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by fl3tch 15y ago
> The front page of youtube now - for me is full of crap that I have no interest in at all. So that's what "upgrading" my YouTube account with G+ means. Thanks for the heads up and glad I didn't click it.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That was the old model, where ads were served to us in exchange for free services. This is a new model, as others have pointed out, where my identity / likeness is being used (without my explicit permission, mind you) to sell products. Fa
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by fl3tch 15y ago
If I'm going to appear in ads, then I want a cut of the revenue, just like every other compensated endorser.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That's funny, but I've been told some porn sites have social widgets. I don't know who would want to share that, but there they are.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Politics is a subset of philosophy -- the philosophy of governance, and of social and economic organization -- but it can include a lot of things. Some argue that it's impossible to be apolitical, because almost everything you do is a legal
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by fl3tch 15y ago
It looks like all German web sites, except for the last one. ! Text-based search ads on suche.netzwelt.de ! Static image ads on t3n.de ! Text ads with small static images on focus.de ! Text ads on Sedo parking domains In other words, they'r
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by fl3tch 15y ago
These losses started in 2008, during an economic downturn that we haven't fully recovered from. But I would have expected the losses to be much larger (than 3.1% in North American and 0.85% globally), especially for something that is entert
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by fl3tch 15y ago
This sounds a lot like the advice given in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on how to overcome writer's block. In the book, the narrator is teaching a writing course, and a student says she doesn't know what to write about. So he s
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I was always annoyed by the fact that I couldn't copy-paste stuff in Google Docs and had to ^C ^V it. Now I realize this is a feature.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Of course. It shouldn't be caching anything to disk.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
One thing that bothers me and that I do consider disingenuous is how every denial is specific ("not recording keystrokes"), while every affirmative statement of what they actually do is vague ("look at many aspects of a device's performance
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> but retain some for 'technical' reasons Probably the thing about databases getting fragmented, so they delete large swaths of data and optimize all at once, rather than piecemeal when the users delete it. It's well known that when you
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by fl3tch 15y ago
What would we do without hackers?
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by fl3tch 15y ago
Twitter didn't buy Moxie Marlinspike. They bought one of his companies, which makes a variety of encrypted solutions for mobile phones. The Convergence project (which is an alternative to certificate authorities) remains independent of Whis
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by fl3tch 15y ago
With a clean install, there's less chance of an incident, and if you put /home on a separate partition, you don't have to back up your data (although you should, anyway). If you installed extra packages from the repos, you can get them back
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> (Most) people value service in and to the extent they pay for it. If it's "free", they can often be endlessly if ignorantly critical. Maybe people don't want to believe that they wasted their money, so they minimize problems with thin
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I use HTTPS Everywhere and it converts a lot of domains to the HTTPS version, including TorrentFreak. Maybe the OP uses this extension, too. I didn't get a certificate error, though.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
That's not really the point of this thread. The point was the next two sentences about "data protection hounds" and a failed ideology. European standards of privacy are not less legitimate just because they are different from American stand
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by fl3tch 15y ago
> SSIDs are public, just like house fronts. Yet, they allow you to pixelate your house front in Europe. That's the cultural standard of privacy there, so it shouldn't be surprising that SSIDs matter to them.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
1. The US government can discover the user, but won't know what the user is doing, unless the user('s client) also chooses US exit nodes reliably / recurrently enough that a successful timing attack or somesuch can be mounted. 2. Presumably
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by fl3tch 15y ago
The attribution to Ned Wright takes you here: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Narlikar/Narlikar3_2.html which has a lot more information. Phi is defined as the Higgs scalar field.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
The Singularity is not near. :)
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by fl3tch 15y ago
A functioning democracy requires transparency. We shouldn't have to justify why we want to see government documents. That is the default position. Rather, they should justify why they want to keep them secret. Of course, in practice, if the
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by fl3tch 15y ago
I suppose it's worth noting that your gay friend had to add your phone number to his secret account, which is a privacy snafu on his part. After all, if he was trying to hide his sexual orientation from you, why would he enter your contact
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by fl3tch 15y ago
TIL. But let me ask you something. If Mark isn't in this for the money (that's the way he's painted anyway, since he could have sold or gone public long ago for tons of cash), what exactly does he want? Why keep that kind of control (3/5 bo
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by fl3tch 15y ago
If you are not aware of the many, loud critics during the lead up to the invasion, then you need a more diverse portfolio of news sources. Scott Ritter alone, remember him? He was an actual intelligence officer and weapons inspector who spe
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by fl3tch 15y ago
-1 ?
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Exactly. Distributed computing grids still have trouble folding single peptides with reasonable accuracy. We have the source code, but we don't have the compiler.
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by fl3tch 15y ago
As long as they allow pseudonyms, that is in fact a victory in the "Nymwars", which were always more about pseudonymity than anonymity. Again, if you require strong anonymity, there are far better places to publish. From what I've seen, Goo
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by fl3tch 15y ago
If you require whistleblower-level anonymity, Google properties are the last place you want to post anyway. Drop your docs in a file sharing service over Tor and send the link to some journalists. No service can be everything to everybody.

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