fornever

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by fornever 10y ago
I don't see how a slight improvement primarily in the last two years after Snowden is "normal behavior"? WhatsApp ran without end-to-end encryption for six years, so did Gmail without SSL as the default. The industry and gove
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by fornever 10y ago
Maybe the US companies and government should have thought about that before making that behavior normal in the digital world.
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by fornever 10y ago
International law and the rules of engagement requires you to positively identify enemy combatant as well as not engage enemy combatant that are incapacitated. There's nothing in the video indicating that they person getting picked up
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by fornever 10y ago
> I don't see any criminal or even incorrecr decisions by US military in that video. Making decisions based on incomplete information, with certain risk of bad outcomes abd collateral damage is a part of war. So to paraphrase "
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by fornever 10y ago
While I agree with your overall point I unfortunately don't think your characterization of Sweden is true anymore. Your education prospects now depend on which school you go to, especially with blatant grade inflation. My friends are p
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by fornever 10y ago
Paris is one of the few places I would go out of my way to live in (at least without the current unrest), but the rent really kills it for me. That would be an instant downgrade in life quality that I wouldn't want long term.
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by fornever 10y ago
This is the wiki you want: http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com
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by fornever 10y ago
I'll admit the situation would get slightly better, but all these incremental fixes doesn't deal with the real problem. Which is that authentication is treated no different from any other data. If authentication was treated differ
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by fornever 10y ago
> Yeah, I get it, that's how they work. It's not going to change. While they have been producing endless press releases about "makers" and "IoT" in the last couple of years, they still charge $4k+ for a usb
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by fornever 10y ago
> That's generally handled by having a cart with a garbage bag attached that comes by, and having people opening their food on the small trays provided. Considerable effort has already gone into making food service efficient. One of
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by fornever 10y ago
I don't generally want to pay for business class, but frequent flyer programs and/or premium economy usually takes care of things like fast track, lounge access and priority boarding. But nothing of that is really special in itsel
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by fornever 10y ago
If everyone would start bringing their own food that would lead to a huge mess of transporting, storing, unpacking, preparing and disposing of food in all sorts of random ways at various times throughout the flight by the hundreds of hungry
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by fornever 10y ago
> All information should be free, really? Like your root password? A password isn't information, especially in this context, it's data. How the login or encryption system works is information. Of all the misconceptions about ha
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by fornever 10y ago
While I'm not sure they are tackling it the right way (haven't really looked in to it), that manufacturers in the west can't competitively run prototyping or other small production runs is a real problem. Unpredictable quotes
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by fornever 10y ago
Yes, presumably they meant cruel as in merciless or unforgiving (which is acceptable usage). This is a constant in everything from documentaries like the last train home or the biggest chinese resturant in the world and even a theme in majo
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by fornever 10y ago
Most of these sounds cut off quickly to increase the effect. The "M" forces you to close your mouth cutting off the sound in a similar manner. The "R" is presumably because these sound also tend to have a rolling sound t
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by fornever 10y ago
That's more a case of the MacBook Pro being "good enough" and Apple, and PC manufacturers too for that matter, have successfully segmented the market (with things like ports). Even Macworld will tell you these days that &quot
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by fornever 10y ago
That is probably true, but then you also have to look at the merit of those experiences. His fight has essentially been trying to make programming a "respected profession", where you contributions and time is respected. If that&#x
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by fornever 10y ago
I wouldn't say that programming is primarily creative, at least not as an industry activity. Development overall can be creative, but the code itself is to a large extent utilitarian. I don't think the difference, as stated by the