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by joopxiv 11y ago
I've used Blendle and kind of like it, but I wonder what its effect on newspapers will be. The model of paying per article encourages clickbait. Their way of countering this is that you have the option to get a refund if you thought th
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by joopxiv 11y ago
How would that work? If you would use a private key to authenticate to the server you would still need to protect this key with a password. Otherwise stealing the private key will get an attacker access to the server just as simple.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
In that case you can't just store the hash of the password, you will need to password itself.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
The fact that there are ways to obtain passwords even when they are not stored unencrypted is not really a reason to make it as easy as possible for malware to get every password on your system.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Or a master password if using the keyring is too complicated for them.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Someone explained that after he got some malware on his computer and subsequently all his websites were hacked. The response? Once you've got malware on your computer, you've lost already, game over. You need to prevent the infec
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Was about to post the same thing. If this crap is posted by a contributer I'm moving away from it as fast as possible.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
"Destroying the workplace" is a bit of a hyperbole.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Basically no. If you want to sell for example 100 shares, you need to find a price that you have enough buyers to sell them, in this case they decided on $9. If afterwards there are 5 buyers that want to pay $14 for a share, then the price
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by joopxiv 11y ago
I can agree with this, but I think the hardware tokens compared to regular client certificates have the same issue: better average case (if it works it much easier to use it on multiple machines) but worse worst-case (a missing driver will
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by joopxiv 11y ago
I would argue that using a client certificate would be a much more practical way for web authentication. This would eliminate the need to start a SSH session when trying to login.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
In my opinion this is acceptable. It's probably even functional: the content of the first search might very well affect the results of the second search.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
The qualification 'permanently' might be a bit premature... He might also open source the code behind Browser Popcorn, so it's possible that another developer will revive it in the future.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
I like that she doesn't censor the 'authors' of the messages. Public shaming might be the only remedy against this creepy shit. But that may very well be naive thinking: if these guys would think they were doing something wro
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Because he can say: I will pay you once you've done this or that. If the outstanding amount is large, you are more likely to go along with this, because you're hoping it will get you your money without legal action. If the amount
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by joopxiv 11y ago
> ... this patent is not valid under current law. Yet it was approved. And with the current system, it will cost more to fight it than to give in to the extortion of the patent trolls. > In the case of drug patents, it enables drug re
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by joopxiv 11y ago
The whole patent system is mindbogglingly stupid. How this extremely obvious abuse can continue without any meaningful reform is beyond me.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
If you really think this is such a ridiculous idea, I suggest you read Ryan Holiday's "Trust Me, I'm Lying".
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Spotify does wait for the user's consent. That's the whole point of agreeing to the privacy policy. Apart from that, Spotify doesn't have anything to do with basic principles of journalism, because they are not journalists.
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by joopxiv 11y ago
"Upon opening the Spotify app up this morning..." "FORBES contacted Spotify for a response and is awaiting comment." This tells you exactly how much time they waited for Spotify to respond. This is 'iterative journa
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by joopxiv 11y ago
How I understand this, for this system to work, all data on the server needs to be encrypted with the same key. If I were Alice, I think I would still be reluctant to put my medical records in the cloud, if the key used to encrypt my data i
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by joopxiv 11y ago
> 'I have a masters degree' is, of course, ad-hominem fallacy. No it's not. You might argue that it's an argument from authority, which is a different thing, but in this case, I think a master's degree in public
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by joopxiv 11y ago
Being from The Netherlands, this article confirms my initial suspicion. Here, the only cyclists who wear a helmet are tourists (much more likely to get into an accident due to inexperience) and people riding a racing bike for exercise (much
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by joopxiv 11y ago
I don't really get how WoW led to Glassdoor, just because he got a call the day after he hit 'max level'. Correlation does not imply causation.
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by joopxiv 12y ago
I don't think this is what he means with infinite scrolling. Afaik, infinite scrolling is like Facebook, which loads new (older, actually) posts when you get near the bottom of the page.
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by joopxiv 12y ago
As these contributions were already made public, nothing has been revealed.
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by joopxiv 12y ago
Last time I checked, employees definately were people.
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by joopxiv 12y ago
> if there is a public interest in the matter then they should be left free to continue doing it. But there's not. Public interest is not the same as a public being interested.
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by joopxiv 12y ago
I've had zero hours contracts as well. My working hours were still scheduled in. All it did for me was when I was sick for a few weeks, they just stopped scheduling me in so I would receive sick pay. Uber drives can at any given point
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by joopxiv 12y ago
The damage would be a lot worse than $500.

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