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by nfnaaron 17y ago
SCO delenda est.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
2) complete security. But its being impossible to monetize would prohibit there being a network at all, wouldn't it? You can do this already with email and pgp, or encrypted attachments and pgp. You might get closer to the goal by making TH
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I had a very similar reaction as I scrolled down, somewhere between creepy and despair.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"My parents and I are the ones who know my school's absences policy, how my teachers feel about my missing school and what my grades look like – not anyone else." Most adults couldn't come up with a more polite and blunt "mind your own busi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
If a district employee came home with the student, while I was there, with my permission, and helped him or observed his work, I'd be OK with that. Again, with my permission and knowledge. If the same employee was peeking through the window
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
In the first graph, Traffic: What happened at approximately Feb-Mar '09 to benefit both sites? Yahoo reversed a decline, and FB accelerated. What happened at approximately June '09? Yahoo's rise reversed to a decline, which still continues
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I'm not black, black haired or female, but I was oddly fascinated. Nicely done site. GROU.PS, the platform it's build on, is interesting too. http://grou.ps/groudotps/wiki/22611
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I just emailed my school district to find someone I can talk to about this.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Not my work, but I posted something on a dial up ISP's forum years ago, and a reader there posted it to alt.humor.best-of-usenet. I did a search a few years later, and found it word for word posted on some advocacy site in Washington DC, at
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Exactly me too. Newest gives me a chance to upvote things that I'd like to see discussed.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
How much did the inventors of vaccines get paid? Probably a reasonable amount for their expertise and labor, but much less than the wealth they created in saved and enriched lives.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I thought for a few minutes and didn't come up with much in the way of "if you're not a nerd, at least do these things." One resource is AARP: http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourmoney/scamalert/articles/ Not focused exclusively on what you're l
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Or, crime might be even lower than it is now if we stopped locking up some carefully chosen portion of convicted criminals. From the wikpedia article: "One partial, but significant cause of high incarceration rates is that the United States
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I did see that post, started to skim it, but was uncomfortable with their tone. Page 4 Item 11: "systematic hyping." I realize you can't lay out your entire case by page 4, but I would have felt more comfortable with an indication of the ba
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
You label it denialism. I think it's closer to robust skepticism.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I believe every one of those words was at one time used in a professional medical context (your "original intent"), to mean a specific thing. Over time they were all co-opted by laymen (us) as insults. Anal-retentive is another such term th
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"everyone is way too sensitive about language and being a victim any time someone else says something careless." I'm still thinking in my own mind about the other points you raised, but +1 for exactly this. Kids (and sometimes adults) shoul
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The Google Buzz episode is an example of the risk of putting any data anywhere, regardless of how non-evil and trustworthy the data collector may be. I'm not saying you should pull all your data and buy a tarp and a shovel. But consider a f
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Sort of a). WSJ and NYT (and others) decide and control whether to allow entry to a walled article via google. This isn't a hack or a workaround, it's what WSJ and NYT want to happen (or they'd disallow it). You're not "cheating" when you e
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Suggest HN: For paywalled articles, enter the google search for the url
2 points by nfnaaron 17y ago|2 comments
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Note the form of this submission. The article is behind the WSJ paywall. Rather than submitting a direct link to the WSJ article, I submitted the google search for the article. This link will inevitably appear in a comment for the submissio
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WSJ: Microsoft Targets Phones(google.com)
1 points by nfnaaron 17y ago|1 comments
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Unfortunately, I've been unable to find the study in question again; so take the above with a grain of salt, as my memory is certainly fallible." That's OK, it's late in the week.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
That's a nice looking graph, you can see relative and magnitude changes quickly. But one thing I didn't like was having to roll over the circles to see what the points referred to. It's like a treasure hunt; I would prefer to see what the d
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
In this context, the etymology of "hysteria" is interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria#History
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
But as someone pointed out in another subthread, it doesn't matter if Google is the best secured, least spammed provider in the world (and they may well be), if they turn around and leak your contacts lists. The comments in the big long buz
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Here's a comparison of web mail providers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providers From that list I use fastmail.fm for outgoing (smtp). (Reasons of historical accident.) $5/year, no ads, satisfied so far. Another alt
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I really like Brief, a Firefox addon. I like minimalism. It has folders.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
One good thing came out of this mess. I went through all the various Google products I've used in the past and deleted as much of me as I could.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Microsoft will make a fine DMV.

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