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by brainfire 9y ago
Note this is Verizon Wireless, the cell service company - not Verizon Fios, the home ISP company. They are both under Verizon Communications, but as far as I can tell this "test" only affected wireless customers.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Related bug- OpenOffice can't print on Tuesdays: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161... Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
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by brainfire 9y ago
Because it provides a useful service- for the first five or so minutes of a visit anyway.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Yes, although I'm not sure if there's any reason to.
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by brainfire 9y ago
I use the Tor browser for just Facebook. Stymies IP tracking, and I expect it to do more of the right things to deal with fingerprinting too. Plus it's super slow, encouraging me to not spend too much time on Facebook...
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by brainfire 9y ago
No, this thread is about shadow copies being turned on by default.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Can you explain why you think working with men (but not working with women) makes it difficult for women to socialize with each other?
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by brainfire 9y ago
Perhaps it's less "fine, I won't use it anymore if you don't sue" and more "I've decided to stop advertising your service for free on my website regardless of the outcome of this," and Zillow deciding
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by brainfire 9y ago
They already did that, and web "developers" did not do the work. The period in which Google incentivized faster page loads was the period of some of the worst page bloat growth.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Including people who waste your time is not a productive activity.
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by brainfire 9y ago
There are exceptions now to the length rule - URLs don't count, @names don't count. I would guess that means they've ripped that code all out.
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by brainfire 9y ago
It's hosted on Medium and that's the app it's talking about. I still don't know why anyone would do that though. I was confused by this a while back on the Slack engineering blog - "why would I want to open this in
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by brainfire 9y ago
There's a difference between a quick slaughter for food and torturing something to death for fun.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Yup, it's awful. But it's not some nefarious new trap to steal all your data- this has been needlessly difficult for a decade.
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by brainfire 9y ago
It's pretty basic Windows GPO knowledge. Lots of them work this way.
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by brainfire 9y ago
This community has a lot of web developers in it. Your browser is their computer.
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by brainfire 9y ago
RT is owned and primarily funded by the Russian government. NPR receives around 2% of its funding from the US government.
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by brainfire 9y ago
The current version of the Puppet documentation all appears to be for the enterprise product. Our team just evaluated the three and easily found Puppet to have the worst documentation for starting out with the free edition.
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by brainfire 9y ago
On the other hand, the only audio format I'm aware of Apple inventing in the last 20 years is royalty-free and available under the Apache license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
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by brainfire 9y ago
What do you mean by "degraded"? Does anyone else have this problem?
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by brainfire 9y ago
So how many journals and forums do you subscribe to in order to find out what the programs installed on your computer are doing?
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by brainfire 9y ago
There are possible reputational effects if they're linked to your current identity somehow.
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by brainfire 9y ago
It doesn't get much more mainstream than "rides mass transit" in an urban area...
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by brainfire 9y ago
Pure shameless FUD.
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by brainfire 9y ago
I may just be missing a joke here, but this isn't true.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Suddenly I understand why the comments on these articles tend to be so hostile.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Fair- matches my experiences (seems to me it only flags a drive at the point where it's physically clicking or otherwise very dead) but they specifically asked for a SMART monitoring tool.
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by brainfire 9y ago
What do you want to do exactly? Windows will log and give a pop-up if a disk SMART status indicates it's failing.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Eugenics is applying your idea of genetic fitness to other people. Reproductive treatments are applying your idea of genetic fitness to yourself. Seems clear to me why the former is "bad" and the latter is not.
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by brainfire 10y ago
Government employees are actually more free in this case- the first amendment means they can't be fired for their non-official speech where it would be fine for a company to fire them.

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