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by mixdup 1y ago
Is DoH a bad idea because Cloudflare sees your queries or you're overloading HTTP as a protocol? This article seems to be advocating two different things At the end of the day, if your problem is you don't trust the DNS provider t
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by mixdup 1y ago
Because there are plenty of creditors who will not put customers through all of those hoops, and the front line sales guy at AT&T is motivated to get that phone sold and that line activated, that car salesman is motivated to get the car
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by mixdup 1y ago
But the employee time that had a one time use was turned into software. That software is the thing that has value longer than "right now"
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by mixdup 1y ago
What other cost do you think goes into software development? Companies are not spending that much money on IDE licenses. The vast, vast majority of software/R&D costs are labor
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by mixdup 1y ago
GE Finance was spun off into Synchrony Bank. Ally Bank is the former General Motors Acceptance Corp (GMAC) the former finance arm of GM pre-financial crisis bankruptcy
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by mixdup 2y ago
These are benign tumors that were asymptomatic, and they only found them because people in the unit complained about some other health concern, and screenings began So, you're probably not far off
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by mixdup 2y ago
Safari as well, and I couldn't get any other keys to work besides WASD
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by mixdup 2y ago
> Strange how the US has such a mishmash We have so many subdivisions, and in many/most cases there's no accountability (by design) from one level to the next Feds can't force states to use .gov addresses, and most states
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by mixdup 2y ago
I mean that applies to DNS authentication for non-IP certificates, too
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by mixdup 2y ago
I would kill to see the presentation from RIM This is to Nokia's credit. It didn't work out, but they also weren't arrogant like RIM or Microsoft
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by mixdup 2y ago
in terms of (4) the thing is that the government policy isn't solely concerned with "hiring the best candidate", or at least not necessarily considering cheap labor to be one of the criteria factoring into "best" th
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by mixdup 2y ago
You can put whatever you want in WHOIS, including just replicating the information that was there previously. What if the WHOIS email is an email on the domain in question? Maybe registrars could set a unique ID per registrant, and if a d
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by mixdup 2y ago
I was talking about a device with an unlockable bootloader, not one that cannot be unlocked Wanting an uncompromisable bootloader is about more than just protection against malware that might modify the software on the device, it's abo
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by mixdup 2y ago
Today, yes, I can lock down the iPhone I give to my son, but if it can be unlocked to run arbitrary software then he can in theory unlock it. Yes, it is on me to continue to monitor the device to make sure he hasn't done it, but the po
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by mixdup 2y ago
Microsoft has been going in the opposite direction. Nowadays you can post any win32 app to the store, they are loosening not tightening
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by mixdup 2y ago
So because we can't eliminate every possibility, we should just give up on all protections?
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by mixdup 2y ago
That's not what I claimed?
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by mixdup 2y ago
It's not just about malware you might accidentally download, it's also about adversaries that may have physical access to your device and can provide that consent No matter how convoluted you make the rube goldberg machine to bypa
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by mixdup 2y ago
Dumb TVs are still sold, they just cost more. Same will probably be true for the low volume, no-stolen-data (or no-apple-tax) unlockable phones, too
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by mixdup 2y ago
There's a difference between being able to buy something dangerous and being forced to do so
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by mixdup 2y ago
I would also be happy with those restrictions on a traditional PC-class computing device (laptop or desktop). Would I personally buy one? Probably not, but I'd feel a whole hell of a lot better if my non-techie wife or mother or brothe
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by mixdup 2y ago
Because the fact that it can't be unlocked makes me reasonably reassured that I can trust the software running on it comes from the vendor of the device It's the same reason I don't want "the good guys" to have decr
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by mixdup 2y ago
For some, the absolute locked down-ness is a selling point. Why should those who want to buy something that can't be messed with not be able to? If you don't want to buy something you can't install whatever you want onto, d
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by mixdup 2y ago
Yeah, this kind of memo and process probably still exists at places like NASA as well
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by mixdup 2y ago
>I didn't know someone who worked on a piece software for a long time was entitled to every dollar everywhere associated with it! Parent comment OP must work for developer relations at Apple
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by mixdup 2y ago
Setting aside all of the technical aspects of this, the history of this in the world of UNIX, I just love the process and bureaucracy that generated this specific paper document. The very formal cover sheet (and the fact that it had an acco
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by mixdup 2y ago
> I’ve seen plenty of places that use Citrix with terminals. I doubt very many enterprise level IT departments are running any kind of thin client infra such as Citrix or Horizon or anything else (like, god forbid, Oracle) without maint
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by mixdup 2y ago
The author of this post seems to think that a) Microsoft is targeting end users with the device (they're not, they're targeting IT departments) and b) that IT departments don't know exactly what they're getting into or h
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by mixdup 2y ago
Apple doesn't have 100% market share and the title is "most people" The fact that Android has a larger market share, and Apple has a larger share of revenue and profit actually goes to show that the larger mass market doesn&#
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by mixdup 2y ago
They've owned them for such a short period of time, and the maintenance on an EV is so much less, that may not be a big issue

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