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by sounddust 16y ago
As an American living in France, I can sympathize. Dealing with the bureaucracy here for any reason is a nightmare. One piece of advice for those in this situation: get the best American Express card that you can qualify for. It doesn't s
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by sounddust 16y ago
The implementation of a) would be extremely complex from both a web developer and browser development viewpoint. From the web developer perspective: It's very hard to use JS without putting at least some javascript in the HTML. Loading j
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by sounddust 16y ago
The point I'm making is that it's not as easy of a problem to resolve as you are claiming. The problem is that - as you said - there are so many different XSS vectors in the browser; if you patch one specific use case then the exploiter wi
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by sounddust 16y ago
Until someone writes </noscript_within > or < /noscript_within> and your script doesn't catch it but the browser accepts it. Or one of hundreds of other small details that neither one of us has thought of yet.
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by sounddust 16y ago
I doubt it's as easy to resolve as you think... a. That would barely mitigate the problem; it might stop some of the goofy alert() hacks from people messing around, but the others are just going to use the exploit to include an external .js
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by sounddust 16y ago
The problem is that Anandtech's conclusion is out of place with the rest of their article, even if you take into consideration the shorting of the antennae. The iPhone 4 loses 24.6dB of signal strength when cupped at the bottom vs 17.7dB fo
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by sounddust 16y ago
I agree completely. I think that even when the real title of an otherwise good article is linkbait, it should be changed when posted to HN. I would love to see a feature developed around this idea: perhaps allow others to suggest more accu
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by sounddust 16y ago
Taking money from (or loaning money to) a friend is fundamentally a bad idea, and it's quite possible - given that your friend is poor - that he's already taken money from a friend who promised that were "no strings attached," and later los
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by sounddust 16y ago
You couldn't pick two or three or n browsers with 99% marketshare and make sure your website worked in them? No, you couldn't. Back then, the web was split between two major browsers: IE and Netscape. However, the feature set of what
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by sounddust 16y ago
Back in the day we’d all have scoffed at such a thing... What’s changed since then? Why is this now an acceptable practice? The only reason it wasn't acceptable to require Javascript many years ago is because each implementation was so di
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by sounddust 16y ago
The Firefox "Better Privacy" extension can delete these when you close the browser, or better yet on a timer, every few minutes. This allows you to use Flash sites that rely on them without most of the privacy issues. (Note: don't play any
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by sounddust 16y ago
Well I've been making calls all day while "holding it in my hand." And I can even make calls all day while holding it my hand very tightly in that one spot that makes it drop to 1 bar. It's a complete non-issue for me, and I'm sure for m
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by sounddust 16y ago
Then it stays at 5 bars no matter how I hold it. I took a ziploc bag folded in half (therefore 4-ply) and wrapped it around the metal, and no matter how hard I squeeze it or cover it, the signal doesn't drop below 5 bars.
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by sounddust 16y ago
I don't know because it doesn't seem to be in stock anywhere yet. (An odd mistake on Apple's part, as you certainly want all the accessories to arrive on the day that people buy their phone, otherwise they're much less likely to buy them).
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by sounddust 16y ago
The original iPhone had an aluminum backing, with a small black band that ran horizontally along the bottom of the back of the phone. If you covered this area while using the phone, you'd find that your EDGE speed would drop dramatically,
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by sounddust 16y ago
Settings -> turn off "location services". This will prevent any app from requesting this info. Of course, you're not going to be able to use Maps or other apps that require GPS. And of course, websites you visit can still use the sam
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by sounddust 16y ago
Yes. With 3jam you can forward to your (European) mobile, although there's a per-minute charge (Of course if all you're using it for is GV signup, then it shouldn't be much - 1 or 2 minutes of talk time).
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by sounddust 16y ago
(I'm the OP) Yes, but I also needed a US number to get started. The reason I didn't mention a proxy is because that's super easy, and I figured it was too obvious to mention (although I should have said that you only need to use the pro
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by sounddust 16y ago
No, I can just use SMS and voicemail. It is really nice to have these two features, though, because it makes it super easy to communicate with people in the US for free. If you want a Google-voice like service that works in Europe, then t
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by sounddust 16y ago
Use a US-based proxy to sign up (to get past the geolocation) and give them the US number when they ask for your cell number. Then you'll get your own US number from GV and can drop the other one. You also won't need to use a proxy after
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by sounddust 16y ago
I'm in France and was able to sign up. You just need access to a US phone number for a few minutes, and there are many ways you can get one. One is to signup for 3jam for one month, another is to get a SkypeIn number. It's probably possi
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by sounddust 16y ago
I think that Facebook has a right to protect their data, but leaving robots.txt wide open and trying to enforce some random TOS that a developer might not even know about is the wrong way to do it. I think a much better method would be to
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by sounddust 16y ago
One reason it's prettier is because it is no longer accompanied by a huge plastic power brick that's almost half the size of the computer itself.
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by sounddust 16y ago
I would imagine that that £91.56 price difference edd quoted is not for "extra s&h and sg&a", but rather a cushion against currency fluctuation. Apple does not want to start suddenly losing money on their products in the UK if the
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by sounddust 16y ago
Actually, it's even easier than that. They don't even check that you use the card. I bought a $5 Starbucks card at least 18 months ago, and have used it since for free wi-fi at Starbucks despite having never used or refilled it since.
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by sounddust 16y ago
I haven't seen a Nokia phone that has the kind of intuitive, well-organized, attractive, and responsive UI that we see with the iPhone and Android phones. I have some friends who have expensive Nokia phones and like to brag about their ca
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by sounddust 16y ago
There's no proof that it had anything to do with the poll; that's pure conjecture on their part. The only reason the forum posters feel that way is because it was all they cared about; they wanted EVO to win this meaningless poll. If we t
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by sounddust 16y ago
What if Engadget honestly deleted the article/poll for the reasons that they described in their response? Then who is being more manipulative, HN with our speculative take of the events (referring to the post title), or them? The article i
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by sounddust 16y ago
That's what they're doing, although not with the exact tiers you mentioned. As for the $30/mo unlimited, I believe part of the reason why AT&T removed the unlimited option in the first place is because a disproportional amount of bandwi
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by sounddust 16y ago
I wonder how much of this policy has to do with tax evasion? It's hard to avoid reporting credit/debit card income.

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