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jcreedon

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    Comment #14541873

    > Most of the lights are going toward distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro.. And those shiny new distributions. OpenSUSE I don't think really compares against any of those dist…

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    Comment #10982478

    I'm not sure how this will work out as far as long term strategy goes, but in the near time I am very annoyed. It seems like they can't decide what to do with Hangouts. Vacillating…

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    Comment #10739018

    You should probably qualify that with a Andy-Weir-is-not-a-lawyer disclaimer. There are a few space treaties that probably supersede some elements of "maritime" law.

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    Comment #10597072

    Using this[1] humorous but still mostly effective methodology, that model seems to be okay[2], at least for now. [1] https://twitter.com/todb/status/648956328292057088 [2] http://w…

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    Comment #10259686

    The biggest shortcoming I see compared to the other big players (AWS, Azure, Google), and it is something they don't mention, is that they only have one datacenter, compared to the…

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    Comment #10240283

    I'm not sure about CA specifically, but some states only do full inspections on newer vehicles every other year. e.g. In a particular year the odd year models get the full inspecti…

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    Comment #9682807

    This is not to mention that even if it were open source, it is not likely that the tool chain used to create it is even available, let alone open source. Firmware blobs are just a …

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    Comment #8962284

    In the beginning I don't think so. We've seen recently with Apple and Google, that there is such thing as a non-backdoored encryption product that agencies (both US and abroad) get…

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    Comment #8962252

    As other commenters elsewhere in the thread have pointed out, we don't know much about the implementation at this point. How it is implemented I think will make or break this produ…

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    Comment #8962224

    That's a good thought. The more I have sat and thought about it, the more use cases I can come up with where there is a business case for it. One big one that comes to mind is fore…

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    Comment #8962103

    I think the biggest distinguishing feature of this is being able to have it encrypt emails with customer provided keys stored on their Key Management Service. This hypothetically s…

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    Comment #8896288

    In the US that is called "discovery".

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    Comment #8638847

    I'm kind of disappointed they are trying to sell this before they have actually gotten a free BIOS and firmware for those locked down pieces. Without those, this laptop is no diffe…

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    Comment #8541386

    There is also at least an order of magnitude between their maximum altitudes.

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    Comment #8155962

    If you have a logo, you should probably change the favicon from the default ASP.NET one. It's the little things...

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    Comment #7924438

    > Kevlar has generated several billion dollars in revenue for the company. Ms. Kwolek did not directly benefit from it financially, however; she signed over patent royalties to DuP…

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