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by billybob 15y ago
Here's a more in-depth description of the problem. http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
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by billybob 15y ago
You use vi on a smartphone? I love vim, but I think it would be excruciating without a full keyboard.
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by billybob 15y ago
You seem to be saying "simple sites are better and will continue to work longer." That may be true. Sites built for IE6 aren't necessarily that, though. They may be using ActiveX for "cool" functionality that stopped being cool years ago. I
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by billybob 15y ago
Excellent points. There is a place for laws to prevent discrimination. Just like a restaurant can't refuse me service because of my race, a registrar shouldn't be able to refuse me a domain name because of my political views. We need laws
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by billybob 15y ago
"direct competition with a corporation like Facebook or Google is virtually impossible..." Even if that's true, it doesn't follow that those corporations MUST do what we want. I can't realistically build my own car, but it doesn't follow th
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by billybob 15y ago
Absolutely it is user content that make them successful. But Google doesn't "need" to do anything unless users force them to need to. Meaning, if their complaints aren't answered, leave.
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by billybob 15y ago
Ok, good point. Voicing disagreement is healthy. I just often see these kinds of stories turn into discussions about "free speech", and I'm trying to head that off. I have a right (in the USA) to say whatever I want (barring clear and prese
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by billybob 15y ago
"It makes me so sad to see the increase in 'nanny' behavior." Do you dislike it enough to join or start a competing service? That's really the only response that matters. Google doesn't have to justify how they run their site. They offer a
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by billybob 15y ago
I'm going to take the contrarian stance: Google+ belongs to Google. They can censor it however they want. You don't like it? Build your own web site. I'm serious: do it. The Internet was built to be free an non-centralized. Your profile on
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by billybob 15y ago
I can't see how unions are good for anybody. They certainly seem to have crippled GM for a long time. If the workers force the company into unreasonable levels of benefits, it falters and they eventually lose their jobs. I'm all for fair pl
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by billybob 15y ago
So you're trying to protect the pigs?
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by billybob 15y ago
Another great way to "improve your credit" is to save. If you show up to buy a house with a 50% down payment, which you saved in your interest-bearing money market fund, I bet that payment will more than make up for a lack of credit history
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by billybob 15y ago
I have a small fantasy of somehow forcing a company to agree to MY terms and conditions. "By accepting this payment, you agree that..."
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by billybob 15y ago
I use the Solarized theme in Vim and find it's very nice: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized It has a dark version, which I use for coding, and which I think works better with syntax highlighting. It also has a light version, which I li
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by billybob 15y ago
"The main requirement for being able to [create a Sovereign Key] is that the requesting party controls a CA-signed certificate for the relevant domain, or uses a DNSSEC-signed key to show that they control that domain". I don't quite unders
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by billybob 15y ago
Holy cow. Your weird support examples make me want to cry.
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't think "Cold War" is a good description. They are actively fighting for market share, not sitting still, threatening to fight.
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by billybob 15y ago
"A graphic designer was violently murdered today by someone who had used her web site. The killer reportedly said that he 'didn't like the layout' and that this alone was enough to prompt him to bludgeon the designer to death. She leaves be
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by billybob 15y ago
True, but as long as no browser is really dominant, few sites will be coded to use browser-specific APIs. You don't want to cut out 2/3 of your users, after all.
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by billybob 15y ago
I quit Facebook recently. Besides the fact that I don't trust Facebook to know everything about me, my main motivation is that I don't think it's about real friendship . The Facebook mentality is "many friends". But one has limited atten
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by billybob 15y ago
You're ascribing Facebook's tendencies to someone else. Why?
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by billybob 15y ago
Nice to see that Ron Paul voted against conducting these proceedings in secret. You know, I heard somebody on NPR saying about him, essentially, "he may come off as a bit kooky, but he's been very consistent with his principles." I'm starti
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by billybob 15y ago
"executing minors and the mentally retarded -> no health care for poor people who can't afford it, maybe they should be executed" I'm not necessarily against "health care for all", but those two things are not at all the same If society
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by billybob 15y ago
"you can bet that option gets turned on every time they release a new update" That's a rather unfair assumption.
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by billybob 15y ago
A footnote: AdBlock for Chrome is a completely different project created by Michael Gundlach (who also created AdBlock for Safari). I happen to know that he doesn't have any deal with advertisers; he just thinks that users should be able to
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by billybob 15y ago
It's nice to know the US is trying to fight the worldwide plague of internet censorship and monitoring, DNS spoofing, and unilateral site shutdowns. (cough cough SOPA cough cough DHS cough) Yes sir, freedom of speech, freedom from unreasona
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by billybob 15y ago
Definitely. And after you back up, do a SELECT, confirm you're seeing the correct records, and only then change the SELECT to a DELETE.
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What makes you think they've exhausted growth potential with consumers? What makes you think this isn't suitable for companies? I don't really see your point.
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by billybob 15y ago
"It’s all about leverage to him. He could write code, or he could help ten people write code. Or, he could help ten people manage ten people that write code. Or, he could help companies with ten engineering departments with ten people each
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by billybob 15y ago
Far be it from me to defend TV news - my print journalism professors used to love to point out now there's more info on the front page of a newspaper than in an hour of TV, and you can scan to the parts that interest you. TV news is 99% gar

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