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by schwanksta 15y ago
This doesn't actually work on a phone, and supposedly the company pushes a solution for "creating responsive websites"? Cool.
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There's little privacy in a digital world(latimes.com)
1 points by schwanksta 15y ago|0 comments
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by schwanksta 15y ago
That was my fault. I originally wrote the hed as "FTC Complaint: Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security", which I thought would get around people reading just the "Dropbox Lied To Users" part. PG changed it to the hed from the article, I
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Dropbox Lied to Users about Data Security, Complaint to FTC Alleges(wired.com)
251 points by schwanksta 15y ago|103 comments
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by schwanksta 15y ago
I actually built this, so if you have any questions, shoot. A few interesting links: * A teacher with a few more observations http://projects.latimes.com/value-added/teacher/miguel-angel... * A page where you can see the same teacher unde
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by schwanksta 15y ago
FTA: "The top 5 can be discarded because of obviously faulty entries in the database (as much as I would like there to be a company that pays the average software engineer 1.8 million USD a year!). The first legit average seems to be the th
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by schwanksta 15y ago
I think it stands for Company Town, which is a section of the site/paper devoted to covering "the industry." Actually, I'm almost certain that's it.
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by schwanksta 15y ago
At first, that was what I thought the flaw would be -- providing a file that has a hash that collides with another file, gets you that file. But it seems to me you would need to know the exact contents of the file in question to get that to
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How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings (paranoia.dubfire.net)
100 points by schwanksta 15y ago|88 comments
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by schwanksta 16y ago
Kleinmatic is 90% correct -- reporters are used to banging out copy, passing it to an editor, re-writing it, passing it to a copyeditor, re-writing that, back through the ringer, and passed onto someone they've probably never met who fits i
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by schwanksta 16y ago
I could be wrong, but I think it's the depth of the rupture itself. Earthquakes don't really occur "on the surface" via http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/glossary.php "The depth where the earthquake begins to rupture. This depth may
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by schwanksta 16y ago
Yeah, it's a third-party plugin. There are a few ways I could smooth it out.
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by schwanksta 16y ago
I made a similar map the other day for the LA Times: http://lat.ms/gJWWEK . Starts Thursday at the 7.2, and has every fore- and aftershock magnitude 5+ (until late yesterday, I need to update it). The nice thing about this guy's map is tha
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by schwanksta 16y ago
Interesting: The original application for "FACE" was filed in 2005, for a UK social network called FaceParty. Doc: http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/PA_TOWUserInterface/OpenS... If you look at the documents, it seems as if Facebook scoop
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by schwanksta 16y ago
My Linode slice is in Atlanta, not Freemont, and it went down once today and once earlier this week.
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by schwanksta 16y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=thanksgiving
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by schwanksta 16y ago
My takeaway is that it's a bit like how your smart phone will wrap in your IM and SMS messages to a person in the same list interface. I'm guessing this will be something where you select a person you know, and up pops a list of all of the
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by schwanksta 16y ago
To add to what Steve said, I would say: don't be afraid to use the mouse if you're in a graphical Vim. In MacVim, if I want to change a word, I'll double-click it, hit c and type whatever I want. You might say, "But you had to hit 'c' inste
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by schwanksta 16y ago
All of these dire predictions of better technology dumbing us down are getting tiresome. People who are lazy, and wouldn't bother memorizing a route anyway, will be helped by something like SatNav or Google Maps -- and yes, probably use the
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by schwanksta 16y ago
Just wondering, have you tried getting ddg.com? My only real gripe is I find typing duckduckgo.com to be cumbersome for some reason, even though it's only 4 characters more than 'google'. It just doesn't seem to flow.
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by schwanksta 16y ago
That's an archive server, where older articles go to get monetized. You can see what it looks like in a normal template here: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-0516-ok...
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by schwanksta 16y ago
I know this has been posted already, but nobody's linked directly to the source yet.
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FCC to Overhaul Regulation of Internet Lines (online.wsj.com)
3 points by schwanksta 16y ago|3 comments
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by schwanksta 16y ago
The notionink.in site is terrible, and I went into this prepared to be entirely dismissive of whatever the video contained, but I was really impressed. It looks like a legitimately cool device.
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by schwanksta 16y ago
Closer to 20 than I am to 30, have 700+ 'friends' chronicling most of the people I met in college (and then some), tons of wall chatter between friends and family over the years, almost 900 photos tagged of me (though I don't let anyone els
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by schwanksta 17y ago
Try googling a journalist or someone with a byline that appears often. http://cpedia.com/search?q=Hilary%20Lehman
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by schwanksta 17y ago
I agree with what you're trying to say, but your example of Dan Brown bothers the hell out of me. Partially because he's a hack writer, but mostly because his books are full of bullshit.
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by schwanksta 17y ago
For the vast majority of iPhone users, whatever exists in the store is just fine and dandy, and while not being able to use Google Voice natively etc might be an annoyance, the probability that an average user is a) aware that an app they m
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by schwanksta 17y ago
This is amazing.
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by schwanksta 17y ago
Guess it's not really surprising, but definitely interesting. FTA: "In fact, the Ford Explorer--that quintessential sport-utility of the 1990s--occupied no fewer than six of the top 10 trade-in slots. Explorers from model years 1994, 1995,

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