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by mhurron 11y ago
Think about what you just said. Redundancy for a thermostat. You know, that thing that before the Nest you never even had to think about.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Having had the opportunity some time ago to visit that area, I'm sure they are referred to as the new developments.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Anything that work might touch, even if they didn't pay for it, is under their purview. And the law, especially in the US, agrees.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Normal and possible are not the same thing, and you have to plan for possible. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/dan-ackerman-school... So here is an example of a school administrator spying on student
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by mhurron 11y ago
BYOD means you bought a device that the company now controls. It's not really yours anymore, company policy covers it.
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by mhurron 11y ago
It's not really a question of what is reasonable to expect. Even a company that chooses now not to do things like what the article describes, they always can. They can read your emails, and chat logs and whatever else is sitting on you
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by mhurron 11y ago
Keep your personal information off your work devices.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Then stop pretending that going to Silicon Valley is part of any social views and just go with the fact that it's easier to get money thrown at you in Silicon Valley and your just feeding another problem. To your edit: > It's n
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by mhurron 11y ago
> I'm seriously considering going back to SV. You do know that tech centers in the US are outliers and general policy in the US is basically the same as Canada, and other countries that have a large mass of natural resources, Austra
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by mhurron 11y ago
When will there be a summit with auto dealerships over how criminals can buy getaway cars?
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by mhurron 11y ago
> require a certain lack of critical thinking on the accountant's part Which is exactly how these scams work in the first place, so it would probably work just fine.
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by mhurron 11y ago
People just ignore me and I'll eventually just wander off.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> As engineers, we are hardwired to nitpick. This is just not true. You are not 'hard wired' to react in such a specific manner, and being an engineer does not mean ripping things apart. You may be an engineer and choose to mak
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by mhurron 11y ago
This is what I have begun to wonder about this interest in the old sleep pasterns. They're usually put forward as healthier or the way we evolved to sleep. It seems to me it is more simply a symptom of going to sleep very early because
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by mhurron 11y ago
I wouldn't blame the communication medium for people clearly not being interested in communicating.
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by mhurron 11y ago
They could cut through a tank. I saw it on the internet.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> You left out collards, green beans, field beans, turnips, turnip greens, etc. Personally, I find the traditional southern sides as tasty as the BBQ/Fried chicken. Well traditionally those are cooked in some sort of animal fat, so
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by mhurron 11y ago
> iPad Pro and Apple Pencil is Apple's warning to Wacom I see it as a response to the MS Surface, which people really like, including myself.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> writer with experience Ok, what experience? That's what I'm asking. A deep interest is not experience. > What kind of credentials he needs to have for his opinion on those issues to be "valid"? Usually actual exp
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by mhurron 11y ago
That's all I could find. I could find nothing in his background or what he does now that would indicate he had any direct knowledge about what he gives an opinion on.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Can someone explain to me how Cory Doctorow became a spokesperson for privacy and technology policy?
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by mhurron 11y ago
> As long as you don't send it to Microsoft after re-enabling, Microsoft won't have it. Unless you have a Home edition of windows, in which case you have no control over it at all. In order to use device encryption you have to
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by mhurron 11y ago
Public keys on your host where you don't control who has the private key are.
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by mhurron 11y ago
I wonder if you'll be so ready to give up your life right around retirement age instead of trying to have it extended 'by a decade or two.' It's so incredibly easy to say when you're simply throwing others lives awa
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by mhurron 11y ago
> putting some levelheadedness behind their opinion columns You are aware what an opinion column is, right?
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by mhurron 11y ago
How dare they not spew everything in public for all to see.
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by mhurron 11y ago
B&N discontinued their desktop apps before the release of Windows 10. If you didn't have it installed in Windows 8 or earlier and upgraded to Windows 10, you can't install it, it won't even download from the Windows Store
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by mhurron 11y ago
Calibre can remove a lot of DRM from ebooks.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> E-book pricing has become a lot less attractive than it once was. On top of that you can only get some ebooks from one reseller if you use that vendors reader device because that reseller doesn't support their app on newer version
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by mhurron 11y ago
The TSA employs less than 50k people across the country. Around 40 million Americans live at or below the poverty line. If it was some work program to prevent revolt, it fails at that just as hard as it does at securing the skies.

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