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by pcr0 9y ago
Source?
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by pcr0 9y ago
Wow, I think the article was being very kind.
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by pcr0 9y ago
The difference is in the delivery method. Android malware gets distributed by 3rd-party (pirated) app stores and apk downloads, where every victim actually had to do something questionable to get infected. There haven't been many repor
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by pcr0 9y ago
There already is an official Ubuntu distro for China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Kylin
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by pcr0 9y ago
It seems they accepted alternate methods of payment aside from BTC, which suggests technical difficulties in acquiring BTC.
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by pcr0 9y ago
How would this be different from say, a pirated copy of MS Office/Adobe PS that detects it has been pirated and stops working?
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by pcr0 9y ago
Buying from well-known OEMs is rare in China. Many laptops, desktops and tablets are domestically made, even OEMs in China preload computers with pirated Windows. If it was from a well-known OEM, it would be the Linux/freeDOS version,
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by pcr0 9y ago
> If those behind the ransomware attack profited from the hacking, they may have figured out how to do something that has been beyond Microsoft: making money from Windows in China. Pure gold
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by pcr0 9y ago
I think you meant to refer to the NSA instead of the FBI.
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Cars to batteries: is China’s sharing economy in bubble territory?(scmp.com)
1 points by pcr0 9y ago|0 comments
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by pcr0 9y ago
National Health Service, which is the public health service of the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service
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by pcr0 9y ago
Site seems to be down https://web.archive.org/web/20170515001126/https://thesizzle...
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by pcr0 9y ago
China's history was mostly shaped by the "three teachings" of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, combined with a lot of folklore. Religion was never allowed to gain any significant power by Chinese emperors. They often taxed
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by pcr0 9y ago
Yeah, but they still have some editorial freedom. Their reporting skews pro-mainland but there are quite a few anti-mainland articles as well.
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by pcr0 9y ago
I think the idea was that hanging pictures of Chairman Mao all over their building would make the government look bad if they knocked it down.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Here's an app idea https://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/8-easy-ways-enjoy-...
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by pcr0 9y ago
To the contrary, I think they're encouraging Electron apps. Electron apps can be packaged directly to Windows Store. Another case in point: Visual Studio Code.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Sure, the technology has a low barrier of entry but that ignores network effects (necessitating lots of cash burn) and the willpower to oppose entrenched interests such as governments and taxi groups.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Except the taxi industry in many cities is not a free market, my city in particular being #1 on both the world crony capitalist index and the world economic freedom index (Hong Kong). Uber stuck their middle finger at our regulators in a wa
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by pcr0 9y ago
Uber is active in 80+ countries and 600+ cities worldwide. That's a really big gap to fill.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I stopped using them in favor of Pocket.
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by pcr0 10y ago
That sounds quite atypical, I can't imagine UBO/UB causing problems with FB Messenger of all things.
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by pcr0 10y ago
Oracle aside, .NET core is open source and I don't see today's Microsoft pulling the same crap as Oracle did with Google.
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by pcr0 10y ago
I'm not sure what you were referring to with GTK2, but MATE uses GTK3 and preserves the Gnome 2 look.
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by pcr0 10y ago
That's why Google has been phasing out Chrome apps for a while now.
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by pcr0 10y ago
ExpressVPN worked well for me, particularly in China where most commercial and self-hosted VPNs fail. They accepted bitcoin payments and had a Linux app.
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by pcr0 10y ago
But for the most part, track conditions affect all contestants equally so I wouldn't compare it to technologically advanced sportswear which gives an advantage to individual athletes.
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by pcr0 10y ago
Why do commercial Linux products only target specific distros? E.g. Steam on Debian/Ubuntu, Davinci on RedHat/CentOS. Is it just to reduce support costs or are there other technical differences in play here?
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by pcr0 10y ago
I wonder how much the increased rates of unpredictable deportations is costing airlines, given that they're responsible for paying deportees' return flights.
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by pcr0 10y ago
Yep, you can implement your calculations as shaders, which I bet is really useful for matrix multiplication and doing stuff in parallel. That and better graphics performance. For example, you can't match the performance of this Game of

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