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by csydas 9y ago
I sincerely disagree, especially as per the report Comcast's own second level confirmed there was no need to replace the modem. It was an automated advertisement done in a very not good way; Comcast's own billing system notifies y
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by csydas 9y ago
Happens in St Petersburg Russia a lot. While there are road signs and markers, the only acknowledged rule of the road most of the time is "we go this direction on this side", and even that isnt always carefully followed. Sometimes
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by csydas 9y ago
Right now it looks like they don't, but if the city wanted to it could. I visited seoul last year and one of the coolest things for me was that in most of the city they had a small yellow rubber path along most all sidewalks, roads, an
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by csydas 9y ago
I can see the flip side on this too though - the user action is pretty universal in apps, and it's disruptive when 9 out of 10 apps use this and you're trying to get fresh data out of app #10. There should be some consistency in u
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by csydas 9y ago
Yeah this is the real rub; even if you yourself do not give Facebook information, it's been proven that they collect profiles on you. Anyone who has messaged you, has you in their contacts, sent you invites, added you to groups, all th
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by csydas 9y ago
I'm not sure how this is relevant; yes, more proper competition would be great, but we had that, for a long time, and the competition merged/consolidated. Merger after merger happened until cities were left with two competitors th
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by csydas 9y ago
Ah, I see. Yes, this was more just me extrapolating that even if VPN access were to circumvent the package/tier deals initially, such behavior would eventually just result in VPN usage being added as a tier/package, which is not i
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by csydas 9y ago
Okay, but I'm still not following the initial comment on "they won't throttle", when you just described a situation in which they throttle? What I'm missing is how the initial comment relates to the first, specifica
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by csydas 9y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I see the logic here or what you're trying to say. > If you have to pay extra, fine, but let's be clear that the only changes are monetary ones, Are you suggesting that they wouldn't throt
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by csydas 9y ago
Yes, but why does that matter when what the ISPs want is control and the ability to tax the content you're trying? If they can't milk your connection for data, then just throttle the connection type and call it a day. $25 a month
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by csydas 9y ago
More or less this, yeah. I'm not sure how people think they can just work around it when their gateway out of the last mile will have free reign to do whatever with the packets in/out as they see fit, and this will be supported le
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by csydas 9y ago
I think there is a major difference in butterfly effect scenarios and intentionally misleading and commiting fraud. It's why mens rea is part of the equation for judgement. Intent means a lot; if it weren't, we wouldn't diffe
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by csydas 9y ago
Can't speak for the parent, but I still keep a few around just as a quick reference on things: My company does a lot of international work, so I have a row of clocks at different world times set up in a neat row. I also managed to find
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by csydas 9y ago
No, the above comment is specifically referring to the idea that 64 GB or 128 GB is enough when a heavily advertised and useful function of modern phones is 4k video, which uses a lot of space, making 64 GB/128 GB last not nearly as lo
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by csydas 9y ago
While the product seems like it has a subset that a subset of folk are interested in, this HN thread is an advertisement.
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by csydas 9y ago
I don't know what the particular condition with Kaspersky and the US government was, but I work for a non-US based software company that has multiple special contracts with the US Federal Government; we have a special build of the soft
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by csydas 9y ago
The expectation isn't that such regulation will prevent violations of the regulation from ever happening, but instead that there is a legal mechanism by which appropriate punishment can be administered. Laws and regulations don't
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by csydas 9y ago
The second point is very important as currently the bar for valid proof is far too low for many people nowadays, especially given the ease with which one can edit content easily to look like it came from source. The fact that too many peopl
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by csydas 9y ago
I'm glad you quoted the second point, as it combined with this part is what I think the EFF finds concerning: > These agencies aren’t just collecting biometrics for their own use; they are also sharing them with other agencies like
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by csydas 9y ago
I posted this elsewhere in this topic, but my experience with the Federal Do Not Call list was the exact opposite - they promised "within 3 months the calls would stop" and sure enough, within 3 months I never got another call.
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by csydas 9y ago
Are you talking about internal Do Not Call lists or the actual Federal Do Not Call list? Because I used to have that issue with credit card companies, random loan spammers, and such with both mail and phone call spam. I signed up for the li
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by csydas 9y ago
More than likely it is Google trying to downplay it, but it's their search being gamed - the BBC article is actually inaccurate as far as I'm aware, as at least in the case of Sam Hyde, I was under the impression he was in on the
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by csydas 9y ago
I think the point is more about intentional performance degredation versus unintentional; it makes sense that you can't ship a 100% bug proof piece of relatively complex software, and some has to be patched out later, but such performa
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by csydas 9y ago
I don't know that either is particularly gentle with its burden of knowledge; you say SCII is very clear, but truthfully I can't really tell what's going on in most pro games except for Cheese games with commentaries (I think
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by csydas 9y ago
> 5) its a voluntery activity. There are lots of people who enjoy the activity, the excitement, the thrill, etc and they’re responsible enough to only wager less than the cost of a theatre ticket. Sometimes they finish the night with mor
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by csydas 9y ago
> These people (me, etc) want the best long term outcome and will take big actions towards that, even knowing it’ll cause some short term pain. > I don’t think ‘regular’ people think like that. > (But not at all about trillions of
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by csydas 9y ago
Seoul in Korea is much like this - when my partner and I took a surprise trip there, we were worried about getting around and purchasing a SIM as neither of us spoke Korean, but there was rarely a place where there wasn't some sort of
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by csydas 9y ago
> I am open-minded about the notion of housing as a human right. I completely reject the notion of housing wherever one most prefers[2] as a basic human right (or any kind of right whatsoever). I won't make the overly broad claim th
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by csydas 9y ago
I'd argue the opposite - many times abuse isn't something you can just walk away from, because like burnout, the source of the problem comes from something you depend on, and that's part of why it's such a severe problem
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by csydas 9y ago
I think the poor reception by some is that the original statement comes off as a little dismissive of sexual abuse and the reason that many people are outraged over it. The individual cases and instances are usually considered to be symptom

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