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The out-of-control NSA(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
If you've read Clayton Christensen's books, you know that after "integration" comes "disintegration"/modularization when the market becomes mature enough, just like it did in the PC world many years ago. T
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by devx 13y ago
> "Unless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly president
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by devx 13y ago
Windows 8 is still very schizophrenic. Pick one, either the tablet optimized one, or the desktop. You're going to do a lot of back and forth stuff if you have both on the same device, like devices like Surface Pro are trying to do. Als
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by devx 13y ago
Surface Pro actually has a worse GPU than MBA, too (Intel HD 4600 vs Intel HD 5000), which contributes to that, plus a higher clocked CPU. And we already know that Windows' battery life is terrible [1]. It's all a perfect storm of
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if say 50 years from now, we'll be like those religious conservatives who don't want to let women do whatever they want with their bodies (mainly talking about abortion here). Will we also be the ones demanding that the n
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by devx 13y ago
Why would you want to keep your data "in the cloud", if the government uses the argument that as long as your data is on a 3rd party's servers, then it's not yours?
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Feinstein plans bill to codify NSA's phone spying(sfgate.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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A Redditor's response to David Cameron's fearmongering(reddit.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I don't buy it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/104... Plus they have a frigging NSA base in Berlin: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/co
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by devx 13y ago
What do you mean too much freedom? From the user's and even developer's perspective, it's better for Android to be more like Windows (pre-Windows 8), than more like Linux (tons of different distros/forks).
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by devx 13y ago
Google needs to start treating Android and Google Edition Android like Chromium and Chrome. GE Android is Google's and they do whatever they want with it, and they control and update it just like they do with Chrome, but Android needs
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by devx 13y ago
The good news for those organizations is that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is coming out in the same month Windows XP's support is expiring. If they are ever going to move off Windows (especially governmental institutions), now it's the best
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by devx 13y ago
I just hope that when this whole mess of a project goes online, and is hacked to death, NSA & friends won't be using this an opportunity to tell us that "see, this is why you need to give us bigger funds and spy on everyon - t
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by devx 13y ago
Other than the RAM usage, I'm not that impressed with the CPU usage. It uses about as much as Windows would use. I actually had to try a bunch of Linux distros for an old Atom netbook with 1 GB of RAM. The one with the lowest resource
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by devx 13y ago
I wish Amazon would stop subsidizing Kindle device buyers, by surcharging everyone else by $2 on ebooks - especially when that money isn't even split with the authors. http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2011/07&#x2
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by devx 13y ago
What happens when more and more types of jobs are becoming automated?
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Display on Moto X called groundbreaking by researcher(news.cnet.com)
17 points by devx 13y ago|4 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Also a very nice way for everyone to create their own dossiers, that most law enforcement agencies can access even without a warrant these days, and can even collect en masse.
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by devx 13y ago
The reason copyright is not supposed to be forever, is because everyone builds on previous works. Nothing is 100 percent original . Maybe not even 20 percent original, if you really start deconstructing something and rip the most funda
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by devx 13y ago
Then keep the damn spying on terrorists , not on politicians and CEO's. But let's face it. They can't help themselves. Even if they agree to roll back the spying a little bit now, they'll go back to spying everyone agai
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Why Google Play Services is more important than the Nexus 5(trustedreviews.com)
5 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters(rollingstone.com)
198 points by devx 13y ago|52 comments
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by devx 13y ago
But they are not exceptional Americans, so who cares, right? If 1,000 "others" have to die, in order to save an American's life, then it's all worth it.
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by devx 13y ago
No way that's why Google's CPC is down. It's because on mobile it's a lot lower, and people are using mobiles more and more instead of PC's (measured in time spent on them).
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by devx 13y ago
Windows revenue is (finally) down. I say finally only because many people wouldn't believe this would happen, even a few quarters ago. That could be quite a problem for Microsoft over the next few years. Right now they are offsetting t
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by devx 13y ago
Does it need to be 1/4 of the page, though? I think at this rate Google will only show one result on the page in the future, with a 90 percent chance that result being a big brand, and with a "See more results" link at the bo
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by devx 13y ago
Great analogy.
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by devx 13y ago
Either way, terrible news for Intel and Microsoft.
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Ladar Levison interview(twit.tv)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments

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