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by roc 13y ago
Has any big acquisition ever made for a positive integration? And if Apple wanted to dip into payments, a mobile payment processor is far more compatible with their existing offerings and more Apple-y to boot. Square would be the obvious ch
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by roc 13y ago
Local cooling doesn't contradict global warming any more than the existence of glaciers contradicts summer. Regardless of where you fall on the scientific spectrum of accepting the conclusions being drawn from the evidence, or where yo
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by roc 13y ago
Possibly. If the bank used a 'security picture' after the QR Code step.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Well, it's not really 2-factor is it?" Whatever you use to unlock/authenticate to the device would be the other factor.
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by roc 13y ago
The lesson is that your ability to remain anonymous drops in almost direct proportion to the quantity of content you make available. A careful user might have a more-shallow slope; they might be able to post more photos, if they're car
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by roc 13y ago
This seems to be a centralized content store for people without the time/money/expertise to roll their own. The big unaddressed question is that most of the targets people care about aren't publish-only. Managing changes&#x2F
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by roc 13y ago
> "Giant squid citings however are rare." That's missing my question. Colossal squid sightings are rare, but "sea monsters" are sighted everywhere, all the time. And if we're expected to roll up the larg
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by roc 13y ago
You see two different classes of responses because there's two different use cases. There's security that geeks advocate for ourselves and our own implementations (often things we only have to set up and maintain infrequently) and
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by roc 13y ago
We did eventually get bodies, but only fairly recently. We had scraps before that, but those were often dismissed and had their aberrant characteristics ascribed to mutation or decomposition. In hindsight we have identified them as being
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by roc 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the GP was talking about the likelihood of a given phone having an appropriate-quality print [1], which does seem low. But putting that aside, your hypothetical app would -- using the demonstrated method -- 'lift&#
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by roc 13y ago
The approach seems fine when considering sightings vs (lack of) data for a specific potential-creature in a specific habitat. But it seems rather flawed to group together all the various "large ape", "ape/human hybrid&qu
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by roc 13y ago
If we assume the attacker is going to (be capable/mindful enough to) dust for fingerprints, they're going to get a very small potential keyspace for a passcode.
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by roc 13y ago
Actually the ones behind these shenanigans are doing it because they hope people will remember come the mid-terms. At least, they hope the people they represent will remember (and literally do not care about the rest). Most of the peop
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by roc 13y ago
Except this was done against the explicit graphics settings the customers had set and only for a handful of games that were regularly used as benchmarks. Customers who actually want framerate-beyond-all-else don't enable/would dis
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by roc 13y ago
Interesting; I didn't know that. (Or knew and forgot) I guess that calls for a re-examination of what Amazon/Google's most frequently ordered items even look like and whether there's much/any cross-over between that
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by roc 13y ago
Except shipping packaging (even when pared down by Amazon) is rarely designed to show off the object in question and such boxes (unless specifically designed for certain objects) would have quite a bit of wasted space in the storage units.
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by roc 13y ago
Beyond that, given the perverse 'market' for health care in the US, even if you can (theoretically) afford to self-insure, the pricing mechanisms and negotiating power of insurance companies practically ensures that they can offer
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by roc 13y ago
In retrospect it appears almost orchestrated -- from Obama's push for strikes, to Kerry's press conference 'fumble' [1] -- given how clearly and cleanly it allowed Russia/Syria to concede to world demands without
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by roc 13y ago
I'm not convinced how well that ridge is going to work over the course of, say, an FPS or platformer game session. For a strategy game or lower-pressure situation it's quite likely just fine. But for action games... maybe? But th
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by roc 13y ago
Albeit without any of the tactile value of the tension of an analog stick. [1] Nor an absolute, physically constrained, "max" position: where the stem of an analogue stick is pressed against the edge of its container. [2] A trac
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by roc 13y ago
Is going to exhaust your thumb and cramp the hell out of your hand in record time. And on top of that, occupy some 'third' control scheme somewhere between "kb/m" and "gamepad" that developers would have t
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by roc 13y ago
1. A patent office costs non-trivial money to run. Particularly if you want it to run well and be staffed by examiners competent in their technology domains. Why should the non-patentable industries subsidize this cost (ostensibly via taxe
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by roc 13y ago
> "This controller replaces a thumbstick with a trackball" That sounds like a special hell. What would even be the point? Making it marginally easier to control products that were never properly re-designed as living room so
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by roc 13y ago
> "Is that really the core criticism of hipsterdom?" How would a hipster caricature respond to the kiffeyeh becoming an empty fashion trend? "I wore it before it was cool" i.e. I was better/smarter/above
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by roc 13y ago
It's simpler (and more universal) than that: tribal identity is based on ascribing virtues to the tribe -- and vices to others -- based not on objective reality but based on their own values. "We do the things that we perceive as
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by roc 13y ago
Given the most core of the criticisms of hipsterism are its judgementalism and superiority complex, your argument seems to be tantamount to decrying the bullying of bullies, or the lack of tolerance for the intolerant.
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by roc 13y ago
Typically, celebrities acquire accolades for having done things of note, other than attention-seeking. [1] The ones that deliberately seek attention for its own sake get as much scorn as anyone else; they're essentially tabloid heels.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Some of these obvious bugs should have never made it past QA/testing, but somehow they did" Perhaps they made it past QA/testing because what is an obvious bug in a screenshot isn't necessarily obvious to ge
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by roc 13y ago
"let's not rule out a possible contributing factor" is a long way off "pointing the finger".
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by roc 13y ago
The number of obvious bugs [1] included lends a lot of weight to the impression of it being more about sniping than criticism. [1] z-index, text overlap, mixed states, etc. These are not questionable design choices. They're bugs. And

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