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by negativity 13y ago
Oh god. What awful, awful ideas you have. Where to begin? Okay, let's start with: How on earth will you ever know what your machine is actually doing? Do you just run around downloading random .sh and .bat files and say FTW and run the
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by negativity 13y ago
In that inexperienced users are not well-informed of the option to disallow it, and might not understand that indiscriminate, promiscuous execution of JavaScript as a default behavior can be hazardous. ...at least as hazardous as connecting
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by negativity 13y ago
Does this mean that Linux, and other Unix variants (but not Mac OS of course, because Apple plays ball), will be classified as a "Hacker Tool" in the eyes of the law?
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by negativity 13y ago
...and remember, kids. JavaScript is now compulsory.
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by negativity 13y ago
They're probably sitting on a stockpile of material, and would have to write it off as a loss. Either that, or they're committed to contracts with suppliers. Note the following from the article: we took science ... to the comp
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by negativity 13y ago
Grey goo scenarios will start like this. This is like the preview version of a grey goo crisis except with training wheels, where the particles are rendered inert and dead by the time they become pollutants, and don't actually self-rep
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by negativity 13y ago
Finny is a perfectly cromulent word, sir...
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by negativity 13y ago
I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
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by negativity 13y ago
It gets finnier if you imagine Stephen Hawking saying "I told you so." to Leonard Susskind. D'OOOH... WERNSTROM!!!
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by negativity 13y ago
Totally cool. I understand that it's a custom prototype/ proof-of-concept project. Network topology is definitely the major factor determining any real security exposure of the appliance on a given network, but it seemed like an u
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by negativity 13y ago
I don't care if Mr. Broadbent does this. And I'll admit, that yeah, this project is way cool! But if I live in an apartment building, and my belongings can be burned to the ground because the apartment above me decided to put thei
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by negativity 13y ago
There are 4 really bad ideas from the article: 1. Clock is automatically updated from the internet 2. The microwave has a web page so you can control it from your phone (why not), and set up cooking instructions for produ
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by negativity 13y ago
Really? Because I'm not.
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by negativity 13y ago
Here's an article from back in 2009 that rings a bell: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8147534.stm Basically, the shared ground of the local electrical infrastructure of any given building may act
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by negativity 13y ago
Okay, I don't disagree with the ideals behind that sentiment. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
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by negativity 13y ago
I was asking/am asking for an elaboration on #5 only. I think I have an idea of what you mean by it, but it might be better if you spelled out exactly what you're saying with #5, so that I don't misinterpret it. I don't
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by negativity 13y ago
#5 [...] Indignation is reserved for private citizens, so use it on their behalf but don't expect them to rise up in defense of themselves. Can you elaborate on that? In particular, the "use it on their behalf" and
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by negativity 13y ago
TOR is not a perfect solution though. At least, not by itself. In many ways I feel like TOR is about as secure and reliable as WEP is for wi-fi. Is that an unfair assessment of TOR?
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by negativity 13y ago
The worst part is that this is almost completely unsurprising.
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by negativity 13y ago
I disagree. It's really easy to turn on and off. And requires all the technical expertise of tying your shoelaces. Tools/Edit > Options/Preferences > Content > click "Enable JavaScript" > OK Disable it for 30 seconds, while
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by negativity 13y ago
That's a superficial (perhaps naive) view of what JavaScript is capable of in a browser like Firefox. I'm not interested in having heatmaps, timers and other metrics recorded simply because I want to read the news. Not to mention that I als
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by negativity 13y ago
As an aside, I happened to notice in a recent nightly build of Firefox 23 that they took away the "Enable JavaScript" check box on the options/preferences applet in the Windows build. If they relegate that setting to about:config that's pro
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by negativity 13y ago
I'd be willing to go out on a limb and estimate that maybe some private interests in Hollywood, with certain four letter acronyms, despise open source media player projects like VLC, since they might represent a channel that can potentially
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by negativity 13y ago
I love the polite, hoity-toity tone of the euphemisms used for some of the more horrible functions: "Please go here", "Visit ground", "Kiss off", "Be punckish"
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by negativity 14y ago
> That beekeepers are good enough at and persistent enough about shopping for the relative quality of the syrup they are buying to be relevant is entirely unbelievable. I'm going to paraphrase that statement a bit: "It's entirely unbeli
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by negativity 14y ago
You're totally right. #5 isn't a precise enough statement. Thus the natural conclusion is that corn syrup across the board is simply prone to being a little bit dirty in general. Enough that the bees notice the poison which they are acutely
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by negativity 14y ago
Gee, seems like there's a lot of rabble rabble rabble going on here. I have an inclination to disagree with the "No one knows why" part. I was given the firm impression way back in 2011(?) that colony collapse disorder was understood to be
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by negativity 14y ago
Yeah, totally. Not to mention that you basically can't leave your machine powered on and unattended anymore, lest the operating system decides to get frisky and update itself without asking first. And still worse are the times when you're r
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by negativity 14y ago
So, kind of like TV, minus the plugs or batteries. (...and maybe VCRs that prevent you from dubbing VHS to VHS)
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by negativity 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie

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