ephemeralgomi

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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
I half-disagree with you: the NSA's actions, IMHO, certainly do amount to a violation of the right to privacy. However, calling the ability to run the javascript development console on a page a 'right' is a stretch, I agree.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
Yup, that is a completely legitimate argument to raise.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
The poster did not "connect this to the NSA". She/he argues that blindly acquiescing to removal of rights in the name of security is a bad idea, using the NSA phone tapping deal as a point of comparison.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
The poster did not "tie this bit of javascript to the NSA". She/he argues that blindly acquiescing to removal of rights in the name of security is a bad idea, using the NSA phone tapping deal as a point of comparison.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
Sounds more like he forgot to wrap multiple mutually dependent queries in a transaction. It doesn't require advanced technology to make a mistake.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
You appear to have a different definition of definition than I do.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
You're doing fine, this guy is just bikeshedding. Thanks for the tool, it certainly helped me.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
Yeah, if there's no path to a solution, the text should say "Your computer is correctly following the undesired behavior described in HT6147" in a soothing green color. ...
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
There is a big difference between "We stopped being evil at some point" and "we stopped being successful enough to pull off the evil shit that we really, really wanted to do". The DRM[0] that Microsoft were trying to bu
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
I would absolutely have pegged this as satire, but it looks like a Eugene Ross did indeed place second in a web design competition in Sarasota. http://www.sarasotacountyschools.net/schools/sarasotahigh/in... Ctrl-
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
I think the_watcher's top-level comment is pretty spot-on here - it's a feature that happens to be great for both parties.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
Read the article more carefully. He's saying that Google benefits from incognito mode, since it causes your normal cookie store (which contains cookies valuable to google) to persist longer than if you just habitually wiped your histo
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
They didn't "translate" it. The piece you're referring to is satire.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7160544
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
It's contained in the first graf. They were arrested. That's what the news is. The rest of the article is background explaining who Hunter Moore is, to clarify why his arrest is newsworthy.
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
via reductio ad absurdum, do you also think it's alright to reappropriate swaths of CSS, HTML, and images from other people's web designs?
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by ephemeralgomi 13y ago
You weren't around for DeCSS, I guess?
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by ephemeralgomi 14y ago
Loading the standard library takes time. With a smaller (underimplemented) standard library, you can get to the user's code much more quickly.
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by ephemeralgomi 14y ago
I think kmfrk is implying his place of employment doesn't use git.
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by ephemeralgomi 14y ago
Probably most of their logging _is_ meaningful, but deciding how to professionally phrase each and every log message will eventually get you to decision fatigue. The point that he was making with this was that over-logging is a good thing -