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by salient 13y ago
$50 Android smartphones are coming this year. They've actually existed for quite some time, but this year they will be more "mainstream", and you'll see a lot more models (in poor countries). The combination of the Corte
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by salient 13y ago
It's amazing how many "full operating systems" want to support something as weak as Raspberry Pi, and how many things can be done with it. I can't wait for Raspberry Pi to come to a more powerful architecture like ARMv8
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by salient 13y ago
Yet another reason for why electric cars have so much potential in the long run compared to gasoline-powered cars, and that's besides the fact that batteries themselves can double the storage capacity every 10 years or so, and therefor
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by salient 13y ago
This should hit home with those that read the Innovator's Dilemma and Innovator's Solution. IBM sold their PC business years ago to Lenovo because of "low margins", and they moved "up-market" to the server mark
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by salient 13y ago
I get 1 Gbps for less than $20 where I live (Europe), and unlimited bandwidth, but I'm not bothering with the extra speed yet because I'm going to need a good 802.11ac router and an SSD-enabled laptop to take full advantage of it.
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by salient 13y ago
They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't think more people are interested in Windows 7 than Windows 8. That would be a pretty silly reason to "get their name in the news", otherwise.
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by salient 13y ago
Looks cool, but I don't think it should be using MtGox values as the default.
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by salient 13y ago
I don't think that's been their motto since Otellini took over. Look where they are now in the mobile market. Otellini put the profitability of their Core chips above improving Atom in the first few years, even when it came to net
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by salient 13y ago
Intel is one of the least ethical tech companies around. Have they even paid their 1 billion euro fine to the EU Commission yet for trying to force OEMs to not use AMD chips in their products? http://www.engadget.com/2009&#x
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by salient 13y ago
I agree it's very obnoxious, and it's actually why I stopped watching Parks & Rec.
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by salient 13y ago
They did with SOPA. Because there were millions of them. But how do millions of phones calls get sent? By having each and everyone of us calling.
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by salient 13y ago
I'm pretty sure EFF, DemandProgress and the like are doing exactly that. Or are you saying they should form a Super PAC? But in that case, it won't exactly be "traditional lobbying", would it? It would be just paying pol
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by salient 13y ago
I hope you guys won't stop at pushing just for the USA Freedom Act, which sounds pretty decent, but not like it's going far enough. To me Rush Holt's Surveillance State Repeal Act sounded close to ideal, but he's going t
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by salient 13y ago
Relevant news: NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/09/nsa-gchq-illega...
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by salient 13y ago
I feel this is obligatory: https://www.aclu.org/meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-a... Also, if you think them knowing your location like this is scary, wait until we have self-driving cars, that will have built-in kill
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by salient 13y ago
This is the Virtuix Omni, if others haven't seen it yet (second version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5UTkLIh76U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H75BT43uT0
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by salient 13y ago
I hope that while they're putting the finishing touches on the current product, and work on deploying it soon, they will also keep in mind what the guys at Avegant are doing, and either do their own R&D with this type of technology
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by salient 13y ago
Here's the video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VCj7VKvFk&feature=youtu.be...
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by salient 13y ago
Carmack has been talking about OLED for VR headsets for quite some time, and I'm sure Palmer and the rest were considering it, too. But I think it wasn't very accessible to them until recently. They're a start-up so they can&
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by salient 13y ago
I saw a video of some of the Verge guys trying it out at CES, and pretty much all of them were like "I don't want to take this off" at the end. It sounds like Oculus Rift will change gaming forever, and not just gaming. There
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by salient 13y ago
Snowden docs make it official: The NSA can crack 30-year-old A5/1 crypto http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/archaic-but-widel... Does anyone know if LTE security is that much better? I imagine th
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by salient 13y ago
No worries, once the Google-backed EME passes through the MPAA-infested W3C [1], thousands of sites will begin utilizing the OS-level DRM Google and Microsoft have been baking into ChromeOS and Windows 8, and then Google Images will fast
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by salient 13y ago
> The paranoid view is that Google is an NSA frontend. The sad thing is that they don't even have to be that on purpose. They collect so much data on every person, that NSA is going to use them as a frontend anyway, which is exactly
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by salient 13y ago
Read the article? They've trying to kill the EU Data Privacy law through lobbying and such PR statements. It's not just them. It's also Facebook, probably Microsoft, too, the US government itself, and others. But I think they
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by salient 13y ago
I agree. I wish "a rose would still be a rose by any other name", but in reality it's nothing like that. Names are extremely important ("Patriot" Act, etc. George Orwell knew what he was talking about in his book an
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by salient 13y ago
This is about a year old I think. They're promising some big changes soon, or it may be a completely different browser, since they're saying they'll be using Webkit. They want to completely avoid domain name takedowns with it
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by salient 13y ago
> but we're also pouring resources into building single-purpose chips that will be useless when bitcoin migrates to a different hashing algorithm. I don't get this argument. Why do they have to be used for something else after
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by salient 13y ago
> Google’s global privacy lawyer, Peter Fleischer, said today in a personal blog post that [EU] politicians should go back to the drawing board on rules he said could set global privacy standards. Wow. How about no, Google? I started not
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by salient 13y ago
In the long run, I don't think so. You could argue change is happening much faster today, and people need to adapt to new jobs and skills faster, but on the other hand, there are also many more opportunities to choose from these days.
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by salient 13y ago
Isn't SPDY encrypted by default? Why would you assume it should outperform the unencrypted HTTP? Is it because Google made that claim, or why? Either way, security at the application level on the Internet seems quite broken. We need

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