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15y ago
I use Ghostery as well for both FF and chromium. For instance, it blocked 14 tracking scripts from that techcrunch article. I love it. Edit: Also see http://www.ghostery.com/
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Perhaps the most incomprehensible blog post I've read in weeks.
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15y ago
From the literature I've seen, the realistic maximum amount of solar energy that can be produced through photovoltaic cells is about 40-50 watts per square meter. Although solar is exciting, there's just no way it can be used to replace fos
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15y ago
Copyright is a form of rent seeking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking It's not a tax per se, but a cost imposed by the state solely for the benefit of a private party. The original US copyright act allowed for 14 years of protec
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If you're monitoring the encrypted wireless traffic of a wifi router without busting the encryption, then what good are IP addresses? Do you even see IP addresses if the traffic is encrypted. Wouldn't you just see MAC addresses? And even if
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The indictment says they used a pen/trap device to monitor the wirless traffic. Does that mean they busted the encryption? I'm not saying that's a shock, it would seem more likely that they would monitor the traffic from the ISP's end rathe
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Compare the photo of him from Ars Technica to this one from 2007: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2007/The-Hac... Reading through the indictment it becomes clear that he outed himself through many statements that narrowed