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by ds9 13y ago
My criteria are different from this guy's. My baseline requirements are: OSS, maximum configurability, minimum conflict of interest on the part of the vendor. A proprietary product of a data-mining company? Seriously? It's comica
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by ds9 13y ago
It would be nice to have encrypted DNS, but it is pointless if the server is untrustworthy. This defaults to Open DNS, a commercial service that gives false results (replacing NXDOMAIN) unless the user signs up giving personal info! And fo
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by ds9 13y ago
Thanks that makes it more interesting! Will read more.
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by ds9 13y ago
According to the FAQ: " With Cozy, applications run in the user's personal cloud where he keeps ownership of his/her data. This simple paradigm shift changes many things. " * personal data are aggregated in a trusted env
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by ds9 13y ago
This has been possible ever since AJAX appeared. Everyone should always assume it's happening. Similar in concept to capturing passwords that don't succeed, in case they may be valid for other sites where the user has accounts. (Note, I don
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by ds9 13y ago
This sort of thing is an externality, like pollution: it compromise rights of persons other than the companies' willing customers. Suppose I don't have any Hollywood stuff on my PC, am I then immune from the poison-ware? Can you easily rec
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by ds9 13y ago
Too often, when I'm looking for an employee to ask a question they're nowhere to be found - but when I just want to look around, they intrude. What's needed is not a new way to trick the customer into conversing, instead we need employees t
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by ds9 13y ago
Where do you get the claim that NSA can reverse cryto that is generally believed unbreakable? Maybe you meant to refer to DSA, which is deprecated, in this line: "If using NSA approved crypto they'd love that such as RSA". RSA is used today
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by ds9 13y ago
I recall some court rulings here in the US that a company could be required to install new software to write log data to disk, once the court found out that it was available in memory. This is only a special case of "information which they
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by ds9 13y ago
Geany on Linux, JEdit on Windows. Line numbers, full paths, reasonable cursor behavior, color-coding for various languages, plugins, keybindings are mostly conventional and fully configurable, etc. - and both are GPL.
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by ds9 13y ago
'Scuze me for ranting, but too often these software project pages make the visitor hunt for the licence. Is this GPL or BSD or proprietary or what? Where's the source? They're not saying - or it was taking too long for me to find. As a g
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by ds9 13y ago
I know I'm not the only one who turns off gif animation in browser options. Lots of people can't read text if something is moving on the page. It's going to be a big hassle to turn it on for certain sites, then off again after the CAPTCHA,
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by ds9 14y ago
I think you missed the point of my comment. If the original contract didn't have the "we can change the terms anytime" term, then what you say would be true, and if one party then attempted to change the terms unilaterally later it would, t
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by ds9 14y ago
Many companies' TOS say the company (but not the customer) is allowed to change the terms at any time. IMHO this ought to be illegal, but in USA it's called "the free market" and worshipped as an idol. Whoever is richer is more powerful an
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by ds9 14y ago
They "have to" share the data because it's profitable to do so, and profit is the sole imperative of corporations. "At some point, the creepy corporate use of FB data will scare people from using FB" That was the point of the article: "Most
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by ds9 14y ago
Parts of the article are very misleading. There are ambiguous statements, outright errors and general incoherence. "...shun copyright licensing altogether. When they do that, they put all their collaborators at risk and themselves face pote
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by ds9 14y ago
This has been done before, in many variations. There's always a way for the recipient to save a copy. At least this scheme doesn't require special client software. Note that this depends on the recipient's email client making a request for