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by negativity 14y ago
Yeah, but that's why it's a switch, and these features are defaulted to "enabled". Nothing wrong there. We need these switches. Taking them away is a bad, BAD idea. If the discussion were about how to provide access to these settings in a c
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by negativity 14y ago
What total bullshit. JavaScript should not be mandatory. It SHOULD ALWAYS remain controllable, and killable. That should stay in the hands of the users. The idea that "disabling JavaScript" is a bug and not a feature is repugnant to me. And
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by negativity 14y ago
I'm glad Linus Torvalds is smarter than your average developer. Truly a solid chap. If he were lacking these kinds of personality traits, and shrank like a mouse every time there happened to be an opportunity to compromise the integrity of
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by negativity 14y ago
God damn. I don't think I've ever disagreed with William Gibson. This documentary from 2003 (really a long-ish interview) was pretty interesting as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories
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by negativity 14y ago
I hate this in the exact same way I hate drones. I will hate people who use this in the exact same way I hate people who use drones.
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by negativity 14y ago
The tilde file names in windows harken back to ye olde days of MSDOS, where file names were only allowed to be 8 characters long, and the extension was only allowed to be a dot followed by three characters (aka: the "eight-dot-three" file n
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by negativity 14y ago
I seriously despise "search engine optimization" as an "industry" or specialization of this internet industry. What a bullshit term. Read it back to yourself: > Search Engine Optimization They're already liars. They aren't optimizing an
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by negativity 14y ago
Well, it's just an example. When a page is still compromised, and under the control of someone unexpected, you can't really anticipate the state of the page, and what it might deliver to your computer. I pointed that one out because it's a
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by negativity 14y ago
I'd just like to take the time to point out, that this is a direct link to a compromised page. Sure, the message is championing a tragic victim, but do you see how this isn't exactly the wisest move? Do I need to call attention to the recen
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by negativity 14y ago
Why, why, WHY does no one even question the idea of graphic signatures to begin with? This thing where we scan a piece of paper or paste in a little image has always smacked of forgery to me anyway? All I need is one image of your signature
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by negativity 14y ago
Loathe as I am to thank Microsoft (as a company) for much of anything, I'm glad to see that rational people actually work for them. It's awesome to see sane-minded people shed light on the realities of what information ultimately is, and ho
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by negativity 14y ago
Oh, ha ha! I thought this was an article about Ubuntu. Whoops!
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by negativity 14y ago
...and oh, how we wish it wasn't.
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by negativity 14y ago
If you stick a pair of charged contacts in a container of water, you'll see bubbles produced at each contact. The cathode produces hydrogen. Go get a 9 volt battery and try it right now. Just drop it in a cup of water. Presto! Hydrogen! Use
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by negativity 14y ago
The only reason Hollywood loves copyright law is because it provides a way for all of them to live the life they want. These people absolutely disgust me -- they don't give a shit about their loyal fans, they just want to live in their enor
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by negativity 14y ago
First Order of Business: The thought police have to weed out the service providers that won't play ball. We can't have any rogue independent thought enablers like Kim Dotcom floating around. So for now, while there are enough bit players an
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by negativity 14y ago
Oh, wait. I'm sorry I was thinking about an even sillier premise: " BORROWING " ELECTRONIC " BOOKS " and then " RETURNING " THEM , or else YOU PAY "LATE" FEES . Someone actually mentioned that idea to me, when we were discussing how the
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by negativity 14y ago
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this is beyond absurd. Really, now. It's on the level of: PAYING for ELECTRONIC "BOOK" "RENTALS" Think about that. Royalties, intellectual property, and blah blah blah aside... They insist on impl
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by negativity 14y ago
Usually the comments are more interesting than articles: 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642133 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4643175 3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4449680 4. http://news.ycombinator.com/item