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by 3xblah 8y ago
The PDF is a little short on details. It sounds like webamsters would all have to cooperate with allowing crawls from an "OWI" bot. One of the challenges of creating a "web index" is first creating indexes of each websi
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Rather than thinking software is never finished, he wanted software that was so simple it could actually be completed. The strength of your program should be from how extensible and composable its usage would be, not your ability to n
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Is Scribd under any legal obligation to display content that users upload? I cannot find any in the Terms of Use. I did find some terms that allow Scribd to remove content for any reason and terms which purport to limit any remedy for such
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by 3xblah 8y ago
What if it was a compile-time option? If those capable were compiling and sharing versions of Firefox without some of these "features", perhaps some users might be interested. Bias/ignorance: I like to use smaller software
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"According to the lawsuit by Maritz Holdings, investigators also determined that the "attackers were accessing the Maritz system using accounts registered to Cognizant. For example, in April 2017, someone using a Cognizant account
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Has been over ten years since email address no longer valid; still waiting to be "locked out".
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Can someone use a throwaway e-mail address to sign up for Facebook? Once the e-mail address is validated, is there any further need for a valid e-mail address to continue using FB? Historical fact: Going back to the days when a university
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"The facts are clear: we've never sold people's data." - Paul Grewal, VP and Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Facebook Yeah, but that is not what is being alleged. What is being alleged is that you sell access to people's dat
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by 3xblah 8y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20190415214511/https://krebsonsec...
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by 3xblah 8y ago
In the first case the term "two party" is describing a defence (consent). Defences may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so the term might be useful in highlighting those differences. In the second case the term ("assa
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by 3xblah 8y ago
I think what you mean to say is that you live in an "all party consent" jurisdiction. "Two party consent" would imply that if there are more than two parties then only the consent of two of them is needed.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
You might be interested in this: https://www.crowdtangle.com/privacy The company's clients include many news publications like Buzzfeed. This company is part of Facebook.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Any idea of the reasoning behind that choice?
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12542782 AMP is search engine "paid placement" reborn. The "payment" is letting Google serve the pages and do the user tracking.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Damn you, xXNinja_420Xx.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"To that end, today we are releasing a list of DOH requirements, available on the Mozilla wiki, that we will use to vet potential resolvers for Firefox. The requirements focus on three areas: 1) limiting data collection and retention f
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Add in anonymity, and it's just disgusting," Torvalds said. "When you don't even put your real name on your garbage (or the garbage you share or like), it really doesn't help." Except when you see people
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Further down in this thread you claim that if Facebook were to delay live streams made to "Public" it would mean "the death of every social media company". That seems a bit "sensationalist". I think that really
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"A HTML standard called hyperlink auditing that allows sites to track link clicks is enabled by default on Safari, Chrome, Opera, and Microsoft Edge, but will soon have no way to disable it." With "standards" like these,
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Yes. In retrospect we could argue eventually those people discovered the "open web" but with Facebook it is deja vu.
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Imagine if in 1993 someone proposed that the majority of web usage, i.e. the hours spent, would occur on one website. Imagine no need for email; all communications could be published on and retrieved from a single website. All eyeballs on t
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by 3xblah 8y ago
The original use of "stack" as a metaphor in programming should trace to assembly language, but I do not see any mention of that here. I would guess the people who have transformed the term into a "buzzword" are not w
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by 3xblah 8y ago
Imagine setting the agenda on a per reader basis. Newspapers set the agenda for their entire audience. Facebook sets the agenda for each personally identifiable reader, or specific groups of readers. Facebook tracks what each one reads, w
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Facebook is a website..." That is exactly right. I have no idea what "platform" means, but I know what "website" means. (Or "endpoint".) Facebook was not always in the "news" business. T
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Zuckerberg deserves a hearing, but it's rarely a good idea to outsource regulation to the enterprise that most needs to be regulated." This sentence implies there are instances (albeit "rare") when it is a good ide
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9736710 (Not implying anything, just providing a discussion point.)
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"Let's acknowledge that many corners of the consumer VPN industry are really awful so it's a reasonable question whether we have some ulterior motive. That many VPN companies pretend to keep your data private and then sell it
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by 3xblah 8y ago
https://amp.ft.com/content/1091cf20-5209-11e9-b401-8d9ef1626... Make sure you have javascript disabled or use "reader mode" Or delete the AMP CSS in developer tools or use a browser that does not support CSS
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by 3xblah 8y ago
It is an inevitable byproduct of a world that has access to a free copy/fax machine where anyone can re produce anything that can be digitized and the whole world can receive a copy. The "sameness" makes the technical burden
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by 3xblah 8y ago
"The rules governing the Internet allowed a generation of entrepreneurs to build services that changed the world and created a lot of value in people's lives." Shouldn't "generation" be plural? It seems like h

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