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by sounddust 16y ago
So we should force iPhone users to pay for unlimited bandwidth so that we can try to force them to "do more awesome things" with their phone? What this argument is not taking into consideration is that some people don't use their device as
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by sounddust 16y ago
I live in "Europe" (France to be exact) and wifi is extremely easy to find if you live here. Two of the three biggest ISPs here turn every customer's wireless router into an access point to share with other customers. The result is free W
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by sounddust 16y ago
Actually, IEMs not only block human speech, but they also do a better job of canceling low sounds than active circuity. This is from personal experience, but also from everything I've read about them. Take this example: http://www.earpho
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by sounddust 16y ago
After a while, your ears get all hot, and the in-ear headphones tend to hurt after a while I haven't experienced this. I wear IEMs every day, and have worn them on 14-hour flights. Perhaps it depends on the person. In any case I don't s
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by sounddust 16y ago
You can skip the step of wearing silicone earplugs by getting a pair of IEMs (Etymotics HF5 and Shure E2C are two good models which cost around $100). They serve as both earplugs and earphones, and block noise much better than noise-cancel
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by sounddust 16y ago
I can't speak for the others, but I have lots of friends who have phones with no data plans (probably 90% of my friends, in fact). I can't send links to their phones, but I can send them screenshots via MMS. It's come in handy on many occ
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by sounddust 16y ago
The author writes an entire article accusing Gruber of failing to follow his assumptions to a truthful conclusion without giving a single example of him doing so. I think that there's a lot of criticism toward Gruber because his opinions ar
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by sounddust 16y ago
Good point. That blog post has a link "to sign up for facebook", and when you click on it, it reveals the gmail address of the user (which is something @gmail.com). At least that answers the question of how Google found it.
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by sounddust 16y ago
No, they leaked IP addresses of people I never communicated with . See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330041 I still have these mails in my inbox. People who I've never met nor conversed with online in my life. A
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by sounddust 16y ago
If Google is using their toolbar and/or Chrome to report private URLs back to Google for indexing, then that's a much more serious privacy violation than what's being reported here.
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by sounddust 16y ago
In what situation would the HTTP referrer header report Google when clicking away from a Facebook link? Not only is there no Google search field on Facebook, but Facebook also reroutes links through an intermediary page in order to hide th
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by sounddust 16y ago
Because there have been a lot of legitimate Facebook privacy issues recently? When the world's second largest site allows you to monitor the private chats of 400 million people - when it leaks your IP address to other people via e-mail for
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by sounddust 16y ago
So, how did Google become aware of the existence of these URLs in the first place? I seriously doubt they're linked from another Facebook page. Is Google harvesting links from secure pages using their toolbar or something? Are people's p
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by sounddust 16y ago
Some people have a gene that causes them to metabolize caffeine much more quickly than others. I found this out by taking the 23andMe DNA test and discovering that I have this gene, which makes sense as it seems that I'm less affected by
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by sounddust 16y ago
I'm in France with SFR where the iPhone plans give you 1GB of 3G data, after which the connection is capped to GPRS speeds. I use my iPhone constantly (including listening to online radio for at least a few hours/week), and the most I've u
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by sounddust 16y ago
I love Etymotics, and I would recommend also considering the more recent HF5 earbuds. You can often find them for $99, and they have the same drivers that are found in their $200+ ER-4Ps. I think the HF5s have a more clear and accurate so
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by sounddust 16y ago
HTTPS is slower, though; Google has been pounding into our heads for the past year that any milliseconds you can shave off your load time will result in significant improvements in page views and time spent on a site. I don't see this ev
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by sounddust 16y ago
Wouldn't this suggestion make HTTPS search useless since the search term could then be sniffed from the GET request of the link the user clicks? I think that Google should just track it internally and report it in Analytics. It would allow
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by sounddust 16y ago
That isn't true; read the article. There's also a Lux Lounge in NYC, and that's where they were heading right up to the point where they changed their minds at the last minute (at which point they were in NYC). They were in regular contact
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by sounddust 16y ago
In any case, it's deplorable to promise two people jobs as lifeguards in Virginia Beach, only to bait-and-switch them into something that was, at best, a job in a disgusting strip club (as the google street view of the address would indicat
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by sounddust 16y ago
I think that what makes this case particularly special is that Facebook referring URLs share much more data about you than the average site. A typical Facebook URL can be something like: http;//facebook.com/#!profile_id=123/reqs.php/456/v=
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by sounddust 16y ago
You forgot the word "new" in your second search, which is why you get different results. Those characters are being entirely ignored. You get the exact same results by searching for "Y new album"
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by sounddust 16y ago
Quick note: The "50 million page views/day" is a typo. I meant 50 million per month!
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by sounddust 16y ago
One has a trailing slash and the other doesn't (as can be seen when replacing "item" with "edit" in the URL).
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by sounddust 16y ago
This is great, but two things that I would really like to know about my privacy on Facebook are 1) which photos I'm tagged in that are publicly visible (even if I have elected not to display tagged photos to friends), and 2) which wall po
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by sounddust 16y ago
You'd have to know the story of ArsDigita to understand why. Here's Philip Greenspun's side of the story: http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
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by sounddust 16y ago
Making mobileMe free could be a good way to lock in customers to Apple products long-term. If all of your data is on your mobileMe account, it's easier to just buy another iPhone next year than worry about how you're going to move it all o
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by sounddust 16y ago
1) The graph also shares your picture (800679/picture?type=large), likes (800679/likes) and your timezone as well. I consider this "much of your personal data." 2) Before the Graph, it was possible to hide all of this information comple
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by sounddust 16y ago
Facebook itself used to have this level of privacy protection. You could join a group and post on the wall and in the forums for that group privately. If your privacy settings were to disallow non-friends from seeing your profile, then it

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