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by mtgx 7y ago
Because everyone involved in the IPO would have benefited from making the company public? Powerful incentives are a hell of a drug.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Red flag #1 should have been when Chrome could install itself on Windows while bypassing administrator restrictions by not being installed in Program Files.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Well, Stripe still isn't available in like one quarter of the European countries.
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by mtgx 7y ago
This might help: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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by mtgx 7y ago
So first things first: NSA needs to stop abusing its powers so that people can actually be proud to work for it? Stop spying on and collecting all of "Random Joe's" emails and chats, and start targeting people who are actual
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, once again, when an issue is systemic (in this case, all coffees by McDonalds are super-hot), the user is not to blame but the vendor/system designer. It reminds me of that recent case of 90%+ passengers "putting the oxygen
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by mtgx 7y ago
Has your company filed a complaint in the current DOJ investigation of Google? All that it takes for the rise of evil is for good men to do nothing and all that.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I would also add automatic recounting of votes if the electronic count is >1% of exit polls prediction, as well as some statistical recounting of various precincts to check if everything comes up as it's supposed to. Finally, the pu
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by mtgx 7y ago
Not to mention Microsoft's Windows team is already considering rewriting some Windows components in Rust to get rid of memory bugs: https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/22/why-rust-for-safe... I guess
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's not just a re-brand as in "AMD is now making whitelabel CPUs". AMD gave the IP away for the short-sighted amount of $300 million, so now the Chinese can build their own Zen-class CPUs and create new variations of it. And
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by mtgx 7y ago
> Suddenly RO seems incapable of reason or adapting in the face of clear evidence against its assertions Yes, all of that "evidence" from paid "Amazon FC ambassadors".
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's been obvious for years Google is moving in this direction of favoring "big brands". I mean I think they even said it out-loud about a decade ago when they made a Google search algorithm update. Then the whole thing wit
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by mtgx 7y ago
Same goes for memory and virtualization encryption. They should be standard consumer features. SEM "sort of" is, but I believe it's not enabled by default on many BIOSes, and SEV is reserved to Epyc. In a time that even Windo
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by mtgx 7y ago
Alibaba cloud? For the US Pentagon? I can't tell if serious or not.
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by mtgx 7y ago
And then when people will inevitably start wanting better home security (I'm thinking armored doors and such, not hackable "smart" locks) as a consequence of this, the government will start whining about not being able to bre
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by mtgx 7y ago
I just don't buy that Facebook will only limit itself to what it tells us publicly that it will do. Facebook has recently talked about merging Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram chat into one while "also keeping end-to-end encrypt
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by mtgx 7y ago
Every single one of "most advanced face auth technologies" have been hacked within weeks at most, including Apple's faceid.
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by mtgx 7y ago
How about the fact that those fingerprints Haven long been stolen and likely abused by all sorts of undergeound criminals? Even federal workers fingerprints were stolen in the OPM hack.
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by mtgx 7y ago
What's Carmack doing these days? Still wasting his life working for a hated advertising company?
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by mtgx 7y ago
Or maybe that's just an excuse pharma companies use because they'd like to have their cake and eat it, too. If they didn't actually want to sell their drugs for pennies on the dollar in some countries, they wouldn't. If
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, I also believe this is the primary reason Google is doing this. They want to hide urls with referrer tracking, AMP URLs, and other such things from the user.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Threaten one industry, see the lobbying money pour in.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Whatever this move is supposed to do, I guarantee you its #1 goal is to help Google first, and this being some kind of positive for users (not necessarily a net positive, just "a" positive) will be a side-effect at best (after all
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by mtgx 7y ago
The Facebook's merger with the U.S. intelligence agencies will be complete -- an entity that knows not only what you're been doing but what you've been thinking.
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by mtgx 7y ago
This failure was a decade, if not longer, in the making, pretty much since smartphones started replacing DSLRs for travel photos for at least some people. But I'm sure Canon's leaders laughed it off until now.
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by mtgx 7y ago
> Prosecutor discretion exists. Which means she should've been held personally responsible/impeached over what she did to Swartz. But instead Obama protected her, just like he did with all of his other government criminals, as
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by mtgx 7y ago
I wonder if Google's execs are really that oblivious to the danger Huawei poses, or they are doing this sort of stuff on purpose - like if they intended to sell this speaker in China, thus empowering the Chinese gov with Google's
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by mtgx 7y ago
Until the new EU copyright law with the upload filters, YouTube didn't have to make the copyright takedowns as aggressive as it did. It went way above and beyond what the law was requiring. Why did it do that, you ask? Because if was p
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by mtgx 7y ago
Remember all the skepticism around here that scandals like Cambridge Analytica would affect Facebook and people using Facebook's positive press releases and financial results from like a month later as "proof" that the scanda
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by mtgx 7y ago
Self-driving car security is going to need a lot more than just following the latest buzzword in the security community and thinking that's enough. But if the Cruise team is keen on buzzwords that they can then brag to the media about

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