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by generj 11y ago
How many users know how to edit their hosts file?
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by generj 11y ago
Also, a very big danger with non-FOSS analytics and ad services is that they are all, in effect metadata for governments to sweep up. It's much easier to log a bunch of Google Analytics requests than to log someone's entire Intern
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by generj 11y ago
I've often wondered if an ad blocker more like an anti-virus heuristic system could be created. It would look for suspicious looking JS and block it, as well as ban any code which auto-plays video or fullscreens. Add some machine learn
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by generj 11y ago
There are good alternatives to Google Analytics that are FOSS and allow you to self-host. Piwik is excellent and simple, and SnowPlow is very powerful if not user-friendly. Server logs are pretty unreliable, and don't give nearly the d
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by generj 11y ago
I guarantee job offers and a gofundme legal defense would be offered to any dissenting employees insanely quickly on this issue. If Tim Cook was really upset he could start a new company called "Screw the FBI LLC" which coincident
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by generj 11y ago
Aren't there some viruses which do more damage on reboot? And removing power could remove forensic information, if the virus was loaded exclusively in RAM. I think air-gapping would have been a wise move, but I would have kept the serv
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They have stated this numerous times in public (being careful not to outright state "China") as well as in their court docs.
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by generj 11y ago
To be fair, she said that as her final line whilst being fired. I certainly would have no sympathy for someone complaining about getting fired for saying that line, but if you are already on the way out and have been treated poorly...
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by generj 11y ago
Ah, OK. For some reason I had the mental image of a bunch of inexpensive ships which would surely sink if they got hit at high velocity. It's pretty incredible, given how large the rockets are, that the ship dwarfs them, but recalling
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by generj 11y ago
"If the jokes are true, the user does not exist in the programmer’s conception as an active or independent player. But they, rather that managers, are the ones programmers are working for. I wonder how software would change if the user
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by generj 11y ago
It's easy to see how the tech improvements we have had since 2005 are not economical technological improvements. For example, by 2005 (when the slowdown in Labor productivity began) most of the benefit of computers for most everywhere
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by generj 11y ago
Elon confirms 1st stage did not get a good landing https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/705917924972736512 Edit - text of tweet: "Rocket landed hard on the droneship. Didn't expect this one to work (v hot
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by generj 11y ago
It's impressive to see how involved she remains in the details of Adafruit given how large the company has become. I mean, she's CEO of a company with 30 million plus in revenue, but still is up at 3am to do a product launch video
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by generj 11y ago
Also, RIM actually folds to these types of requests. "RIM's carefully worded statements about BlackBerry security are designed to make their customers feel better, while giving the company ample room to screw them" - Bruce Sc
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by generj 13y ago
I like this post. I felt bad forcing my HTML to fit Bootstrap. Using @extends to keep everything semantic ensures my templates logically sound.
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by generj 13y ago
The concept of shutting down data centers by shutting off water at a local level is both amusing and probably more practical than reform by Congress.
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Nullify NSA |Nullify NSA(offnow.org)
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by generj 13y ago
There is a point where having strong opinions results in so much bickering that nothing gets done. Part of doing something the right way is reserving arguments for when they matter. The solution is to have strong opinions, weakly held.
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by generj 13y ago
I think this is mostly targeting people already using Amazon apps and services. I doubt we will see widespread adoption - there are so many analytics apps already, and practically all of them enable mobile tracking. Enterprises like to use
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by generj 13y ago
I second SnowPlow; the difference between them and other offerings (like Piwik) is that they don't attempt to be a Google Analytics knockoff, but have a distinct philosophy about how analytics should function. And there is a library fo
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by generj 13y ago
A five 9's website is much easier to achieve using multiple, redundant, data centers. Otherwise you end up with unforeseen events, like a tornado taking out power, or a backhoe incident, or internet outages.
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by generj 13y ago
In this world of quant-bots, I don't know how anyone can argue that we have a fully rational market. My understanding is that much of the progress in economics has been merging economics with psychology to identify rational failures.
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by generj 13y ago
I agree with this viewpoint, though I think it's also possible that a lone actor, frustrated with Obamacare, acted out using the only tools he knew in a 1/2 hour. It wouldn't surprise me if healthcare.gov was very vulnerable
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by generj 13y ago
Which is great, but I can't build an app on that. What I'd really like is a delivery estimate API, so I could stagger job submission to ensure an entire batch ended up in my user's hands on the same day.
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by generj 13y ago
I love the concept of Lob, especially the CDN for mail. I do wish the processing time was much lower. 2-3 days is quite a lot of time to wait on-top of the already slow USPS delivery. "All printing is processed typically within 2-3 bus
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by generj 13y ago
I was disappointed to see Bean get such a short stick in the new Ender's Game movie. But I understand sacrifices must occur during the book -> movie translation, and the movie was good on the whole.
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by generj 13y ago
> the federal agency responsible for providing health care services to tribal entities Wouldn't that be the IHS, which is underneath HHS? Suggesting a general disdain for security within the HHS? Healthcare.gov is underneath CMS,
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by generj 13y ago
Reflecting on the blogger sourced by Arstechnica, you are correct. The data is present in the URL (queryString) for the page, so there is nothing malicious about the analytics code, which is merely going about it's default of reporting
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by generj 13y ago
It provides better legal grounds to sue.
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by generj 13y ago
Google has the cash to lay their own now though. Or just buy a company which does. I wouldn't be surprised if they do so in the future.

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