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I think a better reason than "not wanting to play fair" is that the Apple implementation preserves the correct operation of the mic even while the remote is being pressed. Apple do…

Cool, maybe now it'll be possible to obtain Atmel chips in quantity without ridiculous lead times.

Censored manual for the Exynos 5 SoC: http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/downloads/supports/Samsung_...

Paranoia, maybe? But yeah, it's rather pointless. Even more so since GPS vendors have access to the algorithm.

Not quite the same thing, although they do have some similarities. The Selective Availability "feature" of GPS worked by fuzzing the time readings output by the GPS satellites. The…

The offset is still there on ditu.google.cn, it's just that they've also munged the satellite imagery to have the same offset.

Interestingly, the Retina MBP has a combo Ethernet MAC/PHY + memory card reader chip of which they're only using the latter function. I would guess that either the decision to drop…

Proposals to fragment the Internet generally do not go down well, for obvious reasons. The proposal is needlessly complicated, notwithstanding the poor quality of writing. The auth…

It's not an RFC, it's an Internet Draft (which anyone can submit without review), and anyway it's offensive and incoherent enough that nobody will take it seriously, and it certain…

Yes, this is actually what they meant by "no glass layer". The integrated display isn't really a miracle of engineering. In my opinion it's more a miracle of business that they con…

No, it's true. The possible geometry of visible GPS satellites at any given moment (namely that they're all above you and none are below) means that the vertical error is pretty ba…

This is incorrect. https encrypts everything.

Here's how Ceefax used to be used for computer programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctxZWEVJ1S0

Not particularly - ARM instruction encoding is rather distinct. Repeating "always" values of the ARM condition field really stand out.

The current version of Xcode, released yesterday (two weeks prior to the sandboxing deadline), contains no code signing entitlements and hence is not sandboxed.

I don't think it's helpful to refer to VHDL as "not programming". It is programming, just in an inherently parallel, declarative fashion rather than an imperative one. My favourite…

The comment I was referring to is under this G+ post: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/intiB73F...

Look - as I said in my other comment, the issue isn't that it uses a tonne of memory. The stock browser does so too. The issue is that it is using that memory in such a way that it…

I should have qualified my statement by mentioning that the Chrome app process runs a couple of background services - this causes it to be killed for low memory after normal backgr…

And in typical Google fashion, they have assumed that devices have an infinite amount of memory: https://imgur.com/zkh7C (this is with the app in the background!)

No CDN caches content for that long, even if the origin tells them to. (Services like Akamai's NetStorage excluded, which Facebook most likely does not use.) It's quite obvious tha…