calcifer

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by calcifer 9y ago
Google holding a dominant position or a monopoly on search is not by itself illegal. However, using that position to gain entry in a different market (shopping, in this case) is considered anti-competitive and hence illegal.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Yeah, no. The fine is not paid to any commission, it goes to the EU budget and is taken off from the amount member states (hence, citizens) have to pay for that year.
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by calcifer 9y ago
I doubt the average user needs anything more than "as per EU regulations, your data will be deleted in X days" when they delete their account.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Ultra-conservative strains of Islam are big losers to the West's cultural influence You mean the same strains that have been repeatedly propped up [0] by the western powers? [0] http://flashbak.com/wp-content/
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by calcifer 9y ago
If "once" is a reasonable time (as defined by the regulation) then yes, I'd be satisfied.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> If Google abuses their power it is easier to correct course by forking Just like when Microsoft abused their position people immediately switched to non-IE browsers and IE was never heard of again, right?
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by calcifer 9y ago
Ah, "pre-owned"... The soft language [0] version of "secondhand". You see, poor people buy secondhand cars and ewww that's icky and definitely not meant for the temporarily embarrassed millionaires looking for a Tes
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by calcifer 9y ago
Yes you do, unfortunately. I had to allow scripts for t.co in NoScript for it to work.
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by calcifer 9y ago
Yeah, not really. With the current state of various spaceguard projects working on mapping NEOs (near-Earth objects), the estimated "heads up time" for an extinction level asteroid impact is on the order of decades . The smaller
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by calcifer 9y ago
So? How does that add any urgency to our current situation on earth?
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by calcifer 9y ago
> humanity is one meteorite strike away from extinction According to NASA [0] that's a once in a million year sort of event which, given how behaviourally modern [1] humans have only existed for about 50000 years, is nothing more th
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Because, using a story that did not happen like Icarus to justify your world view is hubris. The story of Icarus, written by a human within his own world view, is part of our collective history. The events in the story not being rea
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Meanwhile they are falling far behind in a variety of features that are useful to a much bigger % of the web Do tell...
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Clicking links and page loading feels similar; on Chrome I don't notice it, on Firefox I always do. Because Chrome, by default, enables prefetching [0] (it loads links before you decide to click on them). Firefox will never do tha
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by calcifer 9y ago
> The definition of "accessible" could be pretty broad. Only if you are trying to play word games. Try googling that exact phrase - accessible web - and see if there are any results that support your point.
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by calcifer 9y ago
When literally the first sentence of the project description mentions an "accessible web", I think it's perfectly acceptable to have a condemning tone. > ORY is a company building and maintaining developer tools for a safe
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by calcifer 9y ago
FWIW, it works fine for me on Linux with Firefox 53.
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by calcifer 9y ago
> Their is a huge education disparity I agree with your overall point, but given the "proper language" nature of this thread I feel I must: there , not their .
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by calcifer 10y ago
Can you share a few Guardian articles that are not opinion pieces or a journalist's personal column but still has "too much rhetoric in what should be unbiased news"?
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by calcifer 10y ago
Ballistic recovery systems usually require a minimum altitude of around 1000 feet, so they are not really an option for urban settings. CAPS [0] for example needs 920 feet. As of August 2016, it was activated 83 times, of which only 69 were
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by calcifer 10y ago
To be honest, publishing most of what they are collecting makes me trust them less, not more. Why not publish all , what are they hiding?
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by calcifer 10y ago
Works fine for me with Firefox 52 on Linux, using nVidia 378.13 drivers. On Chrome 56 with default flags, the tab immediately crashes upon page load. I've tried enabling the "Experimental WebAssembly" flag, which prevents the
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by calcifer 10y ago
> For CTFs like Starfighter CTF?
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by calcifer 10y ago
To be fair, you can do that right now with unsafe.Pointer, but of course it's better to have a compile time checked version of it.
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by calcifer 10y ago
How will it create confusion? Nobody types moz:// in regular usage, so this only effects you if you are specifically looking for an easter egg or something.
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by calcifer 10y ago
See the FAQ: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/go/1.0/faq.html
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by calcifer 10y ago
> I'd rather pay attention to my surroundings than to the clutch. Me too, but I've been driving stick for over a decade now and 99% of the time I'm not even aware of the clutch, it's just muscle memory at this point.
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by calcifer 10y ago
What does "FP" stand for?
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by calcifer 10y ago
AMD has it too: https://libreboot.org/faq/#amdpsp
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by calcifer 10y ago
> With a TRF of 1.7 TRF?

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