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by computer 13y ago
This piece is written by a (flat-tax) lobbyist ("Katie McAuliffe is federal affairs manager at Americans for Tax Reform."), which is very clear when you read sentences like: "They want the MFA passed not for sales tax col
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by computer 13y ago
Those experiences seem strangely spectacular, they are very different from any experiences I've witnessed or read about. Also, they decided to just use it to skip every nights' sleep? That's not what modafinil is meant for, n
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by computer 13y ago
Just to make sure nobody takes the above as facts and decides modafinil is what they need: basically everything in parent is incorrect, except that sleeping is good for you. Modafinil does have various side effects, does not allow you to ne
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by computer 13y ago
Just send an email and see if it arrives.
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by computer 13y ago
Not on my up-to-date Firefox on 64-bit Linux; it works perfectly.
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by computer 13y ago
Question to the Emacs crowd: how do I hit Alt comfortably? My instinct is to use my left ring finger, but have trouble doing that without moving my other fingers much. Could it be because I have very large hands (or because my keyboard suck
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by computer 13y ago
Feeling lost is a feature to me-- having the whole world speak one language would seem awfully boring to me.
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by computer 13y ago
Yes, Wikileaks and its media partners requested that for the cables. The USGov refused to help censor the cables to protect sources and other people.
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by computer 13y ago
Perhaps as an experiment try "enter the first character of your post/comment". That would kill any remote human captcha solvers (since they don't actually know the post content), and likely require some rewriting of the
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by computer 13y ago
Is the spam very specifically targeted at your site? If not, just implement your own very simple captcha system and see if they can handle that. Spammers generally use captcha solving APIs which map to humans in low-wage countries. They pay
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by computer 13y ago
Also, consider the fact that you have to show the TSA your boarding pass. If you have to unlock your phone for that, they get full access to copy all your data if they decide you look like a terrorist. Likely not a consideration for most pe
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by computer 13y ago
I bet their competitors can't wait for you to switch to their free accounts. In other words: why not pay?
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by computer 13y ago
The "Dropbox of VPNs"? What does that even mean?
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by computer 13y ago
Of course, running Tails inside a VM is likely slightly safer than running TBB (Tor Browser Bundle) on your normal OS, depending on your threat model. For example, a Firefox exploit that breaks out of its sandbox could access your personal
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by computer 13y ago
Presumably the web tier does slightly more than just reverse proxying. For example, it could build (render) pages based on an internal RedditAPI it queries. This RedditAPI (application layer) would then basically be a distributed database f
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by computer 13y ago
http://i2.wp.com/goodmorningblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013... A border going through a house: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-44CWQkimcko/UeemC9NcL0I/A...
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by computer 13y ago
I wish this resource existed 10-15 years ago. I remember scavenging the internet for information about OS development, assembly and everything. I think in the end the best resource I found was something called "DS-OS", a basic ass
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by computer 13y ago
Why is it senseless? You lose the same amount of heat in joules/sec, but the total heat stored in the system is higher, since there's a buffer in it with a higher volumetric heat capacity than coffee. So unless I'm missing so
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by computer 13y ago
That's PRISM, one of tens of programs that exist. Look up XKEYSCORE, for an example that does include mirroring "all" internet traffic. Pot and kettle; make sure you read everything, and don't get caught in their "O
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by computer 13y ago
Two years notice! That's fairly rare these days, where acquired startups and non-core Google products are shut down without too much notice.
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by computer 13y ago
I know that it's superficial, but I have an extremely hard time taking a blog post interspersed with large meme pictures seriously. I think you should only use them if your target audience is teens, and when you're near their age
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by computer 13y ago
FYI, in surveillance context the NSA/US government define "collect" as "look at"/"analyze", not as "store".
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by computer 13y ago
Site is down for me (Holland)? It was the same 20 minutes ago fwiw.
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by computer 13y ago
Note that there's a very large difference in clearances and access.
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by computer 13y ago
I doubt that this call and the exchange that we're shown is all that there's to it. Having said that, if you're on a conference call and you say such a thing without context, you can expect it to get interpreted in ways it mi
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by computer 13y ago
Note that if they position this as competitor to OS X instead of Windows, then GNU/Linux and Elementary OS actually have better hardware compatibility (broadly) than OS X.
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by computer 13y ago
One reason might be that OS X is not Open Source nor Free.
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by computer 13y ago
There's no fallback for browsers that do not support javascript or have it disabled. That's annoying for users of special devices, NoScript, but likely also people who are blind and use screenreaders, for example. Accessibility de
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by computer 13y ago
I am not saying that this specific service is good for the privacy of their users. I am saying that this move, phasing out non-SSL email, will _force_ the rest of the world to add SSL to outgoing email connections, thereby protecting all em
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by computer 13y ago
> " For security reasons, from the beginning of 2014 the initiative partners will only transport SSL-encrypted e-mails to ensure that data traffic over all of their transmission paths is secure." That's the most significan

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