scott_karana

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by scott_karana 9y ago
In case anyone missed it, 'amirrajan is the author of the submission :)
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Didn't Hasbro and Tomy create Transformers explicitly as a marketing/ sales vehicle?
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I'm sure they have Referrer metrics, and could add a "from Random" flag. The UI could even continue doing separate random programs, but allow the watcher to say "Keep Watching this", locking in their choice and maki
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by scott_karana 9y ago
They could even sell a "pseudo DVR" box, with themed channels, scheduled movies, in addition to all the usual streaming features.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
That attitude sure turned out well for Opera.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Those are not mutually exclusive. It's worse to be systematically hounded online and then subjected to regular bullying.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Why would you hear about it from Canadian sources, if they're getting gagged?
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Surprise! All of those things can, and do, still happen. Plus, the Internet silently facilitates a lot more of that behaviour despite being in the "safety" of the home. Citations needed.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
The author mentioned http://qutebrowser.org/ in the article :-)
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I suspect you're right, but it would certainly be a tectonic event, and could potentially affect Linux's competitiveness until equilibrium recovered. And you're right about "most" being wrong. "Many" would
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by scott_karana 9y ago
It was never an add on. It's built into the core of the browser. You can hide its button, but all the code is still there.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I'm told that Chrome has been faster fixing security problems for quite some time (and their sandboxing model was better by default until e10s rolled out globally), so the only valid concern is likely to be Privacy. :-(
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by scott_karana 9y ago
If they roll out the "Firefox user affluence survey" and start reading all your bank account balances (or do whatever you would find objectionable) I'll make sure to remind you of this post.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
When Pocket was first added, it was an independent company with no signs of any acquisition by Mozilla. It was not added to the browser as an "add-on" but as core code. Sure, you could hide the button, but... it's still there
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Linux distros are a terrible example. Not only do they all rely on Torvalds and everyone else for the kernel (heavily funded by donations, companies, etc), but most Linux distributions are just cosmetic variations of the largest upstream di
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I've noticed that my TV takes a while to change resolution+refresh rate, which typically happens in concert with switching inputs to/from my Chromecast. Hardcoded "everything is NTSC" vs a mutual handshake/negotiati
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by scott_karana 9y ago
If we're talking about Mendelevian use of alleles that exist in a species already, sure. But have you seen those glow in the dark aquarium fish? Or the tomatoes that use flounder DNA to make them hardier in the freezer? How rigorously
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by scott_karana 9y ago
> 3) The developers responsible were having fun with an opt-in research service. Having fun at whose expense, though? Widely deployed platforms used for extremely sensitive, personal materials shouldn't be subjected to "for fun
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by scott_karana 9y ago
GP meant the style of writing English , not code. Funny messages almost always end up causing problems at the end of the day.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Except that the incumbent ISPs virtually always have right-of-way agreements with municipalities, granting them exclusive cable rights. Many states even legally prevent municipally-run lines, which is frankly ridiculous. Thailand is lawless
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by scott_karana 9y ago
"North America"? Please do not lump Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in with your fiasco.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
True, but it does make it much harder to do while at school (if enforced passably), which is likely when much of it occurs already.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I was excited until I realized that HSTS Preload is just a hardcoded list in the Chrome source!? Ugh, that's sort of disappointing :( Couldn't something like a TXT record also address this, but on a cross-client, scalable fashion?
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Not a bad "spitball"/brainstorm idea, but what about slower clients? Mobile, screen readers, etc? And what about abuse via advertisers, injection, cross-site, etc?
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by scott_karana 9y ago
This ban doesn't protect them from regular in-person bullying. Just crowd-sourced, Internet scale bullying. Ever had your photo released mockingly, and been laughed at by an entire school? Or even millions?
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by scott_karana 9y ago
WebSockets leverages TCP and is based on/compatible with HTTP. Nothing new about it, at least in the sense the article is discussing.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Invoking via cmd is not comparable at all. If it was direct to Powershell, you could pipe objects directly into remote cmdlets.
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by scott_karana 9y ago
I'm a "regular" guy too for the same reasons as you. My scroll wheel on traditional mice dictates how I scroll trackpads. Potentially related datapoint: I hate inverted controls in FPSes too. (Though I use them in dedicated f
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Shock European court decision: Websites are liable for users’ comments(arstechnica.com)
20 points by scott_karana 9y ago|24 comments
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by scott_karana 9y ago
Hmm. I just did a poor job combining two sentences into one. Not sure if that's the case at all for non-moms. :)

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