webcam light flash. I dug around and found Prey installed, clea
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I plan on hosting my own email with the help of CS friends. VPS's are getting cheaper. Other options include hosted email from a provider you trust. As an aside- does anyone have a good guide for downloading all email from GMail to Thunderb
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Looks like a nice win for AMD. I wonder why they chose them. They've switched in the past, NVIDIA to AMD/ATI from XBOX to the 360.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
To me RT is a Kremlin mouthpiece giving a voice to obscure anti-US and anti-EU voices. At one stage is was nothing but 24 hr anti-Georgia propaganda.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I agree. I've certainly personally paid a large price socially for leaving Facebook (after the photo recognition scandal) and professionally after leaving LinkedIn (after the advertising incident).
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The journalist is Vincent Browne and aggressive relentless questioning is his default mode of operation. Plenty of his takedowns and general annoyance of politicians can be found on Youtube. My personal favourite is his question to Sinn Fei
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I don't know the capabilities. I'm sure the best ones are kept secret obviously. One MS tool was leaked online but turned out to be nothing special: http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/cofee...
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>How many border protection agents look into your /etc/fstab and know fdisk, mount and cryptsetup? They don't need to. Microsoft and other companies have been providing software on bootable CDs and USB keys to do quick 'security' audits
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Can you imagine an openly gay man being elected President of the United States of America? That's the difference.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
>Prove it Thanks to Wikileaks and other sources we do have evidence of long running pressure and threats by the US to influence or in some cases directly write other countries laws in respect to copyright. One recent example about pirac
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by lunarscape 15y ago
I couldn't disagree more. The point of being able to configure tools in the first place is to be able to make them suit the user and enhance the users experience and hence increase productivity. 'Fiddling' around with ones tools and discuss
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The list is practically meaningless. It only shows results for those who chose to install a tracking package and who used the Software centre. There's no data on software installed through other means. Lots of proprietary and commercial sof
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Pretty much all the mathematical and engineering software I use on a daily basis runs on Linux... and a lot of it is Linux only. That software isn't really visible to people outside of science and engineering but it's far from uncommon.
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by lunarscape 15y ago
"one of the things Apple did with iOS 5 for iCloud was put in end-to-end encryption into the system." I'm not familiar with iCloud. Does it have strong client side encryption?
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The author claims, with no supporting evidence, "the truth is that we seem to be experiencing a cultural shift in our relationship to medications - perhaps evidence of the creeping medicalization of life". While acknowledging there may be o
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by lunarscape 15y ago
"Even if writing your own firmware would be illegal (would it be, really?) " For a radio module I would say so. It's one of the reasons cited by the openmoko successors from not doing it. Radio devices have to be tested and certified that
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by lunarscape 15y ago
The difference is that I have the source for Android, am running a kernel I compiled myself and have explicit control over all the processes running on it. The only flaw in it is that I have to rely on a closed binary blob for the radio as
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by lunarscape 15y ago
It's crazy. In Ireland we are now finally celebrating the expiration of the EU copyright on Joyce's work. There will be public readings and other events throughout 2012 as a result: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0101/br
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by lunarscape 15y ago
"I'm not sure of any other examples of television having as large a societal impact as toppling the Catholic Church's influence over the country." The comments that veteran reporters and producers made on the New Year Eve's RTE show were qu
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by lunarscape 15y ago
Applications are not limited to Metro on Windows 8, nor is it locked down in the way you suggest.