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4m TalkTalk customers’ details may have been stolen in latest breach(thenextweb.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
But you keep explicitly telling people not to do this?
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GCHQ can monitor MPs' communications, court rules(theguardian.com)
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If those companies can't remain profitable without being irresponsible with sensitive private data then maybe they shouldn't exist at all.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Social care isn't part of the NHS budget, it's delivered through local authorities who are facing massive cuts.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Are you being deliberately obtuse? Austerity is a macroeconomic policy, and its presence or not is identified in macroeconomic indicators (e.g. government spending as a percentage of GDP). I would have thought that was obvious. The relevanc
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by anon1385 11y ago
Austerity is a macroeconomic thing. I've not seen any definition of austerity that states or implies that it has to affect everybody equally, or that all people have to be negatively affected. So it makes little sense to argue that it
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by anon1385 11y ago
Where is the evidence for "The UK welfare model has succeded in creating a generation completely dependent on the government"?
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CloudFlare Route leak(cloudflarestatus.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
Perhaps, but the GPL licensing of this code isn't a barrier to them doing that, since most of them will be running web services that can use GPL code freely without having to release the rest of their code. If it was AGPL then maybe yo
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Apple doesn't have a problem with the GPLv2, but doesn't touch the GPLv3 because of the patent clauses that it contains It's not the patent clauses that are the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by anon1385 11y ago
Is there any evidence that the author will sell commercial licences? Other comments are describing him as a strong proponent of free software, so it seems very unlikely that he is interested in selling proprietary licences.
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by anon1385 11y ago
I would be very surprised if Firefox added support. They have been very reluctant to include any additional image formats that weren't developed by Mozilla employees. See for example WebP and Jpeg2000. Their reasons being things like a
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by anon1385 11y ago
The point is that 'more features' isn't necessarily better[1], so no list of html5 feature support is going to tell you much about how 'good' a browser is. [1] case in point: the misfeature we are discussing in this
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by anon1385 11y ago
A 'sending mechanism' property on the email object that defaults to SMTP?
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by anon1385 11y ago
>How many uses native applications for reading email today? Most people with a phone?
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by anon1385 11y ago
Well yes, that's what an ad blocker does. But a lot of people believe ad blockers are unethical.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239962 (119 comments)
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by anon1385 11y ago
Google ads are often actively malicious to the user. For example it was the case for a very long time that if you searched for 'firefox' on Google the ad at the top of the results would take you to a site offering downloads of fir
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by anon1385 11y ago
I don't think trymas was suggesting that €20 is too much to pay for a piece of software, but that it is too much to pay for software that you have not been able to evaluate at all first.
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by anon1385 11y ago
>And yes, I know that you will be consulting with addon authors about api functionality, but i guarantee tons of stuff is still going to be lost... Not to mention all the potential extensions that nobody has thought up yet that will no l
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by anon1385 11y ago
That's the logic the blog author is using. As you can see in the bit of the article I quoted. I didn't say I necessarily agree with their analysis of this still being the same bug. The fact that they mentioned it a couple of times
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by anon1385 11y ago
I sympathise with your point, but one complicating factor is that when big security vulnerabilities like Stagefright are found a lot of people then turn their attention to that code. Either finding other issues in the same code, or that the
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Deadline exceeded – automatically derestricting >The flaw was initially reported over 120 days ago to Google, which exceeds even their own 90-day disclosure deadline. It always seemed likely that Google's hubris[1] would come ba
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by anon1385 11y ago
> the fact that he's doing it serves as an existence proof that this kind of life is achievable Real life lottery winners prove that winning the lottery is achievable. That doesn't make playing the lottery good financial advice
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by anon1385 11y ago
Did you apply to the correct comment? Your post doesn't make much sense. We are talking about standards not code. Code is an implementation of the standard, and the license of the code is irrelevant to the status of the standard. Forki
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by anon1385 11y ago
Why is that odd? It is pretty much a textbook example of a proprietary standard. Here are some definitions of "proprietary" as used by members of the FOSS community when talking about standards: https://news.ycombinator
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In the case of neonicotinoids and honeybees recent research suggests it disrupts their ability to navigate back to the hive: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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by anon1385 11y ago
I'm not in the US but this seems to be the biggest study there http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6127/1611 >Using historic data sets, we quantified the degree to which global change over 120 years
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by anon1385 11y ago
Because honeybees are just one of many pollinating insects whose numbers are falling dramatically. They just happen to get talked about a lot in the press because there are people with a direct economic interest in them.

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