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by aes256 14y ago
The value of Internet (pseudo-)anonymity is not limited to the big, headline-grabbing incidents. It underlies almost all the original content posted on the Internet. Simply put, if you had to attach your real life identity to everything you
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by aes256 14y ago
We are talking about controversial content. The content on /r/creepshots was not, generally speaking, illegal. I cannot fathom any way in which it was harmful. I'm sure you will disagree on this latter point, and I will be very interested t
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by aes256 14y ago
Since when did people need consent to post pictures they took, legally, of people in public, where these people have no expectation of privacy, then post them on the Internet with words to the effect of "I find this person physically attrac
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by aes256 14y ago
You were seeking to draw a comparison between posting controversial content and doxxing, stating there is no "intellectual clarity" in the Internet steadfastly defending the former while rebuking the latter. I provided that intellectual cla
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by aes256 14y ago
/r/creepshots was almost exclusively photos of women, very few of whom were obviously underage, in public places. The extent to which these photos were "sexually suggestive" was largely in control of the women concerned. If you're going to
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by aes256 14y ago
What are you referring to here? /r/creepshots had nothing to do with compromising photos of children. At a stretch, /r/jailbait and the associated subreddits may have, but reddit took the decision to ban those a long time ago. It makes perf
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by aes256 14y ago
You are grossly misrepresenting the nature of the content posted on /r/creepshots here. Your description of "sexually-suggestive photographs of underage girls" is way off the mark.
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by aes256 14y ago
This is Internet Culture 101. The Internet is a bastion of free speech. Under the guise of pseudo-anonymity, people are free to post whatever content they see fit, and people on the receiving end generally understand that it's just the Inte
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by aes256 14y ago
Well yes, my point is that you can draw the line in any number of places. Even if we were to agree upon your definition — and there are many different, conflicting definitions of 'mental illness' — what constitutes a significant impact on q
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by aes256 14y ago
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle those with debilitating mental illnesses. I simply don't like the view many seem to hold that mental illness is black and white; you have a mental illness or you don't.
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by aes256 14y ago
I don't really like the term 'mental illness', not so much because of the stigma attached to it, but because the term implies there is some 'normal' from which only a small subsection of the population deviates. In reality, there is no 'nor
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by aes256 14y ago
Ditto. The preview from the iPhone 5 presentation looked really promising. The pace (or lack thereof) of iTunes development has been really frustrating over the past few years. There are so many little bugs that just don't get fixed. They e
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by aes256 14y ago
> I agree with the principle that trial should be where the crime is committed but this isn't a clear cut case for that criteria and there is in my view a strong argument that the crime took place in the US (the computers he misused we
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by aes256 14y ago
This is pretty much what the Speaker does. The Speaker knows most of the MPs personally, knows where their expertise lies, whether they will have something valuable to add to the debate, etc. Generally speaking, it works.
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by aes256 14y ago
Fair enough. In its present state I just don't see gov.uk adding much value to users beyond collating fairly mundane information in one place with a nice interface. It's nice, but I can't see any reason I'd find myself using the site. If I
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by aes256 14y ago
This doesn't really 'replace' Directgov. At least, it doesn't yet. Look at the most active searches on the site. Top of the list is the JobCentre Plus job search. All gov.uk does is link you to the existing JobCentre Plus website on Directg
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by aes256 14y ago
Maybe I've been out of the game too long, but $1/Mbps sounds very low. Last time I looked into it (one or two years ago) you could only get bargain bucket bandwidth approaching those prices, with fairly crumby providers. I'm assuming Amazon
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by aes256 14y ago
> It's not puritanism, as at least that had some moral basis. This is plain totalitarianism under a fascist banner. The associated forms of indoctrination and the inevitable propaganda makes people think they should be offended when th
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by aes256 14y ago
Microsoft have a history of banning consoles, and once they're banned there is no way of getting them running on Live again. Every now and then a big wave of console bans comes along and eBay is filled with people flogging their banned cons
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by aes256 14y ago
In addition to the cases you mention, in the past month alone we have also had a man given a community sentence for posting that British soldiers in Afghanistan "should die and go to hell", and a man arrested for creating a Facebook group p
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by aes256 14y ago
Perhaps someone more experienced can enlighten me; does this really constitute fair use under US copyright law? Also, even if it meets the requirements for fair use in the US, is this project not still wide open to copyright infringement cl
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by aes256 14y ago
Failure rates are still likely to be low (<5% per annum) I've only ever bought five external drives in my lifetime. Incidentally, all of them have been "shucked" over the years, and none of them have failed. They vary from 3-5 years old
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by aes256 14y ago
Obviously I'm no expert on aviation fuels, I'm just trying to make an equivalent (most probably fictional) scenario for the industry. In this case internal drives are ordinary aviation fuel, external drives are the alternative fuel, the pri
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by aes256 14y ago
This was a one-off event that I'm sure the hard drive manufacturers themselves will be taking steps to prevent reoccurring. What else can Backblaze do? Stockpile drives? The hard drive industry moves fast, with major product releases every
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by aes256 14y ago
They may have different branding or model numbers, but in terms of technical specifications they are no different to internal drives.
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by aes256 14y ago
The post struck me as slightly unprofessional, but from a technical standpoint I don't see anything that would change my opinion of the service they provide. They achieve the best bang for buck by using ordinary consumer hard drives in RAID
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by aes256 14y ago
I guess that is the strategy they are playing, but I can't help thinking Spotify are going to be in a weak position no matter how large they are. Fundamentally, the service they offer is not particularly difficult to replicate. They take mu
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by aes256 14y ago
> It's probably difficult to recruit teenage goths and turn them into good narcs. It's easy. Bust a teenager for possession of narcotics, then offer them a choice between years behind bars, and acting as an informant busting drug deal
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by aes256 14y ago
> Spotify could break even by increasing their prices/fees by 25% or by reducing their overhead by the same amount. It's not obvious this is the case. If the record companies see Spotify increasing their revenue, they may just demand
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by aes256 14y ago
It's just "bleh" The visual focus of the page is a carousel of bland stock images. A smiling person on a laptop representing Office, a group of people climbing a mountain to represent Visual Studio. A crass waste of space. Everything betwee

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