will118

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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
Yep I got this too, beta.bbc.co.uk 443 cert etc.

No other site would load either until I disabled the extension.

Comment · 13 years ago
The author was given the tricky task of padding out 60 or so words to nearly 1000, it's almost prose.

The hypocrisy is truly hilarious, lambasting others for "Antitrust violations". They can still be the victim here though, I'm not ruling that out at all.

Microsoft is truly synonymous with Antitrust in my mind, on an unparalleled level. With regards to Windows/Xbox/anything they can really.

I don't think Google are playing fair here either, but MSFT are hitting new levels of childishness in my mind. If MSFT truly believe it's unfair, why not take them to court in CA for Antitrust? Take a shot at being on the side receiving the settlement for once.

Comment · 13 years ago
They didn't, it was the first one I looked for:

_______ Hacker - Cheesy for anything with the possible exception of a job with the specific responsibility of finding security exploits.

Comment · 13 years ago
I find the Leap part of BTT (BetterTouchTool) is actually... err.. use-worthy..? Neither useful nor useless.

I've got some really cool (still a big part for me) and useful stuff working, augmenting my mouse/keyboard use. For example, a finger to the left minimises and two fingers to the right opens a list of recently used apps.

Yet I'm very conscious that everything would just be better suited to a keyboard shortcut..

I never bothered with Touchless and mouse emulation things; years of 2D GUI design isn't suited to this kind of interface. "Midnight" is a my favourite Leap app but I think that's just an iPad app that lends itself very well to the leap input too.

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Comment · 13 years ago
I agree feels very polished.

As an aside the 4.000 images over 4,000 on the API pricing thing is temporarily confusing;

I'm guessing you're from the EU which is cool, but then pricing is in dollars. Anyway pretty sure it's an obvious mistake so no need for me to harp on.

Comment · 13 years ago
I didn't think this article was very good at all, I've read all this before.

These are just Stallman's exact ideas rehashed under hotwords like Snowden & SaaS...

I'd usually try not to whine but I'm not even sure if the quotes they use are from the talk or from years ago.

Comment · 13 years ago
I felt the same thing when I read the BBC article last night. I think the circumstances alone are suspicious regardless of the source.
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I actually really like the idea, but the problems I would have are:

My current internet has awful upload speeds, but I've had fibre in the past and many other people do/will.

So ruling that out, my other issue is surely my main PC has to be on? 99% of my media (the only real use to me) is on it.

Wake on LAN was a given I thought. I didn't read anything and quick CTRL-F finds nothing. It was quite hard to read through the spiel but if it's 2 years in development; is WOL such a given they don't mention it or is there a reason they're not doing it?

Comment · 13 years ago
I read the whole thing, the title put me off but I stood firm.

Page 3 is where the stuff about leakers is; in the context of http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?_r=...

To me it seems 4 years ago while working for the CIA, he was an idealist. He saw it from the protecting national security angle.

To me, not entirely surprising?

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