tjoff

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by tjoff 13y ago
"We need to make crypto easier, we need to provide tools everyone can use." If that succeeds, you still think encryption will be legal? (without support from the government (read: backdoor enabled))
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by tjoff 13y ago
The biggest advantage of flash is that it is easy to disable and you don't loose out on disabling it. Yes, I'm prepared to miss they days of flash.
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by tjoff 13y ago
But it surely already is an automated process? The only reason for it not to be ought to be that netflix doesn't have any content of interest or of too low quality.
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by tjoff 13y ago
Does it matter what tool or OS people use to get rid of the DRM?
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by tjoff 13y ago
Well, it is an inherent flaw of "cloud" based services. If they are surprised by this then they obviously shouldn't have been using google in the first place.
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by tjoff 13y ago
what happened to Apple's relentless pursuit of quality before introducing something to the public? I has never existed. The secret is to not focus on versions. In time the quirks will get sorted out and if your users don't know
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by tjoff 13y ago
That's very nice, but also very localized. In most other countries I'd value Twitter's contribution to society about as much as McDonalds commercials...
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by tjoff 13y ago
You do know that the internet exists outside of the US, right?
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by tjoff 13y ago
Well, how do you know that the person in question is average? At the age of close to 60 I'd assume that you would have some indications of whether you'd live short or past the average life expectancy. Obviously with no guarantees...
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by tjoff 13y ago
"I think we all agree that Twitter plays an important role in society today" Uh, how does Twitter play an important role in society?
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by tjoff 13y ago
It should be even worse PR for Google to admit that they don't even know how to restore from their own backups...
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by tjoff 13y ago
If you could afford the monitor the graphic card would hardly be an issue.
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by tjoff 14y ago
Well, you don't have to worry about anyone hijacking a cable. Rather big improvement there. Although not without cost...
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by tjoff 14y ago
"First off, the Flash updater on Windows works quite well on modern Windows systems." No, just no. Btw. anyone knows how to manually force flash to check for updates? And an easy way to check flash versions across all different browsers?
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by tjoff 14y ago
"Yes, they do. All the Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX, etc.), all the OpenOffice formats, all the iWork formats, ePub, Safari extensions, Chrome extensions, JAR files, and countless other general public-facing formats are exactly that
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by tjoff 14y ago
"Combining them by zipping them up is a trivial addition..." That, seriously, 99% of the population will never, ever, accomplish in their entire lifetime. Instead, you get files without the resources. Instead, you get files with hard coded
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by tjoff 14y ago
"We don't complain that HTML is broken because it links to images instead of including them, do we?" Actually, we do. Saving a webpage and getting tons of file is a nightmare while the IE approach of lumping them all together is just so sen
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by tjoff 14y ago
Funny how you present your view as fact and then complain about having to put up with myths... http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration2.htm
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by tjoff 14y ago
"It's engaging for about 2 seconds" In other words, it clearly surpasses the vast majority of games in the app store.
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by tjoff 14y ago
Which makes it a bit odd that he mentions the "uber-popular Linksys WRT54GL router" specifically. The "L" stands for linux, and it was brought back because people specifically wanted to install third party software on it. And the reason for
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by tjoff 14y ago
Not in the eye of the mere mortals. Those 3D-cutters are just something that exist somewhere in a factory, could just as well be a black box. Most couldn't care less, you can't own a 3D cutter, unless you are really dedicated. Anyone can ow
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by tjoff 14y ago
"They would have a huge advantage over iOS by lowering the entry thresholds for developers." Low entry thresholds for developers is nothing but poison for a platform.
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by tjoff 14y ago
The client, or server, could just concatenate all the chars and then calculate whatever hash you desire of the result. Or? Yes, if the machine is compromised the attacker could do it as well but the point was to prevent keyloggers specifica
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by tjoff 14y ago
The fsck can't make it worse if you mirror the drive first. Also, is "you can't rely on fsck to alleviate that problem" an argument for not having an fsck?
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by tjoff 14y ago
If this is news to you you really haven't been paying attention... http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Too...
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by tjoff 14y ago
Actually. It does. Unless you assume that all hardware is perfect and that no bugs exists in ZFS (have been plenty of those in the past that just makes the whole FS completely worthless). Nut no, ZFS doesn't need fsck. Because, we don't wan
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by tjoff 14y ago
And the whole point of RAID is to combat that... But since there is no decent recovery tools for ZFS your entire FS might be toast if the wrong bits are turned. Yes ZFS is quite resilient against corruption but when it bites, which has happ
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by tjoff 14y ago
I actually forgot that it probably had to do with a plasma tv, that's true, there is a reason for it. "You're kind of veering to the point of insulting people" Not my intention, but I guess it's my way of responding to the gimmicky features
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by tjoff 14y ago
Sure TouchWiz has features, it's the implementation and UI that stinks. I have a friend that always said that "Samsung can't do software" and I thought that was a bit hyperbolic. Samsung is a huge company and just because one parts screws u
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by tjoff 14y ago
I can't imagine a worse android experience than what TouchWiz offers. And if you remove the android ecosystem from that they will have nothing an enthusiast or power user would ever want in a Samsung phone. Building cheap entry-level phon

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