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by signed0 13y ago
I wonder if this will cause countries to abandon OSX & Windows in favor of open source software. The bigest takeaway from all of this is that you can't trust closed software that was developed by foreign corporations.
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by signed0 13y ago
I don't think that is correct. I'm not even sure how they would go about determining that since hacker news profiles do not include age information and the site does not use any form of analytics. According to the latest poll, mos
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by signed0 13y ago
Perhaps they could be sued either way. If a company states on their website that "We do not do X", and then starts doing X they are left with two choices, leaving a false message up or taking it down. If they leave it up, and the
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by signed0 13y ago
While it seems to be working, the worse they make him sound the more foolish they look for hiring him in the first place. They are just further ruining any remaining reputation they have for being able to keep privileged data secret.
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by signed0 13y ago
Do you also believe then that buying a used book or checking one out from library is the same as piracy?
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by signed0 13y ago
Somewhat related, the BBC launched a new weather app for the iPhone (and Android) today. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/appsblog/2013/jun/10/bbc-wea... Perhaps the requirements are somewhat relaxed
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New PRISM slide promotes directly collecting data from servers(theverge.com)
5 points by signed0 13y ago|0 comments
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by signed0 13y ago
Weird, somehow extra characters are being added to the end of that url. Removing the trailing / fixes it. http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-onion-urges-barack-obam...
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by signed0 13y ago
The problem with all the denials is that journalists say "Google is doing X" and Google responds "We aren't doing Y" and everyone debates whether Y = X, Y is a subset of X, or Y is something completely different. I
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by signed0 13y ago
I think he broke both stories. From http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-n... > The Guardian has verified the authenticity of the document, a 41-slide PowerPoint presentation
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by signed0 13y ago
If I read the article correctly, hosts are still in control as to whether they will allow all guests or just verified. Did I misinterpret this? Is the uproar over the mandate that a random 25% of users are now required to go through verific
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by signed0 13y ago
OpenOffice has to support OOXML because they have always positioned themselves as supporting everything under the sun. They supported .doc from the start. Microsoft has traditionally supported only their own formats, so their decision to ad
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by signed0 13y ago
This seems like a great way for a recruiter to alienate someone they are hoping to recruit. Last month a recruiter was able to get my email address me through this very mechanism. It immediately felt slimy to me and completely put me off th
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by signed0 13y ago
Which is actually where PadMapper was getting their data from.
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by signed0 13y ago
Towards the end they weren't even accessing the data through Craigslist. They were scraping Google Search results for Craigslist entries.
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by signed0 13y ago
Creating the clone is fairly easy. For every type of service that Craigslist provides there have probably been 1-5 clones over the past few years. Currently both buyers as well as sellers have been trained that the place to go is Craigslist
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by signed0 13y ago
Perhaps the author being "Derek Khanna, Contributor", instead of "XX XY, Forbes Staff" has something to do with it.
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by signed0 13y ago
While we're at it, we should probably prevent people from doing things that can kill people.
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by signed0 13y ago
Realistically, .us is never really going to see any real mass adoption by American businesses. The only time consumers encounter a .us domain is in a spam email. In all my time on the internet, I can only think of a single .us site that I v
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Posterous is shutting down today: here are the best alternatives(theverge.com)
3 points by signed0 13y ago|0 comments
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by signed0 13y ago
You give your keys to imo.im.
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by signed0 13y ago
I like the design of the site. - I'd add a redirect from www.appraptor.com to appraptor.com - The down arrow next to each section looks a bit odd. I would move it before the label.
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by signed0 13y ago
I think that name was mentioned in relation to a completely separate crime that was going on a the same time.
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by signed0 13y ago
Now that the full audio[1] transcript of the police scanner is available, I'd be interested in whether police ever actually mentioned the the two other individuals that everyone seemed to think had done it. [1] https://soundcloud.com/produc
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by signed0 13y ago
I would imagine that taking care of one's children does not require constant interaction. If that is the case then one could WFH for 8 hours a day but space out their time so that they can attend to their children's needs as they arise.
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by signed0 13y ago
But they offer SecureImage™ and SecurePassphrase™!
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by signed0 13y ago
I'm glad to see Microsoft reusing the algorithm that Google uses instead of inventing their own. Now if Blizzard would just do the same...
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by signed0 13y ago
The AP just reported that they are from Russia. https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688 Update: AP now reports the suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698
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by signed0 13y ago
"Speculation that one of bombing suspects is a missing student is not correct, sources tell @PeteWilliamsNBC" via https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/325178091947323392
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by signed0 13y ago
They look like different people to me.

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