ntakasaki

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Police are filing warrants for Android’s vast store of location data(theverge.com)
3 points by ntakasaki 10y ago|0 comments
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/0... http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht...
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
This one comes to mind, which they left unfixed for years. http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/technology/articles/Apple...
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Have you read the entire thing? It's about comparing them to VCs wives, presumably housewives, not about a special female perspective on, say a female focused startup, but being compared to a female who wants to be in a traditional rol
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
They already take advantage of their in several different ways. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ftc-says-google-skewed-search... http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-... http:&#x
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Do you think that if Mozilla ran a similar campaign it would see more success? Somehow I don't think so.
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Barely anyone cares about online privacy. MS found that out with the failed Scroogled campaign which they scrapped after it tanked. People value free stuff more than privacy. There are some interesting court cases going on though, with the
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
I don't think so, see my other comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048311
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
From a different article: >When Olmos, who says he has spent thousands of pounds on Apple products over the years, took it to an Apple store in London, staff told him there was nothing they could do, and that his phone was now junk. He h
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
>IMO bricking on touch ID issues is extreme, but maximises the security of the device. We are all smart people here and there are several ways to have security without bricking expensive hardware. First, the update can wipe the device in
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Your analogy is way off. This is more like your Tesla car's keyfob misfunctioning and you get it repaired by a non-Tesla dealer. The dealer could've put in a backdoor to get into the vehicle. Tesla releases a big new update for th
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
What's the price on this, does anyone know? Also, typed Ctrl-F "linux" on that page and didn't find a single mention, which is interesting from a branding perspective. Edit: Can this run, say LibreOffice or Gimp or any o
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Former, current students sue Google over university-issued Gmail scanning(arstechnica.com)
5 points by ntakasaki 11y ago|0 comments
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Adblock Fast disappears from Google Play days after launch(venturebeat.com)
12 points by ntakasaki 11y ago|0 comments
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
>Google has been very upfront on exactly how their business model works with users since day one. I don't find this comparison warranted. That couldn't be further from the truth. How many people know Google using location data
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Chrome for Android's incognito mode saves some of the sites you visit(venturebeat.com)
2 points by ntakasaki 11y ago|0 comments
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
>Or it can result in spec which helps everyone instead of just MS alone. Just MS alone? DirectX helps hundreds of millions of gamers, a whole bunch of game and application developers and companies. That's like saying improvements to
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Perhaps because design by a committee of peers usually results in a fragmentation and compatibility nightmare like this: Edit: The below blog redirects HN referrers to a funny image macro, copy paste the link instead. https://www
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Also, Vulkan is going to support extensions like OpenGL did which fragmented the hell out of OpenGL. Nvidia is already beginning the lock in and fragmentation process by making Vulkan extensions. https://developer.nvidia.com&#x2F
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Or it can be a very nice object based API instead of a state based API that made sense in 1992 as the slide deck said and certainly didn't make any sense in 2008 when the industry group Khronos sided with the commercial CAD industry to
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
So is the iPad Pro a "new" product or a new product?
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New trojan for Linux takes screenshots(news.drweb.com)
2 points by ntakasaki 11y ago|0 comments
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Here's a few examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2457760 "arguably more bad than good being done"
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
>Also, IIRC it's a requirement in the USA that public (and not-NFP) companies must always act to 'increase shareholder value', so the giving away of products or services could be considered a legal exposure. The obvious wa
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
They do a lot of things like most big companies, and some people seem to concentrate only the bad. For example, they started funding OpenSSL and other core infrastructure[1] projects of the Linux foundation after the Heartbleed fiasco. But
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
>> The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, e
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
The Azure credits can be used to run 'GNU/Linux'. A full one fifth of workloads on Azure run Linux.
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
The new rules don't increase the labor supply.
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by ntakasaki 11y ago
Relax, it's just literally Fox News reporting. The source is Breitbart, and both articles starting with "The Obama Administration...." should give you a clue that this is a hit piece and will not just bend facts, but outirght
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Firefox sticks it to Microsoft, redirects Bing searches in Cortana to Yahoo(pcworld.com)
11 points by ntakasaki 11y ago|14 comments

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