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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Or you can get it on a new PC after it comes out.
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
When the viral infection is spreading at 4000 messages a minute, by the time the Skype team informs the IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera anti-spam teams and waits for them to add it to their blacklist, they might as well not do anything. What's w
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
This comment here says otherwise. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5705094
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
From the article: "A spokesman for the company confirmed that it scans messages to filter out spam and phishing websites. This explanation does not appear to fit the facts, however. Spam and phishing sites are not usually found on HTTPS pag
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Alternate headline: Microsoft protects hundreds of millions of Skype users by going to the effort of checking even https URLs in chat for malware and spam.
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Outlook.com gets Google Talk support, rolling out worldwide this week(theverge.com)
2 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
> Samsung's phones aren't as much better than Motorola as Samsung seems to think they are. It isn't hard to see Google pumping the next Razr model with significant advertising dollars and claiming the crown for best selling Android smar
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
These posts remind me of the articles by designers trying to use MS Paint instead of Photoshop to create amazing pictures. http://mytechquest.com/windows/amazing-ms-paint-pictures/ Yes, you can do it, but you're forcing yourself and it
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
It's been at 500 since a couple of years AFAIK.
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Great post and analysis. I've been guilty of the delete/submit trick in rare cases where I believe the story is of interest to HN ;) Thanks for the MySql dump and the Python code. Any way you can provide the parsing code as well?
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>want to find a Microsoft fan? look in accounting I seriously doubt Accounting has Microsoft fans as such. They're very wedded to their tools and workflow in order to do their job because they spend their entire day on email and spreads
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
That appears to be Google App Engine support and not Google Apps/Docs support?
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Hope it doesn't end up like this deployment. http://betanews.com/2011/10/20/los-angeles-wants-refund-for-... ""Google's record with the city is nothing but broken promises and missed deadlines," the letter reads in part. "The Internet gia
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
The primary purpose of Gmail seems to be get people to sign in so that all their web searches can be tracked by Google across computers to users' Google Accounts so that ads can be targeted, not to mention to force Google+ on users. I think
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First real-world usage figures suggest Chromebooks are struggling(zdnet.com)
3 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|1 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Too late? Windows 8 already sold 100 million licenses despite the slowdown in PC sales because of tablets, on par with Windows 7 at release. Meanwhile, Google does not release Chromebook numbers and web share stats show sales are much worse
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Apple extends banhammer to apps with sharing, recommendation and App search(pocketgamer.biz)
5 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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Preliminary EU ruling finds Google guilty of abuse of standard-essential patents(fosspatents.com)
1 points by recoiledsnake 13y ago|0 comments
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>surface systems, the arm ones with the locked boot loader, not surface pro, I guess you mean Surface RT. There is no "surface systems". >For now, and a requirement that was only added after Microsoft went ahead with requiring secur
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>like on surface systems. Surface Pro ships with an unlockable bootloader. You can even remove Microsoft's own key and install your own so that Windows can't boot. >They can either change a requirement to have the ability to disable
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Windows 8 does boot without secure boot enabled.
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Nice strawman. Not wanting to pay thousands of dollars for a PC does not make someone a "cheapskate".
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Are you saying that WindowsRT will totally take over the ARM market and kill Android?
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
I don't see how any computer can be flexible enough to be a general purpose PC with full freedom of customization and at same time be invulnerable to viruses and bootkits The only way to make an OS more secure is iOS style DRM walled garde
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
> I sent a private e-mail to Neelie Kroes saying that I support the position of HispaLinux and that I regard it as an anticompetitive, exclusionary practice for there to be only microsoft's encryption key by default on all new motherboa
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
I am a consumer and I want an iPad without the cost of iOS so that I load Android on it. Also, I want a cheap sushi restaurant near my home with hot waitresses. Just because you want something doesn't make it happen. There needs to enough o
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
>That's why noone complains that those surface products are locked down, it's because microsoft manufactures them The Surface Pro is not locked down. You can even remove Microsoft's key and stop Windows from booting and install Ubuntu's
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
There are a lot of wrong statements in your post. >Microsoft stipulates that other OSes need to be able to run on these devices. However to do so one has to obtain a boot key from microsoft. No, Microsoft stipulates that the secure boot
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Here we go again, just like last time with lots of FUD. I read through the links in the post and they're completely devoid of any details. First, I completely fail to see what this has to do with Secure Boot. If you're a System Builder and
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by recoiledsnake 13y ago
Looks like Bing is better in this aspect. From its policy: We store search terms (and the cookie IDs associated with search terms) separately from any account information that directly identifies the user, such as name, e-mail address, or p

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