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by anon1385 11y ago
I've been testing these kinds of searches every now and again for a few years now (and complaining about it on HN regularly). The malware ads are generally intermittent and won't show all of the time. That doesn't mean they d
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by anon1385 11y ago
They certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401
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by anon1385 11y ago
>At the moment users are mostly deciding that the risk is worth it. Users aren't making a conscious decision. Browser vendors are making the decision for them. Most people don't change the default settings, especially something
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by anon1385 11y ago
"Advanced" users would know how to turn off System Integrity Protection if they wanted. It makes absolutely no sense to downgrade OS X versions to avoid SIP. It's quicker to just disable SIP than to downgrade the OS.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Most of the "safe spaces" and "no platforming" debate is actually the same thing - leaving a place that you don't like. It's just that when a public figure like Peter Tachell is on the receiving end of it they
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by anon1385 11y ago
Many of the situations Fry is complaining about were actually people doing the exact same thing. e.g. just not showing up to a debate or lecture by a person that they don't want to engage with. When a random student decides not to atte
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How can we trust Google when it lets ads call the shots?(theguardian.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
FirefoxOS still exists. Anyway if we are criticising organisations for creating platforms that prevents switching browsers then I don't think FirefoxOS's failure to achieve any kind of market penetration should exonerate Mozilla.
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by anon1385 11y ago
>You mean "on iOS", not on mobile devices in general. Also on FirefoxOS and ChromeOS where third party browsers aren't possible at all.
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>Dispatched from and sold by Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oral-B-TriZone-Electric-Toothbrush-R... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oral-B-Precision-Clean-Toothbrush-Re... See the various reviews about them comi
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by anon1385 11y ago
There are categories of products on Amazon where the majority of the listings are counterfeit products. One could easily face returning a product 3 or four times before finding a listing that is what it claims to be (or before giving up and
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by anon1385 11y ago
> Start using AGPLv3 like you were supposed to for the better part of the last decade What if I care about freedom zero? AGPLv3 is incompatible with freedom zero. I'm not sure you can criticise other people for failing to care about
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by anon1385 11y ago
I'm not a climatologist but I don't think it puts us in unknown territory. You have to consider what the known influences on the system (e.g. volcanic eruptions, solar variation) have been doing and what the known internal cycles
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What conclusion have they made?
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Yes that data exists. No, urban effects don't account for much of the temperature rise. http://www.skepticalscience.com/urban-heat-island-effect.htm In the case of last month in particular a lot of the biggest anomalie
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by anon1385 11y ago
Those 29 years are just a baseline that's used by convention. You can pick whatever period you want to use as a baseline and it doesn't change the result (i.e. the absolute magnitude of the anomalies will change but not the relati
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February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount(theguardian.com)
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Senate bill will impose fines on tech companies that won't unlock smartphones(zdnet.com)
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by anon1385 11y ago
This is about an image format not a video format, so you probably mean WebP. WebP isn't supported in Firefox, Safari or IE, so it's not like Safari is the lone browser blocking new image formats.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Firefox is very conservative when it comes to image formats - more so than any of the other browsers.. See WebP[1], JPEG2000[2] and JPEG-XR[3]. I'd be very surprised if they supported this. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org&#
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by anon1385 11y ago
>why wouldn't some ad-tracking mechanism that's part of some apps simply collect everything it can and radio it back home? Because the vast majority of GUI software installed on Linux comes from curated app stores (or 'rep
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Adblocking is a 'modern-day protection racket', says UK culture secretary(theguardian.com)
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Historians: UK Government Is Stopping Us Writing About Spies and Royal Family(buzzfeed.com)
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Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation(usatoday.com)
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>Nobody actually thinks the US government will suddenly implement martial law, extrajudicial detention, or unsanctioned executions. The US government already does these things. It has even done some of those things to US citizens, althou
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1232911/Mother-leaps... >A pregnant woman jumped to her death while clutching her baby son after her benefits had been stopped, an inquest heard. Philosophy graduate Chri
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https://archive.is/qNa9T >An unemployed dad stabbed himself twice through the heart when his family faced losing their home to housing benefit cuts, an inquest heard. Desperate Richard Sanderson, 44, drew up meticulous s
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by anon1385 11y ago
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/coroners-ground-breakin... >A coroner has demanded that the government takes action to prevent future deaths of disability benefit claimants, after concluding in a “ground-breaking” i
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/09/david-c... >The coroner said that when David Clapson died he had no food in his stomach. Clapson’s benefits had been stopped as a result of missing
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/man-starved-t... >Mark Wood, 44, who had a number of complex mental health conditions, died at his home last August, months after an Atos fitness-for-wor

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