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by devx 12y ago
Microsoft is running a very confusing strategy here. Google understood that with Motorola and it's why they sold it off. Microsoft hopes to keep its monopoly in the PC space with its multi-OEM operating system, yet still try to get eve
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by devx 12y ago
Maybe Microsoft sent them different press releases, and they each churned those.
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by devx 12y ago
Yes, the choice was between no rules and weak rules, either of which will allow the telecoms to do whatever they want to service companies (despite the meaningless "commercially reasonable" clause). The Title 2 reclassification wa
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by devx 12y ago
As an European I probably should be glad about this, since this combined with all the NSA spying issues and implementing backdoors into US products [1], should increasingly force innovation out of US and bring it to Europe, but somehow I&#x
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by devx 12y ago
As we've seen with the recent patent case that reached the Supreme Court, once again because the Federal Court overturned the lower Court's ruling, it seems the Appeals Courts are a lot more inclined to be pro-patents, while the l
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by devx 12y ago
I hope TextSecure/Whisper will get to have video-calling, too, soon. People need to stop using insecure platforms like Skype that make mass spying so easy.
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by devx 12y ago
I strongly recommend reading Blue Ocean Strategy, too. Innovator's Dilemma focuses on technology mostly, but Blue Ocean is a similar theory that applies to any industry. They are pretty much the same theory, though. They are not that
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by devx 12y ago
"Modern" IE that doesn't support WebRTC, HSTS, and the most behind in supporting HTML5 features [1]. If that's "modern", I'd hate to see how their "non-modern" products look. [1] - http:/&#
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by devx 12y ago
In 2014, everyone who uses https should enable PFS (ECDHE) and HSTS, at the very least.
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by devx 12y ago
Maybe it was an execution problem, too, but I think it was mainly a strategic problem - i.e. the leadership didn't want to try and replace Symbian very quickly. They still thought Symbian could be made into an iOS/Android compet
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by devx 12y ago
I've also noticed sites like TheVerge do native advertising in a way that's very hard to tell until you actually see the article. And I don't think I've seen any "Sponsored" or similar tag anywhere close to the
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by devx 12y ago
How the mighty fall.
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by devx 12y ago
Yes, I was also wondering if FSF or someone like that could take the project themselves. Let's see who comes knocking. It wouldn't be the first time FSF "facilitated piracy" by building tools like that (see GnuNet, Media
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by devx 12y ago
#1 reason why I think they should not fire Vic Gundotra: all of this is most likely not Gundotra's fault, but Larry Page's fault. Gundotra was VP of engineering before and then he was VP of...social, or whatever that departmen
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by devx 13y ago
> Above all else, I want to make sure you understand how deeply I value the principle of private communication. How deeply? Enough to implement proper end to end encryption? Otherwise, you're just paying lip service to "privacy
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by devx 13y ago
The greatest trick the devil has ever pulled... But if that makes Hollywood sleep better at night, sure - sleep tight, Hollywood! All is well with the world now. No need to bother your pretty heads with Popcorn Time anymore. You can go back
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by devx 13y ago
It is a pricing problem, but also a distribution and licensing problem. Netflix for example is not available in most countries of the world, and nor it nor anything like it has all the latest shows and movies on time , some being available
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by devx 13y ago
People don't buy whole devices for an app. Or at least not most people.
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by devx 13y ago
Designing for Metro was a waste of time from the beginning.
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by devx 13y ago
> Brokenshire suggested that the government was also pushing for a "code of conduct" for internet service providers and other internet companies, which might include changing search algorithms to downgrade "unsavoury"
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by devx 13y ago
I guess something like that may work better in a more limited mobile environment where you don't have to do it 20 times an hour, and it's also easier to do it with touch.
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by devx 13y ago
Pretty cool. But maybe you can make the cards a little smaller. I think they are wasting a little too much space right now.
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by devx 13y ago
Skype has battery drain problems on all devices. I guess it's understandable considering NSA has to keep it on to spy on you through it.
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by devx 13y ago
That's how Ethereum will be launched, too, and once it's launched thousands of others can do the same on top of Ethereum, without having to reinvent their own "coin" from scratch. Building their own DAO's will also
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by devx 13y ago
I hope CyanogenMod (but other ROMs are welcome to do it, too) keeps focusing on the privacy and security aspect.
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by devx 13y ago
Prior art still works, right?
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by devx 13y ago
You say that, but I've seen it before in my own poor country - people would rather buy expensive smartphones than better food. This technology matters to people. The Internet matters to people, more than you think. Because it'
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by devx 13y ago
How is this nonsense even being upvoted here? Who seriously thinks Google and Facebook bringing the Internet to the whole of Africa isn't a good thing for Africans? The only things I'd be worried about in this case is 1) Google&#x
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by devx 13y ago
Skype has been MITM'ing chats and even other https links for a long time: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07&#
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by devx 13y ago
How exactly? They've already kept it for 13 years. What's the argument for not continuing to fix its bugs for another 5 years, from a security point of view, and not a "Microsoft's profits" point of view? It's

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