nnutter

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   by nnutter 9y ago

   Both. Maybe, more their stuff. Comes installed with nagware for Office and Skype. Advertises their and third party cloud storage. Advertisements on screensaver. All can be disabled/removed. The ad I saw on screensaver was for a v
2. 62.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   Instead of saying “monopoly” just say “enough market lock-in” and people won’t get hung up on the semantics of “monopoly”.
3. 63.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   Anecdotally, when I went appliance shopping 8 years ago I went to Sears not Best Buy. When I went tool shopping I preferred the lifetime guarantee of Craftsman. I wasn’t a pre-existing customer. I live within ~30 minutes of three large m
4. 64.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   I'm not certain but I think push notifications can also be used "invisibly" to trigger data sync so this could mean limited functionality beyond just receiving "pop-ups".
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   by nnutter 9y ago

   My perception is also that malware ends up in the Google Play Store with much higher frequency than the App Store. Just do a news search for "Google Play Store malware" and "App Store malware" and compare. Also, one can
6. 66.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   Thanks for explaining one possible method. It could still mean Google is tracking location "without consent". I suppose it depends on whether they use that location data for anything other than Google Photos.
7. 67.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   Isn't the issue that the App Store doesn't have a mechanism to redistribute the source in a way that is compliant with the GPL? Is it fair to say Apple prohibits the GPL? Anyway that tried to sell GPL licensed software on the Ap
8. 68.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   Had to get the 2x so you could get realtime audio! 1x would stutter.
9. 69.▲
   by nnutter 9y ago

   I haven't seen a TV ad in 8+ years.
10. 70.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    I was ok with it until they played a video clip and it played it with the (partial) black strip.
11. 71.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    I am having a hard time deciphering what your position is.
12. 72.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Confirmed through several sources that `tag=` links are definitely referral links.
13. 73.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    How would Amazon know the date you started writing the article?
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    by nnutter 9y ago

    BSD does not have a patent license clause so if Lior, et al. have a patent on any part of the algorithm then won’t commercial use will still be ambiguous? And even if they don’t it could still be using (infringing) on a patent of a third p
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    by nnutter 9y ago

    Even if you save up the money to not be desperate in these situations they still have a very high cost. Say you’re 30 and invest in a big index mutual fund. Having to use these funds means shaving 8x as many months off your retirement.
16. 76.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    For Dropbox? You install the official Linux client. For Google? There are third-party sync products and Gnome can mount it as a network drive but I didn’t mean to imply that I did; I don’t sync Google Drive with Linux.
17. 77.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Still no Linux client but Gnome can mount your Google Drive much like an NFS or SMB mount.
18. 78.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Dropbox only dabbled in photos. Despite my desire to support Dropbox both because they pioneered the online synced folder and because they supported Linux I ended up paying Google because Google Photos came out of the gate way ahead of Dro
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    by nnutter 9y ago

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption#Data_en...
20. 80.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Next step could be to use employees homes, cars, etc. as a distribution of drone base stations.
21. 81.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Decentralized != distributed.
22. 82.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Didn't this also happen somewhat recently? How can this be prevented? The window could be reduced by actively monitoring mirrors? Could BitTorrent help mitigate this because the torrent file validates data and isn't under the c
23. 83.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    Three orders of magnitude greater than previously known plastic eating bacteria.
24. 84.▲
    by nnutter 9y ago

    As long as they include direction and magnitude it's OK with me.
25. 85.▲
    by nnutter 10y ago

    Canonical ”raised" like 20 million USD to create a converged phone but the "community/market didn't want it"?
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    by nnutter 10y ago

    For those not familiar, there are braille displays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_braille_display
27. 87.▲
    by nnutter 10y ago

    It was the rhetoric at the time and it might even be somewhat true, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002200...
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    by nnutter 10y ago

    Does Apple own any factories?
29. 89.▲
    by nnutter 10y ago

    What color theme is that which is used in the code samples?
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    by nnutter 10y ago

    I can confirm I got a full MSRP refund for my Basis Peak.