blueskin_

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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   Typing "cheap broadband uk" into a search engine will definitely not get you quality, just the pile-em-high bottom-grade ISPs who profit from having massive contention and passing off Indian call centres reading off a script as &#
2. 1142.▲
   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   ID cards were always thoroughly unpopular and AFAIK never saw anything even near majority support (indeed, generally opposed by a significant majority). I never heard of any 'volunteering' to get your DNA added, unless you mean vi
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   I'll believe all this 'post PC' hype when I see it. Sure, a phone works as a dumb Facebook/youtube/Gmail terminal, and yes, for many users, that's all they need, (or perhaps a chromebook for the form factor and
4. 1144.▲
   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   Daniel Lapin, although sometimes falsely attributed to Hitler.
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   2c2 by Michal Zalewski ( http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ ) is a theoretical exercise in this, but probably not safe for real use.
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   >Where is the consumer remote desktop via browser+SSL that doesn't rely on a US hosted cloud service? The one you host on your own infrastructure?
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   I would assume they could make it lucrative enough by charging for renting the space above their lines. Maybe it would improve the dire service quality and pricing of the railways a bit.
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   I prefer putting that the other way: Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence. Practically government operations in a nutshell.
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   by blueskin_ 13y ago

   ...as well as about 4 proxies out of thousands. Censorship never works because it's so easy to turn it onto a game of whack-a-mole with next to no money and effort even aside from all the other flaws.
10. 1150.▲
    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    "As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    All mobile networks have this censorship, but it was easy to opt out of, and the censorship is very sloppily implemented (for me, changing DNS servers or using any trivial proxy bypassed it before I opted out).
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    The other WTF BT did is implying being gay/lesbian is a 'lifestyle choice'.
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    In London, there are two fake houses covering where an Underground line runs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster_Gardens Satellite view: http://www.urban75.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    #2 is the most important in that list.
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    Chef is a bad bet if you don't want unnecessary complexity - it's practically designed to be unnecessarily complex.
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    This is one of many reasons why, if a service only supports facebook/linkedin/twitter/gmail/whatever login, I do a Tab Closed; Didn't Read on it.
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    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    I've heard from others that the passwords are stored in plaintext and viewable by support too, at least at some ISPs. Now combine that with the typical user's tendency towards password reuse...
18. 1158.▲
    by blueskin_ 13y ago

    Appears to be back.