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xkiwi

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Founder of X Company.
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xkiwi··on NSA Unlawfully Surveiled Kim Dotcom in New Zealand
>He ripped of tons of people with a subscription scam in Germany a couple of years ago.

Can you provide a source relate to the subscription scam?

xkiwi··on Netflix confirms it is blocking rooted/unlocked Android devices
The way this message will translate to the nerds|power users|hackers|rooted user|content creator|

"Netflix does not value your money, therefore you cannot use our services. However, you can always pirate the content on Internet for free."

xkiwi··on Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrusive Pop-Up Ads
When I made that quora complain before, HN readers are kind enough to show me how to avoid it. Without the ?share=1 trick, I probably don't even know how Quora looks like.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483049

xkiwi··on Female founders who've had a great 2016
Thanks, that explained a lot.

One side demanded equal opportunity, but actually have greater opportunity than other side. However equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcome.

I will check the list 10 years from now.

xkiwi··on Female founders who've had a great 2016
There is a big differences between "Not enough" and "Female Only".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diadksUjDm4

xkiwi··on Canadian journalist's detention at US border raises press freedom alarms
It is different: Cellphone, especially smartphone nowadays, has extended reach.

When your phone is taken away after they forced you enter SU level password, you have no control of it, they do.

Whoever took it inside the room, they can:

>Browser your email, check who you contacted since you have you email box: Why you bought this on amazon? Why you bought that from Ebay? For what reason you purchase two pressure cookers from and nails from Walmart at the same time?

>Check your contacts: Who is Mr.X? When was the last time you talk to Mr. Y? What was in the conversation?

>Check what you have posted on facebook/Twitter. You supported Aaron Swartz? You are in the protest called The Day we Fight Back? What was the protest about? Who you are with?

>You may have home security Cam APP installed: Who sitting in the sofa? How many rooms do you have? Is this your wife? What is her social security number? What is her first name? On the day of Feb 21, 2013, who are the two male visited your home? What's their name and what's the purpose of the visit? How long they stayed in your house? What car they are diving? What is the plate number?

>Copy all your photos for further investation.

>Install Spyware, Copy your RSA key stored in your phone.

xkiwi··on Battery Guide
I bought 16 total Low Self-Sidcharge NiMh AAA/AA from amazon back to 2009.

That was the last time I buy batteries in that spec because they still work today.

xkiwi··on Campaign demands telecoms unlock the FM radio found in many smartphones
Contracts bind you and the services with a fixed price, regardless on the value and emerge competitors.
xkiwi··on Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)
True.

Microsoft would not beat IBM for being 'the next IBM'

Tesla would not beat Major car industries for being 'the next-gen Toyota way'

and, Google, probably will be replaced by someone in a complete industry. My guess that might be something that comes from VR.

xkiwi··on Homeland Security Wants to Subpoena Us Over a Clearly Hyperbolic Comment
My apologies. The is the URL link to the main artile:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160506/10324634363/homel...

xkiwi··on I sent an email to a monk in Nepal and my blog was hacked by the Chinese
Not only they read emails.

They also known driving Porsche, buying jewelry and more.

http://www.19lou.com/forum-269-thread-38651591-1-1.html

http://career.51youcai.com/yule/2011/0706/124927.html

http://news.thmz.com/col89/2012/04/2012-04-101102220.html

xkiwi··on The Chaos and the Craftsmanship of Shenzhen
For a moment I have to check your username to make sure this is not my reply.

I am surprised how anyone can pay with discount in an APP call "dianping". For a two week trip in china, I found out even Taxi driver will accept my Wechat payment and they don't even know english.

xkiwi··on Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled
I bought some XPS 13 with ubuntu installed. By the time I need windows 7 on the field, but I found out it is not possible because you will stuck at "AHCI not competable" BSoD no matter what ever you do.

I bet not everyone realized it is not possible(with my limited knowledge) to install Windows 7 on DELL laptops with UEFI bios.

xkiwi··on Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come with Ubuntu preinstalled
If anyone needs or have to install windows 7 on DELL brand laptops for any reason, I highly recommend you to wait until you confirm it can be done.

I have Dell XPS/Precision 11 and 13, the problem is the Windows 7 have difficulty to boot from UEFI, and you will stuck because AHCI is not supported by these DELL's BIOS.

xkiwi··on Google Maps Streetview Player
Those videos are so amazing!

I wonder how you achieved that!

xkiwi··on People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads
I recall @pg 's essay immediately:

"WHAT YOU'LL WISH YOU'D KNOWN"

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

here is what he wrote: If I were back in high school and someone asked about my plans, I'd say that my first priority was to learn what the options were.

Silicon Valley, or people on HN generally, are doing this unconsciously. I was shock that a lot of (non tech)people accept things as they are (as default). They let phone APP like LinkedIn scan and grab the contact list; buy things that are in the trend; over estimate price but underestimate value, etc.

ADs is good only if they introduce something new, CES-ish new, something that are not in the trend but available up on request. Something that you are not aware of, hope we get to that type of ad-era soon enough.

xkiwi··on Feds nail webcam on utility pole for 10 weeks to spy on suspect
I found an interesting comment on Arstechnica's reader comments:

"I'm curious: would they need a warrant to sit in a car outside someone's house to watch them? " -Zak

xkiwi··on Introducing the Shift Card: Use Bitcoin where Visa is accepted
Real banks will ask you for Driver Licenses and SSN when you open a bank account with them.

Information on DL has your height, eye color, address, telephone number, your photo, your finger prints. That's why they don't need to ask for your income again.

However, I tried Coinbase and will not use them ever again.

xkiwi··on What does it feel like to be fired from Google?
"Quora is a knowledge-sharing community that depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something."

I just cannot stand with Quora keep asking me to continue with Facebook or google. If majority of users in Quora are based on people who obey dictatorship from Quora, then probably it is not the place for true knowledge.

xkiwi··on Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
what if this is parallel construction? Can it state as 'impossible' to 'unlock'(crack/backdoor) in civil level but unlock-able on DoD/NSA level?
xkiwi··on If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
It is more than that.

most traffic condition on map rely on Toll Tag to measure travel time and speed between points, on normal highway.

Unless you have a detachable tag, otherwise your tag ID will appear on every single major interception, with time, speed between blocks. Most of Tag will ship to your house, and/or auto fill by credit card once the balance is low.

People probably imagine they will be erased after few years, but $sudo happeneds.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/17/1412811/-AT-T-and-N...

xkiwi··on If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy
It is scary for me to know:

#Majority of people post photo of friends on Facebook without understand facial recognition always scans.

#Prefer convenient over privacy, such as Toll Tag on cars.

#Follow trends.

xkiwi··on TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin?
Interesting.

I always wonder about this: in order to decrypt a file/volume encrypted by TrueCrypt, user just need to type their NOT-SO-LONG password. With today's capability such as EC2 or quantum computing as you mentioned, isn't that just minutes away to crack a 12 digi password?

xkiwi··on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

  The robbery just such a small amount, it should not be charged.
  Since the amount is so small, i am going to forgive it.
You mean the difference like this?
xkiwi··on What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea
I am surprised most of us only believe/get news from CNN & MSNBCish. Vietnam is the one who building in the South China Sea. Vietnam is building two islands: West London Reef and Sand Cay, at the year of 2010.

Vietnam build islands, CNN FOX cricket, cricket. China build islands, it is against international law.

- http://amti.csis.org/west-reef-tracker/

- http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/16087/20150508/vietnam-...

- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/08/us-southchinasea-v...

China, human right violations. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/china... VS. Former University of Cincinnati police officer pleads not guilty - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/30...

And Stop and frisk.

- http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

I am not sure who is violating human right now.

xkiwi··on Hn Downvote notes
This is something very similar to the Seniority in government system.

The one who been there longer has more power, even they do not have brilliant idea nor ability to perform.

xkiwi··on Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update
Push API and Notifications API I wonder what Google will do with this two.
xkiwi··on Hackathon Survival Guide
Haven't been to Hackathon but Defcon.

This is just my personal guide upon arrival:

1>Turn OFF wifi

2>Turn OFF bluetooth

3>If someone touched me, check immediately if something strange attached.

4>Never connect to Defcon Wifi,

5>Make sure my dial tone is mule if I have to call,

6>Make sure you have fun. Most people there are nice and knowledgeable.

xkiwi··on China's Man-On-the-Side Attack on GitHub
Great Firewall is not there because NSA is.
xkiwi··on Coreboot Blocked from Recent Thinkpads by Intel Boot Guard
I recently purchase a Dell Inspiron Laptop which gave me a nightmare to install Windows 7 on it.

The "secure Boot" isn't to secure the boot against rootkit, but secure from "unauthorized" or "unsupported" install your favorite operate system. In this case, I cannot install windows 7 on my brand new laptop.

I still remember the SIM card lock from carriers years ago, so if i am the vigilant, I am going to ask users to pay upfront to unlock "Secure Lock" so that they can install another operate system.

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