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by dave2000 10y ago
I'm not saying anything about this particular person; just amused as to people's attitudes towards people who might be engaged in secret work on behalf of a government, as if detecting such a person is straightforward, or that peo
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by dave2000 10y ago
Why would I want to use a browser to do non broswery things? It's bad enough that we have to use browsers in the first place. Wouldn't we be better starting from scratch and developing a secure, standards-friendly way of deployi
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by dave2000 10y ago
That video was excruciating. Someone at Google thought it was funny? And why was the main actor doing an impersonation of Cam from Modern Family? That aside, what is the point of this page? The small print says: No Purchase Necessary. The o
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by dave2000 10y ago
I'm not a huge google fan, but I like that my photos/videos are automatically uploaded to online storage when i charge my phone overnight. You can then share images a number of ways, including a private (ie unguessable) url. I c
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by dave2000 10y ago
"The authors are well-known theory researchers at a major university, not NSA double-agents." I don't understand. Isn't this like the family of someone accused of spying saying "he's not a spy, he's a tea
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by dave2000 10y ago
I don't use chrome for a number of reasons, the main one being I can't imagine using a browser which doesn't support the blocking of ads, and on Android there are no plugins at all, and given that I use firefox on multiple de
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by dave2000 10y ago
How is a vr Ted talk different from watching it on YouTube? Aren't they essentially 2d events?
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by dave2000 10y ago
That's what always happens. I'm glad those brave early adopters are out there, making difficult and expensive decisions and then regretting it so I don't have to.
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by dave2000 10y ago
What is the possibility that this is an attack on cryptography; convince people that it's safe to produce random numbers this way using an inaccurate "proof" and then have an easy/easier time decrypting stuff produced by
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by dave2000 10y ago
Glad you described it because I wasn't making any sense out of that blog. Won't be using it because it's not a core part of Google and so at a high risk of being cancelled. Also noone else is using it (yeah yeah, I know, but
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by dave2000 10y ago
from the people who bought you "if you don't want your contacts to use your wifi for free, change your wifi station name to something with "_optout" in the name. They're using pretty shit programmers these days I gu
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by dave2000 10y ago
Why do I need JavaScript to scroll?
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by dave2000 10y ago
People often say that other people expect an immediate response from im. Why not establish some sort of SLA so you feel free to ignore them into it's convenient?
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by dave2000 10y ago
Yeah, gj is similar in the same way that you can press l a few times instead of e. (I've mapped j to do the same thing as gj anyway as I want to navigate the physical screen, not honour lines as indivisible entities).
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by dave2000 10y ago
Can't speak for the OP but for many people the billions of animals killed every year for food, clothing and fun is a major moral crime which will be looked back on in the future - both the activities and the almost total lack of consid
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by dave2000 10y ago
America has bases all around the world; nothing to do with North Korea.
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by dave2000 10y ago
It's worth reading the description again in that case, and following the examples in the screenshots. It's not doing the same thing.
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by dave2000 10y ago
Some people even like: :set rnu
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by dave2000 10y ago
Facebook isn't exciting, like telephones aren't exciting. They're both something you use when you need to. It's kind of boring reading about how Facebook has peaked, or it's over, etc. What's to say? Just beca
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by dave2000 10y ago
Well, no, if the law says "anyone can run open wifi, and any suspicious use there should be investigated, and not just taken as read that the person who owns the wifi is the user of it" then the moment permission is sought to raid
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by dave2000 10y ago
And forget about developing games and drivers and OSes and...
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by dave2000 10y ago
CMDs?
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by dave2000 10y ago
Sure, but "they made data which was freely available to members of a website freely available to visitors to a different site" is not a headline which is going to surprise or upset many people.
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by dave2000 10y ago
"I had been assigned to create a software system that duplicated the features of the Interoffice Mail System, which was simply a manila envelope that physically circulated around a workplace." Surely in this scenario, the organ gr
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by dave2000 10y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook created profiles for people who've never used it, just by virtue of having enough of their friends having their contact details. IE if 5 people are friends and all have "fred bloggs"
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by dave2000 10y ago
Needing an account to access it doesn't preclude it from being publicly available. And adding some terms that nobody with malicious intent would care about to the sign up process doesn't protect them from public view either. If s
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by dave2000 10y ago
Publicly available data was made public! Everybody panic!
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by dave2000 10y ago
And Firefox android. Am I supposed to disable my JavaScript/trackers blocking plugins? It's not worth the risk. I only do that when booking cheap flights.
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by dave2000 10y ago
You're totally right. I have no idea how I got that backwards!
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by dave2000 10y ago
Isn't that how Texas started? Isn't that how America started? Isn't that what happens in all places at all times? Get with the program!

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