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by wfjackson 12y ago
Are there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?
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by wfjackson 12y ago
That's wrong. Statcounter measures usage , while Net Applications measures user share and IE has by far the larger install base.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Did they check the lithium levels in those places? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/should-we-a...
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Perhaps they should be forced to release keywords versus clicked links data to other companies like Duck Duck Go, just like Microsoft was forced to document things like SMB for Samba and the various Office formats.
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Tech Companies Snooping on Users – Creepy and Common(recode.net)
1 points by wfjackson 12y ago|0 comments
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by wfjackson 12y ago
I'll bite the troll in the off chance you're serious. Wait, Open Source is magically free of bloatware? OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE? Try running a modern Linux desktop distro like Ubuntu on a 10 year old machine or a 5 year old netbo
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>The need to change passwords arose in April, when the Heartbleed vulnerability was revealed. Heartbleed makes systems vulnerable to data theft since attackers can use it to gain access to systems and then proceed to access and steal inf
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Apple Disables Trim Support on 3rd Party SSDs in OS X(hothardware.com)
19 points by wfjackson 12y ago|2 comments
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>The brightest minds aren't programming on Microsoft platforms if you look at colleges and conferences worldwide. This cannot be reversed; Open Source products are now technically superior, the community is very well organized, and
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Not really true, and Google stopped blocking Windows Phone after the outrage. See "Misspelling "Windows Phone" Makes Google Maps Work". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7RiMCrZFw
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>I never saw Chrome as the way for Google to ascertain that the general public can have unfettered access to Google properties, I saw - and see - Chrome as a way to extend the Google eco-system onto the end users device, and to gain acce
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The practice originally seemed to be in place to give discretion to officer to deal with druglords and people like that since proving everything is court is very hard, but since the incentives are all wrong(departments keep the proceeds), i
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by wfjackson 12y ago
From http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2014/04/protecting-student... >removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means Google cannot collect or use student data in Apps for Education servic
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by wfjackson 12y ago
I remember reading somewhere that Google announced that they're now stopping using emails in Apps for Business and Apps for Education for building ad targeting profiles. Very surprising to know that the paid Google Apps for Business we
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Not sure if you're referring to Walmart or VISA/MasterCard.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>On the other hand, these are their rules; the conditions under which various transaction fee schemes apply are defined entirely by the card associations (Visa and MasterCard, et al.), and if they want to extend preferential treatment in
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by wfjackson 12y ago
And possibly Oracle as well.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
I wouldn't want to risk legacy proprietary medical applications for hardware interfaces into medical devices to be running on an API re-implementation layer that could easily be missing functionality, quirks and bug-for-bug compatibili
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by wfjackson 12y ago
It's quite possibly infringing, but it's unlikely to become a target for a lawsuit unless it starts making a lot of money or starts hurting a good percentage of sales of MS products.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Drivers.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Again, all it means is that it's OEM crapware free.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
OP is mistaken. The signature designation only implies that it's free of pre-installed crapware and junkware. If one wants a real Nexus like device(branded Google), then Surface is their friend(made by MS). >as such MS certainly has
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by wfjackson 12y ago
This thread just 4 days ago on HN is interesting in this context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8506911 Google employees were implying that Andy Rubin got bored of Android and left to work on robotics and people sugg
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by wfjackson 12y ago
>Now, if your competitor is on an open stack and on real computers they will eventually run rings around you because they get more control and lower costs. The initial boost you're experiencing will turn into a straightjacket with a
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by wfjackson 12y ago
Yet we see that StackOverflow is fast and scaling really well with demand while Reddit still has load issues after seven years.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
The iWatch looks clunky and thick from some angles and tries too hard to be a smartphone on your wrist. http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iwatch-i... https://encrypted-tbn3.g
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by wfjackson 12y ago
68% of people in the US are obese or overweight. The numbers in other countries aren't much better and are rising. The iWatch is a luxury watch that does fitness tracking and also allows you to view images. This is a fitness band that
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by wfjackson 12y ago
It also depends on how much the other platforms support deep integration. For example Apple tends to lock down things like Siri(perhaps this can connect as a bluetooth mic) and Google had scuffles over Youtube on Windows Phone so is likely
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by wfjackson 12y ago
WebOS and Jolla had/have a ton of closed source components(pretty much the whole GUI) but run on top of Linux so there's a loophole somehere.
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by wfjackson 12y ago
I've thankfully never seen a Windows Server with Flash, Reader, iTunes or VirtualBox installed, sounds like a security nightmare waiting to happen regardless updates. I also see lots of insecure and outdated applications running on Lin

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