the_trapper

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by the_trapper 10y ago
> How much time do you think someone on active duty in Iraq has to sort through data? You've clearly never been deployed. You have more free time than you know what to do with. Think about what you do when you get off shift at your
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> This isn't coming from a place of anti-Apple sentiment...I use quite a few Apple products...I just accept that they're pretty bad at this stuff these days. Honestly, I can't remember a time when Apple was particularly go
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Actually Linux is a very poor choice when a product depends on out of tree binary blobs to operate. The lack of stable driver ABIs and APIs are a real problem for long term maintenance. I'm really surprised that the BSDs aren't
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> Of course those made in California would be totally safe Maybe I'm too cynical, but from what I know about the NSA and other three letter US Government agencies, I beg to differ. Additionally, good luck finding any type of electro
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by the_trapper 10y ago
That's called state's rights and there are various legitimate reasons for the individual states to have that sort of autonomy. It is also the right of DHS to not accept ID cards that it does not feel comfortable accepting. I woul
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Unfortunately, Android devices will likely never see significant support past 2 years because of the Linux kernel. The maintainers of the Linux kernel are openly hostile to maintaining ABI and API compatibility with drivers which is necess
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by the_trapper 10y ago
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
So the Pixel phones have: ...an SD card slot for expandable storage? ...a high capacity removable battery? ...IP-something-decent water resistance? ...durable build materials? ...a VR solution that works well with established players in tha
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> Seems that ISPs, on the other hand, might be able to play a more pivotal role. Well, maybe there is a silver lining to Comcast and friends' data caps after all.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Fun fact, Gary Johnson will be on every state's ballot this year. Therefore, no there are NOT just two teams. Voting for the lesser evil is so much of what is wrong with the direction of this country today.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
http://openlivewriter.org/
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by the_trapper 10y ago
That's why you need to buy their $160 wireless earbuds.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Regarding #3 as a kid, I remember spending hours in QBasic on our family's DOS 5 computer. Also, nibbles.bas and gorilla.bas were very fun games written with QBasic that came with it on every DOS computer.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
I agree with you that right now, Microsoft's implementation of an app store is definitely quite a bit worse than Apple and Google's versions. However, there are people making money there or else people wouldn't continue to p
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> iPhone 7 included adapter rate: 100%. iPhone 1-7 requires proprietary connector rate: 100%. > It worked for a while, but at some point you have to move > on, and someone has to be the first to move. As I said in > another co
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by the_trapper 10y ago
That's kind of a narrow view. There's nothing preventing you from continuing to sell your software directly, and just about any other retailer/publisher will take a similar share of your revenue. The upshot is that by puttin
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by the_trapper 10y ago
I'm sure it's totally a coincidence that these are being released on the Friday before the Labor Day long weekend.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Let's be honest with ourselves here. Director Comey isn't exactly impartial here. His boss (President Obama) has a vested interest in a positive outcome for Hillary, and therefore, so does he. For the record, I'm not saying
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by the_trapper 10y ago
I can assure you that it played a role in his sentencing and is being brought up because adultery also plays a major role in obtaining and keeping a security clearance. It is grounds for being stripped of your security clearance as it prov
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Actually, the case of GEN Petraeus legally falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Under the UCMJ, adultery is a violation of Article 134. "There are three distinct elements to the crime of adultery under the UCMJ: fi
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> 3 - did not destroy evidence. Like with a cloth? Let me correct that for you, Clinton attempted to destroy evidence but was incompetent at it.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> Sure, and I do have to pay to get automated updates from them, but at least I know they are official. M:tier packages are not official but sort-of wink-wink-nudge-nudge. For a project living and dying on trust, it's a poor show. W
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by the_trapper 10y ago
> Besides, the contradiction here is that they are not all volunteers: M:Tier employs some of them exactly to do that job. So, they don't want to do it, but they'll do it if the price is right? Why can't this pricing be do
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by the_trapper 10y ago
The problem is that the OpenBSD team doesn't want to write and maintain a tool like that, and they also don't want to utilize their sparse resources hosting the necessary package build infrastructure for all of the architectures t
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by the_trapper 10y ago
The traditional means of patching is recompiling from source. That is the ONLY officially supported method. This is just another convenient option. I fail to see the problem here. If you want supported first-party binary security patches
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by the_trapper 10y ago
As far as I know, the patches are submitted to the -stable ports tree. mtier just provides a very convenient way to perform binary updates. I fail to see any downsides to this arrangement.
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by the_trapper 10y ago
You're making the flawed assumption that all consumer devices have a brand new stack of software written for them, which is absolutely false. Every popular OS kernel in use today is primarily written in C and C++. Most consumer devic
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by the_trapper 10y ago
My big concern when I see a company that gives away too much for free is that they are probably unprofitable and will at some point: a) Start charging for things that I'm used to having for free and/or b) Go bankrupt/get boug
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Blackberry also only has one Android phone. Let's wait and see how they handle things when they have more models to support. I'm also concerned that Blackberry phones (Android or otherwise) aren't long for this world. The P
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by the_trapper 10y ago
Since there really isn't any good technical reason for that not to be the case, it is painfully obvious that Google doesn't care enough to actually fix the problem and the OEMs and carriers have no incentive to provide updates, so

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