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by devx 13y ago
You're kidding. Microsoft has always been blamed for Windows being an insecure operating system that "gets viruses". The fact that there's a multi-billion dollar anti-virus industry for Windows, because people pay for it
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by devx 13y ago
More like Blackberry "undertook" WP in US, since its decline rate has been much faster than WP's growth rate in US. Sites like TheVerge [1] said exactly the same thing when it happened worlwide, that WP overtakes BB, even tho
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by devx 13y ago
I hope so, too. Then we'll probably see an Indian-based search engine, like Yandex in Russia or Baidu in China, and it would be for the better for Indians. But I doubt Google will quit. Google is trying to give people Internet in Afr
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by devx 13y ago
Coca-Cola is harmful for your health, so maybe they did the right thing after all. You're not supposed to choose things just based on how much money it can make you.
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by devx 13y ago
This seems a little extreme? I wonder if they're doing this because they want something else from Google that they know are not going to give as easily, such as helping them build the surveillance state in India: https://www
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by devx 13y ago
One word: superb. You can hardly ask for better than this. I wonder if Netflix realizes they could offer all of their content in P2P format, too, now (while still being a seed out of many themselves), and they could avoid the whole peering
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by devx 13y ago
I enjoyed Assange's talk.
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by devx 13y ago
Thanks for making the world a worse place, Twitter, by giving in to the patent bullies, and setting an example for others. It's sort of "understandable" for small start-ups who would be ruined by the trial alone, but for comp
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by devx 13y ago
But not secure enough. > We are pretty sure that now that the info inside of Google is safe from prying eyes, including those of the US government Well, that's a lie. The government can definitely get access to that data. Let me kno
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by devx 13y ago
This actually used to be a joke about the Linux community.
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by devx 13y ago
Steve Jobs vowed to kill a lot of stuff.
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by devx 13y ago
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/FBI-wiretap-stingray-cell-phone-...
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by devx 13y ago
No wonder not only NSA, but also FBI and probably other agencies exploit these like crazy by using fake towers or other methods.
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by devx 13y ago
Flash, Native Client, and now DartVM, too, all being built into Chrome. Is anyone else worried that Chrome may become too bloated, and more of an "OS on top of an OS"? I'm not as worried about the file size as I am about the
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by devx 13y ago
That will always play a role in situations like these. However, you can see things are turning around in US, at least with the population. I think the issue in UK is the old "boiling the frog" theory. They've gotten used to i
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by devx 13y ago
Does it support WebRTC yet? IE always seems to be roughly ~2 years late in supporting some of the most important and future-forward HTML5 features. Maybe they'll push WebRTC in IE12 (not guaranteed), but then it will be some key encryp
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by devx 13y ago
We can visit up to a few tens of solar systems in a few hundred years, if we could develop a space-ship powered by a black hole, antimatter, or some advanced or innovative hybrid fusion engine (there were talks about one from the 60's
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by devx 13y ago
It would surprise me if it had it, or if it supported it, because from what I noticed, the photos tend to have some focus issues. I also think Google needs a whole rewrite for the Android camera app, by camera experts, because the camera is
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by devx 13y ago
Probably for the same reason most app piracy also comes from China and Russia. On iOS your competitors may be having paid apps, so if yours is free, they'll get yours, while downloading almost none of the paid apps from competitors. Th
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by devx 13y ago
It would be nice if they could secure communications end-to-end going through Facebook chat or Google Talk, too, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore, with both of them using pretty proprietary protocols or API's now.
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by devx 13y ago
Strange that they say "we", because in the previous interview, they said Dan Bernstein helped them to create some new 205-bit curve or something. Previously they were using the NIST curves in the SCIMP protocol. They should probab
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by devx 13y ago
I doubt it. I think it was a mistake on QZ's part, maybe from bad translation. It must've been some other free office suite.
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by devx 13y ago
I'm sorry, but there's no way for Bill Gates to say that without sounding like an arrogant asshole. The world doesn't have to unite and spend all of its income on what Bill Gates says is the most important priority. There are
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by devx 13y ago
They also have a Debian version now: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
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by devx 13y ago
I would hope so. It's time they learn there are consequences for (literally) selling their user-data en masse to spy agencies.
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by devx 13y ago
It's not a mixer.
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by devx 13y ago
It's too bad they didn't continue things with Meego. I would've preferred another open source OS to be the 3rd platform instead of another closed source one. Windows Phone owes the vast majority of its success to Nokia anyway
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by devx 13y ago
If it's LLVM, that pretty much opens the door for running Native Client apps on Android, and possibly even merging Android with ChromeOS, right?
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by devx 13y ago
Yeah, they probably want to wait until Go 2.0 or something, before they commit Android to supporting Go (and support only 64-bit apps while they're at it, since from what I hear Go handles 64-bit much better than 32-bit anyway). So may
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by devx 13y ago
Someone benchmarked Dalvik vs ART, and it seems it's already 2x faster, and the performance is much more consistent: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnE-DX9Fbr9KdFZ... Since this is still probably in

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