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by slowpoke 15y ago
I have another good suggestion: learn pressing the left control with the side of your palm. It's usually a very minimal movement, and I find it a lot easier (and less straining) than moving the pinky to press control. The only drawback is t
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There are some things where you should never give the people what they want. False history is one of these things.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I principally agree, but the analogy from the excerpt you quote represents a chicken-and-egg problem. Where did the medical experts come from? Every tried-and-tested medication was once a new, experimental treatment. Every doctor was once a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm sorry, it's impossible to argue rationally with you. You make fallacious assumptions, jump to (illogical) conclusions and I feel that you are just one step short of accusing me to be a petty thief. You aren't even trying to understand w
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Piracy isn't a moral resistance 'code'. Why? Because you say so? I don't think so. >It is just a way to get things for free with a (very small) chance of any repercussions. If some new magic technology was invented overnight, an
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Why? Give me a good reason. This is exactly what tomkin, the top-level commenter, meant (or at least my understanding of it). It's just "politically correct" to say/do that, but rarely does anyone ever ask why. So let me do just that. Becau
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>It would be significantly more difficult for independents to live from their art. I highly doubt there is any significant number of independent artists who depend on copyright for their income. Most will have already realized that it
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by slowpoke 15y ago
"Portability" doesn't necessarily mean "runs on every system ever made". As pointed out by your parent, it runs on pretty much all UNIX flavors , even the ancient and obscure ones. If you want to blame anything for the abysmal git function
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That wouldn't even be too hard. I've seen some help channels that have bots with commands to answer FAQs (mostly in the form of "here is a link, READ IT"). A simple question answering AI would be interesting, though.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
His example for the second point is horrible and contrived (not to mention stringly typed, which is an anti-pattern in every language). If anything, the "unhandled" should be assigned in and "else" block, not by implicit "fall-through". T
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>"Would you like to continue receiving free services from Google, like Maps, Gmail, and Search, in exchange for targeted advertising?" That's also a framed question, because it's a false dichotomy. You don't need targeted ads (and t
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The UI layer is explicitly replaceable, though.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As much as I appreciate the efforts to build a successful, truly open mobile OS, the "browser as an OS" approach is an incredibly dumb idea. It's another step away from general purpose computing, and I don't like this direction one bit. Som
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The thing I have with collecting data, even if depersonalized, is that it's practically taken without consent. I'm completely fine, for example, with giving detailed, but anonymous usage statistics to Mozilla, because they nicely asked me i
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's not correct. A slippery slope argument, given realistic risk and possibility, can be a valid argument. And that is exactly what all of the privacy concerns are about: risk. I think we both know that breaches of sensitive and private
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You can switch blocking off, and that is, for some reason I don't understand, the default. Ghostery runs a simple wizard the first time you restart the browser after installing it where it asks you if you want to turn on blocking or not.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Another good add-on to consider is RequestPolicy. It controls cross-site requests and thus blocks a lot of stuff before it even loads. It's a nice complement to NoScript. If you don't like all of the social media buttons (which are also tra
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I don't intent to block ads May I ask why? I can understand whitelisting domains who you regularly visit and use (and thus want to support with ad income) and whom you trust to serve safe and unobtrusive ads , but I would be going in
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The basic solution might be to "disconnect" the hardware from the input paradigm. Your device would be a portable computer that you can plug into different input devices: a phone, a tablet, or a docking station with screen and keyboard at h
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Dear Adobe: just kill Flash already, for good. The world (wide web) will be a better place.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As much as I loathe anything cloud related, I feel the need to mention that Ubuntu has their own cloud service called Ubuntu One, which can sync files[1]. So the possibility is there. If they are successful with Ubuntu Android, it might m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>However, controlling the release of pre-alpha software that doesn't work very well on existing hardware seems like a very good idea to me. I disagree. Releasing as early and as often as possible, not matter the state of the project,
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I use throwaway email providers on most websites, like 10minutemail.com or fakeinbox.com. Works wonders against spam. My real email(s) are only used when it's really required.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>This does not mean a Jabber ID is an email address. Though on many mail providers these days, it's the other way round that's true. A lot of people use GMail, but few realize that this means they also have a JID (Jabber ID) and can u
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's pretty stupid. Is Google seriously claiming rights on any possible variation of the word "google", including misspellings that form other words, like goggles?
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by slowpoke 15y ago
TPB runs their own VPN provider, https://www.ipredator.se/
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by slowpoke 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. Actually, I'd go as far as to say that using the same character for both the type declaration of pointers and the operator for dereferencing pointers was a mistake in the first place. Imagine they'd have used this i
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Also known as Type Inference, if you want/need a keyword for further reading.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Anarchy is not the same as disorder or lack of rules. Well said. Anarchy is not a world without rules - it's a world without rulers. I always like to refer to something that Alan Moore (the author of V for Vendetta) said: he regards
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by slowpoke 15y ago
That's a damn cool little website. Thanks.

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