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by shiado 8y ago
American businesses should add a clause that all authorized access is predicated on a user knowingly acknowledging that they are not a resident of the EU. If GDPR becomes an issue they could abuse the CFAA to get the persons of interest ext
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by shiado 8y ago
He should consult the guy that owns nissan.com.
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by shiado 8y ago
I had a Windows 10 installation sitting around on a spare drive that was used for a few games for a while until I discovered all the malware that it installed automatically (Candy Crush Soda Saga is malware don't even try to deny it).
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by shiado 9y ago
I know it is petty and irrational but I judge the quality of a software project by how boring it looks, where boringness is better. The more it looks like some university professor's web 0.1 hand-coded HTML project circa 1993 the bette
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by shiado 9y ago
Probably. Although there is the Five Eyes style arrangement where you don't spy on your own citizens and instead spy on citizens of other countries and then share the data between each other so it all becomes legit. This is described h
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by shiado 9y ago
How will GDPR interact with the goals of intelligence agencies and their contractors? Is there going to be a wave of problems for intelligence contractors and their possession of data or are European countries going to let it slide?
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by shiado 9y ago
The policy is explained quite clearly right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt The internet is forever.
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by shiado 9y ago
http://doyouneedablockchain.com/
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by shiado 9y ago
Information Visualization. It fits in really nicely with the ML and big data hype.
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by shiado 9y ago
What is funny about this is that in order to make the nontrivial determination that a subject is in the Union Facebook has to use all available personal data they possess about the individual such as IP history (consider the possibility of
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by shiado 9y ago
Can't this be easily bypassed by Facebook? Given the amount of information usable to fingerprint browsers with JS enabled can't FB do some basic tricks like IP + WebRTC local IP + WebGL fingerprint + Canvas Fingerprint , etc...?
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by shiado 9y ago
Ever since the Mr. Robot Looking Glass add-on marketing disaster I have decided to give Mozilla a few more years to get their shit together with Firefox. Something is seriously wrong at a company if something like that can happen.
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by shiado 9y ago
War is great for business, why stop now when there are contracts to renew and weapons to be built and sold? Just dress it up in enough appeals to emotion and political drama and people will do their patriotic duty to believe in the effort.
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by shiado 9y ago
If Russian(user_IP) && Russianness(user_comments) > 1922
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by shiado 9y ago
In case you want to check if a speaker has accepted contributions from FB (read "corrupt and failed to disclose conflict of interest") https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=facebook&type=orgs
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by shiado 9y ago
How does Facebook distinguish between US and European users? Does it do it based in IP address? On GPS data it slurps up from mobile applications? On the manually selected city the user specifies that they live in? Facebook also operates a
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by shiado 9y ago
I like "Dystopian Craigslist", it is nice and fast and simple.
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by shiado 9y ago
If you didn't generate the keys you don't own the crypto. It is that simple.
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by shiado 9y ago
I would argue that the very nature of the math behind programming is cause for it not to be regulated easily. In other applied fields you don't run up against undecidable problems and Rice's theorem. If it is not possible to mathe
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by shiado 9y ago
Given this statement, it is important to remind people not to fall into an appeal to motive. It is important to bring into question the motives for presenting information, but not to dismiss it as false due to such a motive being present.
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by shiado 9y ago
STEM is a meaningless buzzword used to conjure happy thoughts about careers that pay well. The reality is that many of the careers contained in STEM do not in fact pay well at all. Adding another letter seems to be fine once you have alread
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by shiado 9y ago
This is the most interesting question. The company is based in Canada so supposedly Canadian laws would apply but I suppose it depends on where the Gitlab instance is hosted. Also the author cannot argue that they were bug hunting in good f
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by shiado 9y ago
It would be interesting to see a social media platform emerge where instead of a real name policy there was a metadata policy where each post contains the IP/User-Agent/etc... for utmost transparency and validation by parties view
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by shiado 9y ago
The file OR'd with a string of 0s is the most legit anti-circumvention algorithm.
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by shiado 9y ago
Hopefully with all these recent transgressions against digital rights we will see the emergence of some hybrid of Zeronet, TOR, I2P, IPFS, BitTorrent, etc... All these technologies have some serious usability/UX problems. We need somet
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by shiado 9y ago
I have a bad feeling that like the Snowden revelations and Occupy Wall Street these findings will actually embolden companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica the same way the NSA and Wall Street banks were likely emboldened because it
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by shiado 9y ago
While they are at it please remove LinkedIn. You can't actually view anything on any page without logging in. Why is it listed at all? Seems pretty deceptive to me.
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by shiado 9y ago
I have only ever seen the neoliberal label used as an insult against the Democratic party for their lack of real progressive policies and for basically being the pawns of big banks and global elites. Perhaps self-identification is the next
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by shiado 9y ago
Whatever you choose just make sure that the enforcement is consistent. That seems to be the key. People know when rules exist for the purpose of selective targeting. See this for what happens when CoCs are applied inconsistently https:&#x2
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by shiado 9y ago
Well for starters IRC doesn't let you keep your hands warm when somebody posts a giphy and your system resource usage goes up to crypto mining levels.

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