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by Dbug 16y ago
There have been several studies showing that Netflix bandwidth use has exceeded that of torrent traffic. http://www.neoseeker.com/news/15151-netflix-popularity-excee... A factor that adds to the impact of the streaming services is their u
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by Dbug 16y ago
Perhaps they could offer a small separate sort of "Flash Guard" utility for the blocking function. We consider the possibility of rogue Flash code opening the camera and/or microphone to be a security vulnerability. Being able to block tho
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by Dbug 16y ago
Yesterday they had a brief mention claiming that there was information posted to Wikileaks showing that the U.S. was behind the protesters, but none of their earlier reporting had made any suggestion of a connection. Most reporting is solid
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by Dbug 16y ago
Not being for-profit doesn't mean there's a lack of budget concerns. BBC World Service will be cutting around 650 people over the next few years. Let's hope they can still provide high quality service. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertain
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by Dbug 16y ago
iPads certainly perform well. With hardware acceleration for h.264, the ARM chip may not be seeing the toughest loads it would otherwise. I believe there's an ARM build of VLC. I've been meaning to check it out to see how video playback i
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by Dbug 16y ago
A few things to remember for those with uncertain wireless support 1) Don't forget you can easily try Ubuntu and wireless devices on most x86 laptops in the Live CD mode before you install. If driving somewhere to buy a USB device, bring t
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by Dbug 16y ago
'I almost did run down to Walgreens to buy one when I heard about it. I thought, "Android is open source, it should be fun to hack right? How bad can it be?" It seems the answer is really really bad.' If Android using the Apache license mea
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by Dbug 16y ago
USPS has been fast and cheap. The only real complaint I've had is that they leave pickup tags for some of the heaviest packages, packages that other carriers would have delivered. But it's understandable... I feel sorry for what some of t
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by Dbug 16y ago
Yes... apps are just a subset of software. Apple has used the term Applications since the early days of the Mac. The OS X dictionary defines them this way: "a program or piece of software designed and written to fulfill a particular purpo
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by Dbug 16y ago
It seems you've forgotten Visual Voicemail. Prior to the iPhone, every phone I ever saw required playing through messages sequentially instead of jumping to what I wanted to hear. That's a huge improvement in usability. I guess entering a
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by Dbug 16y ago
Apple has been far from low risk. Their ditching the floppy, changing ports, switching processor families (more than once), all those iMac form-factors, moving to LCD while they were still quite costly, replacing the operating system... ar
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by Dbug 16y ago
Above CD quality? With 60's material done with vacuum tubes and magnetic tape, CD sampling rates and bit depth won't limit the distribution quality. Of course there are often cases where there's room for noticeable improvement over earlie
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by Dbug 16y ago
Microsoft is less secretive about new products than a company like Apple, and with such large fairly constant revenue from things like Windows and Office, the shipment or degree of success of their other products doesn't seem likely to be t
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by Dbug 16y ago
If the author wants to rant, I would think digging into the motives for Apple backing away from Java support might be more fertile territory. At least it'd have more substance to it that what amount to PR positions on numbers. Things to po
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by Dbug 16y ago
>...as JVM is no longer seen as a viable and open platform. With Apple dropping work on future major updates to the JVM for OS X, Oracle would be wise to speak up promptly indicating what support/development they'll provide for the plat
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by Dbug 16y ago
Indeed. I know of someone quite poor that paid $500 to have his credit repaired. They got around the laws by calling it education. Most of it amounting to having him send out form letters that looked like fraud to me. The letters would
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by Dbug 16y ago
I'd suggest you do some reading, there's a serious hole in your knowledge of HP. The HP history and culture that people admire has nothing to do with PCs or printers, and predates those going back many decades. (Does anyone know of a muse
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by Dbug 16y ago
If one looks at historic FCC regulation, it was always okay to listen to communications, but not to divulge the contents to 3rd parties. Even with just those older regulations, using data "heard" would be prohibited since that would involv
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by Dbug 16y ago
I'd like to see a list of OS X apps using Java. Some may be using Java apps without knowing it. Some P2P apps come to mind.
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by Dbug 16y ago
I've got one for you. Sometimes he'd write about tech that was twisted enough to raise a few eyebrows and bring a chuckle or two. I was surprised to see this on pbs: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20050414_0008...
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by Dbug 16y ago
Flash is disabled on all of our machines due to the history of serious stability issues and vulnerabilities. (most of the time we also avoid enabling scripts from other domains, and don't even try if there are more than a couple or it isn'
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by Dbug 17y ago
If the reviews are to be believed, Ghostery has been sold to an advertising company and may be functioning as spyware https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609 From the Ghostery/Better Advertising Privacy Policy- "We collect use
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by Dbug 17y ago
USB Specs are available here: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ USB 2.0 in particular (10.9 MB zip file): http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/usb_20_122909-2.zip
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by Dbug 17y ago
The show is also on the well known torrent sites
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by Dbug 17y ago
While it generally isn't true of computer displays, some LCD televisions do have slightly reduced power consumption on black. It's not from the LCD shuttering the light from the backlight, but from control electronics reducing the backligh
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by Dbug 17y ago
Keep security issues in mind if/when opening those links to .pdf files. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10168266-83.html it looks like there's an unpatched critical vulnerability in Acrobate reader that even fixes of a couples of days ag
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by Dbug 17y ago
It'll be a bit like those online profiles that show people with a cellphone taking their picture in the bathroom mirror. (It's kinda funny when they're mostly or entirely naked, but the camera blocks the face) Maybe it's time for a phone th
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by Dbug 17y ago
Yes, his more detailed piece (in two parts) tells far more. And it isn't only insightful about the blunders of the newspaper industry, much of it applies to the mess that is commercial t.v. broadcasting and the broadcaster websites as well.
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by Dbug 17y ago
A Windows desktop box is kept around mainly for gaming. (all on the road, kitchen, and sofa activity has moved to a MacBook Pro that has Ubuntu in a VM, but no flavor of Windows for now - don't want to pirate it, and won't pay for it). I wo
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by Dbug 17y ago
I too feel the internet is falling short in some ways. My take on the shortfalls is different, but related. The attempts to commercialize every aspect of the net have created this massive amount of noise that too much of the time gets in

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