magic_haze

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Nerds Are Taking Your Lunch Money(dilbert.com)
13 points by magic_haze 13y ago|5 comments
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I don't get it. This is the exact same model Roku, Google, Xbox, Ouya et al are trying to follow, and so far, they've all had limited success. Even Netflix and Amazon had to give up chasing after content and had to resort to makin
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Google doesn't offer its computing as a product (well, yes, there's App Engine, but it's pretty tiny). Amazon, OTOH, has a huge, dominant, and very profitable service dedicated for just these sort of things, and it would be g
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Argument-level filtering would be awesome, but I don't know, the existing app+function level filtering seems to be working fine for me so far. The only real complaint I have with xprivacy now is the atrocious UI, and I'd really li
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by magic_haze 13y ago
That is what I thought as well, but details on the Target hack suggests they managed to get hold of the cards' entire track data (I'm on my phone so can't link to the article directly, but it's on the same website as OP&
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Is there any reason why these stores need to store the full magnetic stipe details of the card in the first place?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I might be wrong, but wasn't skype's p2p system used mostly for udp hole punching? (i.e., the supernodes were used to initiate the connection and then the clients communicated directly with each other.) With the centralized system
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by magic_haze 13y ago
xprivacy does the same thing, and seems to be actively developed. The only problem is that it has an atrocious UX, but again, that seems to be on par for most android utils.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I think I should set up wireshark on my network asap. I never used my TV's "smart" features, and the only reason I even have it connected to the network is for its youtube app (because building a youtube app for roku apparent
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by magic_haze 13y ago
OTOH, subreddits like IAMA, AskScience and ELI5 are fairly significant parts of reddit. In fact, most of the top items in /all are memes that refer back to things that happen within Reddit, so I'm not sure the links to external we
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by magic_haze 13y ago
It's been blurred out now ( http://imgur.com/1GcROpY ). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Just curious, is that image really what printscreen on a mac produces?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The biggest advantage is cross compatibility. Setting up a http server in any mainstream language is very easy, when compared to the task of creating native UIs for each OS. Look at how much hate Swing, GTK and even Mozilla's XUL got b
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by magic_haze 13y ago
This was a zero day in the jvm. It could very well have been a zero day in the browser or the OS, if someone was determined enough. I'm not sure the problem can be solved purely with technology.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I thought that article said they used a zero day jvm bug, but your point stands: why would you execute something unknown, especially from a greeting card site? (Then again, it's a honey pot... I'm not sure I would be thinking stra
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I wouldn't say 'exiled': it seems more like 'distributed', but still feeding off the same pool of legal/editorial/technical expertise. What Bill Keller seems to be advocating for is a central system that t
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I find it difficult to believe the captcha served over the last year or so were actually scanned from books: they were so completely illegible and nonsensical. I usually had to click refresh about half a dozen times before I could even fin
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by magic_haze 13y ago
To play the devil's advocate, how is this any different morally from what Gmail (and Outlook, and Yahoo) do with their external emails feature? In each case, you give them the credentials for your other account, they pull the mail and
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Yes, I was hoping the article actually shared some of the research Tesla must undoubtedly have done about the feasibility of fuel cells. Yes, they have limited range, but so do batteries. But while it takes _hours_ to recharge a battery, re
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I can see how a curvature on the vertical axis (like what Samsung did) would help fit better with the shape of the thigh, but this phone is curving horizontally. It would just create a weird bulge in your pocket, wouldn't it?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I wasn't aware the museum technology culture was even a thing. It definitely seems... quirky, though: just look at the list of domains for the JFK museum: thesixthfloor.jfk.museum dallas.jfk.museum dealey.plaza.museum
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I set up the same system in Tasker: it is actually very surprising how well it works.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I've seen this advice floating around the internet before, and while I agree with the lower limit, who the hell charges their phone to just 80%? I just plug the phone in at night and let it charge to 100% while I sleep. Is there even a
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The _only_ reason they provide the feature is so they can make money. Why is this so complicated to understand? Google isn't a charity. They are not obligated to provide anyone anything (unless you pay them. And you can get rid of the
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Doesn't IE (and Firefox, Opera etc.) have an option to turn off tabs entirely? Using IE6 at this point on a machine that has direct access to the internet seems rather... masochistic.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
It seems like they're either encrypting communication between each server or between each data center: the article is very vague. Either way, your data is still unencrypted inside a server (which is obvious: you can't search throu
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Agreed. The battery life was surprisingly short, given the epaper screen and the lack of any features. The UI was a product of a completely deranged mind. The only way to get to some really common settings is to press dozens of random butto
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Theoretically, yes. But it's far more likely that there are bugs in the implementation (both in software and hardware.) It's just a matter of time and resources to find them.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Amusing, but after looking up on the actual reasons why they came up with this scheme, I'm very impressed by the amount of work that goes into backwards compatibility: > Batch files ran programs from C:\Windows\System32 with the exp
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Exactly. Should we start waterboarding all suspects because, hey, it might save the cost of a trial? And besides, doesn't the government have armies of lawyers on their payroll already? The only significant cost to the taxpayer here wo

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