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by blueskin_ 12y ago
The latest one is hardly worse than the others. Sure, it's bad if you use instagram, but I have zero interest in sharing photos of my lunch with crappy filters on it, and IIRC that's the key change this time. Meanwhile, google add
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Just disable Google Now. Problem solved.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Wow, that's some bad usability there. Talk about chasing the shiny over form and function. Javascript pages are the 'Flash site' of the 2010s and I can't wait until it's similarly consigned to its rightful place i
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Because it was designed to give undue influence to fringe parties. Real electoral reform would be proportional representation.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
>The lawsuit was not regarding plagiarism I didn't see the word plagiarism mentioned anywhere. That's overused, and means presenting someone else's work as your own , not ripping someone off by basing something on their
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Good luck to that guy. A lot of lawsuits over movie plots seem to be frivolous and I've supported the film company more than once, but that one seems to be the exception to the rule.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Oh great, more bloat and potential vulns. Anyone got a way to disable it yet?
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Still accessible == still not secure.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
If they're not on your network, yes (as they should be). If someone plugs a wireless router into your office ethernet, go ahead.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
That's as much of a token gesture/joke as Pol Pot's Cambodia calling itself 'Democratic', or the first amendment in the US. Argentina's constitution says they own the Falkland Islands, yet they don't eithe
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Also true, although Obama shares the blame for having promised to close it down and not doing so.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
On linux, tc can do similar things, such as dropping a percentage of packets or adding random delays. http://linux.die.net/man/8/tc
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Majority muslim nation, cult of personality, widespread corruption, oppressive government, evidence of rigged elections, suppression of free speech. Seems clear-cut to me.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Did we ever know? I will concede that it was good for the random user doing some casual internet use while watching TV before phones got big enough for that, but I would contest if it ever had a single unique use other than that even at lau
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
> I still find the supposition that Facebook was supposed to defy a court order hilarious. Yes, I understand it's a court order from Turkey, not America, but you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply bec
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
If you carry out the request of an oppressive government, you are as much a part of it as the people physically performing atrocities. Facebook should be ashamed of themselves.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Doesn't even need an article. Year 1: Apple fans buy it because they always buy everything apple sells. Year 2: Some other rich people buy it, because they were shown it by apple fans. Year 3: People buy it because other tablets aren&#
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Steal even more of your personal data, I'm sure.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
That's been on my todo list for a long, long time...
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Doesn't work for me, thankfully. The funny thing is, I have enough different privacy and security addons that I don't even know which one is protecting me here (best bet is possibly NoScript, even though I allowed scripts on that
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Why does Cuba still have oppressive policies such as banning internet access if they want the US to stop enforcing sanctions on them? Seems the change should be both ways to me. Such a shame that each seems to want the other to act first, w
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Wow, that's messed up. Might as well have a big "burglary decoy" sign above that door too. Something makes me think letting agents have trouble getting the same price for that flat...
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
That's why relying on a single link for anything is a bad idea - if a system is known to use a landline, it's trivial, especially as in most parts of the US phone lines are aboveground, to cut the phone line before breaking in.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
It's possible to configure most motion sensors to not detect pets by adjusting the height they scan at and/or their sensitivity (most say they won't detect pets under a certain weight). Not to mention that if there is any e
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
The first can be countered with a system that uses mobile as a primary or backup. Some systems, e.g. alarm.com ones send a signal to the monitoring centre when an entry door is opened, then if no disarm signal is sent (e.g. the control pane
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Both muslims and their western apologists have such huge issues over it, that anything critical at all including the most highly legitimate comments or use of any form of parody at all is immediately decried as 'racist' (even thou
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Bowing to tyranny makes you a part of that same tyranny. Still, it's facebook, so I'm not exactly surprised.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Thanks; have added a disclaimer on that quote.
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
Nothing about the singularity specifically requires creative AI; indeed, a large part of it is enhancing the existing potential of humans ; replacing them outright is not necessarily the case. As it is, an article titled about AI and creat
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by blueskin_ 12y ago
It's a self-contained website. Browsers these days are so bloated that I would be surprised if it didn't lag.

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