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by pieter 15y ago
I hope external Thunderbolt SSD's will keep much of the same performance characteristics as the internal SATA ones, but there's no way to know that until there actually are some thunderbolt devices :). Having a good performing external SSD
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by pieter 15y ago
Cool to see mine still mentioned :) I'm happy that others are continuing the good work
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by pieter 15y ago
I don't think it's that obvious. Two counter-examples: If you use someones paper, pen, envelope and stamp to threaten someone, you're still liable. If you tap someones electricity, you're liable.
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by pieter 15y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2509723 for discussion
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by pieter 15y ago
This doesn't seem to be anything like dropbox, but more an NFS replacement.
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by pieter 15y ago
Sounds like the i5-2400 and the i7-2600 to me, both Sandy Bridge CPU's. The bit about the "only at.." means you can't get them in the physical store, because those will be custom built to your specifications.
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by pieter 15y ago
You now have to upgrade to the second tier if you want to have more than 500GB hard drives or an SSD, so if you really want that you'll have to pay $300 more than the base model. Too bad the hard drives in these macs are so hard to replace
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by pieter 15y ago
"This is not about ability" Sure it is. That's exactly what the following statement means: "Apple cannot identify the source of this data". How can you interpret that as anything else but their ability of identifying the source? The stateme
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by pieter 15y ago
Point is that he's turning roaming off, and probably doesn't have access to WiFi in the foreign city. By having the database, you don't need a data connection at all, thus saving money.
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by pieter 15y ago
That probably only works for local telco's. With Apple's info, US agencies can track anyone with an iPhone in the world, even if the telco's there don't want to cooperate.
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by pieter 15y ago
They receive your IP address because that's how IP works; otherwise they wouldn't have an address to send data back (and IP packets with a spoofed source IP are dropped immediately). They might not do anything with it, but they definitely h
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by pieter 15y ago
5. Can Apple locate me based on my geo-tagged Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data? No. This data is sent to Apple in an anonymous and encrypted form. Apple cannot identify the source of this data I hate it when companies use 'encrypted' l
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by pieter 15y ago
Am I the only one that doesn't like QR codes? Just use a URL instead. 1) You need a smartphone to scan them. People without a phone handy can't scan them, so if you see an ad somewhere, and want to check it out later you can't just remembe
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by pieter 15y ago
In Amsterdam as a starter you can expect somewhere between €30k and €38k, depending on your skill set and company you're applying for. I think €45k for a senior position sounds about right, but this really depends a lot on where you're goin
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by pieter 15y ago
Here's a translated page: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h... In short, the provider is going to block services like WhatsApp, Skype and video services like YouTube. If you still want those services, you'll hav
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Dutch provider to charge extra for use of Whatsapp, Skype, etc..(nu.nl)
2 points by pieter 15y ago|1 comments
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by pieter 15y ago
They probably already signed an intention for the final agreement, and just had to fill in the details.
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by pieter 15y ago
Except that when you use TrueCrypt most of the functionality of DropBox stops working; you can't access your files through the web interface anymore (duh), but most importantly, you can't use the volume on two machines at the same time.
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by pieter 15y ago
Of course, Apple would know your location most of the time anyway, whether or not this file exists. You send the ID's of cell towers and wifi points to Apple, which returns you the location of those points. Apple could always have been stor
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by pieter 15y ago
It might help if you tell us why you want to know.
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by pieter 16y ago
yes, thank you for rewording my comment.
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by pieter 16y ago
There's still a big problem with de-duplication: Dropbox can still figure out which users have the same file, thus leaking information. That, combined with the fact that they'll know the size of the file already gives them a lot of info. Fo
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by pieter 16y ago
I don't think the AppleTV replaces any top-box right now, nor is it meant to do so. As long as you can't watch live tv with it, almost no-one will use it instead of their cable subscription. That said, I don't really see problems with givin
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by pieter 16y ago
He misss a fourth option: Apple replacing the existing top-box with their own, using TV over IP. Might not be the time for that yet, especially with the horrible broadband Market in the US, but once TV is a commodity you get over the Intern
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by pieter 16y ago
The managers of the RIRs themselves are more pessimistic, and I'd expect them to have run a bit more analysis on this than the writers of this article. For example, RIPE predicts they'll exhaust in September [1], and ARIN is also expected t
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by pieter 16y ago
You didn't see the post about IANA depleting their end of the IP spectrum? [1]. This was the first sign this year that things are speeding up, and had a pretty big post on YC [2] [1] https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html [
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by pieter 16y ago
No, as stated in this article, this last /8 is special and they'll only hand out 1024 addresses ONCE for every APNIC member. Effectively they've run out, these addresses can only be used for transitioning purposes, 1024 addresses are useles
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by pieter 16y ago
Sorry, I meant a /22
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by pieter 16y ago
From tomorrow on, requesters will only be able to get a /24, which equals 1024 IP addresses.
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APNIC is the first RIR that has depleted its IPv4 pool(apnic.net)
5 points by pieter 16y ago|4 comments

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