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Re:Facebook is now scanning your photos to make sure you send them to ...
on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:14PM (#10557405)
Am I the only one who is concerned that Facebook is going to eventually turn into a passive surveillance system for the government? I don't think it would be too difficult for Facebook to silently alert authorities when particular matches occur.
Re:Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Conn...
on Thursday November 12, 2015 @07:41PM (#10557260)
I have to agree with this. Email is not a secure medium and this is just going to confuse people.
Re:The iPad Pro
on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:42PM (#10550238)
"It brings me no joy to observe this, but the future of mass market portable computing involves neither a mouse pointer nor an x86 processor."
Or freedom.
Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995)
on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:15PM (#10542999)
My viewpoint is that things like Bitcoin are little more than cryptographically engineered Monopoly Money. That said, I do believe that eventually, paper money will go away (if for no other reason than to track every purpose for government surveillance).
Re:Ask HN: Anyone else seeing Google Apps. install themselves?
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @09:20PM (#10531060)
I installed Chrome in ~/Applications and saw what you are talking about. I believe they are really just shortcuts for Chrome for various Google services. I deleted them and haven't seen them since.
Re:Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013)
on Sunday November 08, 2015 @08:12PM (#10530883)
Plus, Prince has resumed using his given name, so there is no need for the symbol or the who "artist formerly known as" thing.
Re:Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Security at LinuxCon
on Friday November 06, 2015 @04:16PM (#10522089)
For the same reason you see X and Vim being referred to as Linux software.
Re:The IBM POWER8 Review: Challenging the Intel Xeon
on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:44AM (#10520372)
POWER, OS/2, and The Thinkpad has convinced me that IBM just doesn't make the most of what they create.
Re:Facebook Has Deleted 5 to 10M Links to Competing Social Network
on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:06AM (#10520151)
Agreed. I can't think of the last time they were relevant.
Re:TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of so...
on Friday November 06, 2015 @11:03AM (#10520136)
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Re:Firefox Now Offers a More Private Browsing Experience
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @11:21AM (#10514169)
I haven't been thrilled with Mozilla's direction for a while now. Bloating Firefox by embedding Pocket and Hello into it, speeding up Firefox's release frequency just because Chrome does it that way, wasting resources on Firefox-OS, and firing an employee just for donating to a political cause.
If they are not careful, they are going to run Mozilla into the ground.
Re:Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C cables that don't work
on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @02:42PM (#10509048)
I have never heard of this company before. Thank you for the comment.
Re:Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped
on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:43PM (#10496803)
I know it started with 8 because my father, a computer novice, ended up with a Microsoft account because of how things were presented during setup.
If Win10 improved on this, that is good news.
Re:Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped
on Monday November 02, 2015 @08:33PM (#10496766)
This, combined with Microsoft trying to trick people into thinking they need a Microsoft account in order to create a user account, shows how far they have fallen.
Re:Neovim public release 0.1.0
on Sunday November 01, 2015 @07:27PM (#10489210)
"neovim now follows the XDG spec"
Speaking as someone who only runs straight window managers and Xterms, I hate that XDG bullshit.
Re:Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horr...
on Friday October 30, 2015 @06:16PM (#10480861)
You are correct:
Re:Amazon Payments plus VPN = account closed
on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:35PM (#10480387)
This whole scenario, and the one Dan Grossman experienced, is just awful and customer unfriendly. I really hope someone from Amazon fixes this.
Re:ESPN suspends publication of Grantland
on Friday October 30, 2015 @04:29PM (#10480352)
It's my understanding that Disney is reigning in ESPN's spending.
Re:OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation
on Thursday October 29, 2015 @08:48PM (#10475518)
Despite booting and testing Oberon on more than one occasion, I have personally never found a use for it. That said, it makes me happy to see people tinkering and creating things like this.
Re:If Sweden and Germany Became US States, They Would Be Among the Poo...
on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @06:39PM (#10461698)
It sounds like you are trying to make a point about something.
Re:Despite privacy concerns, CISA bill poised for passage
on Monday October 26, 2015 @07:18PM (#10455177)
It will be pointless because it is going to happen.
American: Home of the safe and the surveilled.
Re:Are tarballs obsolete?
on Monday October 26, 2015 @06:02AM (#10450384)
I like tarballs. Speaking as a non-programmer who compiles things like Vim and Scrypt, it is nice to be able to download a release without having to install a VCS first.
Re:OpenBSD developers: Landry Breuil
on Saturday October 24, 2015 @09:21PM (#10445563)
You have a lot of gull saying what is important to 99% of users. And if battery life was the most important factor, people wouldn't use Linux either.
Re:Cmus – A Small Terminal Music Player
on Thursday October 22, 2015 @06:08AM (#10431371)
No questions from me; just appreciation for the work you are doing. Thank you.
Re:Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:43PM (#10422876)
Apple fixed that in iOS 8.1.1. (CVE-2014-4451).
Re:Old 1983 VT220 Serial Console Running Mac OS X
on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:09PM (#10416668)
Terminal with SmartOS running NetBSD as a guest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1vxpdg/was_playin...
Re:Ask HN: Why is Mac OS X/iOS not called a flavor of Unix?
on Monday October 19, 2015 @06:05AM (#10412005)
Thank you. I don't understand why this is even being debated.
Conformance statement for El Capitan: http://www.opengroup.org/csq/repository/RID=apple%25252FXY1%...
Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail of Wester...
on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:20PM (#10401763)
If you follow the link to the Kagins website, it says "Kevin Costner will narrate and produce the two-hour documentary for National Geographic Channel, covering Western Americana enthusiast Randy Guijarro’s odyssey to authenticate this unique photograph".
So details of the verification process are being withheld in order the make the documentary more appealing.
Re:How to Build the CMoy Pocket Amplifier (2009)
on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:15AM (#10399402)
This made me remember that I haven't visited HeadFi in a while.
Re:Apple’s biggest fan has died
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @03:08PM (#10395249)
My understanding is that he moved on.