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by mtgx 7y ago
Firefox's Incognito mode hasn't had this problem. This was likely a feature, considering Google also benefited from it: https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-google-quietly-trac...
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by mtgx 7y ago
This is large companies must notify the authorities within days of such a data breach in the EU now - no room for "guessing" whether or not the companies should be sued over this type of fraud.
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by mtgx 7y ago
This sounds like that excuse you can give in an interview when they ask you what's your biggest flaw and you say "I'm a perfectionist," or "I work too much," etc.
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by mtgx 7y ago
I was certain I read a few years ago that Google would mandate that all OEMs would be forced to use a single unified certificate list, which I thought at the time was a way to pre-empt this sort of thing. But I can't find any new info
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by mtgx 7y ago
> if for whatever reason you are no longer able to serve HTTPS traffic Isn't that how it should work? Would you rather use Gmail over HTTP if its HTTPS stopped working? Besides, just supporting HTTP fallback means you're much m
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by mtgx 7y ago
> Take $10m or $24m from a large corporation, someone is going to notice. This is the problem with stealing "easy money." It's hard to stop, especially if you don't spend the first portion of money wisely. It's w
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by mtgx 7y ago
Thousands of dollars for probably hundreds of millions made in the next few years because of this one simple trick. This is actually quite a common tactic I've seen other ecommerce stores do around Black Friday. It's also highly i
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by mtgx 7y ago
Don't be evil being spread throughout their work of conduct documents used to be pretty good for that, which is why you have so many people push back against management on this and Project Maven now. But when Google all but removed the
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by mtgx 7y ago
And Google could have decided to "just stay out of China" and avoid all the PR scandals. But in the real world humans are too greedy for their own good. The first carriers to adopt 5G stand to make billions in extra revenue by cha
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by mtgx 7y ago
Google is going to shoot itself in the foot over the long term with the type of decisions it has been making lately both against its users and against its employees. I imagine that since the protests started they've already begun filte
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by mtgx 7y ago
If it costs that much you'd think they'd also offer encrypted GPS, too. They'll regret it eventually anyway.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Why not both?
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by mtgx 7y ago
The majority of people wanting a certain law doesn't work in the US anyway as Congress is dependent on corporations much more than it is on the people: https://youtu.be/5tu32CCA_Ig Until corporate bribes are removed fr
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by mtgx 7y ago
> not they overestimate it I disagree with this because you're assuming that Google "just training its systems with this data" doesn't mean that it will do "anything nefarious" with it. Oh, yes, it totally w
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by mtgx 7y ago
DJB and Tanja Lange believe that Quantum Key Distribution is snake oil cryptography not based on the "law of physics" as its proponents say it is: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/6891154802678169
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by mtgx 7y ago
I also love the new Firefox Preview on Android, which I believe is the first time that it uses the "Quantum" improvements. I can't really decide if I like the speed or the new design more, though. I like that the private mode
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by mtgx 7y ago
No company can keep that promise. The desire to meddle is irresistible, especially if they see the "independent" company go in a direction the mother company doesn't like. The only place where this seemed to work reasonably w
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by mtgx 7y ago
It's because governments no longer fear their people. And they know the more such laws they get to pass the less they have to fear, too. Just like in China, the moment someone even hints at organizing a protest against the government,
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by mtgx 7y ago
> In this case, the solution to the cryptocurrency tax problem hinges on aggregating all of your cryptocurrency data making up your buys, sells, trades, air drops, forks, mined coins, exchanges, swaps, and received cryptocurrencies into
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, you shouldn't use the NSA-infested P-256 & family curves. They're right about that.
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by mtgx 7y ago
This is a good guide for which one to choose: https://safecurves.cr.yp.to
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by mtgx 7y ago
By doing stuff like "guaranteeing" student loans, encouraging policies of buying homes with high credit, getting the Fed to lower interest rests too much (making credit so cheap and easy companies don't even use their profits
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by mtgx 7y ago
I think there was a discussion on Twitter a few weeks back between a flight passenger and an airline who at first told him he could "opt-out" of the facial recognition at airports -- only to learn that the airline doesn't act
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by mtgx 7y ago
I wish AMD enabled Secure Encrypted Memory by default for all devices, and also bring Secure Encrypted Virtualization (or something similar) to consumer Ryzen chips, too. Even Microsoft has made VM-sandboxing a consumer feature. It's t
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by mtgx 7y ago
Hollywood might go for "GameCache" instead.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Going by their designs in the leaked Snowden documents, you can probably tell which ones are ran by the NSA from the bad website/app UX/UI.
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by mtgx 7y ago
No, Toyota's Prius pushed hybrids. By the time it wanted to push pure EVs, Tesla was a much more established EV brand. Same with the electric RAV4, which I believe was the first EV in the past 20 years or so. They made it, and then bar
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by mtgx 7y ago
Not a bad point at all, especially with Amazon joining at the hip with the U.S. government lately.
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by mtgx 7y ago
Yes, "searching for survivors," to ensure they don't escape and tell anyone.
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by mtgx 7y ago
"Who knew EVs would be more than a niche/compliance car market?!" -- the people running BMW's i-division. I'm sure years from now Tesla will get no credit for dragging incumbent carmakers kicking and screaming i

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