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Several Flaws Discovered in ZRTPCPP Library Used in Apps like Silent Circle(threatpost.com)
2 points by counterpointer 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Sues IRS for $83.5 Million Tax Refund (bloomberg.com)
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by counterpointer 13y ago
>On the other hand, India has a huge population and its inevitable that it will have more than a few geniuses/great persons China 1.3B population India 1.2B population Africa 1.0B population Surely there's a lot more here at wo
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by counterpointer 13y ago
You didn't include the real big guy of Google(who died in an unfortunate accident later) who was Brin's and Page's professor and mentor. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Motwani Motwani joined St
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Google Is Developing Android Game Console (online.wsj.com)
3 points by counterpointer 13y ago|0 comments
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by counterpointer 13y ago
I think Google has been first in implementing the proposed EME standard in HTML5 video. The ARM Chromebooks have been already using it to see Netflix video since a few months. Netflix can use Silverlight in IE11, but ARM Chromebooks don&#x
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by counterpointer 13y ago
>Most imitating efforts will need to be redone or abandoned to look current. And what will happen if people try to imitate iOS 7? >Presumably, Apple has a few new patents for iOS 7’s interface and behavior. As we’ve seen, this won’t p
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by counterpointer 13y ago
>This idea of "adding" sentences is ridiculous, and my guess is it's only (ab)used as a way to force people into agreeing to declare themselves guilty, and the prosecutors going "easy on them" and only asking for
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by counterpointer 13y ago
The signing keys are the weakest link in the security infrastructure and are essentially the keys to the kingdom. We have seen this happen repeatedly, I think it's time for all companies to build a lot of safeguards around the use of t
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by counterpointer 13y ago
I like RMS(even attended one of his talks, was fun) and he has been surprising prescient about many things. But he still seems to be falling victim to the "Smarter people are more likely to believe in false conspiracy theories" ru
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by counterpointer 13y ago
Only if you forget all the financial headlines during August 2008 through 2011.
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by counterpointer 13y ago
Have you actually used Windows Phone or Windows 8 for any length of time? The animations are very subtle on actual devices and work very well with the flat look. Can't speak for the animations being screencasted across the internet via
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by counterpointer 13y ago
Live video of the keynote at BUILD http://channel9.msdn.com/ Live blog http://live.theverge.com/live-microsoft-build-2013/ Ballmer being his usual trademark excitable self. http://d35lb3dl29
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by counterpointer 13y ago
Honest question, isn't there NSA written code in Linux via the SELinux patches that were integrated?
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Live Blog from the Microsoft Build 2013 keynote (live.theverge.com)
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by counterpointer 13y ago
This would be much less of a problem if we could collapse comment trees like on Reddit. It would be just easy to minimize and ignore. I think someone made an extension for that.
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by counterpointer 13y ago
There is only one law which says exclusively. The "primarily" thing is an interpretation of the law by IRS.
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by counterpointer 13y ago
No it's more nuanced than the 51% number. The actual law passed by Congress says "exclusively for social welfare". IRS interpretation changed that to "primarily social welfare" a few decades ago which is actually wr
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by counterpointer 13y ago
That comment appears to be highly insightful and very relevant to the topic being discussed here. Low effort content eventually displaces high effort content in high traffic websites. I have seen this in every community I have been part of,
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by counterpointer 13y ago
You could apply the same logic to almost any passion that a person can have. Tennis, racing, singing, pick your choice. I was up till 1am last weekend playing tennis under lights. Overdo anything, and you're likely to get messed up. I
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The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by counterpointer 13y ago|0 comments
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by counterpointer 13y ago
One solution might be to link to a live blog or page which has the latest updates on the story, title it "Click here to get the latest on this story' and then make sure it stays in the first 10 or so stories and let people have fu