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by gaius_baltar 7y ago
> Somebody can conceivably receive significant financial damage though. Why they shouldn't be liable? Not just financial damage, the owners of defective routers can be targets of criminal lawsuits if their connections are used as pr
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by gaius_baltar 7y ago
It can be done by asking some obvious question for humans: "This is a anti-robocall system, please answer the question to complete the call. A mother cat and her three kittens are sleeping in a box. Dial the number of animals in that b
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by gaius_baltar 7y ago
> Every semi-successful feature had to get G+ integration to maximize the adoption of G+. Also, forced Youtube integration and G+ accounts being required even to rate Android apps.
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by gaius_baltar 8y ago
I got this in the other way: there is no actual redundancy even with the optional package, the new sensor is only used to compare inputs with the one used by the control system and warn the pilots if they disagree. Pretty sure I'm misi
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by gaius_baltar 8y ago
Some problems PGP (these days, this means GnuPG) solves pretty well for me: - offline encryption; - distributed web of trust; - digital signature (for messages and software packages); - batch processing; - certification of other users witho
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by gaius_baltar 8y ago
> Looking down the road what it was encoded in dna would it be illegal for someone to read another person's dna? Speaking of DNA, hypotheticals, and really crazy possibilities: let's assume some troll encodes an illegal ima
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Wikipedia blocked in Venezuela as internet controls tighten(netblocks.org)
2 points by gaius_baltar 8y ago|0 comments
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The WOMBAT Morse keyboard(epxx.co)
1 points by gaius_baltar 8y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
> Breast augmentation has been proven in studies to result in higher income over the long run. So maybe superficial, but definitely not silly. Did this study check for the obvious possibility of women of higher income being more incline
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
The part that really got me is the one regarding the photos that Israeli agents captured from Othman's laptop in Vienna. This looks like the surface of a deeper story -- why was a top diplomatic agent carrying highly classified informa
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FreeBSD Code of Conduct(freebsd.org)
4 points by gaius_baltar 9y ago|0 comments
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
I haven't noticed this extension sending data to outside services. Did somebody find if/where it does that? If it is sending personal or browsing-related data out, we can flood the servers with garbage.
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
I just question if this would bring us a better web than if the EFF remained in W3C.
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
This is great ! I have been emulating this feature for years with multiple profiles, but let's get things right: it takes some work and it is hard to teach non-techie folks how to do the same. Time to test the thing.
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
Personally, I think people should never use these services while logged in their Google account. Just keep the logged accounts in another Firefox profile and browse from an "amnesic" one (one which blocks third party cookies, have
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
> There are a lot of sites (e.g. Twitter embeds) where turning off autoplay also seems to break manually clicking play as well Pretty sure this is by design, as Twitter wants that content to auto-play. Forcing a poor experience for pe
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
Maybe I'm stepping into a hornets nest by commenting this but after some initial estrangement, I now absolutely love having systemd in the servers I manage. Thanks for providing me with an easy and sane way to manage processes, pretty
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by gaius_baltar 9y ago
> Each RingID has 40 characters We can't escape this because the canonical user ID is a public key (IMHO, that's a good thing) however there are some ways to transfer this information easily among users -- copy and paste is tri