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721.
by efdee 14y ago
But who is the bully here? I'm not sure.
722.
by efdee 14y ago
I thought we wanted ISPs to be dumb pipes, not Internet Police? Did this suddenly change?
723.
by efdee 14y ago
You're missing my point though. The operator passed on personal information without knowing if a Hetzner employee might be the bad guy. Hetzner passed on personal information without knowing the server owner might be the bad guy. If the ope
724.
by efdee 14y ago
"One of our EFnet operators located a server that a client was using, the server was most likely hacked and/or used for illegal activities." -- so they contacted the ISP and the ISP sent their request to whoever owns the box. That sounds en
725.
by efdee 14y ago
I could be wrong, but hasn't this been an option in Chrome Preferences for ages?
726.
by efdee 14y ago
> but it's about forming children into decent human beings. This used to be the parents' job.
727.
by efdee 14y ago
I'm amazed by the hoops people will jump through to protect this rat. He already admitted that his ultimate goal was to "harass and embarrass" "rich people".
728.
by efdee 14y ago
While I don't necessarely disagree with most of your content, a) it was not simply "incrementing a number in the URL" and b) you can hardly say someone is a whitehat if his goal is "to harass rich people".
729.
by efdee 14y ago
Fact is that DRM is the real reason why the game is heavily multiplayer. Older versions were always single player and there is no reason they couldn't at least have implemented this mode in the new game other than having an excuse to put so
730.
by efdee 14y ago
Since it's a standard, it's worthless. Any spammer worth his salt would remove everything after the '+' sign from the email address.
731.
by efdee 14y ago
For all intents and purposes, they represent Dropbox. It is poor choice of Dropbox to let themselves be represented by unqualified, unvetted people and then distance themselves from it "because they are not getting paid". They work for Drop
732.
by efdee 14y ago
The problem apparently also occurs on the non-deprecated system. I can understand their frustration after not getting a reply for X days on what seems to be a critical issue for them. That's not "obnoxious as hell", that's customers panicki
733.
by efdee 14y ago
1. 0.9995 SLA means about 6 minutes of downtime a month. Since it's a daily event, I'm guessing that yes, the SLA is violated. 2. It's a problem that is occurring daily, with a test case that has pretty much no code at all. That in itself d
734.
by efdee 14y ago
How will that fix the problem at all? Will me changing the source code of my local copy of the source code somehow lead to the ads disappearing on SF, or me having to do less clicks when trying to download one of the six projects that still
735.
by efdee 14y ago
I feel stupid.
736.
by efdee 14y ago
And... ?
737.
by efdee 14y ago
37 people only gave you one star? Why? ;-)
738.
by efdee 14y ago
As an end user, based on anecdotal evidence, I can say that: a) on both Windows and Linux, Firefox startup is slower than Chrome b) at least on Windows, Firefox memory usage is far worse than Chrome's c) perceptually, Chrome feels a lot f
739.
by efdee 14y ago
"I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and wanted to embarass them." -- This is what makes weev "not Aaron". Aaron wanted to further the human race, not embarass people just for the sake of it.
740.
by efdee 14y ago
This copypasta predates HN by many, many years.
741.
by efdee 14y ago
If it can execute cmd.exe, it can do pretty much anything it wants, including but not limited to downloading other apps and running them.
742.
by efdee 14y ago
Yes.
743.
by efdee 14y ago
Too late, I'm afraid. Who, today, uses Bitcoin, except for criminals and speculants?
744.
by efdee 14y ago
Yes. 2012 will finally be the year of Linux on the desktop. >_>
745.
by efdee 15y ago
Can I somehow upvote you twice?