soundgecko

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by soundgecko 13y ago
Any Microsoft product? They shouldn't use any Google product by the same token. Report: Android malware up 614% as smartphone scams go industrial http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/android_malware_
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by soundgecko 13y ago
There's the other problem of decreasing contrast and lack of borders separating the last ad and first organic search result. http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it http://blumenthals.com/blog/201
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by soundgecko 13y ago
Would be interesting to see how IE11 fares since it's close to release. Also sad to see one less engine because of Operas' Presto being retired because of things like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195
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by soundgecko 13y ago
Meanwhile millions of businesses are able to get it to work quite well. Ever use StackOverflow? NewEgg? Their server and tools revenue continues to increase by double digits. You think that's all media manipulation? Go search Dice for
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by soundgecko 13y ago
IIRC, you get to keep the existing licenses and only need to pay for new ones.
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by soundgecko 13y ago
This could've easily gone wrong. What if they had a gun in their car? A knife? A gram of pot? What if there was a minor injury to the agents? All for a 20 year old drinking beer?
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by soundgecko 13y ago
I thought it was yet another of those articles with an inflammatory but ultimately misleading headline designed to get on Buzzfeed and Reddit. Boy, was I wrong. The story was actually worse than the headline.
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by soundgecko 13y ago
What's to stop individuals or companies from using the same tech to collect data? After all, what you do in public is public, and private detectives are allowed to follow and film their targets in public to show their clients and use i
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by soundgecko 13y ago
I doubt even the EU will act against the only meager competition to Google's absolute dominance. Not to mention that devices with Google as default are the majority these days because of iOS, Android on phones and tablets with declinin
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by soundgecko 13y ago
I sincerely wish there were better ways of expressing ideas than memegenerated images that seems to be infecting almost every forum I read. Take a look at http://reddit.com/r/gaming All the posts are image macros or co
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by soundgecko 13y ago
Serious question, who would you blame for that? The government for the high tax rate? Or the companies for not including VAT into the advertized price?
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by soundgecko 13y ago
How is the Kinect any worse than every phone, tablet, laptop that have cameras and/or mics, which people carry with them 24/7, even to showers? For example, I would be much more embarassed by someone posting the video and voice fe
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by soundgecko 13y ago
Slashdot's moderation system is much better in this regard. The users starting score for new posts first goes to 0 and then -1 so that the comment will be collapsed by default reducing visibility but they can still accrue upvotes and k
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by soundgecko 13y ago
Its sad that it took so long spite of being all over HN, Reddit, /. Etc. Shows that the tech community is not as big as we think and/or is apathetic to even filling a form, forget about peaceful marches. This is why politicians do
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by soundgecko 13y ago
I wish there was still a curated list of categorized websites.