rockskon

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by rockskon 3y ago
What would you consider wealth that is inherited, then? The wealthy people who did not, in fact, get their wealth by providing value to others?
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by rockskon 3y ago
What about almost any other website? Google aggressively abstracts away search terms and very often gives you something irrelevant.
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by rockskon 3y ago
Knowing how to navigate to websites directly seems important for laypeople to understand. There is point where dumbing down technology doesn't make it meaningfully more accessible but just serves to harm users. Hiding the URL bar is p
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by rockskon 3y ago
Wikipedia is also very poor when it comes to contentious political topics that the bulk of contributors are extremely passionate about.
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by rockskon 3y ago
From my (non-lawyer) understanding, if you have a coax cable connected to a cable modem providing Internet to your residence, your privacy is governed by https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/551 Other m
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by rockskon 3y ago
For what it's worth, the average tech-smarts in the legal realm and within the FBI are significantly improved compared to 8 years ago. This is just from my personal observation. That said, there are still tremendous gaps yet to be bri
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by rockskon 3y ago
The whole situation did seem pretty exceptional when I heard it and I felt like I was being exposed to an alternate reality where lawyers made security worse for everyone. That said I struggle to believe the sys admin had competent represen
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by rockskon 3y ago
Unfortunately I have no source to give. The FBI employee was just giving an example of illegal behavior he knew of. He didn't cite jurisdiction or the names of people involved. Hell - even if he did, I likely wouldn't have rememb
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by rockskon 3y ago
About a decade back, I was at an event that had an FBI employee presenting. During his presentation, he had mentioned a story of a sys admin who had been arrested for taking a hashed PW database in his company, comparing the hashes against
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by rockskon 3y ago
I have no sympathy for a company that operated at a loss for enough years to price out competitors to the point it was the only real game in town. You kill competitors and now want to dictate the price (including attention) everyone pays to
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by rockskon 3y ago
They're being offered 8 million here, no?
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by rockskon 3y ago
A lot of authors need to realize that the headline is the most important part of their article's content and not some extraneous bit information they can simply distance themselves from.
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by rockskon 3y ago
So one of your solutions to a service aimed at randomly match anonymous people is to get rid of anonymity? I asked you how do you solve the problem without defeating the purpose of Omegle. Your solution is the equivalent to someone asking
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by rockskon 3y ago
Because the intelligence community has interpreted it to allow them to collect enormous amounts of U.S. persons communications and have analysts parse it and read it to make a determination on its foreign intelligence relevance. Or if you&#
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by rockskon 3y ago
What ways could've headed off abuse thar wouldn't have defeated the entire purpose of the service - matching random people with each other?
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by rockskon 3y ago
The problem is that the hecklers use self-defined criteria of toxicity that isn't representative of broader society's views on what is toxic. Many assertions of toxicity in the modern era have as much relevance as assertions of Sa
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by rockskon 3y ago
The hunt for and branding of toxic behavior in online communities has long since felt like the secular version of religious fundamentalists claiming games encourage youth to become Satanists and engage in violent behavior. Many of those who
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by rockskon 3y ago
I always assumed the goal wasn't to minimize the time you spend in a UI but to find the maximum amount of time users will tolerate using a UI. At least for UIs that feature ads that is. The longer you're on the ad-spewing platfo
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by rockskon 3y ago
Weeb crowds are active in VR as well.
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by rockskon 3y ago
The issue here, as it always is when censors argue that their methods are simply the will of the masses, is that individuals aren't being given the freedom to decide for themselves if they like content or not. It's always the cen
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by rockskon 3y ago
So your argument is that if pirates don't stop it empowers people who hate pirates? If pirates stop, there's no alternatives to get a lot of media in many cases. There is zero incentive to stop because you can't get worse tha
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by rockskon 3y ago
The security of Android vs Apple keep ping-ponging back and forth for which is considered more secure against programmatic exploits.
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by rockskon 3y ago
My point is that it's highly unusual for a news outlet to outright remove an article as opposed to editing it and giving a note explaining why. Or a note saying the article is not accurate but leaving it up for historical purposes.
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by rockskon 3y ago
So why did they take the article down as opposed to only appending the note at the end of the article like they've done elsewhere? It's long been rumored that Google coerces news outlets to publish (or not publish) certain topics
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by rockskon 3y ago
They are hurting for talent. Each instance of high-profile bad press makes it harder for them to replace their aging workforce and makes companies more reluctant to give them any data or research assistance. Beyond that, they've had a
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by rockskon 3y ago
Why draw a distinction especially given AT&T is practically joined at the hip with the NSA?
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by rockskon 3y ago
Their defensive side has, for many years, been very publicly and vocally sidelined in favor of offense. Defense being given the limelight is relatively new.
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by rockskon 3y ago
I call shenanigans on that. I constantly see creators stress over unclear guidelines from YouTube with inconsistent enforcement on what content is or is not allowed or will or will not be monetized. If YouTube's priority was creators t
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by rockskon 3y ago
Why do you speak as if the human condition experiences only positive or only negative emotions? It's everything. Trying to stifle any of them leads to a bastardized experience. And YouTube comments used to be more raw and unfiltered t
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by rockskon 3y ago
I am arguing the incentive to lie isn't worth the risk in this case. And they're not likely to give sources because of the whole "protecting sources and methods" bias they have to not reveal how they know what they know.

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