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by jungletek 10y ago
Anecdotal evidence, of course, but nobody I know is using Curse, nor is it on our radar. TBF, this is probably due to a lack of interest in the group of certain games where the Curse client may already have a foothold, AND the fact that our
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by jungletek 10y ago
Not sure if clever joke, or irony. (The lower-case 'P' in Polish)
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by jungletek 10y ago
I'm sure it's just a total coincidence. Either that or they must have been real bad hombres. /s, of course...
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by jungletek 10y ago
Dries Buytaert's response, linked from his (at this time) most recent tweet: http://buytaert.net/tag/living-our-values Living our values!!! JFC... I don't think he understands the actual implications of the v
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by jungletek 10y ago
They're not bad at it, they simply choose not to.
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by jungletek 10y ago
>[...]pirates don't rip from Netflix anyway. Tell that to the 4k webrips on the private torrent trackers; I'm sure they'll be surprised both by the fact that they exist, and have apparently gained sentience.
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by jungletek 10y ago
Guess they never learned about Nietzsche... “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
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by jungletek 10y ago
If you outlaw GIF, then only outlaws will have GIF. Also if GIFs can be a 'deadly weapon', then does that make APNG a WMD? YouTube a tool for genocide?
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by jungletek 10y ago
You want to use 'elicit' here, my dude :) -Your local HN spelling pedant.
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by jungletek 10y ago
If the 'goal' of this policy is, as postulated elsewhere in the thread, to allow physical access to devices in order to deliver malware, etc., then how would you know your wiped device hadn't acquired a bootkit along the way?
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by jungletek 10y ago
I'm sure if you made a (perhaps public) fuss about their lack of security in the locker rooms, they'd be willing to cancel with no penalties. You could probably also argue that such a failure constitutes a violation of their end o
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by jungletek 10y ago
Sorry, but that's some victim-blaming bullshit. I had a laptop LCD destroyed by TSA when one of their lackeys idiotically pushed so many bins through the x-ray machine that it caused mine, and several others at the tail-end of the mach
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by jungletek 10y ago
Perhaps, probably, etc. But never underestimate your opponent, and all that...
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by jungletek 10y ago
Believes in sky-wizards and Intelligent Design, yet bitching about the lack of scientific rigor w.r.t. climate change. Real consistent, Scott.
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by jungletek 10y ago
FYI, it's 'rite', in this context, as in 'ritual' :)
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by jungletek 10y ago
>Your long sentence is not hate speech. "I hate muslims" is. No, it's not. Edit: Big surprise that this got a quick downvote with no comment. Really helpful feedback. Either cite some law supporting the statement in questi
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by jungletek 10y ago
>I cannot search with Google in the search bar. (This is in Linux Mint) It's certainly possible, it's one of the first tweaks I make on a fresh install. You may have to add a search provider, or change the default, but it'
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by jungletek 10y ago
CE-BROS?
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by jungletek 10y ago
Guess India solved all their other problems then, to have time to get worked up about something so ridiculous.
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by jungletek 10y ago
Any non-Facebook mirror?
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by jungletek 10y ago
Software that doesn't respect user settings. In this case, the fear is that wifi-capable devices may just associate with a random unsecured access point, on purpose but 'covertly', to send and/or receive unknown data, at
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by jungletek 10y ago
I remember those signs! They have one of my favorite Dutch words, 'zakkenroller' (pickpocket) :)
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by jungletek 10y ago
Password Safe is a (Bruce Schneier recommended) alternative. Free, runs locally. I'm a big fan. https://pwsafe.org/
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by jungletek 10y ago
It's been done already. The consensus, IIRC, is that it sucks compared to 'natural' forms, is too strong, lacks the 'secondary' active ingredients that many need/seek, and exists as a profit source and a source
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by jungletek 10y ago
>I see the US as the mecha of frauds Oh god, I'm imagining a fraud-based Gundam now, thanks. FYI, you want 'Mecca' in this context. A 'mecha' is typically a reference to giant robots, etc. https://en.w
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by jungletek 10y ago
It would be more effective than snarky, defeatist comments...
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by jungletek 10y ago
Yay, the illusion of security!
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by jungletek 10y ago
When you're discussing facts and figures, emotional responses are irrelevant, if not distracting.
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by jungletek 10y ago
Ahem. "Whom".
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by jungletek 10y ago
Did you even try google, or the author's web-page dedicated to this book? Just sayin'... http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

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