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by ewzimm 12y ago
The title is not really useful. It's a font issue that was fixed a year ago on a pre-alpha, but it does point out that any project trying to simplify something needs to consider the possible attack vectors exposed. You always have to a
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by ewzimm 12y ago
They are not removing someone else's software though, they are alerting you to a security issue, recommending removal, and providing the tools to do so. That's exactly what an antivirus is supposed to do.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
For those who have it, here are removal instructions: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28607630
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by ewzimm 12y ago
This is a great move. Of course, there's the massive loophole on the last point that they really can't do anything about: >The standard requires that law enforcement requests for disclosure of personally identifiable data must
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Even scientists have been increasingly admitting that confirmation bias is strong. Another problem is funding. If all research was funded by non-profit public interest groups, there might be more trust, but when you're talking about GM
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Those figures are a combination of downtime across all regions globally. So it doesn't mean that any individual servers were down. The largest downtime was in Europe, with had 5.97 hours last year. Factors for downtime were an update b
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by ewzimm 12y ago
It is a grammar issue. Words often have common uses that don't make grammatical sense. "Comprised" means "included" or "contained." You wouldn't say that a group was included of four people or that a
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Money doesn't have to go directly to the government. Their plan to fund things is more along the lines of making the many, many tax-evaders actually pay. Businesses that need loans can take them out on an individual basis, injecting mo
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I am having a hard time getting that from this message: >My party, and I personally, disagreed fiercely with the May 2010 loan agreement not because you, the citizens of Germany, did not give us enough money but because you gave us much,
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by ewzimm 12y ago
That makes sense. I just don't usually hear that complaint about free software. Exploiting people's work for profit happens all over the place, but you're talking about exploiting work where there is explicit permission to ex
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I'm confused about this comment. Isn't profiting off community work to grow and then using that growth to contribute back exactly how the process is meant to function? Is starting as a company and then investing and profiting from
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by ewzimm 12y ago
> unless they're in one of the major browsers Servo is a research project for a future version of Firefox. That's the definition of a major browser. No web developers want a new browser with incompatible features to test or bui
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by ewzimm 12y ago
That might work, but it might be better to ask directly. She should be able to control how her music is released. Someone should talk to Google directly about how that can happen and get a clear answer for everyone.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I agree, but I also think if that happens, crypto will adapt to things like custom protocols built to be indistinguishable from regular traffic. The great thing about code is that there's usually a way to change the rules. The scary pa
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by ewzimm 12y ago
The first sentence sums up what's wrong with government reactions to crypto. >[...] for the first time in history, anyone could encode and exchange a message that no law enforcement agency had the technical ability to intercept and
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Unless you are talking about theistic evolution, it has no point. Making beings suited to thrive in their environment is the method that led to our existence, but it's not the point of our existence unless we decide it is. It's pe
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You could draw on a much bigger pool than professionals. There are plenty of people who know a skill and don't professionally sell their services but could spare a few minutes occasionally to help someone with a problem. If you combine
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by ewzimm 12y ago
So Cameron wants to ban encryption and send the whole nation's Internet activity through Chinese monitors. Maybe he's just really admires China.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Don't waste time typing that, just use !s before your search for StartPage or !g if you want regular Google.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
That's something worth remembering about reading graphs. When you're looking at the aggregate of a trend, it's worth asking what changes in that aggregate represent. Sometimes, growth means taking on dead weight. Sometimes re
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Focusing on such a small period of times makes for a deceptive chart. Everyone knows that it's been volatile for a while. That's not news. You really need to look at the value over a larger period of time. http://bitcoi
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by ewzimm 12y ago
A big use case is people who want privacy. Modern phones have back doors that can be activated remotely by the manufacturer. Don't want to be tracked for a while? Disconnect the baseband. Don't want to be watched? Disconnect the c
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by ewzimm 12y ago
That's interesting. Do you know where the requirements are published? I've read language recently from at least one registrar specifically stating that private registration prevents transfers to other registrars. Maybe this was be
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by ewzimm 12y ago
With standard registration, the site is registered to you with ICANN. With private registration, it is registered to your registrar and you are provided access. Whois will show their info. Note that this means you are technically not the ow
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Any fluid facilitates the trasfer, but the researchers state: "The dermal penetration enhancing chemicals present in personal care products as well as hand sanitizers cause a breakdown of the dermal barrier leading to an increase in tr
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Next up... David Cameron bans whispering. It seems like this kind of reality-denial is acknowledgement of the kinds of challenges posed by advancing technology to the classical methods of control. The obvious solution here is not to address
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by ewzimm 12y ago
No, that was part of the experiment, but they concluded that the primary route was through skin absorption: "These findings indicate that the primary route of BPA exposure was not via gastrointestinal absorption after eating the BPA-co
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Exposure to BPA and similar substances from cans and bottles is probably inconsequential compared to exposure from receipts if you use any kind of hand sanitizer or lotion. A single exposure can equal hundreds of cans. http://www
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I think this is meant to be a demonstration of how ineffective removing something from search engines is. Even if you are using Google, you will still get the Wikipedia page and other pages that link to it, so it's now just two clicks
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I have seen so many people blame Amazon for not including Google Play, but this is really Google's decision. In order to use Google Play Services, you need to make all of Google's services default and unremovable. This was done sp

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