magic_haze

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by magic_haze 13y ago
The arguments made for the plan (and NYT's reporting of it) seem extraordinarily stupid. Nowhere in this article does anyone question the initial premise of "monitor everything or nothing". What exactly is the need to monitor
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Joshua Topolsky's review on the Verge [ http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/5/4588922/moto-x-review ] seems to contradict the battery life claim: > "Motorola could have built a monster of longevity
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by magic_haze 13y ago
There was a great post a few weeks back here about why whatsapp, viber et al had such a dramatic growth. Basically, the hypothesis was these apps have access to the entirety of the user's contact data on their phones, which allows them
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I know the PSLVs have a reputation of being very reliable. Do you happen to know how much it costs, compared to the Protons or SpaceX's new design? Also, it's very cool that India:s launching its own GPS alternatives. The article
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Since this uses the same L5 frequency as GPS, would existing receivers pick up signals from these satellites? Would there be any interference?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Try FxChrome: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome I switched from Chrome a few weeks back and had the same opinion about firefox's native UI. FxChrome and Close-Tabs-to-the-Right [ ht
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by magic_haze 13y ago
To play the devil's advocate, what exactly is the practical use of all this if most of your family and friends are on Gmail (and couldn't be arsed to figure out pgp)? From what I can see, your emails will now be sent in the clear
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by magic_haze 13y ago
hmm, I wasn't aware you could sell your physical disks on the xbox store... that just seems like a recipe for disaster. It seems like such a corner case, though, that I think they could get away with only allowing downloaded games to b
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by magic_haze 13y ago
They could market it as a "360 mode"... it's exactly the features currently available in the xbox 360, nothing more.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Very simple. Keep the 24 hour restrictions as-is, but allow transition to an offline mode after notifying the mothership. This disallows all the family sharing features. Games installed using a physical disk would require the disk to be pre
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I thought they announced the new xbox wouldn't have ads on the home screen?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I'm not an Android user, so I'm curious: what's so bad about the Facebook app?
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by magic_haze 13y ago
> Additionally, she was not even an american citizen or resident. In all probability, it's /because/ she's not an american citizen or resident. The fourth amendment doesn't apply for non-persons.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
So, in practical terms, how would this be more secure than what we have now? The main crux of PRISM is that they have highly automated mechanisms of accessing user data from many major internet companies. If you store your private keys alon
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I think that's a completely simplistic and disingenuous statement. The Chrome team have done a _lot_ the last few years to strengthen security on the web. And you're forgetting that the main attack vectors these days are through p
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by magic_haze 13y ago
https://whispersystems.org/ has an excellent pedigree, but it's only voice and text, and only on Android right now (though I've heard an ios version is coming soon...)
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by magic_haze 13y ago
This is one of the most cogent articles I've read today about this atrocious issue. At least, from a political standpoint. A lot of the technical details seems hokey: > PRISM works well because it is able to handle several different typ
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Agreed. I preordered one the day they announced it on HN, but they've been awfully silent since. After watching the Xbox announcement, the new kinect definitely seems more usable and interesting.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
"Myo" is actually a fairly common prefix in biology, and (I think) is roughly equivalent to "muscle".
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Is a title bar really necessary, though? The vast majority of the time, the exact same sentence is repeated again in the page as a h1. More prominently. With better styling. When I have the browser open, the favicon and the few characters o
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by magic_haze 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrarian Or a hipster, if you prefer.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
_If_ we manage to create transporters at all (never mind the next decade), the impact on religion and legislation would be far greater than on the transportation industry. If your body is destroyed and reconstructed, are you still the same
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by magic_haze 13y ago
Really? There are plenty of valid reasons why XMPP is not suitable for mobile usage (most notably, the proprietary push notification systems that all platforms insist you have to use), but XML isn't one of them. If you use TLS with XMPP (as
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by magic_haze 13y ago
This is doubly true when it comes to Mozilla's Persona. I implicitly trust my email provider more than any other site's login system (at least, the ones that email password resets), so why not delegate to that all the time instead of insist
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Anatomy of a Cosplayer(polygon.com)
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I think that is an unnecessarily harsh view. Even if Nokia shifted to Android tomorrow, their hardware pipeline is still months behind HTC and Samsung. There is no way they can compete against them, let alone HG and Sony. Their short term t
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by magic_haze 13y ago
You can absolutely shift your number off of google by paying $10, but since the real value add of Voice is not in the number, but the associated services, there is not much point. Skype doesn't even come close. Is there any other for person
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by magic_haze 13y ago
I was under the impression that JungleDisk's encryption scheme was not as secure as they claimed[1]. Have they fixed it yet? [1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-06-03-insecurity-in-the... and its discussion here: https://news.ycombi
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by magic_haze 13y ago
The writing is easy to understand, but is there any reason why you're just not using memcache's add method? For the price of a network call, you'll automatically get the LRU cache logic and a more deterministic behavior.
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by magic_haze 13y ago
A thousand times this. Why does the OS not make the app permissions more granular than a bit flag? Every app and its dog nowadays require all these really invasive data permissions, and all the choice we're given is either "yes to all" or G

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