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by gst 16y ago
If I were the government I would definitely operate a site such as riseup (and monitor the communication of the individuals using it). And even if it's not operated by the government, as the servers are based in the US, they are affected by
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by gst 16y ago
Quoting from https://help.riseup.net/policy/social-contract/ : "We ask that you do not use riseup.net services to advocate any of the following: Support for capitalism [...]" So why should I use such a provider that restricts my freedom o
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by gst 16y ago
"For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative all have to be offline, or responding with empty responses. Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherland
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by gst 16y ago
Nope. Someone commented that the situation in the US is actually not that bad, and that it's worse in Brazil: "Oh, c'mon, this sounds very over-the-top. My experience is that TSA and USCIS (formerly INS) are very professional and follow a s
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by gst 16y ago
"For example: After an incident involving an American in Brazil [1], all Americans were out of a sudden required by the Brazilian authorities to get pictures taken at the Brazilian customs. The situation got so ridiculous, that at some poin
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by gst 16y ago
That makes me wonder if there is a (hidden) bandwidth limit on browser usage too. Using the Web browser is currently free on the Kindle: While it only works if you register with a US address, it works worldwide. So I guess that there's a si
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by gst 16y ago
"I can't move an Android app onto my iPhone either, despite its lack of DRM, and whether the blocker is legal or technical is irrelevant." That's actually Apple's fault too. There is an Android runtime for iOS ( http://www.xmlvm.org/android
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by gst 16y ago
Even if they just have an index without the full copy it's not that hard to reconstruct a version similar to the original just from the index, as in an inverted index you typically do not only store the documents of a term, but also the wor
789.
by gst 16y ago
Based on Apple's current track record: Yes
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by gst 16y ago
"and neither HTML5 nor CSS3 is a standard, nor will either be for several years at a minimum" Actually, HTML5 will never be a standard (at least not one released by the WHATWG), see: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/HTML5-to-become-a
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by gst 16y ago
That's not scary, that's good. It's also inevitable if Ray Kurzweil is right and computers will soon exceed the mental capabilities of humans. It's only scary if you think in today's economic model where automation implies unemployment and
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by gst 16y ago
As a society it should be our goal to have all the repetitive and dumb work been done by machines. If a machine can do your job it wasn't that challenging in the first place. In that case your job provides absolutely zero benefits to the so
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by gst 16y ago
That's the ugly part about the whole thing: Apple takes quite a lot from the open-source community, starting at the kernel, continuing with the user-space utilities, up to the HTML rendering engine. And at the same time they threaten open-s
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by gst 16y ago
This "someone" would need to be the operator of the mobile network. As user you can't install your own applications on SIM cards.
795.
by gst 16y ago
"but the thought of setting foot on Mars raises hairs on the back of my neck and gets my heart racing" The thought of living the rest of your life in a small capsule with no possibility of getting back and with no real-time communication to
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by gst 16y ago
Maybe it's time for an HTML5 based Kindle app. From a customer point of view I wouldn't care as long as the functionality is the same. However, a main issue with this would be the limit space available via HTML5 databases on the ipad - afai
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Android Market poses remote installation risk(h-online.com)
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by gst 16y ago
Why should full disclosure procedures be different just because it's a mobile phone? To quote from Wikipedia: "In the case that a vendor is notified and a fix is not produced within a reasonable time, disclosure is generally made to the pub
799.
by gst 16y ago
I can fully confirm this (I've too lived in Europe and the US). Europe (Austria): I currently get data traffic at 4 Euros per GB. No monthly costs. Alternatively I can also get 9 GB for 8.80 per month. Also possible in combination with 4 Eu
800.
by gst 16y ago
"Love it or hate it, I guess I was right when I said you need to jump back into Facebook. As Web Professionals, we need to pay attention to this fundamental shift and act accordingly." Just because someone else is doing something does not m
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by gst 16y ago
The best resume I have ever seen is this one: http://www.squicky.org/cv/
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by gst 16y ago
Bcrypt (or scrypt) should actually be used as default for password hashing in application servers. Using something like crypt/md5/sha-1 hashing per default is just completely irresponsible.
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by gst 16y ago
In all of the cases so far (that I've checked) it seems that the registrar of the domain has been based in the US. So to seize a domain it would be sufficient to do this at the registrar level, instead of the registry level. If the domain h
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by gst 16y ago
Which would also make the products much more expensive. And I have a feeling that this money does not necessarily go into making the product more reliable, but that it is used to buy a better insurance.
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by gst 16y ago
What a coincidence. My Flickr pro account expires on Feb. 15 and today I've decided to move away from Flickr and not renew my account. What I've done in the short term is to use FlickrTouchr ( https://github.com/tominsam/flickrtouchr ) to r
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by gst 16y ago
I didn't deny that they are using Google's data. But it could be possible that they have some kind of generic approach not specifically targeting Google (or even search engines).
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by gst 16y ago
> "We do not copy Google's results (however, we do use them in 'creative' ways!)" What's the difference to what Google does by e.g. using newspaper articles in a "creative" way (by not only showing them in the search results, but by com
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by gst 16y ago
How do you know that they target search sites? This could also be a more generic approach: If there's a link from page A to page B also return page B if someone searches for page A's keywords and there are only few results.
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by gst 16y ago
Those things change fast. I remember when in the 90s most people preferred POP3 (for mail transfer), because for privacy reasons they didn't want their provider to have access to their mails. And quite a large number of people used encrypti
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by gst 16y ago
By 2030 we have long passed peak oil, renewable will not be able to provide sufficient amounts of energy, nuclear power will not be used in many countries because of irrational fears, and we will destroy the climate by using coal to produce

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