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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Indeed. I wanted to see if I was on the list, but the site they set up to check looked pretty sketchy. They've clearly demonstrated I shouldn't trust them with my SIN (not that I ever willingly did in the first place!) so why shou
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
A step in the right direction, I guess. Ontario can be surprisingly conservative about these things... they only recently started allowing alcohol to be sold in grocery stores. Seems the initial round of legislation will legalize it, but wi
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
It is, and is related to some of the discussion in the main Equifax hack threads. The idea is that this information shouldn't be so sensitive because it isn't really secret in the first place. It also cannot be changed, so it do
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
The point is that it is NOT "identity theft", even if that's what people call it. It is more aptly "authentication theft/fraud". The original point of this comment thread was that the credit reporting agencie
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I've never understood the instagram / facebook game that people seem to dedicate inordinate amounts of effort to... I mean, I guess it's just your typical one-upsmanship in a social network... but still. People try so hard
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Any technology can be used in ways the inventor had not intended, and possibly would not wish.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
As some sort of comparison, imagine having to call an IT support guy to come restart your computer every 15-30 minutes... I'd lose my sanity before a single day was out. I imagine you very quickly identify software / features that
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
In contrast to the author's main complaint: For me, the camera is one of the least important features on the phone, and I'd actually appreciate a phone that did not have a front-facing camera. I really wish it was waterproof tho
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
That and it sounds like groups of workers regularly use the threat of suicide pacts to gain leverage over management-- not to improve conditions, or anything drastic-- just to get paid what they are owed .
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I don't know... if you're an 80s girl who got into computers despite lots of girls not getting into computers perhaps your experiences, and the hurdles you faced, are actually more interesting and relevant than the more "
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
"or tangible document", not "or other tangible documents" which would imply the "records" and "documents" had to be tangible , which they do not. Files are regularly referred to as documents and all
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
The darnedest thing about stereotypes and generalizations is that everyone is atypical in some way or another.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I don't think you can really conflate capitalism with philanthropy like that. They're just... different things. "Capitalism at it's best" isn't people giving away money... it's people being competitively
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
A similarly really annoying thing is when you find old technet articles, stack overflow questions, or blog posts that seem potentially really useful, but that have broken images, broken links, etc... so the content (possibly extremely usefu
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer? Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I was hoping for an image or video of the dung beetle in action... instead there were simply a large number of stills of dung-related insects around dung. Kind of disappointing, given the title...
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
If I make a website and put in a comment section, I'm well within my rights to curate it and prune content I don't subjectively find positive. If the government comes in and tells me to delete comments because they don't li
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I may be wrong, but I don't think they have historically claimed that, generally speaking... they've censored all manner of content that they simply don't like and been pretty unabashed about it. I mean, they may have claimed
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
There's a tremendous difference between private companies deciding what to do with their own platforms, and the government dictating what all companies must do with their platforms.
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Yeah, I really appreciate the spartan quality to the UI. IT simply lists the topics, be they link submissions or text-posts, with a score and a comment count. I also really like the Reddit forum / discussion UI. It makes it very easy t
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
They should invest in some PR to let people know it's a platform, not a monolithic community. Although some people identify as "Redditors" which kind of undermines that point...
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
"stun-locked" is video game terminology, at least as far as my understanding of it goes. Essentially some act "stuns" you, in this case a direct challenge or statement made by the guy verbally assaulting him sends him re
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I hope after waking them it doesn't linger too long or with too much potency... imagine "too much wasabi" in the air as you're trying to get ready to leave your dwelling.... your scalp just prickling constantly and your
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Fair point. Sometimes I think the police state that America has become was in large part facilitated by this kind of thing. Almost everyone is in violation of something these days. If the police or the state don't like you then surpr
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Then you'd be using your arrest / punishment as a form of martyrdom to draw attention to the issue. Kind of like civil disobedience... but criminal. You'd get arrested (as expected), fined or imprisoned (as expected), then be
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Not outraged at the laws, outraged at being persecuted. If you know something is illegal, and it carries a fine of $1,000 and you do it, you get caught, and they fine you $1,000 you can't be like "What?! How DARE you catch me and
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
That's why it's circumstantial. It like trying to tie an IP address to an individual. It's, at best, a proxy measurement of "who". For example, maybe people ordered drugs to their neighbour's address then waite
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Well at no point does that chain of events trigger a public witch hunt. Interpol now faces an ethical / moral / legal dilemma of how to proceed, but passing the addresses _up_ to Interpol was not a mistake. Now, if Interpol was to
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
Yeah but debating whether the law itself is bad is a separate discussion. Until the laws change people can't be outraged or surprised when they got caught up in them... Besides, it's possible that many of the users live in countri
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by mfoy_ 9y ago
I mean... if they released the addresses publicly, sure. But they just passed them along to Interpol...

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