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by techrat 12y ago
And breaks custom HOSTS configurations.
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by techrat 12y ago
>It was more than that. The moment the researchers grabbed a few juvenile fish out of a net, the skin started to disintegrate, killing them. It took four years just to perfect delicate fast-releasing hooks for capturing juveniles and mov
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by techrat 12y ago
>By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay! An exact example of the false equivalence fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence
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by techrat 12y ago
Chrome isn't the only option. It is not a case where it could be Microsoft making Hotmail only work in IE, for example. Don't want Google's services in your browser? Download Chromium or the dozens of other browsers forked f
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by techrat 12y ago
Equivalent features that are not tied into Google services? Yes. Messenger does MMS/SMS. So does Hangouts. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that specific services (Voice calling over GTalk) should require the specifi
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by techrat 12y ago
Anyone can build and release a compatible browser whereas one would be stuck with Internet Explorer (and no compatible browser) if something were only to work on IE. As it stands, Chromium exists.
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by techrat 12y ago
Google still open sources their apps. That's why there's almost always two versions of each app on Android. Messenger versus Hangouts. Google also allows you to remove ANY AND ALL information they have on you that is used to targe
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by techrat 12y ago
You might have an argument if Chrome wasn't open source. Being that is not the case...
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by techrat 12y ago
Please cite examples in which Google has demonstrated that they could not be trusted with information that they use to deliver targeted ads to you. Did they ever pull a Facebook-esque social experiment by trying to limit what you saw in ord
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by techrat 12y ago
Pedantry noted. It's probably better describing the SheevaPlug as the device that fostered the trend towards plug computing rather than the one that encouraged device hacking as my statement would imply. I mistakenly omitted the key de
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by techrat 12y ago
brand of flash matters. before the raspi came along and popularized arm computing, there was a very lively scene around arm hacking out of existing devices. sheevaplug started the trend and people found that things like the seagate dockstar
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by techrat 12y ago
Another film manages to do this and was nearly written off by the screenwriter for being too "Strangelovian" at times. Network. Highly prescient film. Both Network and Strangelove are mandatory watches, IMHO.
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by techrat 12y ago
Given the value of BitCoin relies on desire and the only way they can possibly convince people that they want BitCoin is to spam it until they believe it...
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by techrat 12y ago
To me it sounds like it's when "suddenly" the bassline matches the clapping but he hid it under the treble-only riff on the piano. Pure magic. It just flips like a switch.
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by techrat 12y ago
Hence the location of memory slots always being physically parallel to the CPU socket, squiggles in the traces in the innermost lines from memory socket to CPU (to equal the distance of the longer traces along the edges of the socket to the
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by techrat 12y ago
>The last time I was there, the coffee shop lady hassled me. It was a very unpleasant experience. I heard from a friend of mine that she had the same experience. Apparently, if they see you there and not spending enough money, they start
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by techrat 12y ago
There's even a term for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
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by techrat 12y ago
I would say Google is doing the smart thing in your case. I refuse to click on any link in an emailer that is obfuscated.
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by techrat 12y ago
Moving (and shipping) all of your belongings across country a few times will also kill the sentimentality, fast.
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by techrat 12y ago
Labels who requested that their songs be DRM free in the iTunes store during this era were denied that option. Jobs called for DRM free music because he saw that he was going to run into serious anticompetitive charges if he didn't all
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by techrat 12y ago
Are we honestly surprised? Apple has a history of being quite hostile to consumers despite their image as a trendy company. Nothing they do is done unless there's an actual threat to their bottom line, whether it's finally offerin
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by techrat 12y ago
https://isleaked.com/en.php Type in your email address, you'll get the first two letters of the known password back. It should help to track down which service the password came from. When the 5 Mil Gmail leak first ha
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by techrat 12y ago
apt-get install chromium-browser or even... apt-get install wine xubuntu-desktop clementine libreoffice etc... How am I paying in some way or another? There exists a model for free apps. Naivety has nothing to do with it.
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by techrat 12y ago
Usable without Xposed, too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.ap...
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by techrat 12y ago
From wiki: >exFAT is a proprietary file system. However exFAT is protected under US patent law, and its initial application was issued on 10 July 2009 under the application number US2008168029.[7] On 12 November 2013, the patent was gran
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by techrat 12y ago
exFAT is currently under Patent. Implement it all you want but Samsung pays Microsoft for the right to use it.
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by techrat 12y ago
The issue is exFAT and Fat32 long filenames. exFAT was introduced with Windows Vista and is what 32GB+ flash media tends to be formatted in. It'll be a long time before this one expires.
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by techrat 12y ago
This reads like something from someone with a product to sell.
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by techrat 12y ago
It changed my behaviour, too. Between the rootkit, what they did to Lik Sang and the Other OS issue with PS3... I have boycotted Sony and will not reconsider after the third strike. It also made me question what I bought from other people.
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by techrat 12y ago
Yet the account mentioned in the article is 2 months old. http://www.reddit.com/user/vtnhiaovyd

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