cynwoody

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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   Would you rather be idling excess machines or firing workers?
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   Thanks for teaching me a new word. My initial hurdle was figuring out how to turn the page. Clicked in a bunch of different places to no avail. Fiddled with the little dots. Finally discovered the arrow keys work. Duh! What followed was rea
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   But what if you are trying to reach a larger audience that is not going to see your presentation (either because it's not online or they don't have the time to watch a video) but might flip through your deck? It needs to be possible to get
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   I'm gone if I visit your site. Or, if I'm not, I've polluted your user database with one of my throw-away Facebook accounts just so I could see what was behind that search result that caught my eye. userid, password. What part of that do yo
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   I suspect there are a lot of throw-away lurker accounts created merely to sign into something that needed a Facebook sign-in (typically a Google result). I've created a few of those myself. I do not have a "real" Facebook account, and I hav
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   Ah, but corporations can lose — if they don't contribute to the right politicians. Politicians should be required to wear NASCAR uniforms, so that we would know who owns them.
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   I've been using them off and on since learning of their existence on this forum a couple of weeks ago. They are surprisingly good! But I did have the damnedest time remembering their domain name! "Google" was an inspired name choice, includ
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   So use Yandex via https. That way, only Kommittee will know what you searched for. Seriously, it's not a half-bad search engine. Throw it a bone once in while to make sure it survives!
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   by cynwoody 15y ago

   That's why I use GMail. Its spam filtering is top-notch. I use Verizon FiOS for internet. It works pretty well. But no way do I want Verizon doing my email. I view it as a conflict of interest. It pisses me off that they also provide TV and
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    Neither email nor spam filtering nor any other kind of filtering should be the job of an ISP. An ISP should be a big, dumb bit pipe, nothing more, nothing less.
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    What if she can't remember the pass phrase? Of course, she could be lying, but how could they prove that?
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    But did you ever do a shoe-store fluoroscope?
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    Yes, once this one is issued, Microsoft's competitors, both proprietary and free will be proud to proclaim Microsoft has a patent on lack of security!
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    Patenting the man-in-the-middle attack ought to mark the end of software and business method patents. It's (1) obvious, (2) been done, and (3) making hacks patentable ought to be contrary to public policy.
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    This is simply rent-seeking on GoDaddy's part. It's not authoritarianism. It is just greed. SOPA will increase cost and complexity for all providers. GoDaddy figures they're better at coping with SOPA's implementation than potential competi
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    2. Humans can manually keep track of versions of code! (1960s) As everything, to begin with there was no software. “At my first job, we had a Source Control department. When you had your code ready to go, you took your floppy disks to
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    Nope. And it should set your attitude towards the government for the rest of your life.
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    So, in effect, this means a kid is 13 as soon as he figures out he needs to be 13. OK. Not all kids are created equal, and some kids will be 13 sooner than others. Some might argue that's not fair. But, back in the day, I would not have bee
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    I'm glad he's progressing. If the internet had existed when I was a little tike, I'd have been 13 for about eight years.
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    This would seem to have more to do with the 535 dumbest people on the planet than with Google.
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    I don't run AdBlock Plus, but I do use FlashBlock, mainly to cut down on fan noise. I also have a few entries in my /etc/hosts ... 127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ak.p.openx.net 127.0.0.1 tags.expo9.exponential
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    Merely mapping googleads.g.doubleclick.net to 127.0.0.1 made a huge difference to my browsing experience. Despite the resources of Google, that server is waay overloaded. I was staring at the browser status line waiting for that server to c
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    There are at least two reasons that's impossible. First, liars are smart. Second, not everyone spouting an untruth is a liar. If a person doesn't know he's uttering a falsehood, then the fact is unlikely to influence his style — or his spee
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    by cynwoody 15y ago

    I can usually get my Garmin to work if I'm in a window seat.