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by larkeith 8y ago
...or you pay with card, politely decline a membership and email receipt, and provide a trivial amount of tracking data compared to the amount Amazon gets from you merely visiting a product's page.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Mainly PR - at $200k/person, you'll be losing millions on every flight.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Not quite Marianas Trench levels of remote, but the first place that springs to mind is Antarctica; I'm not familiar with the organization of the various research stations, but there is presumably some number of support staff needed on
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by larkeith 8y ago
"...and one [scam] so simple we are banned from telling you about it." Interesting.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I can see niche applications for this type of technology - consider people consigned to a clean room in a hospital, or a Mars habitat, or any other situation with severely limited olfactory experiences. When it comes to the average consumer
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by larkeith 8y ago
If I were considering going to Harvard, knowing that there was recently a widely publicized controversy surrounding their acceptance criteria would certainly make me think twice - apart from the moral concerns of supporting such an institut
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by larkeith 8y ago
One thing you almost certainly want to change is the site's behavior with Javascript disabled - right now, it just shows a white screen with the text "Loading FWD:Everyone". It's a bit of a pet peeve for me to see pages
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'm not sure I would call it twisted - it's humorous to watch, but not particularly malicious, and if there are truly no devices in any of the fans it could even be construed as a gesture of good faith. I, for one, appreciate th
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by larkeith 8y ago
Would the magnets in the motor interfere significantly with radio transmissions? Not that it would preclude devices being housed inside either way, just introduce complications.
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by larkeith 8y ago
> On the other hand, I would also guess that no serious journalist will contemplate using a free device provided by a rogue nation just in case. I disagree. While tech-minded journalists may be aware of the risks of untrusted USB devices
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by larkeith 8y ago
Query: if this directive passes and the outcomes are in line with the negative predictions, what happens? If it becomes standard practice for all except certain large corporations to ban all EU addresses, how will this impact the web and th
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by larkeith 8y ago
There's a reason Arthur C Clarke's short story Superiority was once required reading at MIT [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_(short_story)
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by larkeith 8y ago
Components do not degrade significantly in the lifespan of a phone. Websites are generally no more intensive than when the S5 came out, and there's no reason for apps to be either. "It's old" is a worthless excuse for po
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by larkeith 8y ago
Honestly, whether he was caught in a crossfire, intentionally banned, or even received a response meant for someone else, this is still utterly inadmissible. There is no possible situation an email of this sort is acceptable in any sort of
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by larkeith 8y ago
Another half (read: limited-scope) search engine that springs to mind is Shodan.
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by larkeith 8y ago
You could probably become effectively impossible to track by getting a Librem laptop (no Intel ME [1], hardware kill-switches), running some variant of Linux, using Tor or a secure VPN, and disabling Javascript (there's probably other
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by larkeith 8y ago
It's technically infeasible to locate someone via CCTV unless you have an accurate location already, for precisely this reason - there's a massive surfeit of data to search through, and current facial-recognition software is incap
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by larkeith 8y ago
To be specific: YouTube blocked all of Blender's videos, globally, and only restored them after Blender published a blog post on it and moved to PeerTube.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Utter layman's guess: While indexing has gotten easier, the web has expanded exponentially in the meantime - likely far outstripping any technical gains. I would be surprised if indexing the modern web is feasible without significant
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'm unsure what will happen if a company stores their data in the blockchain then receives a deletion request, but any attempt to remove data from the blockchain itself would be inherently unenforceable - by design, as any blockchain t
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by larkeith 8y ago
While I agree that the author's method likely helps comprehension and retention, I disagree with his premise that it is necessary for these, or even particularly time-efficient. His key factor seems to be "Learning comes from repe
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by larkeith 8y ago
Eh, it has higher information entropy than many other articles, on an interesting subject. I don't see anything wrong with this type of content being linked - it's not like the ad part is obnoxious, and the author's agenda is
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by larkeith 8y ago
A responsible company might be expected to put up some sort of portal that allows a user to check if they've been compromised. Of course, "responsible" and "data aggregation company" rarely belong in the same senten
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by larkeith 8y ago
Direct link to article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-data-breach-may-have... (Current address is another site that blockquotes the majority of the article).
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by larkeith 8y ago
Still, it's certainly a welcome change, and a step in the right direction. I wonder what the best way to combat large-scale astroturfing on a platform like twitter would be; My first thought would be a rep system akin to those of Stack
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by larkeith 8y ago
Unlike the Carcross, this one receives too much rain to be classified as a semi-arid desert.
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by larkeith 8y ago
You may be conflating liberal (those who agree with the political ideology) with liberal (used inaccurately to describe supporters of the Democratic Party), though I doubt you would find significant support for civil forfeiture among either
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by larkeith 8y ago
By my limited understanding, I believe that they could, as there is no limit akin to maximum fines with regards to civil forfeiture - as in this case, where the maximum of $10k was circumvented. Moreover, it does not require proof of guilt
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by larkeith 8y ago
In a case like this, does that mean that Smyte (the company, even if they no longer own the trademark) still exists and is liable for all the penalties? Would they usually ask for the cash to pay for them as part of the asset purchase?
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by larkeith 8y ago
This has been on the horizon for years now, and the changes will probably be mostly beneficial to the community and creators, but I can't help but feel something essential has been lost. Youtube, to me, seems like something of a weathe

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