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by Iv 7y ago
2FA is more secure than 1FA as it takes more efforts to break. It is enough for many people, but targets that are worth the money and risk of bribing a phone company's employees may need additional security. Breakable != useless.
692.
by Iv 7y ago
What tells you there is nothing to gain? I was probably the only one to consider Google a degree above other GAFA companies because for a long time it resisted Chinese censorship and refused to give away access to the gmail account of Chine
693.
by Iv 7y ago
Yes, all these 4 statements would fall under hate speech laws in France. And yes, people have tried to turn these prejudice into eloquent pages with precise terminology or into stand up comedy and have been shut down for it. Shockingly, Fra
694.
by Iv 7y ago
It is a bad ruling that is often used in EU to show how fucked up the US system is. No, "speech" is something, that you can argue extend to written declarations and publications, but "paying someone to support their actions&q
695.
by Iv 7y ago
The most important and informative website on the internet, Wikipedia, is free of advertisements. Before Youtube, we were sharing files directly. There was far more content online!
696.
by Iv 7y ago
Then hack this: from now on, saying good things about a product or a brand in exchange of a retribution will be classified as corruption.
697.
by Iv 7y ago
Don't forbid to say good things about a product, forbid paying someone to do it. I don't mind Apple fanboys saying why they think Steve Jobs was a genius. I mind the big fucking 5m ads they put on historical monuments.
698.
by Iv 7y ago
For a bit longer than slavery or smallpox has existed. Saying a thing always existed is a pretty bad argument to keep it alive.
699.
by Iv 7y ago
Uh... you just have to press the right arrow to get out of the code block when you type. Seriously, that's not even one more key press, that's just pressing "right" instead of `
700.
by Iv 7y ago
They keyword is "purely". Technology can enable a political will and can create an opportunity for change, but if the political will goes in one direction, no amount of tech will be able to resist it forever. We could ban ads easi
701.
by Iv 7y ago
I think ads are very close to corruption. "Did you receive compensation to say good things about this product?" Yes: corruption. No: you're clear.
702.
by Iv 7y ago
> We’re seeing it already. Many if not most news sites are pay gating their once free content. Cite: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The New Yorker. All charge for access. All we’re free before the proliferation of ad blockers. See?
703.
by Iv 7y ago
I'm in favor of banning ads everywhere. I think they provide a negative overall value on the economy by distorting competition and consumers' perception.
704.
by Iv 7y ago
Browser and IP fingerprinting are already good enough to pinpoint you.
705.
by Iv 7y ago
Forbid advertisements. We can't solve a political problem with purely technical solutions. We can provide workarounds for 5 to 10 years but the core problem has to be shut down at one point.
706.
by Iv 7y ago
Well it won't work on games that are designed around the reflex of players. Unless they somehow provide an EEG on the primal motor cortex, which I would be very happy to see :-)
707.
by Iv 7y ago
But they won't protect you from US taxes, they won't protect you from Putin's probes, from EU sanctions or from anti-terrorism laws. Switzerland's haven status was shot down by the GWB administration, and Cyprus surprise
708.
by Iv 7y ago
Wherever there are catholic priests, you'll find latin speakers. That's certainly a plus, though I really think that English surpassed its spread in so many ways. The global English we, non-native, use is a simplified one. It is i
709.
by Iv 7y ago
Latin has been the language of erudite and priests but most of middle age had different languages used as trade linguo. The common latin root of many probably helped though.
710.
by Iv 7y ago
Because managing tax havens is a very small part of the sector in number of employees.
711.
by Iv 7y ago
There is a theory saying that Brexit campaign was financed by the people afraid of the EU banking transparency laws, that would threaten many UK-based tax havens.
712.
by Iv 7y ago
I could see playing RTS or tactical RPGs, but it is a very poor idea to propose FPS. It is already hard to have a reactive system locally, proposing remotely is. You need to react in 16ms if you want a snappy 60Hz. 1000 km from the server i
713.
by Iv 7y ago
If Google does banking, it has to obey to banking regulations. Like you say, the banks ignore the regulators, shortcut the recourse and the alternatives, really, are all equally awful.
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by Iv 7y ago
Sure.
715.
by Iv 7y ago
And I must say, it is bitter to have been called paranoid for years for saying US would extradite him. Or for talking about ECHELON for years and see it go from "you are crazy" to "everyone knows every country does that"
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by Iv 7y ago
Thing is, someone, at one point, needs to check the source. Also, most potential whistleblower are not privacy experts and need help. Assange wanted to be in that role, that is necessarily public. He did many bad things (especially uncoveri
717.
by Iv 7y ago
When you belong to a franchise, capitalism becomes indentured servitude and any rule goes.
718.
by Iv 7y ago
Spotting the starting point is easy, but I doubt even a human can order the text correctly without taking cues from the textual information. It is indeed doable, calling it obvious is what I react to :-)
719.
by Iv 7y ago
I think Google can be awful and still fare better than most regular banks.
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by Iv 7y ago
Fight against pedophilia has always been one of the common excuses (the other being terrorism) used to install spying devices everywhere, even despite very few actual organizations that fight the problem actually asking for such things. I w

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