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Being in technology for many years I’m not sure now personalised search is even a good thing. Think about it. It tends to offer you the result similar to the ones you already saw and liked, downranking the other ones.

This way you can never break out of your cluster and might end up eventually missing the whole big areas of information. Think about it.

Personalized search is not so bad in e-commerce. But that’s about it. But advertisers do love it, true.

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Well then, if you know about it then you should also know it would generally refer to implementation, not to the method that is often mathematically proven. There are many levels on which the system might be compromised and trying to hack the algorithm is hardly the best choice.

2 days ago on Apple claims it can't decrypt FaceTime and iMessage data, details extent of government requests

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This is not true. In fact this is as far from the truth as it can be. Just for the start, one-time pad encryption is unbreakable even under brute force. Although has almost no practical use in IT.

As for the more practical aspects, properly implemented RSA with padding is only hackable by brute force, which starts to be impossibly difficult if the key is long enough.

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If done right, it can in theory be impossible to decrypt. There are algorithms of strong cryptography that are mathematically proven and are readily available, it’s not a mystery or even the news.

If Apple decided to go this way – no, nobody can decrypt the message itself. Hacking the device and accessing the encryption key is a whole different matter, but I quite believe they might have an encryption that can’t be brute forced, and that they don’t hold the keys on their servers.

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You are correct. That’s why the Apple’s stock is correcting itself to the level of the other companies. It will eventually stop at the same level where competition is unless Apple does something about it.

7 days ago on 'Can't innovate anymore, my ass': Apple's bravado clouds the company's real challenges 1 reply

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Most of the people I know in my professional environment which is business development/sales own either private or corporate notebooks of different levels of quality. Some of them do have desktops at home, but most of them don’t.

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A very long time is 2 weeks max – I participated in a couple of dozen releases. And no, I’m not talking about sandboxing, I’m talking about process and memory management.

20 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion'

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It is interesting that I do have such an experience. More from a management perspective then hands on, but still.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion' 1 reply 1 recommend

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In fact, I am. I was running my column for mobile technology for a couple of years.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion'

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As your pet rock runs apps you are certainly a very well off individual.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion' 2 recommends

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Yes, it did, as in a past tense. No, it doesn’t any more.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion' 2 replies 3 recommends

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That’s why iOS is built in a way that prevents user code to block system performance.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion' 2 replies

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I also live in a cave and just caught me a wooly mammoth for supper.

21 days ago on Google makes Android design decisions using 'jars of emotion' 1 reply 5 recommends

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Now it’s clear why Android usability sucks. Design by committee using formal metrics as a proof of quality as opposed to holistic vision driven by the clear concept.

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While this is true, you still have pretty high chances to die horrible death and become just one more landmark on the road.

Which makes the whole business quite stupid. There’s risk and there’s no outcome – if you did it, you are just one of many tourists guides dragged up there. If you died – no honour in it, it’s actually the silliest way to die.

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In a way. You don’t get healthy by eating only burgers, but you’ll be even worse by eating only salads. If your health is ok and your digestive organs work normally there’s only one good diet – diverse food made of good natural ingredients. You should eat different kind of stuff, prepared in different ways, not focusing on something specific and just making sure what you eat is fresh and comes from a good source. Fat is just as needed as anything else.

All the fancy diets are coming from the fact people eat a lot of ready meals and snacks and try to compensate it somehow.

28 days ago on The bitter truth about Greek yogurt: it's producing millions of pounds of toxic waste 1 reply 1 recommend

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The legal theory would be that google uses its monopolistic status on video hosting market to force inferior user experience on the rival mobile platform. It’s a classic case. Would it hold or not is another story but this is a legitimate theory.

28 days ago on Microsoft updates YouTube Windows Phone app on the day Google demanded it be removed