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by moskie 13y ago
Yea, I've tried both the Flash and HTML5 player, and I don't think I noticed much difference. And this is all using Chrome as well. Also, I notice the skipping not just when something intensive is happening in another tab, but als
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by moskie 13y ago
Oddly enough, the thing that prevents me from fully adopting Google Play Music as my one and only music source is its performance on the desktop. Perhaps something's wrong with my computer(s), but playing Google Music from a browser wi
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by moskie 13y ago
I have Comcast, with one of their wireless routers, but I don't see any network named "xfinitywifi." Is it only certain router models? Or only certain areas?
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by moskie 13y ago
Is there any hope it will be available on Verizon? If it's available on Verizon, it's a no-brainer purchase for me. If it's not.... it's gonna have to be a super great phone to convince me not to get a different comparab
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by moskie 13y ago
I've been pretty happy with the HackerNew Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
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by moskie 13y ago
Doing this in conjunction with Chrome's multi-user features (settings -> users -> add new user) has made this setup a lot smoother.
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by moskie 13y ago
Google (or all search engines, i guess, but who are we kidding) is pretty much the only example of the situation you describe. All other advertising that exists, or has existed, doesn't work like that, yet is supposedly successful.
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Meat addiction is destroying the planet, but we can fix it(theverge.com)
7 points by moskie 13y ago|0 comments
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Obama, tech executives met to discuss surveillance(reuters.com)
40 points by moskie 13y ago|48 comments
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by moskie 13y ago
Right. In the long run, the "chicken in every pot" political slogan got us to this point, and now we're dealing the consequences. And are desperately seeking alternatives.
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by moskie 13y ago
> how are we supposed to believe that the NSA isn't lying about their allegedly strict controls? I think you're getting close to a key issue here: I think one reason the public (and, I'll admit, myself) isn't so outra
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by moskie 13y ago
> It just aggravates me that Google doesn't acknowledge the issue. I guess my point is that "the issue" might not be storage deterioration (for which you'd be inclined to blame Google, or Samsung). Perhaps the ROM y
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by moskie 13y ago
You know, I was having this problem on my GN for a long time. I was convinced I was experiencing the storage deterioration problem. My GN is rooted and I've been running custom ROMs for a long time, keeping them up to date as time went
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by moskie 13y ago
> I'm far from an expert on these matters. heh, none of us are. > But I imagine there'd be other options (working with local authorities, with coercion at the government level if necessary) that would be better than either o
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by moskie 13y ago
> So what you're saying is that the lives of US personnel are more valuable than that of innocent Pakistani civilians, including the 94 children cited in the report? I think the point is that the best option is the one that you woul
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by moskie 13y ago
The fact that the title of the HN submission was changed to remove the word "now" shows that the word was also completely superfluous in the headline. Aren't headlines assumed to be contemporary, to be about "now?"
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by moskie 13y ago
Switch back to Priority Inbox while you can! (until, of course, they sunset it.)
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by moskie 13y ago
Hate to say "I told you so," but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787363 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5787398
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by moskie 13y ago
But it seems like that still has all the ambiguity I mentioned. It could still be construed as root level access, or an FTP server, or anything in between. Also realize that Glenn Greenwald shares a good amount of blame for this misquote. T
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by moskie 13y ago
The real problem is that "direct access to servers" is not a specific term. Given the various definitions it could have, everyone could be being truthful. Some would interpret "direct access" to mean root level access to
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by moskie 13y ago
Sure, it was always large, but suburban sprawl was not always a thing. As cars became ubiquitous, things got more spread out, and designed with cars as the assumed primary mode of transportation. This was not necessarily a good idea.
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by moskie 13y ago
But you've got it backwards. The point is that the "spread out" nature you're talking about was created with the idea in mind that everyone will have a car and will drive. That was a conscious decision, and not a necessa
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by moskie 13y ago
The US is a big place. Some areas are OK for pedestrians and bicyclists. Many are not so friendly or accommodating.
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by moskie 13y ago
We might be talking past each other here. No one is saying that it's a good business plan to assume that programs like BizSpark will never run out. That is of course a bad idea. But since no one suggested that, I assumed you were sayin
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by moskie 13y ago
One could just as easily scoff at someone for basing their business off of "open source community supported" tools. But, instead, the realistic position is to understand Microsoft's tools and programs will be a decent choice
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by moskie 13y ago
"On April 5, according to this slide, there were 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database. The slide does not show how many other Internet users, and among them how many Americans, have their commu
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by moskie 13y ago
I thought that stood for "Hillary Rodham Clinton" at first, and thought they were being a bit presumptuous there! (I know she's a supporter of gay rights, but it would be a big leap to translate that into rainbows showing on
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Edward Snowden says he took Booz Allen job to collect, leak NSA info(theverge.com)
4 points by moskie 13y ago|0 comments
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by moskie 13y ago
But what about these direct quotes from him: > "My position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines all over the world the NSA hacked,” he told the Post on June 12. “That is why I accepted that position abou
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by moskie 13y ago
My impression is that he revealed the most inflammatory documents first: the ones that implicated companies and services we use every day as complicit in a mass spying program. It made for great headlines that the average joe could digest.

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