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by neotek 11y ago
If you step back from the conspiracy theory stuff, why shouldn't the CIA have a VC fund? They have a vested interested in fostering technology that could serve their purposes, so why not ensure that technology finds the funding it ne
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Where does that argument end, though? Can we ban motorcycles because they regularly disturb my otherwise quiet street and frequently kill their riders, many of whom ride their bikes at irresponsible speeds that put other road users in dange
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A fairly high percentage of the fruits and vegetables you're eating are man made, insofar as they've been genetically engineered through selective breeding to produce things more palatable to the average consumer. Fruit in parti
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I think the author is saying neither of those things, but that bank software is pretty much uniformly rooted in the stone age, updates come at a glacial pace, and Apple could use its significant software engineering prowess to build somethi
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The collection of which you can decline during the setup process. Further, even if Apple could be said to own the analytics data you're talking about, they certainly don't make any claim over my data; that is to say, the informa
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Looks like spam, "bubble.kz" redirects to "bubble.is/?affiliate=9BJPDWAH".
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For what it's worth, you're a fantastic writer and this is one of the most enjoyable articles I think I've ever read. You've captured the essence of the subject perfectly, and your writing style is thoroughly enjoyable.
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I imagine that if all apps were web apps, then we'd have solved all of the issues you mention. Necessity is the mother of invention, etc.
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The difference is that restaurants sign up to offer their existing delivery services to customers through H&L and Menulog, who are merely the conduit through which orders are placed. It's still the restaurant making the deliveries,
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Anyone who enjoys this should absolutely watch This Is Jinsy[1], a British TV show based on essentially the same lines. It's surreal, whimsical, lo-fi, and utterly hilarious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_
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Poaching is registering a recently expired domain, usually so that you can (effectively) extort the original owner to buy it back from you.
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Your slippery slope is ludicrous, like when homophobes insist gay marriage will lead to people being allowed to marry their pets.
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>The fault here lies squarely with the websites. They choose to work with scum. It isn't much of a choice, since they're not allowed to use AdSense or any of the other major ad networks.
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What evidence do you have that Google is trying to block torrent sites specifically? It would seem to me, given the way the safe browsing report is worded, that it isn't the torrent sites themselves that are considered malicious, it&#x
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AdSense delivers a veritable shitload of ads with big blue download buttons.
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Absolutely, but those ads aren't usually pointing at outright malicious software, just shitty adware like download accelerators or whatever. Google's algorithms and manual approval processes have been pretty good at filtering out
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Pretty sure it'll be because of the semi-shady ad networks that service torrent sites and various other filehosts. The networks themselves aren't shady, per se, but they don't have the resources of Google to adequately police
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This is the advertising equivalent of clickbait - make a video about an ad which maybe ran a handful of times, if it even aired at all, in the hopes of that video going viral and stimulating press coverage. Pizza Hut recently did something
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by neotek 11y ago
I'd put money on it being an abuse of YouTube's Content ID. It's a common YouTube scam - find a video with a lot of views that's rising quickly, download it and reupload it to your own account and submit it to Content ID
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It absolutely changes things, there's a marked difference in severity between encouraging someone to call a number or respond in some other way to written instructions, and capturing their login details on a page they've been trai
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I feel it's a little disingenuous for the author not to mention up front that the fake page can't be interacted with, because it completely changes the severity of the vulnerability.
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This is pure speculation and I'm nowhere near qualified to speak with any accuracy, but perhaps it's the case that the processing requirements would reduce battery life too quickly. Although, having said that, "Hey Siri"
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My iPhone regularly reacts to words that sounds like "Hey Siri" when I'm listening to audiobooks using the in-built speaker.
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>The client paid for ADP access and has every right to use whatever means they deem necessary to input or output data from the ADP system. Surely ADP has a superseding right to determine how information enters and leaves their system? I&
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Very much looking forward to reading about this on Daring Fireball.
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Chalk me up as another person who did exactly the same thing (Novell and everything), only I got expelled for it.
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Thank you, I'll do as you suggest.
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I've wanted to do this (implant an RFID chip, not exploit Android phones) for a while now but I can't figure out how to get it done here in Australia. Anyone have any suggestions?
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by neotek 12y ago
You could argue that, in a sense, Google already punishes sites with annoying features like in-page popups and mandatory Facebook logins, in the same way it punishes all sites with annoying features - if you load a page and then hit the bac
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by neotek 12y ago
I think you're firstly mischaracterising what Stallman is saying, and secondly forgetting exactly who Stallman is. This isn't just a list of attributes with "NO" written next to it, Stallman's outlaying precisely wh

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