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by austerity 11y ago
I've recently spent two months trying to get a code signing cert from Comodo (same validation process as EV) for a completely legit real business and ultimately failed. The whole experience sucked beyond belief.
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by austerity 11y ago
That's just not true. It changes exactly nothing in the amount of guarantees provided by a DV cert. They guarantee that you are communicating with the domain you think you are communicating with and that there is no man in the middle.
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by austerity 11y ago
Is there a reason to believe such case would have a chance of succeeding? I thought DMCA clearly protects the ISP as long as they forward the complaints to the offending customer?
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by austerity 11y ago
I wonder what's in it for them? Sending an email should be enough to comply with DMCA. Are they paid by some copyright groups or just being a pushover?
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by austerity 11y ago
Also that would probably greatly simplify key management as opposed to having 10 apps all wanting you to use their own mechanism every time you move to another device. Unfortunately so far things are moving in the opposite direction. After
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by austerity 11y ago
Somewhat. However there are some marginal benefits such as SSL supporting stronger encryption than what Tor provides, availability of extended validation and the browser being aware of the encryption (secure cookies, same-origin policy, et
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by austerity 11y ago
Government engages in mass surveillance against its citizens and the only one getting in any trouble whatsoever is the whistleblower who made it publicly known. Checks and balances at work. How anyone can say with a straight face that Snowd
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by austerity 11y ago
I was merely using an example that seemed relevant to this community. The point is someone has decided to use his time to the benefit of others. It seems to me that the fair reward in this case should be proportional to the benefit produced
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by austerity 11y ago
No. I am saying I don't see what it means for this advantage to be fair or unfair.
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by austerity 11y ago
Even without the author's counterargument the assertion that one's genetics is an unfair advantage strikes me as absurd. Your genetics is not something you've got, but literally a part of what you are . Questioning whether o
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by austerity 11y ago
Why do you think punishing the advertisers is any better? They seem to be even less deserving of it.
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by austerity 11y ago
Why do people who use the "face the consequences of his actions" argument consider it so self-evident? Accepting an unjust punishment for your good deeds isn't somehow more noble than escaping it. And not just an unjust punis
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by austerity 11y ago
I've read my share of stuff on SSRI discontinuation, not in the last because I was experiencing it first hand . My point stands. Nothing you mentioned constitutes an addiction. > Also lack of craving is a ridiculous justification f
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by austerity 11y ago
> Drug dependency on SSRI's is a very real thing - I honestly don't see how its any better than an opiate addiction. Where are you getting this from? Withdrawal syndrome is a minor component in any real addition and is nothing
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by austerity 12y ago
People looking to set up their own VPN server are missing the point. Your run-off-the-mill hoster is not any more trustworthy than a run-off-the-mill VPN provider so you aren't gaining anything security-wise. In fact you are losing (sl
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by austerity 12y ago
Google customer support is designed to discourage you from using using customer support. I guess that's true for many companies, but Google is excelling at making it a torture.
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by austerity 12y ago
I am not a native speaker FWIW but "upper" is exactly what I wanted to say. My point was that if you replace football with golf and working class with upper class the whole idea of cultivating interest in sport to fit with some so
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by austerity 12y ago
I cultivated interest in golf to build rapport with the upper class. That didn't sound right, did it? Now is there any real difference between that and what the author is saying? I don't see one.
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by austerity 12y ago
They are very clear and upfront about it and there are many cases where their simplest offering (the one with no encryption behind edge server) is good enough.
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by austerity 12y ago
Have you just compared Comcast to KKK? The reason you don't understand my argument after reinterpreting it is because you have for some reason excluded a few important words from it: "inherently", "should" (as in &q
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by austerity 12y ago
> Aren't organizations built for maximizing profits inherently on a lower moral ground than non-profit organizations[1]? No, certainly not inherently. Even if we define moral ground as the degree of altruism of motives (which is way
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by austerity 12y ago
Imperfect as it is, money is the best available measurement of usefulness of a product or service to other people. There's nothing wrong with doing useless things for the hell of it, but attempting to put it on a morally high ground is
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by austerity 12y ago
So she was already reading while driving and then started reading compulsively. That's some serious book addiction. I'm an exact opposite of the author: can never pick a book because of fear it won't be "worth my time&
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by austerity 12y ago
I don't understand your analogy to medical service. Surely I can assess the quality of taxi service I just received to the highest degree imaginable. And we now have fantastic systems in place to spread this information (e.g. Yelp, Fac
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by austerity 12y ago
Why should I care about the relative wealth of the rich instead of absolute wealth of the poor?
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by austerity 12y ago
Ireland - everyone speaks English as their first language, but Irish is mandatory in schools Belarus - everyone speaks Russian, but Belorussian is mandatory in schools Ukraine - a vast number of people (maybe not majority but too many to be
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by austerity 12y ago
With regard to the first argument, the author's virtual opponent explicitly states that it's about voluntarily abandoning one's "native" language. Of course no one should ever be forced to do that. As for the second
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by austerity 12y ago
If I read the article correctly the author says he came to believe the idea of language defining/affecting worldview is false or at least unproven.
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by austerity 12y ago
It's a rather shallow statement really. Without efficiency life becomes about hard work in the field from sunrise till sunset.
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by austerity 12y ago
I've never argued for forced assimilation and nor did "the man in the back row". And there definitely shouldn't be any group in charge with a power to decide that. What I'm arguing against is forced preservation in

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