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by salient 13y ago
NYT doesn't like Bitcoin much, does it?
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by salient 13y ago
You can use just one. Some like to play it safe, though, and keep an "active wallet", where they have a small portion of their money (especially if they have a lot of Bitcoins), and they keep the rest backed-up (and encrypted) and
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by salient 13y ago
They will look like complete fools when Bitcoin goes way beyond their "maximum" value $1,300. This seems like a very shallow analysis, done by someone who's new to Bitcoin, and within a single day.
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by salient 13y ago
How is Microsoft able to pinpoint the botnet owners? Are they doing it simply by identifying the infected computers through their own antivirus (or some code in Windows), and then working their way backwards, or do they just get a tip from
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by salient 13y ago
Any chance for the business method to be banned again in Senate through an amendment?
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by salient 13y ago
As long as Microsoft tells NSA about the bugs they have in Windows before they start fixing them [1], that just constitutes the same thing as "backdoors", since with many of those bugs NSA can take full control of a machine. So Mi
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by salient 13y ago
If only they'd give users the option for 1-click encryption before uploading/syncing. It could work especially well with Dropbox since it has only native apps anyway. We already know they are "next" on NSA's list
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by salient 13y ago
More like Big Spying.
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by salient 13y ago
We try to invade them, of course.
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by salient 13y ago
Ok...more protection against breaches, but what about the stuff they are giving willingly ? Until any of these big companies start getting serious about end to end encryption, I can't take them seriously. It's just PR at this p
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by salient 13y ago
I don't see how it's a "good sign for Bitcoin". Until now people thought Bitcoin is going to explode in China, but now China put some serious restrictions on it. Why would that be a good sign? Also, what happens if excha
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by salient 13y ago
Chrome is updated through the Play Store every ~6 weeks. You're right about WebView, though.
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Cyber war technology to be controlled in same way as arms(ft.com)
1 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
2016 definitely seems late. I also would've expected the speed to be more like 20 Gbps by then, but it's just double the USB 3.0 speed. That doesn't seem like a huge improvement.
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by salient 13y ago
It's not just a "Blackberry". It's custom hardware with custom security.
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by salient 13y ago
We need an Internet that is secure by default. The Application layer security is a mess, and has a vast number of ways to attack and break that encryption level. We need to encrypt every packet on the web at the Transport layer or even the
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by salient 13y ago
Metadata surveillance is the backbone of drone assassinations. Without it, they wouldn't be possible. They first find out when the person to be assassinated is located , and then send the drone.
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by salient 13y ago
Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is backing Oracle in this appeal, because apparently Microsoft thinks that copyright on APIs = good.
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by salient 13y ago
That's a little more than 4k (8.3MP). I think I was expecting it to be a little higher than that.
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by salient 13y ago
It's a good thing Google managed to scan all of the world's old books then, and also that they are working on perfecting translation between dozens of these languages. I doubt much will be lost. Plus, we can see it as a new beginn
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by salient 13y ago
That whole "Larry Page disappearing for a month" thing was probably when they replaced him with a real Android to take control of the company. Now that I think about it, his latest speech at Google I/O - when he "returne
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by salient 13y ago
He's trying to protect his business from a hostile actor - Microsoft. They are attacking others like Valve by radically changing the rules for what goes on Windows, and creating their own gateway. So what's "questionable&quot
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by salient 13y ago
Last I checked Mac OS also had very poor OpenGL support, from what I hear because it's Apple the one writing their own OpenGL driver and building it into the OS. Have they even caught up to OpenGL 4.0 yet? Even if they did, that's
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by salient 13y ago
I hope something interesting will come out of HSA/OpenCL 2.0 in the next couple of years, and that heterogeneous computing will start becoming more practical for more types of programs.
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UK Parliament Makes A Mockery Of Itself Interrogating Guardian Editor(techdirt.com)
4 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
Perhaps, but what's definitely not working is the guaranteed loans from governments, which gives universities access to virtually unlimited funds. If the government wouldn't give loans for college, US tuitions would probably be 10
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by salient 13y ago
With XP finally at the end of life, this is a great opportunity for many companies or institutions to switch to Linux.
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by salient 13y ago
Moto G 2/3 of the price? Nexus 5 for $50 more? It doesn't have to be a "music player" of sorts, when the iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone part. So as long as there are decent Android phones out there with the sa
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by salient 13y ago
Southwest - the developer who charges you $5 for a game, in full. Ryanair - the developer who gives you the game for free/for $1, and makes you pay through the nose with in-game purchases.
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by salient 13y ago
Running it well ? No, with the one exception of the Mac Pro, which can supports 3 such monitors at once, but it has a GPU vastly more powerful than any Intel GPU inside the Macbooks. Iris Pro (5200+) is just now the starting point for ru

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