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by rickmb 15y ago
Those are weasel words, non-apologies that only confirm the notion that the people who wrote this are actually sexist a-holes. It's an underhanded way of blaming the people that are offended rather than genuinely apologizing for doing somet
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by rickmb 15y ago
I'm still waiting for the Gmail team to explain how Google Analytics mail regularly ends up in my spam folder.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Privacy has a way broader social and legal meaning than the dictionary definition of the word. Narrowing it down to a oneliner from a dictionary is not particularly constructive. And yes, I would say if Twitter did that, it could well be a
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by rickmb 15y ago
The painful part of the whole entering the US thing is not the bureaucracy or the security theater. It's the people. The whole system seems to be filled with people that are trained to make entering the US an unpleasant experience. Even whe
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by rickmb 15y ago
Privacy is not about whether something is public or not. It's about being in control of your data. This is the fundamental misunderstanding that seems to be rampant especially in countries like the US that lack basic privacy regulations. Ju
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by rickmb 15y ago
This is strictly political agreement with very little effect in the real world. The ISPs want to be able to say "look, we're already doing everything we can to stop piracy, no additional legislation please", whereas the RIAA wants to be ab
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by rickmb 15y ago
I think you've just touched upon one the most fundamental of reasons why organisations fail to adapt to social and technological change: losing sight of the original mission. The same could be said about all those that are currently struggl
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by rickmb 15y ago
Really? Please enlighten me, what is Google+ (or Facebook for that matter) about if it isn't about advertising? Because as far as I know, every service that isn't about being so great people would pay for it is about advertising and nothing
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by rickmb 15y ago
The current political and legal sell-out to the US makes me, and I believe many fellow-Europeans, increasingly angry in a way that is fundamentally different from any anti-American feelings for instance during the Bush-years. Disagreeing wi
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by rickmb 15y ago
I doubt that. The vast majority of non-US websites has very little to lose from blocking US traffic. And I'm not talking minor sites either.
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by rickmb 15y ago
> Try finding yourself a job with a felony record. This in itself may serve to worsen America's problem. I don't know of any other country where employers bother to check such things (not to mention actually having access to such privac
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by rickmb 15y ago
You want to exploit something you consider "garbage" but which has a certain value to the people that create and/or perpetuate it, and you find it odd that it would piss those people off? This has nothing to do with "the internet" or Reddit
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by rickmb 15y ago
People get outraged at the abuse of copyright by corporations against the common good. Whether that abuse comes in the form of violating copyright or protecting copyright is irrelevant. Copyright isn't the ethical issue here. The abuse is
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by rickmb 15y ago
I would suggest they count on most people not using the full 1TB. Not really unusual.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I don't agree with that either. Respect and popularity can both serve as currency in virtually any society. If you want something for which popularity is the currency, by all means feel free to pursue it. It only becomes a problem when peop
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by rickmb 15y ago
I doubt this has anything to do with the "old class system", because you can see this pattern anywhere in Western culture.
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by rickmb 15y ago
AWS plus a dedicated sysadmin company delivering the same service level as a good hosting provider always seemed like the sweet spot to me. Barring scenarios where you actually need your own iron to deal with performance bottlenecks, it's t
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by rickmb 15y ago
Is this new? To offset this somewhat, many democracies have few to no directly elected officials, just elected representatives. Officials are then appointed by those representatives, to ensure a better process of vetting and appointing publ
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by rickmb 15y ago
Funny enough, almost every programmer I've ever met that I would identify as "punk" was seriously into coding craftsmanship. Nothing punk about their code.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Given Google's arrogant "we piss on stupid EU privacy sensibilities" stance, I wonder why Microsoft even bothers to poor gasoline on a an already raging fire. Besides, Google's anti-piracy and anti-privacy stance is largely opposed to every
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by rickmb 15y ago
Sorry, but 1 & 2 are trivial and relatively cheap to deal with. Legal issues can be a problem for certain services, but I see many services for which that is of absolutely no concern. Do you see any major legal issue for let's say, Quor
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by rickmb 15y ago
In what bizarro world do consumers trust companies that steal their private data without permission? Companies I trust don't break the law and violate my privacy. Contract, especially unwritten "social" contracts don't override the law.
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's different in that having your address book uploaded without your permission is actually being the victim a crime in most countries. At least posting it publicly is a voluntary act. Putting yourself in a situation where you are very l
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by rickmb 15y ago
So when exactly are we going to wake up to the fact that governments in the "free" West have over the past two decades implemented measures with respect to freedom of information, communication and privacy that in the decades before that we
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by rickmb 15y ago
PHP was originally designed for simple, procedural bits of logic inside individual HTML pages. In that context, there's nothing wrong with the feature itself.
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by rickmb 15y ago
The repeated comparison with Microsoft's "former" evil lacks perspective. Microsoft aimed higher and sought to pretty much own the entire ecosystem and everything in it . You don't need to kill of someone's revenue stream if you've taken s
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by rickmb 15y ago
In the real world, there aren't only great jobs and crap jobs. Most jobs are just jobs. Period. You put in work, you get paid. It's not horrible, it's not always great fun either, but it's neither awesome nor crap. This is what most people
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by rickmb 15y ago
I stopped caring a long time ago what journalists do amongst each other. Real journalists, the ones that dig until they find the truth, even if it is politically inconvenient, have become so rare that the word "journalism" has lost its mean
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by rickmb 15y ago
There's no age limit her. We're in our 40's, we watch a lot of series and movies, but we've rarely seen commercials in the past 10 or so years. Sometimes we start watching a show or movie more or less by accident, but that usually ends at t
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by rickmb 15y ago
Advertising makes me sad. I don't care about how good or bad algorithms are and how well the ads match the context or my personal interests. If any company tries to sell me something via advertisements, I walk away. It's anti-communication

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