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by mtgx 8y ago
I think all democracies would benefit from referendums/petitions that simply force the legislature to put the issue up for debate/vote.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Apple is already blocking Linux installations on new hardware via the T2 chip, so I'm getting the feeling Apple doesn't care much about Linux support on its laptops.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Why didn't it remain court order based for stuff like this? What was their reasoning for needing to bypass the courts?
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by mtgx 8y ago
That means Amsterdam is no longer a viable option for hosting your servers or using a VPN service that's located there (most are).
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by mtgx 8y ago
Would the ballot measures have existed if every single person every trying marijuana would have been arrested the next hour and put in prison for ~5 years? Maybe, but I imagine the progress would have been significantly slower (than it alre
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by mtgx 8y ago
I agree this is far from the primary thing Americans should be focusing on, even forgetting about all the horrific and completely impossible to fix security issues that this will bring. What the US needs to be focusing on is changing the vo
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by mtgx 8y ago
This is what you get with industry consolidations. If there was more fierce competition, AT&T wouldn't dare do this. It's also one of the many reasons why it's bad for an ISP to own content companies and services, too. Dr
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by mtgx 8y ago
Apple is moving "upmarket." It will be interesting to see if their fans' intense loyalty towards the company's products will win over this classic "innovator's dilemma" mistake that Apple is making. I for
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by mtgx 8y ago
Since most other companies tend to copy Apple like sheep, Apple dropping Intel would be a huge blow to Intel's image and brand.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I'll be one of those to say that HT/SMT should probably die off unless the chipmakers learn how to make it secure. I'd rather have twice the physical cores for a little higher price anyway. However, Intel starting to sell c
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by mtgx 8y ago
Meanwhile, Google's Chrome is going in the opposite direction, trying to show the user less and less such info to "improve UX".
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by mtgx 8y ago
So much glue. Glue everywhere! https://www.eteknix.com/intel-attacks-glued-together-amd-epy... Intel also did another nasty one, after being caught lying about it with another benchmark they did in the same way: they disabl
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by mtgx 8y ago
In case it hasn't been obvious by now, BitLocker has been designed to be compatible with law enforcement requests. That means for one that the vast majority of Windows users will never see it work by default on their machines, as you c
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by mtgx 8y ago
You may find this interesting, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pK0dccQ38&feature=youtu.be...
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by mtgx 8y ago
The biggest irony in all of this is that the European carmakers have lobbied and continue to lobby the EU against too strict of a mandate for EVs or too large subsidies for EVs, while also lobbying against stricter emissions controls (whi
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by mtgx 8y ago
But the higherups also refuse to call them abuses or crimes most of the time.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Yes and no. Google has all but abandoned the idea of end to end encryption for its users.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Google has entangled its Play framework deeply into the AOSP, obviously on purpose, not necessarily to discourage ROM developer, but I'm guessing primarily to discourage OEMs from changing AOSP too much, as well as slow down Android fo
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by mtgx 8y ago
If I remember right, Google hired him soon after he started the Aether project. I guess he's left Google by now.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I'm surprised that not everyone has figured this out. You're doing free labor for Google's Waymo. Why else would Google's re-captcha have all of the photos include cars, bridges, and traffic signs and lights?
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by mtgx 8y ago
For anyone else wondering, the title and the article are not actually satire (as I initially thought it would be). The author also makes a point with which I disagree - that this is the first time the internet is becoming privacy-friendly.
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by mtgx 8y ago
There's certainly the case of sending too many people to jail for harmless stuff like smoking marijuana. But there's also the case of sending way too few "white collar criminals" to prison, too. Too often they get away w
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by mtgx 8y ago
> Current cellphones represent a fourth generation, known as 4G, and 5G phones are expected to debut around 2020. They employ much higher frequencies, and these radio waves are far less successful at penetrating the bodies of humans and
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by mtgx 8y ago
Also, I assume they are referring to humans not keeping the cellphone 9h per day close to their brain . First off, many do in fact sleep with their phones close to their head these days, and second, what about the phone being close to the
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by mtgx 8y ago
Another way to read this: Apple was having its cake (preaching high CPU performance) and eating it, too (degrading its non-battery replaceable iPhones faster, so its customers would renew their iPhones sooner. Win-win...for Apple. A loss fo
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by mtgx 8y ago
Apple did a bait and switch a few years back by actually switching from more powerful Core i5 U-series to Core i5-Y series, aka Core M. Virtually no tech media entity paid attention to the performance difference between the two (spoiler: Co
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by mtgx 8y ago
But she wasn't going to get the position anyway.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Anything as powerful as CRISPR will most likely be misused and have a very high error rate/unexpected consequences initially anyway: https://labiotech.eu/medical/crispr-therapy-cancer-risk/ CRISPR is definite
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by mtgx 8y ago
It boggles my mind that Apple hasn't switched to AMD Ryzen yet. Lower cost for them, more cores/higher overall performance for their customers. What's not to like? But no, they'd rather try and sell people $20,000 Xeon M
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by mtgx 8y ago
What's almost just as bad is that networks such as Google also abuse advertisers by counting random clicks from kids. All ads on mobile should require a 2-click action, and it shouldn't be easy to click twice by mistake either.

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