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by rakkhi 16y ago
Thanks for the link, a few good quotes from there: Now this I can definately belive: "the report concludes that the primary reason for the ban on cell phone use in flight is that neither the FAA nor the FCC are willing to spend the money to
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by rakkhi 16y ago
That last one is an interesting point, any references to whether it has been tested?
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by rakkhi 16y ago
My point exactly.
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Ok how about on airplane mode only so I can still read but not recieve any calls? Also ban is a bit strong with how it actually works - I mean how do you really enforce that? The air hostesses go around do a quick look but they can miss thi
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Man i wish I could give you 10 upvotes, you have just solved my only issue with Dropbox. I have like 4 machines that I work on regularly and this has now allowed me to sync all those config files you cannot easily move e.g. iTunes including
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Ask HN: Are mobile phones on a plane taking off or landing really dangerous?
52 points by rakkhi 16y ago|129 comments
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Unix newbie here: can I do a similar thing on Windows? Shortcuts do not work
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by rakkhi 16y ago
I meant because it is a CFD I am getting 25 / 1 exposure. IG markets interest is very low also though
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Firstly it is hard to argue that more education is a bad thing. If you are truly passionate about a topic and want to research it go for it it. You will also meet a lot of good contacts in terms of fellow students, lecturers and tutors as w
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Leveraged bets at the moment personally: Apple - great company, great management, rosy future Google - dominant market share, interesting new products expected ARM and Qualycomm - processors for virtually all smart phones and tablets Was an
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Galaxy if you want an Australian stock, Western Lithium if you want a US stock
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Thats popular opinion but for example I bought apple at 240 at a good rate of leverage and it is sitting pretty behind a trailing stop at the moment.... if you belive in the fundementals, follow the industry (i.e. invest in what you know) n
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Do you have a good story on why you believe that gold will keep going up for while? I can think of one maybe the US currency will continue to decline and the world will change to a basket of currencies backed by gold... Personally I am goin
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by rakkhi 16y ago
I would agree with this - wiki's are an example where collaborative social technologies are far superior to policies and standards which sit stale in PDF's which are updated at maximum once a year are I hardly think "it is a solution lookin
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Could Dispora be more secure? sure - but it is a very early release and guess what being open source you can fix the bugs yourself, on join the community that does. Also while I would not endorse it, it would hardly be the first application
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Farming at work: social media in the enterprise(rakkhi.blogspot.com)
15 points by rakkhi 16y ago|17 comments
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Twitter hacks: lessons for users and Twitter(rakkhi.blogspot.com)
1 points by rakkhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by rakkhi 16y ago
I must say I am impressed with the RIM potentially abandoning the Blackberry OS for something different, although why not just Android or WP7 is another question. I do not think anyone is under an illusion that attempting to simply copy the
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Man I just got exploited by this, shutting down use of twitter.com till it is fixed.
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by rakkhi 16y ago
+ points: Like the simplicity, if customer experience is good I would definitely try this for my blog - points: Need to support more payment options e.g. Paypal and Google checkout. No way am I putting my credit card into your application.
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Security metrics: If you do not measure something why even bother doing it?(rakkhi.blogspot.com)
2 points by rakkhi 16y ago|0 comments
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Think it is a about time they did this. There are some major risks with one factor as more and more services use Google as a single signon mechanism. I go into the details here: http://rakkhi.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-dont-facebook-twitter.
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Chromium: After the Deadline - Version: 1.2 Check spelling, style, and grammar in your browser Boomerang for GMail - Version: 0.5.0 Allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Chromed Bird - Version: 1.8.5 Chrome
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Ask HN: How do I increase the load speed of my blogger.com site?
3 points by rakkhi 16y ago|2 comments
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Maybe not an entire book but might you not read/write a large requirements or design document, set of test scripts before it goes into Quality centre for example. Write-up a lessons learned document or review a threat model for a security p
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by rakkhi 16y ago
You don't need a powerfull laptop for most offices you need a thin or zero client like a Sunray and virtual desktop. If your staff to need to move again low power tablet and laptops and connect to virtual desktops for that processing power
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by rakkhi 16y ago
My thinking on this was that if they bought RIM they would greatly increase their marketshare in those "boring" but profitable "enterprise products". Lets face it the Blackberry OS sux, even v6 is a poor iOs clone and Windows mobile has rea
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by rakkhi 16y ago
> "Word or Excel teams use any other word processor or spreadsheet." Reinforces your point and his. Word and Excel are best in class, nothing else comes close - OpenOffice, Google Docs, Documents to go on mobiles are ok substitutes but
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by rakkhi 16y ago
Keep a notebook for just 3 days, list out every activity that you do on a computer/computing device (tablet, smartphone etc) in just broad terms, personal and work: e.g. read hacker news, write report, review y, code x, watch movie, read ma
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by rakkhi 16y ago
> "What use case does ChromeOS solve that Android doesn't solve?" Android is designed for native application based devices, Chrome is designed from the ground up for Web applications. Web applications especially with HTML5 caching techn

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