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by roc 13y ago
The component laws behind the crackdown, at least in the US, were written ahead of time. They'd been on executive-agency-wishlists for years. It might have taken a crisis to justify actually passing these laws. But they were not p
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by roc 13y ago
And no-one said they did. I mentioned WebKit and LLVM to make the distinction between technologies Apple has no problem making available to 'the community' and those they do not.
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by roc 13y ago
The same thing that was "up" when they bought Siri, Inc (from SRI International). They acquired a technology that they're going to use to differentiate their products. And apparently they feel it's a more strategic tech
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by roc 13y ago
Which is the line they use when advising you to establish a good data-retention-policy. Because any one-time 'reduction' effort is trivially connectable to intent by just about any court. Even when it's innocent.
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by roc 13y ago
Burners are an effective defense against single-phone-number taps. But in an era of dragnet surveillance and meta-data analysis [1] they're not very useful. Unless you're calling varying phones, at varying places, from varying pla
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by roc 13y ago
The more interesting part of OLPC's history, is that not only did the OLPC never quite get there on price, but it was pushing the 'wrong' platform. What the for-profit industry ultimately delivered to that end of the market,
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by roc 13y ago
Even distributed protocols aren't a silver bullet. Embrace and extend can make short work of that. As can joining standards boards and playing political games. As can simply turning off federation. Sometimes I think HTTP and SMTP are
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by roc 13y ago
Or they simply don't want/can't afford seeing large chunks of users move their usage away.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Otherwise, why would they announce this at this stage?" Drum up local interest and support to help with any local political roadblocks.
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by roc 13y ago
And the object that exploded over Chelyabinsk last year was estimated at 20m in diameter. So 270m, while a long way off "catastrophic", is well into "serious".
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by roc 13y ago
> "I think "I'm terrified of being assassinated by Russian/Chinese authorities" from a major dissident asylum seeker would be getting much more play." There's no need for hypotheticals here. When act
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by roc 13y ago
Qualifying that statement with "at the time" is being awfully generous to the present.
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by roc 13y ago
> "if your data never crosses a US border (E.g. a Norwegian person using jottacloud), then the NSA cable taps have no effect" Perhaps, as pertains to the taps we were warned about by Mark Klein, Snowden, et al. But if you th
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by roc 13y ago
> "It seems to me there's a big shortage of people in the less 'fun' tech jobs like desktop support or QA or Java corporate development." And yet the wages being offered for these jobs haven't gone up. It
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by roc 13y ago
It muddies the issue, but people acted against SOPA, which is surely what they're trying to tap into. I doubt they'll miss a few people who don't appreciate the issues being conflated, if doing so gains them some of the ant
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by roc 13y ago
Doesn't GCD do OpenCL? Or do you mean something more seamless and auto-magical?
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by roc 13y ago
It's that old line that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain liquid. In betting against a bubble, you're not placing a bet that the underlying assets are over-valued. You're placing a bet that somethin
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by roc 13y ago
This projection seems to hinge entirely on the idea that you can't build solar panels, wind farms and hydro dams without cheap oil. As those have only become more economical as oil has become more expensive, I find it particularly di
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by roc 13y ago
The experience of the dot com bubble suggests the general shape of how much salaries can increase and requirements decrease. [1] As we're not remotely approaching either end of that envelope, I'm not too convinced that any hard li
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by roc 13y ago
The older you are, the more likely that you have a spouse or child who can receive said packages, or a suburban home, where leaving a package on a porch isn't (as large) a risk, etc.
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by roc 13y ago
Tuition couldn't skyrocket if students had no means to pay it. The enabler in this situation, is the disconnect between the availability of financing and the product being financed. You can't get a $60,000 loan for a $20,000 ca
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by roc 13y ago
Labor shortages have this habit of producing wage spikes for the in-demand employees. Absent such spikes, I'm not sure I would take self-reporting as anything more than gossip or political speech. I would like to see asked, of these p
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by roc 13y ago
It's still a pretty neat trick, if you want malware designed to penetrate an airgapped network to phone home.
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by roc 13y ago
If you have the money/competence/manpower, there's more upside in selling phones in the current market. And if you're making phones, the carriers would really rather you not dip your toes in data-first devices that migh
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by roc 13y ago
It's not about trusting what they did, it's about being able to forecast and budget for what you might like them to do in the future. If it was "services, 20 hours" you have no idea what part of a project/task&#x2F
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by roc 13y ago
How is a third party going to divine data that isn't included in the bill? If you want an hourly breakdown and your current service isn't providing one, you need to demand it, or simply find a new service. Anyone billing hourly, o
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by roc 13y ago
Isn't that like claiming individual permissions pop-ups are working just fine on mobile devices, because people are carefully and individually considering whether each given app needs each requested permission? If some autofill feature
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by roc 13y ago
The bigger problem with Ara-style modularity is that as computing power shrinks (in both size and power draw) it becomes pointless to think of modules of "a" computer. There's simply no point to try to separate processing pow
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by roc 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a coping mechanism.
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by roc 13y ago
> "The image of the physician as somebody who is there to help relieve suffering is cemented as a meme, but the way the system seems to have evolved in the past few decades is towards help as a secondary duty if any." To be f

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