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by charonn0 10y ago
> another few % of compression ZIP consists of sections of both compressed and uncompressed data, so some compressibility is to be expected.
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by charonn0 10y ago
I think that's handled separately during the connection phase.
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Please refer to this instructional cartoon: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by charonn0 10y ago
What's the Google search equivalent of paying cash?
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by charonn0 10y ago
So that's why my project wikis have suddenly stopped rendering markdown properly. I've been trying to figure out WTF was going on since yesterday!
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by charonn0 10y ago
Years ago I put Google's ads on my website. Just before the revenue reached the payout threshold they disabled my account and withheld all the money I had earned up to that point. No detailed explanation, no appeal. While I can't
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by charonn0 10y ago
Companies tend not to publicly brag about it when they find bugs in their own code.
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by charonn0 10y ago
On the one hand the law should be freely available in full text to everyone. On the other hand, how many legislators are qualified to write a fire code?
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by charonn0 10y ago
This seems like a bad idea for the vendor. Now all of their customers will have to evaluate the legal risks of merely using the software.
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by charonn0 10y ago
Even discounting suicides and accidents, shooting deaths are still several orders of magnitude more common than terrorist-caused deaths.
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by charonn0 10y ago
The real question is whether President Trump's threats are justifiable, but I'd settle for understanding how you justify your criticism of an entire bloc.
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by charonn0 10y ago
> removed the subreddit because they were trying to figure out who punched this guy at the airport This is what is called doxxing, and it's a direct violation of the TOS.
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by charonn0 10y ago
The reddit software is open source, so I'm not sure "the presses" applies. What you probably meant was "the audience", and no one has a right to that. [0]: https://github.com/reddit/reddit
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> In order to confirm this suspicion, I decided to proxy my phone’s traffic and attempt registering with the app using dummy phone values. Am I wrong in assuming that being able to proxy the app's HTTPS traffic is evidence of anothe
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by charonn0 10y ago
> Prior to the bug, the library used to query the website and check for the code was configured to return a failure if the HTTP status code was not 200 (success). A configuration change to the library caused it to return results even whe
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by charonn0 10y ago
In this case, I think, because the user had to go into dev mode to install it.
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I read the description of cli-get, and it appears to be similar to a feature built-in to the network tab of the standard developer tools. If you right-click a request in the list of requests you can select "copy as cURL" from the
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by charonn0 10y ago
I mean putting aside your own beliefs, not requiring others to put aside theirs. People who are not willing to entertain the possibility that they're wrong (a reasonable definition of having faith, IMHO) will either exclude themselves
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by charonn0 10y ago
Unless you're willing to allow that Christianity is conjecture, "introducing Christian thought" is not a discussion but a sermon.
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by charonn0 10y ago
90% of the whitelist doesn't pay, though. And all have to meet certain standards, like no video ads.
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by charonn0 10y ago
> Imagine if pressing a wrong button on a washing machine would cause installing malware. Would you like to buy such device? A washing machine isn't a Turing machine.
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by charonn0 10y ago
What I meant is that ransomware predominantly spreads by tricking the user into running malicious code, as opposed to tricking the OS. There's not a whole lot the OS can do if the user is determined to open e.g. "kittenpic.jpg.exe
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by charonn0 10y ago
The only vulnerability in this case exists between the keyboard and the chair.
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by charonn0 10y ago
I'm not sure that would be effective. A lot of legitimate software would get caught up in the dragnet.
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by charonn0 10y ago
No one is being prevented from using AMD's code, it's just not going to be baked into the official kernel.
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by charonn0 10y ago
For tracking purposes, both innocuous ("has the user actually seen my ad?") and malevolent as in the OP.
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But only relatively recently have ads become dangerous to passersby.
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by charonn0 10y ago
> Some people would rather everyone suffer than letting the market innovate on data plans. And some people would rather everyone suffer than admit that "the market" is neither predictable nor a moral barometer.
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Whatever else it means, "republic" doesn't mean minority rule.
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by charonn0 10y ago
Because running a global TLD is a non-trivial and costly public service to provide, so the TLD sponsor is allowed to monetize it.

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