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by salient 13y ago
> They're suppose to be making money on the voice/data usage for 2 years And they will! You can throw your AT&T sim away and never touch it again. But you will still pay them the $70 a month or whatever you were paying th
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by salient 13y ago
I think you're confusing 2 issues here: 1) unlocking the phone 2) killing the contract with AT&T Until now to "unlock your phone", you had to kill your contract with AT&T, and then move over to T-Mobile. But now you&#
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by salient 13y ago
How exactly? You're still in a 2 year contract. Whether you're using T-mobile's SIM or not is completely irrelevant. You signed a 2 year contract with AT&T and you're paying them every last time until that period exp
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by salient 13y ago
Hopefully she sets up a system so only a tiny fraction of those 600,000 backlogged patents get accepted by USPTO employees, while the others get discarded as the useless patents that they are. Then USPTO will have time to pass the patents t
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by salient 13y ago
So what's the difference between the PG - suitable for everyone, mode, and "I don't want any online protection"? You'd think they are one and the same thing, but it doesn't sound like it. The PG stuff is still
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by salient 13y ago
GPU mining is still not as decentralized, as basically only high-end PC gamers (with their own default cards) and the people specifically buying GPUs for mining will have a shot at it. CPU-only mining would be a lot more decentralized, if s
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by salient 13y ago
The alternative was a Facebook Page, probably, so...
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by salient 13y ago
I think it will fail, hard - just like Facebook Poke did. And that was when Snapchat was very, very early. Now it has a ton of momentum behind it, and this is hopeless.
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by salient 13y ago
I guess it was chosen to "streamline" the process of assigning a patent to someone (first come, first served). Unfortunately that doesn't necessarily mean it's a better process, because now, as expected, the trolls (or
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by salient 13y ago
I don't really buy that argument. Yes, central banks can print more money, but it's not like they can print 30 percent of the existing money within a year to compensate for the 30 percent rise in demand for the dollar. But again,
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by salient 13y ago
I guess my point was that rather than have Bitcoin grow 3x within a month because of some big news, then crash to 2x of its height, and then grow back "slowly" to where it was within another 1-3 months, it could just grow more smo
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by salient 13y ago
"In the name of the People, shut down this facility!" Well, that sounds familiar. It seems the more governments change over the decades, the more they stay the same.
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by salient 13y ago
Wouldn't this ultimately help stabilize the price of Bitcoin, in part because perhaps Bitcoin bubbles wouldn't reach such tall heights anymore, if a lot more people can bet against them? I think besides much bigger volume and liqu
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by salient 13y ago
I'm glad all of this happened before the new EU privacy law passed, too, because all of these revelations should've put a permanent stop on US companies' lobbying for weaker privacy in EU, and it may even add some new stronge
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by salient 13y ago
This is why the start-up environment sucks in Europe. It seems so (relatively) easy to get $20 million in US as a start-up, while it seems almost impossible to get that kind of money in Europe from an investor, which is why there are so man
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by salient 13y ago
Can you add Bitstamp growth, too?
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by salient 13y ago
By the way, just a couple of thousand signatures needed for ECPA reform petition, and today is the last day (might be just hours, not sure): https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-ecpa-tell-g...
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by salient 13y ago
I disagree. The government should only spy on "targets" not on "everyone in order to find targets". Otherwise, might as well let them go through your home at will, to find criminals. Not so coincidentally, NSA already
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by salient 13y ago
If you want smaller phone and with more battery life get the Moto X. If you want a phone that always receives the latest version of Android first and a 1080p screen get the Nexus 5.
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by salient 13y ago
Do you get searched by the TSA even when you're using the US airport as a hub, and not visiting US? Because I was already thinking of avoiding US as a hub if possible, but I wasn't sure if it was necessary or not.
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by salient 13y ago
"Remember when the administration said X? They lied." - seems to be happening quite often. The almost funny thing is that at the time they also say they wouldn't have the authority to do that anyway, but when they get caught
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by salient 13y ago
$30 a month if you opt out of not wanting AT&T to spy on your traffic? Surely that's unconstitutional/illegal and worthy of a class action lawsuit?
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by salient 13y ago
Will that data be as "secure" from the US government as their banking information is these days? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/11/us-tax-switzerland... Also, remember when Switzerland
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by salient 13y ago
Google has been warned plenty of times about this. They just don't care. They're instead making it ever easier to file mass bogus takedowns to more and more channels at once to appease Big Content.
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by salient 13y ago
And in Obama's case, that turned out to be extremely premature. So learn from history? Then again didn't Time give this award to Hitler, too? So yeah, they don't exactly have a good record of learning from history.
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by salient 13y ago
I figured they wouldn't give it to Snowden. They're too scared/docile to do such a thing. They gave it to Zuckerberg - in 2011 (why that year?!) - instead of Assange, too, so whatever. To me Time POY is useless.
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by salient 13y ago
It doesn't really matter if you're "interesting" or not. They're using keyword filters anyway, so if you don't encrypt your stuff, and say something that they consider suspicious, you'll probably show up i
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by salient 13y ago
Relevant: http://betanews.com/2013/12/09/tech-giants-surveillance-refo... As long as these companies build the best tracking engines the world has ever seen, that can identify anyone and everything they'
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by salient 13y ago
Not lawsuits, patent extortion. If only there were actual lawsuits, but I don't think they've won anything from actual lawsuits. They just pressured companies into giving them money.
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by salient 13y ago
No access to the Play Store, which makes the whole thing pointless. It really is like starting from scratch.

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