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by simbalion 10y ago
I think encouraging longer passwords is a good idea. Even if 14 characters is suitable today in 2016, as computers get faster it will soon not be adequate. By encouraging different password habits, people will be better prepared for the fut
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Strong Passwords(strongpassword.us)
31 points by simbalion 10y ago|47 comments
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by simbalion 10y ago
When you try to 'mark read' the hacker news rss feed and 20 minutes later the same stories are re-posted 3 or 4 times.. zing!
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by simbalion 10y ago
People summoned to give testimony should not be allowed to get paid for it at all. It's enough to cover their expenses. It should be a duty.
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by simbalion 10y ago
The experts who gave testimony might be to blame too, it sounds like they charged a years salary for their 30 minutes of testimony.
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by simbalion 10y ago
probably around the same time as the last stupid blog post. maybe shortly after.. :)
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by simbalion 10y ago
Why is this even an acceptable hypothetical? "if they are responsible for the shooting"... Seriously? Unless someone employed by the theater hired the shooter, I would love to know what other scenario could possibly have made them
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by simbalion 10y ago
Suing the theater for something so obviously out of their control is crooked. Suing the victims to re-pay the exhorbitant fees for your "expert testimony" is also crooked. Everyone involved are crooks. That is interesting.
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by simbalion 10y ago
That is excellent advice, in combination with other tactics. If you do piss anyone off, keep records of everything. Make sure you know who they are, and where they live, before you start doing business with them. This lets you send the poli
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by simbalion 10y ago
Why pay for a password manager when keepass is free, more secure, and offers better features than all of the alternatives? http://keepass.info
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by simbalion 10y ago
There will always be a place for advertisements, the methodology needs to change. Companies like "doubleclick.net" are dead, they just don't know it yet. Direct advertising still works. When the ads are sourced from the same
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by simbalion 10y ago
This headline and the content are misleading. The war is not between Ad Blockers and Advertising techniques. Neither of those things are sentient or has any personal interest in the outcome. The war is between service providers and their cu
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by simbalion 10y ago
https://twitter.com/VadimTk/status/766333511514992640
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by simbalion 10y ago
They are switching to a BS License? Are we supposed to take this seriously?
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by simbalion 10y ago
rsnapshot
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by simbalion 10y ago
Nonsense, sometimes people don't know when to stop talking, and it's more dangerous to let them continue. In those situations having the courage to interupt, and the knowledge to do it diplomatically, is important.
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by simbalion 10y ago
You might know it all. If someone actually knows everything, one would be a fool to mock them for it. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. People label others with hostile things like "know-it-all" as a way of dealing with their
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by simbalion 10y ago
You can't "perform" good listening skills. Listening to people is about caring what they are saying. This article appears to be written by people who are not capable or interested in caring about what other people are saying.
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by simbalion 10y ago
“Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates.
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by simbalion 10y ago
The best captcha system is no captcha system at all. You might take a look at the Wordpress plugin 'WP Bruiser', which is extremely effective at eliminating bot submissions, without any user interaction at all.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Any organization which still refers to people of African and Middle Eastern descent as "colored people" should come under scrutiny before any of their causes are taken seriously.
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by simbalion 10y ago
FWIW, I didn't mean that as an attack at you personally. But rather all of the folks I see who say his rhetoric is too extreme, or that giving up proprietary software would be too inconvenient. I apologize if I offended you.
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by simbalion 10y ago
There was a period of time, after the bubble and before ad-blockers, when the world wide web was a parasitic minefield of flashing imagines and clickbait and malware. Then someone invented AdBlock and the web was suddenly fun to use again.
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by simbalion 10y ago
"How is facebook supposed to make money" Is not my or your concern, unless you're a facebook employee. If their business model is not profitable then it should not survive. That is the nature of free market capitalism. It&#x2
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by simbalion 10y ago
ISPs have been protected from this sort of prosecution for decades. This is a sad day. This will pass in time. It is literally impossible for an ISP to police their traffic for piracy, especially since the piracy scene is constantly shiftin
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by simbalion 10y ago
The laws belong to the people. There's no debate about this, only crooks trying to steal things from us.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Your arguments are not true, frankly. Examples: Regarding hardware support, there is no guarantee that a particular configuration of hardware and software is going to work just because you were forced to pay for it. "Improved Stabili
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by simbalion 10y ago
This is a hostile action against their users. When someone installs software on their computer specifically to block ads from being downloaded, presented, or seen.. and then some corporation goes to extreme lengths to bypass that software,
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by simbalion 10y ago
You have to keep in mind that the majority of drivers use a sort of mental auto-pilot, which is why most car accidents happen in the first place. Only someone who is aware of the dangers introduced by how their peripheral vision will be aff
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by simbalion 10y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. One doesn't need the knowledge of a systems administrator to use free software instead of proprietary software. The Debian OS ships with lots of free software to do practically everything you'd ever want

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