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I imagine it would be something like this:
The server will not store the key for long, some minutes max and transmission of any data will be encrypted. The owner of the WiFi hot spot will have to approve every request to share his key (individually or all at once). Then the key of the WiFi hot spot will be sent to those that requested it, after that it will be deleted from the server, it won't even get out of the RAM. The people that request the key will be able to do so with just the push of a button (in the ideal case). All this exchange of data, might happen through 3G so it will be as compact as possible (no adds if on 3G, etc).
If in the same physical space this all will be done locally without sending anything to the server. A smartphone app (at most a few megabytes) will be at the center of this. There will also be a desktop client, that allows you to connect less easily but still better than typing. Connect your smartphone to the computer push a button (depending on setting even without this) and connect to the desired WiFi hot spot.
I am one of those persons that feels that everything is invented, but this is something that I feel is lacking.
"license": "MIT"
We don't want funding, but will you give us advice?
Unfortunately we can't. We've invested in so many companies that helping them takes up all our time. But much of the advice we give is collected in these essays[1].
It feels like this because most people are just not willing enough to spend the time, effort and money to be secure. The only thing you (as an average consumer) can't be secure against even if you tried really really hard (why bother) is a well funded government organization (from any country). Security threats for everywhere else are more or less manageable if you really want.
Yep, just this!
We can't just dismiss this sort of behavior because you can reformat the computer and "Result: no bloat and no malware". They need to learn that people won't let them get away with this. So no this is unacceptable, I too will never buy nor recommend a Lenovo product in the foreseeable future!
Maybe someday you can work as a developer for yourself. The good thing about a software business is that it's more about business than software. If you can code a working solution to fix some problem that exists everything else is irrelevant. The really hard thing is to identify a problem that's business worthy.
There's so much awesome in this phrase, I am adding it to my .bashrc
>It’s almost unthinkable for most people born in the US in the last 70 or so years for the US not to be the world’s superpower. But on current trajectories, we’re about to find out what that looks like.
Things would have to go so horribly wrong as to make being a superpower irrelevant for the US to lose its superpower status. It's undeniable that in the future the US might have to share this status with China but I don't see this happening in the following years.
Quite frankly China's rise is overrated!
A known torrent site begs to differ!
>2/ Xiaomi will spend some of the $1.1bn they just raised coming to the US. This will bring a strong player in the non-google android sector into the US market and legitimize a “third mobile OS” in the western world. The good news for developers is developing for non-google android is not much different than developing for google android.
The "third mobile OS" is Windows Phone and even if something else takes this spot, it's still not that great to be third.
>3/ More asian penetration into the US market will come from the messenger sector as both Line and WeChat make strong moves to gain a share of the lucrative US messenger market.
I doubt those companies will be more than marginal players in the us market next year, maybe later?
>11/ ... patients treating patients (p2p medicine) ...
This seems kind of insane!
I didn't understand the following very well, if someone can explain or point me elsewhere, I'd really appreciate it:
>8/ The horrible year that bitcoin had in 2014 will be a wakeup call for all stakeholders. Developers will turn their energy from creating the next bitcoin (all the alt stuff) to creating the stack on top of the bitcoin blockchain. Real decentralized applications will start to emerge as the platform matures and entrepreneurial energy is channeled in the right direction.
I don't see the point of bitcoin or any other virtual currency? To me nothing beats legal tender currencies.
Well good for them, either way with this policy the Chinese government enforces, I don't think China will be able to compete internationally in the software industry.
You can also get $100 in DigitalOcean credit here: https://education.github.com/pack
This project hasn't received any updates in a while but so far it has never let me down when I need to do some text processing in my smartphone.