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by throwaway64 15y ago
Apple themselves acknowledge that they use location information gleaned from iphones to build a location database. https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Loca...
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by throwaway64 15y ago
i believe the p9 in his name is short for "plan 9" :)
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by throwaway64 15y ago
>The number isn't to fill out your profile That may not be the stated purpose, but i am 100% certain they use it for profiling purposes aswell.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
this is not a new thing, that's what you are missing here, this isnt some radical position shift for the BSA where the companies that are members have had no time to react to this extreme position they have chosen to take. The BSA actively
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by throwaway64 15y ago
What do you value more, freedom or material comfort?
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by throwaway64 15y ago
there is not a phone on the market that does not have a locked down and 100% proprietary baseband firmware (basically the part of the phone that does the actual celltower signalling/interactions). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_proc
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by throwaway64 15y ago
http://www.livestream.com/sopaproceedings re stream for anybody who is having trouble viewing it
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by throwaway64 15y ago
To be useful for device positioning, doesnt it by definition, have to be searchable?
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by throwaway64 15y ago
The problem is blocking google.com javascript will also block recaptcha on any domains that use it (a lot do), which they ever so helpfully moved from recaptcha.org to google.com.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
>If you are a PCIe adapter manufacturer and want to make your product compatible with Express Box 3T, please contact Marketing(at)Magma.com to join our Partner Program or Join our Interest List and let us know that you're a developer. A
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by throwaway64 15y ago
Im sure they are going to drop metro too, shortly after all their customers hate it even more than vista.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
W3C held open standards back, everything web related was more or less moribund for 10 years while they wanked off about xhtml and the semantic web. What people wanted was to build applications with web technologies, thats why flash won.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
Sites like quantcast and alexia are more or less pure bullshit, quantcast even more so because they run a protection racket where you have to pay for their "monitoring services" to improve your rank. I would be suprised if digg was not much
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by throwaway64 15y ago
http://pastebin.com/RaZzwZ8C
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by throwaway64 15y ago
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Hashcash
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by throwaway64 15y ago
Ultimately, data integrity is the same thing as data security. If you cannot trust your data not be detectably corrupt in the face of a malicious collision attack, you do not have data integrity. Collided data can be used to cause a DoS, to
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by throwaway64 15y ago
A salt will not remain secret if your hashes are compromised, its always going to be a trivial step to also grab the salts.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
No it is not, because the salt is stored in a plaintext or easily reversible format somewhere , and has to be in order for authentication to work, if you are in a position to grab the hashes, it will also be trivial to grab the salts. The
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by throwaway64 15y ago
security is about defense in depth, and doing as much as is feasible to mitigate damage. Proper password hashing wont protect you from a break in on a primary system, but it could very easily prevent a break in on secondary ones. Also, a no
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by throwaway64 15y ago
laws like this would lead to very dark places
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by throwaway64 15y ago
Not that i disagree that this is a bad thing, but you are aware that nearly every single webpage includes Google Analytics tracking scripts that provide the same information to Google?
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by throwaway64 15y ago
BSD however, was not BSD licensed untill the early 90s, and they clearly stated this move was in response to GNU and the GPL, to use BSD before that point required an extremely expensive AT&T source code license.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
That behavior is broken on a number of searches, seemly at random, I've done tons of queries where words inside "" will be ignored or helpfully auto corrected with no indication its doing so.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
location data is already freely gathered from pretty much every smartphone https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Skyhook_Wirel...
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by throwaway64 15y ago
I think the bigger issue isn't that arm customers don't want a desktop, It's that desktop customers don't want to be forced to use an ill fitting touch interface.
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by throwaway64 15y ago
there is also the HTTPS Finder[1] add-on that automatically discovers HTTPS versions of webpages, and offers to generate HTTPS-Everywhere rules for them. [1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-finder/
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by throwaway64 15y ago
that is not the same thing as him saying "encryption isn't a good idea"
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by throwaway64 15y ago
this does not support ff7