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by nsmartt 14y ago
I upvoted you because I agree with the majority of your comment, but, to be satisfied, I have to say the following: Make sure that any company you damage is one of those institutions with no respect for privacy.
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An alias is the sort of command you use often, or an interesting new way of using a command you use often (e.g. ls). That's the difference.
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It's being argued that his trial is a cause of his suicide. If so, his fight did lead him to his death.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I disagree. Building a community around open-ended questions like this is next to difficult. SE was able to counter this because of the nature of the allowed questions. A website with the premise of "ask programming questions that do not ha
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Minus the ability to select an answer, voting on best answers doesn't seem ill-suited for these types of questions at all. It seems to me that removing answer selection would be all that's necessary to create a place for discussion.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
"We’ve decided that access to guns is more important than our safety, that more guns equals safety, or that it’s a settled political issue." This clearly shows a desire for stricter gun laws.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
The same happened to me, but the "join now" link was gone, suggesting it worked.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I'd love to put Firefox OS on my iPod Touch. I feel a little dirty for owning this thing.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
While the name says 'dead programmers,' he doesn't specify that a programmer must have died to reach that status. 2 of the examples he provides are living.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
While this is not wrong, markdown involves much less typing than HTML. Also, should one need to use HTML, markdown does allow one to switch between HTML and markdown.
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I don't necessarily disagree that it's flimsy, but intolerance is fairly common around my community. Racism is on the decline by the younger generation, but it's by no means invisible or gone. The presence of prejudices in the South (assumi
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by nsmartt 14y ago
This doesn't need to pass through Congress. It's a company choice.
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A cheap device with tremendous ease of use and explicit details about security and how to deal with it would appeal to a set of informed consumers, and appeal wildly to a broad set of developers and hackers. I don't see a failure to gain tr
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I mistakenly left off a key part-- it needs to manufactured with those goals in mind. Thank you, though. I'll certainly consider this if a viable alternative never arrives, but I'm downgrading from an awful Alcatel Android device to a "dumb
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by nsmartt 14y ago
> I think Stallman is far too extremist The more I see of Apple, Microsoft, and others, the less I think so. I certainly don't see eye-to-eye with him on everything, but it's becoming clear to me that we need alternatives that fit his
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I misspoke. Most programs use system decorations, but I do prefer the way Chrome has an option to use its own alternative.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I don't like the window decorations of most window managers. Openbox allows users to set keyboard shortcuts, customize a menu that's always a couple of keystrokes away, and the window decorations can be customized as well. It's worth toler
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by nsmartt 14y ago
On Linux, Chrome has an option to use system decorations. Does it lack that option on other systems?
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by nsmartt 14y ago
If Firefox had a GUI that didn't rely on the window manager's decorations (a la chrome), I would switch in a heartbeat. As it stands, using Firefox on Linux (Openbox) feels like a huge step back from Chrome.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I address this. It was something of a weak example, but I do mention that Jane realizes her privacy settings were inadequate, at least for tagging. It's already too late at this point. That particular example was one of oversight on the par
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by nsmartt 14y ago
The problem I present is that Jane doesn't want anyone to know because she doesn't want undesirables, such as coworkers or family, to know. It's not likely that someone will vindictively send pictures of Jane having what they, if they were
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I disagree that it isn't Facebook's problem or that you have only yourself to blame. Facebook is aware of this problem, and it's good for their bottom line. It's not in their best interest to encourage privacy, so they don't. In fact, they
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I see you neglected to read the rest of my post and didn't consider any of the possible implications of said party. A party unwittingly attended can cost many opportunities. Employment, friends, standing with family, and the party was only
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I don't pity the individual who gets bitten by his or her ignorance. I fear for consequences on a much larger scale. This ignorance, well, false sense of security, will likely have broader implications in the long run. The scale and where t
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by nsmartt 14y ago
It's a lot more than pictures and text. Jane goes to a party but doesn't want anyone who wasn't there to know. Jane's friends post pictures of her at said party. Now everyone who checks Facebook before Jane sees that she's been tagged in th
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by nsmartt 14y ago
It's more like blaming people for eating at Chick-fil-A. They're supporting a company that is, in our eyes, committing a moral wrong. The difference, in the case of Facebook, is that they aren't necessarily aware of this moral wrong.
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In this case, the reason would be that the work of Ritchie is the foundation for pretty much every mobile operating system, OS X, and Linux.
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Yes, like cell phones, but no. Privacy hasn't died yet. The problem isn't that Google Glass exists or that cell phones exist. The problem is awareness. The problem is the same for cell phones.
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I don't agree with your accusation of paranoia. Keeping detailed notes on everywhere you go isn't something that would be done as lightly as putting on a pair of glasses. You would consider the implications of the existence of that data bef
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Though Glass is amazing, it will give a whole new meaning to tracking user information. As you get information regarding what you're seeing, Google is logging everything you see. A map with with a line detailing everywhere you've been over

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