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Re:Upspin – Another option for file sharing on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @05:30PM (#13700718)
This could really use a demo video of usage.
seriously. This is not "in browser" if you need a plugin in my opinion.
try changing your card's expiration date to an expired date, this has worked for me in other situations like this
Instagram is a horrible image portfolio system. It does not offer full res downloads, has zero exif data, extremely limited desktop app. Instagram is a social media app first, and a photo app second.
Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:58AM (#12503542)
Just look around on the internet, you'll find the same thing. I researched this a few weeks ago and was amazed.

You basically have to disable the audio driver in OSX to disable it, and doing that, means you can't play audio at all. And even that isn't enough, it technically can be hijacked at an even lower level.

Re:FBI director: Cover up your webcam on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:13PM (#12503099)
I guess this is just as good place as any to bring this up. In current OS X, you cannot disable your mic. You can turn down the input volume, but never disable. All malware needs to do is raise the input volume and it can listen to you to its hearts content.

And its worse with your iPhone.

Mayyybe he shouldn't have chosen bright red.
Re:Facial recognition will soon end anonymity on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:05PM (#11827312)
Classy site, redirects to a pic of balls when referer is HN.
This is really cool!
Re:SF Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @04:45PM (#10854053)
This, a million times this. Also, taxi drivers could care less about your ride experience. No way to rate them and cause any change, so they just treat everyone like crap.
From what I've read and heard, the key is reliability, consumer internet service is not as stringent on reliability, but enterprise internet lines usually come with a guaranteed reliability.
Re:In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash on Thursday November 12, 2015 @12:51AM (#10551526)
Trademark stuff, ok, it makes sense they can't use their logos and such. But the whole quality control, food handling, meh. Soon as it's paid for and in the customer's hands, it's the customer's business what happens to it next, not In-N-Outs, it's not theirs anymore.
Re:A facelift for the Macintosh on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @12:20AM (#8884470)
Yeah, who wants widescreen anyway? ;)
Re:Sass Guidelines on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:59PM (#8845864)
Its a CSS preprocessor. http://sass-lang.com/

In a nutshell, you write SASS with all sorts of bonus features that CSS doesn't do, and then you compile to CSS.

Re:North Korea's Official Statement on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @01:13AM (#8786995)
Same thing here. It started giving me a headache.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:13PM (#8120981)
Adboom Group

All jobs are full time, non-remote.

* Linux Systems Administrator

* Director of Engineering

* Front-End Engineer

http://adboomgrp.com/careers/

FYI, I am not a recruiter, I am a Front-End Engineer at Adboom Group. Its a pretty amazing company. Located in downtown San Diego, California.

Re:We're Fighting the Feds Over Your Email on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @12:26PM (#8109159)
What about being liable for storing illegal files someone uploads to your filebox?
Does this allow you to host multiple sites with separate theming from 1 install?
It has to be livable on in order to prevent the crime people are forced to do when they aren't making enough to live on though.
There is also iftt.com that can poll a specific CL search and email you when something hits.
Looks awkward as hell, why not just connect a bike connected by bike chain to the washer so your legs aren't all spread wide trying to pedal. http://goo.gl/K6W6gS
Re:Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @01:36PM (#6677045)
Does the knock app have to be open to unlock your computer?
Re:Introducing Quip on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @12:37AM (#6131934)
All devices, except your laptop. Who actually wants to write more than a few sentences on anything but something with a keyboard?
Question, they keep mentioning phone records. What about the mass surveillance of email, texts, multimedia, and the cooperation of all those big corporations? Does this include that as well?
Re:Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox on Friday July 12, 2013 @02:03PM (#6034012)
My biggest problems with Firefox after using Chrome for so long is stability. I find that web pages can lock up the entire browser rather than just a tab, and this isn't just a rare occurrence, when I tried to give it a chance a week ago, it happened several times. I am amazed they still haven't picked up the separate process per tab feature yet.
I don't think it'd damage the computers, if it did, it'd be very minor, like you said. I'd say the biggest effect would be people's electrical bills being higher.
Re:Free Official MSIE VM's for Linux and Mac on Thursday June 13, 2013 @04:29PM (#5876364)
The only thing weird I found about this, is the win8 ie10 vmware for mac on microsoft.com comes with a boot virus, or so says Avast. It reports it has Kampana-37XX. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/wXOu3uJ.png

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