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by dictum 13y ago
"Why should we care about NoScript users?"
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by dictum 13y ago
A week ago, I'd read "Google" and "desperate" in the same sentence and smirk. Then I saw a hey, you're using an ad blocker, could you just turn it off for our domains? kthx message on top of a search results
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by dictum 13y ago
The FBI didn't conduct a 'mass malware attack' on the open web. It did, however, inject malicious code in Tor hidden services that were hosted in Freedom Hosting. How is that not a 'mass malware attack'?
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by dictum 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6369530
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by dictum 13y ago
Nastiness appeals to some because it's - Rare - Sensational (treat someone well and nobody notices, treat someone badly and it will be news somewhere) - A facet of pure human freedom: you can hate jerks, but you can't reconcile th
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by dictum 13y ago
> the recent cultural shift with the prevalence of handheld computing has a lot of negative side effects and we need to rethink the norms One possible rethinking of the norms would be to worry less about teenagers, letting them sext if t
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Microsoft TerraServer (1998)(msdn.microsoft.com)
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by dictum 13y ago
DNI James Clapper has issued an official statement: http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/60712026846/statement-b... or http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-pre...
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by dictum 13y ago
>Citizens need to be protected from their own government which holds tremendous power over them, but less so w.r.t foreign government. The US certainly holds less power over foreigners, but the CIA's job is to blur the distinction b
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by dictum 13y ago
I suppose most people who shoot schools have no partners helping them, but at some point they may need to find information to help them carry the attacks, and encryption would help them conceal the fact that they have this information, and
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by dictum 13y ago
People who intend to enter a middle school and kill kids can hide their plans and communications using 256-bit encryption. Edit: Devil's advocate.
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by dictum 13y ago
"The NSA is just doing its job."
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by dictum 13y ago
I agree that it's pointless, but liking a product on Facebook are signaling to their friends that they like KitKat. I think social proof plays a role here: "will I be less cool if I don't show people how I like this thing som
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm not glad Flash is dying. If we're considering requiring JS for static pages, we didn't learn anything from the horrors of Flash's heyday. Most of the time when I'm browsing the web—does "browsing the web&qu
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by dictum 13y ago
> Who said Mexico and Brazil are friends of the US? Mexico and Brazil both represent significant economic threats to the U.S. I'm sure the US won't get any goodwill from other nations as long as it keeps seeing any other econom
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by dictum 13y ago
2023: "Countries spy on their citizens. If that upsets you, then you're going to be disappointed forever. Countries spy on their citizens because people lie all the time and do the opposite of what they say all the time."
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by dictum 13y ago
Extreme realities—that a place so rich and so interested in change (in the jargon, "disruption") has so many homeless people—elicit extreme reactions.
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by dictum 13y ago
The desperate cries of our enemies. In all seriousness, I think video games will be even bigger than they are today. Instead of fixed characters, they will have people you know—friends, relatives, people you dislike, etc—generated through a
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by dictum 13y ago
> These are young people at war with the concept of secrecy itself, which is just foolish. There are many legitimate reasons for governments to keep secrets, among them the need to preserve the element of surprise in military operations
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by dictum 13y ago
After posting my first comment, I found another angle: Design can only do so much to make something bigger and better than it actually is. I'm sure many novice web designers have dreamed of making a groundbreaking website for a mom-and
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by dictum 13y ago
Better yet: show off your unsolicited design. Just don't be a dick about it . Don't assume the designers of the current version of the thing you're redesigning are incompetent, and don't assume your version is the One T
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by dictum 13y ago
It depends on what you mean by "image/media-heavy". If you have a website that is basically made of image galleries, you can still make it accessible for blind people by giving descriptions of each picture. The problem is tha
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by dictum 13y ago
> We have reached a point where, no matter how few violations occur and no matter how innocuous they may be, the average person will always believe the NSA is doing things that are much more extreme than what is reported. This goes both
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by dictum 13y ago
>Skype: Contact customer services. You’ll need to know 5 contacts from your contacts list, the month you created your account, and your signup email address. Why do I get the feeling asking Skype to cancel your account immediately puts y
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by dictum 13y ago
I won't touch the value of exposing people to diverse views, but such a system would limit the views to only what's vetted by people and institutions regulating that system. The conspiracy theorists of Sunstein's paper have a
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by dictum 13y ago
> Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories "Crippled epistemology" is an interesting name for being unable to distin
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by dictum 13y ago
This is a manifestation of the US institutionalized xenophobia. Good manners and taste should keep me from using this submission as another soapbox against how the US views foreigners, but when you see foreigners as enemies, a citizen who l
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm not American, so my education with regards to governments did not include specifics of how the US government works, only a general overview of the governments of most countries. I'm aware that the US government is not monolith
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by dictum 13y ago
Really interesting as an experiment in industrial design and a conversation piece. As a viable product, I have some doubt: anecdotally, when I see people printing documents, they're in something of a hurry, and keeping the pile of pape
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by dictum 13y ago
> The NSA does not keep a "file" on you ...if you are an American citizen. That's implicit in "Domestic matters are the FBI's territory. The NSA is tasked with strictly foreign surveillance", but I wanted to

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