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by toki5 13y ago
I'm not sure I'd call this Ford's fault. >Lopez said the smuggling organization was able to get a duplicate key from a locksmith in El Paso, who got the codes after calling up a Ford dealership. >An FBI affidavit says s
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by toki5 13y ago
I have to admit, I don't use Gmail for just e-mail. It's more or less my home page -- it's a portal to the people I chat with, the documents I access (on Drive) daily, and just so happens to be where I send e-mails from. Thes
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by toki5 13y ago
There is (or was, at least) a group of blind mountain bikers who used echolocation to estimate obstacles in their path. I was floored when I read the article[1] about them; that ability always sounded like a superpower to me. [1]: http://w
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by toki5 13y ago
SSH is an interesting set of solutions that appear on the surface to be horribly inefficient but after a tiny amount of digging are actually okay. I had to write an SSH terminal inside a browser, and it was full of "why the heck did they"s
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by toki5 13y ago
>I don't understand how people even get it into their heads to immediately ask potential users for direct access to my private information? Either it's private to you, in which case this service is very likely not going to provide you a
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by toki5 13y ago
Quick question -- why is SSL encryption only offered on the top two tiers?
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by toki5 13y ago
Articles like these are inspiring to me. We see acquisition articles and startup success stories on this site that frequently range in the millions, and they're sort of like the rock stars of the bunch, where your chances of success have to
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by toki5 13y ago
To be totally fair, I hadn't heard of Bits & Bytes before now, so that's a little value I didn't have before. It's not quite accurate to say we get nothing out of linking to them instead of the youtube clip.
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by toki5 13y ago
>Why would he lose his right to free speech just because he has been convicted of a crime? Inmates have restricted free speech. See here for some info om that: http://civilrights.findlaw.com/other-constitutional-rights/r...
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by toki5 13y ago
>I have to agree. It didn't really turn out as well as I wanted. The talk is really good, but I could never make this read smoothly. Props for stepping forward and saying this :-) I think it has to do with that you're trying to capture
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by toki5 13y ago
If you have one specialized need (i.e. one specific path for packets to travel), then it is just as valid an approach to trash every other path. To turn your own question around: Why bother trying to optimize a stack that contains a lot
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by toki5 13y ago
>With Glass everything I do I'll do with compromise This is a choice you make. You're making it for the sake of your argument, then presenting the argument as if everyone will make the same choice. You shouldn't; I won't.
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Defending the Internet at Scale(shmoocon.org)
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by toki5 13y ago
This is absolutely a fair point regarding the total cost over time, but I'm referring to the first cost, where I don't have the product and am considering purchasing it. A one-time $1200 fee is a non-starter. There's no way I'm paying that
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by toki5 13y ago
I have to admit, the subscription model is way more attractive to me than the one-time model. I'm not someone who uses Photoshop every day, so if I sit down and think "it'd be really handy to use it right now, just this once, for this one t
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by toki5 13y ago
That sounds interesting as hell. I'll look, thanks!
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by toki5 13y ago
Not necessarily. Take the "soccer moms" example. Foursquare can say "we have X soccer moms checking in." A third party says "Here's an ad we'd like you to serve to soccer moms." Foursquare does it and returns usage data -- how many soccer m
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by toki5 13y ago
I'm looking forward to Glass, but man, I wouldn't touch smart contact lenses with a 10-foot pole. Maybe -- maybe if they couldn't connect to the Internet. I know I'm playing paranoid devil's advocate here, but if they have any sort of con
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by toki5 13y ago
I'll reply to you and 'abecedarius in the same spot: The problem arises when critical evidence exists only in the infrastructure of some private company. If a case hinges on a fact that is proven only by information that is in the hands o
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by toki5 13y ago
Jumping through hoops -- a system of checks and balances -- is fine and good. When those checks and balances check out, so to speak, I want my law enforcement agencies able to do their job efficiently. This is a case of making that process
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by toki5 13y ago
That's a fairly extreme and frankly unrealistic generalization. Warrants (of any form) exist because of the need to gather evidence in cases; the existence of evidence isn't always a crime in and of itself but is used to support a case that
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by toki5 13y ago
That's really cool -- certainly very nifty for Zapier users. The title, though, implies a service (or hack) that isn't dependent on any other system -- maybe it might be better titled "Turn Gtalk into a Command Line for the Web using Zapier
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by toki5 13y ago
That's a little disingenuous here -- "compliance" in this context means "able to comply." Currently, if a company is "unable to comply," that means they can't forward along whatever information is required by the warrant, and usually law en
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by toki5 13y ago
Cars are two-ton hunks of metal barrelling down the road at life-threatening speeds. There is an inherent risk that comes with using them; that risk is so high (comparative to other every-day activities) that we have megalo-insurance compan
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by toki5 13y ago
There's a large difference in my mind between a newsletter a company only sends out to its subscribers and unsolicited e-mail advertisements.
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by toki5 14y ago
What part of what mistermann said had anything to do with Mz being a woman?
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by toki5 14y ago
I grok frustration, anger -- nobody is perfect. Nobody is nice all the time. But reading something like this (from your blog): >Just when I was about ready to go on a real tear and swear off niceness forever, the guy in line ahead of me
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by toki5 14y ago
Being successful and being nice shouldn't be the same effort -- they are two efforts, unrelated, that sometimes incidentally intertwine, hopefully for the better. You should be courteous and respectful of human beings -- if you feel that th
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by toki5 14y ago
What if you include the value of not having to pay for airport parking? (in cases where e.g. you couldn't find a ride to the airport)
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by toki5 14y ago
Great article, but one thing that's sort of glossed over here, and that I half-disagree with, is this: >But we also get to think and operate at a higher level, up in the clouds of what we want to happen, and not down in the dirty of how

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