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by mjolk 13y ago
>It was far from clear that a six-months-pregnant, 37-year-old Google engineer and first-time CEO could remove the air of irony that had attached itself to Yahoo’s purple exclamation point. I had to stop reading here. If anything, in my
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by mjolk 13y ago
>That is a snide comment that reveals much. How so? It's not that popular a device.[0] If you work at Microsoft or have a significant interest in them not failing, you might want to divulge your bias here. >That right there. Th
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by mjolk 13y ago
How is it spiteful to the 7 people who own Windows phones? This is Google saying "because of their behaviors, we don't want to allow them to consume our services." Microsoft is trying to weasel this into good PR for themselv
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by mjolk 13y ago
No, but Google doesn't owe Microsoft any favors.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Prerogative or not, it's still douchey of Google to outright block Microsoft. Why? The two customers are competitors and Microsoft has a history of just ripping off Google's services . http://www.wired.com/bus
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by mjolk 13y ago
This whole thing is passive aggressive, but the best part is: >"Google objected on a number of grounds. We took our app down and agreed to work with Google to solve their issues..We enabled Google’s advertisements, disabled video do
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by mjolk 13y ago
Designers are fine, but don't tell me that a render is nearly as useful as a prototype. Please though, if you disagree with me, open a dialogue. As an technology investor, who would you rather fund?
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by mjolk 13y ago
>What about power, cooling, rent in the building for the room >you're keeping them in, backup generator, internet >connectivity, Most companies that I've dealt with just rent space in a colo and those costs, plus bandwidt
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by mjolk 13y ago
Because it's really hard to pitch a company based on a PSD that you can't implement. But sure, whatever cutesy anecdote or impression of reality you want to sell me will also suffice.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>which subsequently also resulted in one of the actors leaving the show Which actor is this?
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by mjolk 13y ago
The data is not sourced. Also, the title is bad and incendiary, and willingness to meet is not at all equatable to desirability.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Tor isn't secure, nor is it really anonymous for these purposes.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Sharing a proxy is far more concerning, security-wise than having a website guess who you are based on metadata.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>And I bet most people who are concerned by tacking online and impressive demos like this are still using their real IP address online, How would one use a 'fake' IP address and expect traffic to make it back to him/her?
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by mjolk 13y ago
It's easier and saner to just ignore every defense the government has to say about surveillance. It's all lies and reading the media's wrapper around bullshit is time consuming.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>In fact, I think it's likely that they're significantly smarter than any of us. Bear that in mind when you design your NSA-proof email applications. Math is math and it's relatively easy to implement decent encryption --
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by mjolk 13y ago
While it's a common belief that the police in Belarus are reasonably corrupt, this is usually limited to bribery. Perhaps his visa was expired?
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by mjolk 13y ago
1. The link doesn't work. 2. As a non-Lavabit user, who are they and why should I give them money?
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by mjolk 13y ago
>I'm from Uruguay, and I can personally attest that people in Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil are fully aware of Snowden (and rooting for him and against the U.S. government in this case). That's because your government pretends
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by mjolk 13y ago
>"Now, Russia gives Snowden temporary asylum, so in retaliation, Bush.... sorry, Obama cancels meeting with Putin" Oh ho ho, what a clever ruse, pretending to confuse Bush with Obama. >Or US politics could grow up. The US go
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by mjolk 13y ago
How dare companies only hire workers that they believe provide utility and could lead to increased profit?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Because if the link's author is to be believed, China is sponsoring attacks on US infrastructure.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>The fact of the matter is: members of the tech community (LinkedIn users) saw it as impossible that our female engineers could actually be engineers, and a leader of the tech community (LinkedIn) agreed with them. Oh, quiet you. The te
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by mjolk 13y ago
App store, via being led through affiliate links to the data source, or via exploits in default software. You can peddle malware through the official play store for a while until you get caught -- at which point, you rename the application
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by mjolk 13y ago
>I can assume it's a similar situation in Russia and those malicious apps are distributed through some local app stores. Can somebody from Russia comment on that? It's usually harmless, 'cheaper-feeling' versions of p
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by mjolk 13y ago
The joke wasn't lost on me, it's just a super-tired slashdot era thing that needs to die.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Whose irony tag are you closing? I looked at the page source and couldn't find an opening irony tag.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I think the fact that it's an x86 board makes it an attractive first step from Intel into the super-small form factor market -- not that I'd buy an Atom-based snail when I already have a Raspberry-pi turtle at home.
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by mjolk 13y ago
The other link worked for me, but thank you for your phrasing -- 'link to the' is the first thing that I did after scanning the blog post and this comment reply was helpful.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Read my comment and then his. He's implying causation. Not that it even matters to prove this point.

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