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811.
by gst 16y ago
Why not just block all 3rd party cookies in your browser config? That easily possible with Firefox and Chrome and almost all sites work fine without 3rd party cookies. Seems that 99% of the use-cases are tracking related anyway.
812.
by gst 16y ago
Makes sense. Especially after reading this article here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2122614
813.
by gst 16y ago
> Trademarks can be involved as well: e.g. you cannot resell Firefox and still call it Firefox. This shouldn't be an issue here, as they've changed the names. They, e.g., sell Scribus as "Desktop Publishing Studio".
814.
by gst 16y ago
I really hate those private messaging features available on most websites. If I want to be contacted on a given website I include my mail address (or a pointer to my mail address) in my profile. What's the advantage of duplicating the featu
815.
by gst 16y ago
Me too. I have an account so that people stop asking me to create an account. However, I've disabled most of the features in the privacy options (my account doesn't even have a "wall") and the only information for visitors is my "about" box
816.
by gst 16y ago
For me the decision is pretty simple: 1) I'm sometimes using untrusted networks (e.g., Wifi) 2) Google offers an SSL encrypted interface 3) Bing doesn't
817.
by gst 16y ago
Here's the Austrian provider that I use: http://www.bob.at/ (but there are also other cheap providers here such as http://yesss.at/ ). Both providers act as MVNO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operator ) using the
818.
by gst 16y ago
It isn't unlimited anyways, because the effective limit is the bandwidth available to your phone. Still, 500 MB is a joke.
819.
by gst 16y ago
500 MB is a joke. I currently pay 4 Euros per GB per month. That's it - no other fees at all (meaning: I do not need to combine this with a voice plan, I get voice for 4 Eurocents per minute [or alternatively 9 euros for 1000 minutes], and
820.
by gst 16y ago
I just want to add that nowadays "scrypt" (see http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html ) might be a better solution than bcrypt (suggested in the link). ("might" because scrypt is relatively new and therefore missing the numerous peer reviews b
821.
by gst 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
822.
by gst 16y ago
I still don't get the reason why I should use autho.me over OpenID. With OpenID the site to which I want to login redirects me to my OpenID provider. So the advantages are: - I login on the site of my OpenID provider and the site to which I
823.
by gst 16y ago
Designed in 1992... A shame that even today there are numerous Web applications that don't fully support it.
824.
by gst 16y ago
Yes - I know it :) And I also know the limits of encryption. But just because there are also vulnerabilities if you're hosting everything on your own server, doesn't mean that you need to surrender your data in advance.
825.
by gst 16y ago
I trust Google as a company. But as Google is under US jurisdiction it is affected by things like National Security Letter subpoenas (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter ). This is a type of subpoena that does not re
826.
by gst 16y ago
Global warming does not really matter (and we can't do anything about it). Oil production of almost all countries has already peaked (this is undisputed). The only nations where production hasn't peaked yet (Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia) are
827.
by gst 16y ago
I mostly agree. A good overview over the drawbacks of XMPP is also given on: http://about.psyc.eu/Jabber
828.
by gst 16y ago
If you use the SIM cards SMS storage (on a GSM phone) it's not that trivial to obtain the PIN. However, it's very likely that your mobile provider is able to gain access to the card (e.g., by using the PUK code to reset your PIN code). Othe
829.
by gst 16y ago
I was under the impression that there is no law in the US that requires me to surrender my password. Has there been any court decisions requiring people to surrender passwords?
830.
by gst 16y ago
But unless you do business in one of those countries you can pretty much ignore these laws.
831.
by gst 16y ago
firstname@lastname.name
832.
by gst 16y ago
If I were a spammer the first thing I'd do to my database is removing the "+something" part in each gmail address.
833.
by gst 16y ago
I use my personal domain with a mailserver running on a small fanless server (with full harddisk encryption) located in my basement. Software on the server is pretty much standard: Debian as distribution, Postfix for SMTP, Dovecot for IMAP,
834.
by gst 16y ago
Hello, I've checked out Serendipity earlier today and wanted to download it when I get back home. But now it's too late. Would it be possible that you send me the source via mail (my email address is in my profile)? Of course I'll take care
835.
by gst 16y ago
According to 10.2 at http://www.internet4jurists.at/urh-marken/faq_urh1a.htm#taus... downloading via P2P seems to be allowed: "Es geht dabei um das Problem, ob der Download eine zulässige Privatkopie darstellt. Nach dem Gesetzeswortlaut f
836.
by gst 16y ago
I don't need to justify "stealing" because copying is legal in my country (Austria): When buying harddisks or other types of storage (USB sticks) I have to pay a "private copying levy" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy ).
837.
by gst 16y ago
In my opinion this weakens both projects. As the ultimate goal seems to be to build a new framework based on the two, this means that every code you write today using on of those frameworks will be legacy code soon.
838.
by gst 16y ago
What would prevent the Chinese government from just blocking I2P? Also, while Tor isn't used in China there seem to be some other Proxy Services that are used. A non-tech-savvy friend of mine who is Chinese citizen and moved back to China o
839.
by gst 16y ago
"You don't need the repositories installed to see the software" So does this imply that there are no software upgrades (including security upgrades) if I install something not in my repositories?
840.
by gst 16y ago
Tax the ones who use the most resources. In my opinion an income (or wealth-based) tax systems is not really that optimal in a globalized world. Instead I propose a kind of resource-based tax systems: Instead of taxing income tax the amount

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