dthunt

10 ms·

61.
by dthunt 13y ago
If you arrived faster at a citation of Poe's Law than actually reading and considering the things I said, you are doing Internet wrong.
62.
by dthunt 13y ago
Yeah. I hate javascript with a fiery passion. But I'm sensitive to (possibly real) arguments that people are accidentally disabling it because they start clicking random stuff in the 'content' tab of preferences. So move it
63.
by dthunt 13y ago
key word 'much'. That's like saying something 'mostly' works and therefor 'it's not a problem'.
64.
by dthunt 13y ago
I will say this: it confuses the hell out of daihyou, who spends a lot of time on linkedin. One man's 'responsive and interactive' is another man's "Did it work?" I'm not going to make a value judgement on
65.
by dthunt 13y ago
Let's not forget that not every page is meant for humans to read, and not every reader is attempting to consume information the same high-bandwidth (visual) way. You might think AJAX is amazing, but I call it an accessibility nightmare
66.
by dthunt 13y ago
It's ineffective in the sense that it doesn't stop all of the evil. It IS effective in the sense that running no javascript really limits the amount of information people can learn about your system. Like, why should a website
67.
by dthunt 13y ago
> "Do you want to disable JavaScript?" is a stupid question, as you say. "Do you want your browser to tell Google, Facebook, Twitter, Omniture, DoubleClick, and six other companies you have never heard of, that you visited
68.
by dthunt 13y ago
I honestly believe that we could fix HTML by stripping javascript out, or narrowing its scope such that it was incapable of asking anything about the presentation of content and interface devices. Why should anyone care whether a web-page i
69.
by dthunt 13y ago
This stuff sometime around like minute 45 or thereabouts. I'm frustrated by them asking the wrong questions to the wrong people. They should be asking FBI about listening to Americans' phone calls. They're not dong it, in the
70.
by dthunt 13y ago
Tor is only safe to a degree. Probabilistic flow analysis is a real threat.
71.
by dthunt 13y ago
Health decisions don't exist in a vacuum.
72.
by dthunt 13y ago
The reason you would advertise a page like this is to get lots of people to visit it. It gives Snowden the ability to look like any of the other (tens?) of thousands of people who visit the URL in the next little while.
73.
by dthunt 13y ago
I think you learn everything you need to know about Steve Jobs by looking at the way he pursued his cancer treatment.
74.
by dthunt 13y ago
Awesome - where's it likely to get posted?
75.
by dthunt 13y ago
What I want to know is how someone can see that their software project has become unlinkable on a 32-bit OS and somehow think that this is purely a compiler problem.
76.
by dthunt 13y ago
I actually watch Japanese Minecraft LPs - it makes for excellent study material, and is highly entertaining.
77.
by dthunt 13y ago
It's still a proposal at this point. It should be opposed, obviously.
78.
by dthunt 13y ago
I just get a page that says (null) when I follow this link. Same result since the last time someone shared this link with me.
79.
by dthunt 13y ago
> Context is important. In written languages without word breaks, there's a particular problem with figuring out where one word stops and another begins; I would offer that this is a related problem to this adjective ordering problem. I
80.
by dthunt 13y ago
You're quite the prognosticator. I would argue that the content producers will survive in spite of the fact that they lose the battle to create an entirely hands off encrypted media path from the website to your viewing device. They will su
81.
by dthunt 13y ago
I am willing to play chicken. Flash must die, and more than that, the standards should make no additional allowances for broken behavior, such as allowing websites to discriminate between Platform A and Platform B. In practice, as long as J
82.
by dthunt 14y ago
The point is that it is impossible to do this right. This system breaks software.
83.
by dthunt 14y ago
I'm very curious about the items listed at the bottom of the page - 18 USC 506 deals with forgeries of badges and seals and stuff of government departments. Are they alleging the site was used to make fake badges?
84.
by dthunt 14y ago
His suggestion was for testing containers, if there is a legitimate security concern. This takes less time than arguing over a 2 liter of aloe juice and ends any inquiry there without violating privacy. That having been said, I don't think
85.
by dthunt 14y ago
I might agree, if juice were a regulated substance, and if people were required to walk around with documentation about their medical issues. As far as reasonability - he's correct in noting that the TSA is not entitled to your medical hist
86.
by dthunt 14y ago
Context is important. Speech by choice is very different than being unlawfully questioned and to have your possessions, medical liquid or otherwise, held hostage contingent on your reply.
87.
by dthunt 14y ago
So the real question is, where to go from here with a reasonable amount of certainty? Does USPS have an office that conducts quality control experiments? Will you continue collecting data on this front at some lower frequency (with consenti
88.
by dthunt 14y ago
Here's a more important question. What's the p-value for their proposition, based on the data that's provided?
89.
by dthunt 14y ago
I ran into that on my first day, and a bunch of times since. I guess you've never been in an airport, and realized you left that audio book at home, and though to yourself "Oh, right, I'll just copy it over." Surprise, unless your scp appl
90.
by dthunt 14y ago
In theory, (normal) patents should only be granted when they describe an invention to the level of detail that someone versed in the art can replicate the invention after expiration. This property is unfortunately not generally present in p

More ›