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by rryan 15y ago
Apparently there was some kind of bug in the app store and it started serving up an older test version. If you downloaded within the first hour or two of release, you should re-download. https://plus.google.com/111499908439497508351/posts/
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by rryan 15y ago
While many researchers at MIT publish in journals that sometimes have restrictions on the distribution of their papers (exclusivity, etc.), most MIT publications are issued via: 1) DSpace http://dspace.mit.edu (an open publishing platform
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by rryan 15y ago
I think 18USC1030 is pretty broad in its definition of a "computer". Back in the MBTA hacking case, MBTA claimed a magnetized piece of paper was a computer under this clause, and the first judge that looked at it bought that (sanity prevail
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by rryan 15y ago
Definitely true -- I thought it was a relevant bit of information so I quoted it.
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by rryan 15y ago
Anyone on MITNet has access to JSTOR articles free of charge to the user. Similarly the ACM, IEEE, etc. all have agreements like this with major universities.
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by rryan 15y ago
"Aaron Swartz ... was a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics"
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by rryan 15y ago
> Google most certainly makes money, and a lot of it, from Android. Could you explain how you are most certain of this? I don't believe they make any money from Android. If you mean they make a lot of money on ads from customers accessi
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by rryan 15y ago
Replying to self since we are at the max depth. So, from the perspective of a business analyst, you are saying that Google has no incentive to ensure the quality of their search results because they don't receive any additional money from t
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by rryan 15y ago
OK, this line of reasoning is all over the place. All it does is expose that you know close to nothing about how Google works. There are in fact, many hundreds of engineers whose sole incentive (e.g. promotions and salary adjustments) and p
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by rryan 15y ago
And GTalk 1-1 video chat and Google+ Hangouts both support Linux perfectly... looks like Google wins this user's eyeballs.
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by rryan 15y ago
No doubt it's very nice that it's integrated. But GMail has had 1 on 1 video chat for years(s?) now. I think Facebook built up expectations way too high by claiming what they were launching was awesome. Everyone was expecting them to come o
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by rryan 15y ago
It's not true that you have to create a profile. If you want to use Google+, you have to create a profile. If you just want to use Google apps/search/voice/chat/etc. then no, you don't.
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by rryan 15y ago
What about languages that don't have gender neutral pronouns?
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by rryan 15y ago
I've heard others describe the difference as a UI issue and I can't disagree more. It takes an engineer to realize, but the dynamic real-time updating of Google+ is /not/ a UI issue. You can't just sprinkle some front-end magic on a system
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by rryan 15y ago
Google+ isn't just 'techie types'. All of my friends (the ones I care about) have actually picked it up and we're all hooked. My family has joined as well and love hangouts. Nobody I've talked to thinks circles are complex (most of my frien
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by rryan 15y ago
> [ third attempt ] Does it matter that it's the third? This one is pretty compelling. All of my friends are already on it and we're all using it regularly. Whenever I go back to Facebook, it feels old and stagnant (no dynamic updates,
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by rryan 15y ago
This is what the 'Disable Reshares' option is for.
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by rryan 15y ago
> there is no reason for your mom to switch What about family-wide hangouts? Seems like a pretty killer feature for families spread across different cities. Also, what is the deal with 'mom' always being the example. What about dad? Eve
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by rryan 15y ago
Parents being on Google+ is a non-problem. Facebook's "friend bucket" is what makes your parents being on your social network a problem.
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by rryan 15y ago
What about grandpas? http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_co...
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by rryan 15y ago
Dropped by who?
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by rryan 15y ago
> at the end of the day, all your profile are belong to us. Tell that to MySpace?
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by rryan 15y ago
Bubbles have nothing to do with this. You're talking about a list of people you chose to see updates from. This has nothing to do with algorithmic surfacing of content. It's your own fault if you make a circle called "Liberal Bros" and on
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by rryan 15y ago
I'll take Google over Facebook on that point any day.
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by rryan 15y ago
Yup, it's the same guy who wrote In the Plex. He has crazy access to all sorts of people at Google -- much more raw source material gets through in his writing than the other journalists out there.
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by rryan 15y ago
I was struck by the part about the OSX ASLR implementation. I can't believe they only randomize library loads :-/.
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by rryan 15y ago
Well, I meant more Microsoft migrating data from one of their services to Google :) -- but yes it's cool that they offered a data migration path in that instance.
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by rryan 15y ago
Glad to see them doing the right thing and aiding in the export and migration of their users' data to other services (direct export to a Microsoft product! Would that /ever/ happen at Microsoft?).
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Google retires Google Health and PowerMeter projects(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by rryan 15y ago
Incognito mode isn't just disabled history recording. It does not use any of your cookies from main session, and it deletes the cookies when it is closed. It also isolates your extensions from running incognito unless you elect for them to

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