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by mtgx 8y ago
Can you elaborate? Does that mean that if you something that your "good bacteria" likes, then you'll have nice dreams, and if you eat something your "bad bacteria" likes you'll have nightmares? Or how exactly w
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by mtgx 8y ago
3x optical zoom. And I think each have different characteristics like one is normal, one is wide-angle and one is telephoto.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Well, yes, I would say this applies to to Google, too: > (i) Facebook-owned services like WhatsApp and Instagram can continue to collect data. However, assigning the data to Facebook user accounts will only be possible subject to the
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by mtgx 8y ago
Too many anti-trust agencies seem to have a "Oh well, what's done is done, what can you do now?!" attitude towards violations. If one of the primary conditions of the merger was that WhatsApp was not allowed to share user dat
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by mtgx 8y ago
Even so, Facebook itself would eventually die out, as people would get bored with "social media", or at least the type of social media that Facebook embodies. How do I know this? Because I'm already seeing the trend for it.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Someone one else would've bought YouTube. Or Vimeo would have become the #1 video site, and then maybe Microsoft or Amazon would have bought it. Still better than Google alone owning most of the biggest traffic sites.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Level 3 shouldn't exist. Multiple self-driving car makers have studied the issue and have concluded that Level 3 is too dangerous for humans, because human reaction is too slow to deal with the imperfections of a Level 3 system, all th
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by mtgx 8y ago
The entirety of DHS is the embodiment of "mission creep."
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by mtgx 8y ago
The "economy will be hurt" if bankers go to jail is getting a little old, isn't it? It's also sounds like exactly the kind of thing bankers would like the public to believe and would try to influence media narrative to r
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by mtgx 8y ago
> …but the proposed declarativeNetRequest API isn’t a good replacement. So where does that leave us? Exactly. The issue is Google is using the removal of this "bad API" as an excuse to end ad-blocking in Chrome. If it only wa
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by mtgx 8y ago
There's no good reason why those names should be hidden from the EU population. None. It's a disgrace that governments continue to cater to large corporations and allow them to get away with small fines and "admitting no wron
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by mtgx 8y ago
Google certainly has a history of doing stuff like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17076670
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by mtgx 8y ago
Well, for one, Google pays Apple a ridiculous $12 billion a year for having Google search by default in Safari: http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng... I'm guessing Tim Cook is no
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by mtgx 8y ago
> blindly clicking "I agree" counts as consent Not in the EU, where the idea of "informed consent" exists within law. Maybe the US needs better data protection laws, too.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Probably more to come for the foreseeable future: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/may/29/cyber-att...
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by mtgx 8y ago
I feel the same way about Carmack. Such wasted potential that could've been so much better used at a company like SpaceX or even one like Epic Games or Valve.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Shouldn't everyone use SHA2, or at least Blake 2 (same software performance as MD5) by now?
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by mtgx 8y ago
> AFAIK given the Ledger's on-screen confirmation process it really doesn't matter what's the medium of communication Except for that time when the attacker finds a way to bypass the on-screen confirmation process and make
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by mtgx 8y ago
Blame Google, not Mozilla. They're doing it on purpose and it's the main reason why more people should make the switch now before it's too late and nothing else works with Google's stuff but Chrome: https://
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by mtgx 8y ago
> Standard programming in C or C++ As if IoT manufacturers weren't already ignoring the security of their IoT devices and properly updating them. I think if IoT devices are to adopt a good open source RTOS it should at least be one
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by mtgx 8y ago
These are the sort of "bugs" that have barely enough plausible deniability as backdoors to make people believe they were "random" or "human error."
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by mtgx 8y ago
Apple and "cheap" are like oil and water - they don't mix. The last time Apple offered a "cheap" phone (read: still expensive for India" it cost like 500 USD in India.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I see Google anti-whistleblowing propaganda internally is also having some effect.
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by mtgx 8y ago
> Yes, they could serve you a MITM key, but it would be easily discoverable when you compare security codes in the client. Who does that for every conversation? Or even once per week/contact?
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by mtgx 8y ago
No wonder they obliterated "Don't be evil" from the workers' code of conduct. This, yet again, reinforces the idea that people with good values are no longer welcome to work for Google anymore. But some, the same people
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by mtgx 8y ago
Apparently, "former" NSA agents.
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by mtgx 8y ago
> “We never thought it would pass,” said Alan Jones, chief executive of M8 Ventures, a tech investment firm in Sydney. “We all just figured that Australia’s political leaders would consider the expert advice that told them this was nuts
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by mtgx 8y ago
Isn't that a little like saying that the government expects to see a "ROI" from educating children? The positive effects of open sourcing science could be seen down the road and not in a direct way, but in more indirect ways.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I mean the protocol is the more modern version. Less capable as in "fewer ways to hit yourself in the foot by forcing you to use secure cryptosystems", then sure. WhatsApp and Wireguard have been using Noise for a couple of years
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by mtgx 8y ago
You just gotta love Margrethe Vestager. She keeps up the good fight against corporate greed and crime. Hopefully she'll be re-elected as Commissioner this year (not unheard of, considering the awful Goettinger was also re-elected a cou

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