tarkin2

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by tarkin2 9y ago
Facebook's monopoly is a problem because, increasingly, Facebook's dopamine-driven tools replaces traditional civic society. They're easier. They're superficially more pleasing. They're often addictive. And any comp
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by tarkin2 9y ago
Look up phimosis. At two minute Google search could have found this. It's a valid medical reason for the operation. Not to mention the above mentioned. Not only do your facts not hold up to a brief Google, but the reputation of the peo
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by tarkin2 10y ago
Or, a common enemy is often needed?
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by tarkin2 10y ago
Is this a case where a government has compromised a system, and the administrators are legally bound to remain quiet about it? If so, why not compromise the system yourself, and then advertise that? Accidentally leaving your SSL private key
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by tarkin2 11y ago
I saw a fair bit of anti-British thinking in the European deputies. I sense France and Germany would be able to go through with a few things that previously they couldn't. It's hard to say if this would actually benefit Europe. It
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by tarkin2 11y ago
Expensive (London to Manchester 80 pounds, composed to 15 by coach), mostly always delayed and not getting any better apart from the two or so lines Virgin runs which are super nice (but which are very expensive). France's trains seem
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by tarkin2 11y ago
This is the most important point in my opinion. If you can get the main media outlets to all tell one story, it doesn't matter if one media outlet tells the real story: The others will drown it out. And if the 'real' story se
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by tarkin2 12y ago
Isn't the Web a competitor to the App Store? Especially when web apps start to catch up with native apps (and Santa tracker and the rest of Google's Polymer apps seem to suggest this is only a year or so away, and FirefoxOS has ce
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by tarkin2 12y ago
Open source or not, there are those who don't want to give out their personal phone number to a server whose code they cannot verify.
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by tarkin2 12y ago
I think the point is that email signup would be preferable for those who don't want to give it their personal phone number.
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by tarkin2 12y ago
Google Voice is not available everywhere.
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by tarkin2 13y ago
Ah, looks like you're correct. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave/Developer/FAQ#How_do_use... I'm still a little unsure if this new system is less secure, however.
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by tarkin2 13y ago
Now all my bookmarks, history, passwords and the like will be stored on a centralized server? The decentralization, especially in the wake of the NSA/GCHQ revelations, was one of its main advantages. Sigh. I may well have to turn Firef
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by tarkin2 13y ago
I fear the Brits are more pessimistic about their government than US citizens. Which I've always felt dangerous - on a personal, social and democratic level - if combined with isolation from the country's political system.
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by tarkin2 13y ago
I often wonder why it's mostly always The Guardian. It's surely not the only left-wing newspaper out there. I wonder if having the Scott Trust[1] as its backer gives it has more freedom in these matters compared to other papers. [
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by tarkin2 13y ago
Reminds me of Clare Short's statement about the British government spying on Kofi Annan[1] in the run up to the Iraq war. [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3488548.stm
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by tarkin2 13y ago
This is very interesting development in European politics and "Europe's last dictatorship". Especially since the 'threat' of China often seems to be one thing that can unite the member states.
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by tarkin2 13y ago
I get referrers from httpS://www.google.com quite often in my logs. And I'm running my blog on HTTP. How is this so?
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by tarkin2 13y ago
This actually makes sense. The Google play services do seem to offer more. But do I trust Google's services (especially ones that are open, although I doubt this is or was the case with games) anymore? No. I trust them about as much as I tr
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by tarkin2 13y ago
I'm reminded of the story about an angry RMS accosting some devs saying they should be creating their own open APIs rather than using X company's closed API. It turns out Open Source's weird uncle was right again.
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by tarkin2 13y ago
So, 1) Competitors use Google's APIs based on open standards for their own advantage. 2) Google gets annoyed. 3) Google stops supporting open standards. Well, that's my honeymoon with Google over. It seems a naive mistake to have assume an
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by tarkin2 14y ago
Do it to keep a record of code you'll want to reference again sometime soon. Same applies to ideas you've had or article you've written really.
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by tarkin2 14y ago
SDK != Source. And it's the source I'm concerned about.
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by tarkin2 14y ago
What if you fork it, and do NOT call the project anything related to Android? That way, you won't be fragmenting Android - you'll be creating something new. Then, should Android even stagnate, someone could take the source and create a new
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by tarkin2 14y ago
I'm chomping at the bit to change ISPs, but won't these also be affected?
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by tarkin2 14y ago
Sky blocks the first, not the second. This is disgusting. It's time to switch ISPs and start helping whoever is fighting this.
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by tarkin2 14y ago
I'd like to see people streaming demonstrations etc using this. And then others could make the stream more resilient. I installed the client in Debian and live.bittorrent.com worked well with Chrome at least. Once I see open source clients
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by tarkin2 14y ago
If your HTC is a Desire, it did get it, but it wasn't OTR and you had to download something from their support site to get it working. Hardly ideal, I know. Not sure about the other models.
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by tarkin2 14y ago
Really cool, but am I the only one who finds this creepy as hell?
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by tarkin2 14y ago
I've had some bad experiences with Packt's books. Choose very carefully. This comment [1] summed the one book I read quite well: This book is so badly written that reading it will give you a very good appreciation as to what it must

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