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hafichukon I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

They can technically do anything they want with the input you provide. Personally I would never trust an opaque operating system even if they provided clear details as to what the configuration options are and how they are used.

hafichukon Why are glasses so expensive? (2012)

I assume this article is interesting because it tells you to "disable ad-blocker" :) -pass

hafichukon Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs

You forgot your closing tag :)

hafichukon Gmail API

The article is light on the technical details. Here's the API: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

hafichukon Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack

IANAL. The ham radio community needs to raise this with the FCC. This section was originally constructed a long time ago (1993?). I'm guessing it's biased this way to stop 1940's era spys from operating.

hafichukon How ACH works: A developer perspective

Not in our lifetime. Cryptocurrencies will just be another bolt on and thing we need to integrate. The upshot is that the banks probably won't manage this. The downside is that the banks probably won't manage this.

hafichukon How ACH works: A developer perspective

All of the banks I deal with use FTPS (which is called "secure" ftp). I have yet to deal with one that uses SFTP (ssh-ftp).

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hafichukon Fired? Speak No Evil

Does Will Blythe have a paypal account I can send some love to?

hafichukon An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options

Any advice if the company is already public and they are offering stock options as part of the compensation package?

hafichukon Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

IIRC, the last time Google gave a service the ability to download (export) data, they closed it shortly there after. (RIP Reader)

hafichukon The Onion quits print

Print version?!? Wow - who knew. I guess Chicagoans.

hafichukon A 5 year old genius turns down a Sony tablet on Jimmy Kimmel

Link is dead

hafichukon Bitcoins reached $300

The only way for coins to evaporate is for the wallets to get lost. It happens. The thing people seem to get stuck on is that a coin isn't divisible. It is. Even if there was only a single coin available to the market, it would still function, albeit the real value of that one coin would be equal to the size of the market.

hafichukon Nexus 5

I'm logged in (non-dev account) and not seeing the purchase link. I wonder why they made so few. Seems ridiculous that they'd sell out within a couple hours.

hafichukon Nexus 5

What do you mean still taking orders? From what I can see there is no order button on google play anymore, just the wishlist one.

hafichukon Nexus 5

The funny thing is that I got their "sales" email 2 hours after they sold out of the last phone on Play.

hafichukon Nexus 5

Bah. Typical online store crap. Why the hell can't they do real pre-orders instead of running out of inventory. You'd think that Google would have heard of kickstarter by now and actually figured out why that sales model rocks.

hafichukon Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit

Has anyone actually confirmed that Ladar Levison is behind this?

hafichukon [dead]

It took a second to click - "Wololo!"

hafichukon Ditch Your Passwords? US Gov To Issue Secure Online IDs

We all sit here and watch as it happens.

Are you calling us all armchair dissidents?

hafichukon Automated Virtual Box install of IE VMs (for testing of course)

<sarcasm>Wait, you mean it's not for personal enjoyment?!</sarcasm>

I believe that sarcasm is supposed to be contained.

hafichukon Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

So they kill Reader and "socialize" email. What's next google, and what are you going to do to keep us techies folded in?