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by msravi 9y ago
According to the article, the phone won't unlock if you aren't attentive, i.e., looking at the phone with your eyes open with tiny imperceptible eye movements.
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by msravi 9y ago
Fundamental rights are not absolute, in the sense that reasonable restrictions can be placed on them. An example is Article 21 of the constitution: No person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure es
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by msravi 9y ago
> as why getting carried away by the words fundamental right is something to be cautious about. Because people sometimes tend to equate "fundamental" with "absolute", and assume that the right cannot be taken away fro
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by msravi 9y ago
A word of caution before being carried away by the words "fundamental right". According to the judgement, the right to privacy is fundamental (as an offshoot of the fundamental rights of freedom of life and personal liberty guaran
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by msravi 9y ago
I'm on ACT, and it appears that I can access both http://web.archive.org/ and https://web.archive.org/ On Airtel, I can't access the http version. So must be an Airtel specific block, unrelated to
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by msravi 9y ago
I wouldn't really characterize the headline as an error in the inadvertent sense. The "error", propagated across so many leading news portals appears deliberate, wilful, and tailored to suit a narrative.
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by msravi 9y ago
Just bought this now, after watching the video and trying out the "lite" version on Android. It really is brilliant.
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by msravi 9y ago
Amazon has been de-emphasizing their unlimited plan since the end of April, and the writing has literally been on the clouddrive landing page - I wrote about it here: http://swirlingtea.blogspot.in/2017/05/amazon-d
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Amazon de-emphasizing unlimited storage on clouddrive(swirlingtea.blogspot.com)
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by msravi 9y ago
I'm a bit skeptical about how much deduplication saves them. I have a couple of 100 gigs on ACD, unencrypted, most being family photos/videos - I don't think they're going to find any portion of those that's remotel
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by msravi 9y ago
> My guess is that the software will probably just require users to get their own secrets as part of the initial configuration. Amazon has stopped giving out any more API keys ( https://developer.amazon.com/amazon-drive ).
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Rclone banned from Amazon Drive for having the encrypted secrets in code(forum.rclone.org)
89 points by msravi 9y ago|76 comments
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by msravi 9y ago
The press release from Fraunhofer is extremely misleading: > mp3 licensing program for certain mp3 related patents and software of Technicolor and Fraunhofer IIS has been terminated This gives the impression that the patents are valid bu
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NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot Man-Made Barrier Shrouding Earth(nasa.gov)
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by msravi 9y ago
And this is why ssh keys need to be encrypted - it's a good 2nd factor that will prevent access to all your important stuff if your laptop is stolen/compromised. ssh-keygen -p -f keyfile
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Researcher faces jail time for sharing scientific paper on Scribd(statnews.com)
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by msravi 10y ago
In Julia, a shell command is a semicolon away in the REPL: ;ls -al Plus, it borrows the backtick notation from Perl: run(`ls -al`) And you can read the string returned for processing further within Julia: x = readstring(`ls -al`) And it sup
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by msravi 10y ago
Fascinating. Where can we read more of these transcripts?
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by msravi 10y ago
Let's say a guy has some documents that he happened to show someone that can implicate him in a crime. The person he showed it to testifies that the guy showed it to him/her. Can he be held until he turns over those documents?
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by msravi 10y ago
I use quiver for both notes and bookmarks ( https://github.com/HappenApps/Quiver ), with the data residing on Google drive. My reasons (YMMV): 1. The data format is clean and open. At some point if the app becomes unavai
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by msravi 10y ago
Just registered. I seem to be able to add keywords, but can't find a way to remove keywords or edit the frequency of notifications. I've tried disabling uMatrix for the site, but that doesn't seem to help. Is it just some wei
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by msravi 10y ago
...which is ok. I mean, you're perfectly entitled to see me as or call me evil or stupid. But when you ignore a 2-page rebuttal of your opinion, and only respond to someone who called you names as an "example" of the abuse be
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by msravi 10y ago
I watch in fascination two twitter lists I've created - labeled for better or worse, "left" and "right". I routinely see both braindead namecalling and extremely well constructed arguments on both lists. And yet, th
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by msravi 10y ago
I once sent a table (that was html formatted) and gmail unceremoniously truncated it (without any warning). Googling around, it turns out that there's a known html size limit of 102k for gmail. That was something of an unpleasant surpr
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by msravi 10y ago
Seems to me more like they used the big copper tube in the center of the room and the aluminum walls of the room itself to guide the current flow. It's as if the copper tube and the room are a big conductor through which electricity fl
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by msravi 10y ago
They should cut out the overlaid commentary and just have the launch audio feed.
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ISRO to launch 104 satellites into space(hindustantimes.com)
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by msravi 10y ago
Thank you!
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by msravi 10y ago
Am not someone who can claim to "get" art. Is there some description someplace that will help interpret the work of art - for the one you've linked to, for example?. A background of the context perhaps?
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by msravi 10y ago
Does this also encompass the providers' "reading" emails to place appropriate ads and/or services? For example, I noticed recently, that if I have a hotel booked, Google "reads" my email and annotates Google ma

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