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by taftster 7y ago
Yes, exactly. In the United States, for example, it's legal (even expected?) that corporations can install custom CAs into their user's browsers and prevent internet access to any browser without it installed. Is it Mozilla'
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by taftster 7y ago
This doesn't bother the Apache Software Foundation. So long as a project is able to follow the "Apache Way" (licensing, treatment of source artifacts, organizational structure of project members and community, etc.), then the
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by taftster 7y ago
I would argue, I think most systems have more quantity and churn of applications than users. Meaning, it would be better to pay some overhead to deal with "user's crap" in every application bundle than to deal with "app
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by taftster 7y ago
All these are fair and good points. But all of these are still workable problems that should be very much in the capable hands and constraints of the operating system and "app bundle runner" (call it) to deal with. Your points are
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by taftster 7y ago
You're saying that an application can't write user specific information into the bundle and sort that out? There's no difference between these two (hypothetical) file paths: /Applications/SomeApp.app/users
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by taftster 7y ago
Again, good reply thank you. Just to continue a little more... > The bundle isn't normally writeable by the app itself. It's generally good security practice to not have your app capable of rewriting what itself can do, and i
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by taftster 7y ago
[self-reply, sorry] For example, Steam games stored in Application Support. Why?? If I install a game from Steam, it should be installed somewhere in the Steam app bundle. When I delete the Steam app, I delete everything related. So dumb
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by taftster 7y ago
Thanks for the reply, really good stuff. But what I don't get, why even have an "Application Support" directory at all. There is absolutely nothing of value added to me (as a user) to have files stored there. It's just
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by taftster 7y ago
Well, that's fair. But hopefully in the process of getting mad, it starts to reflect negatively on the application vendors and/or Apple directly. Maybe that will be enough for them to change. Maybe the app bundle runner should b
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by taftster 7y ago
Which is completely frustrating, because Mac is totally in the position of using its built-in capabilities to deal with this. The Mac Bundle (.app) format could solve this entirely. All application specific data should be written inside o
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by taftster 7y ago
You're right, the article makes too strong of a correlation between the affects that Zebra & Quagga mussels have had and Lake Erie's recovery. But I'm curious, does that totally discredit the article? No doubt, if left a
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by taftster 7y ago
> "If established, it would be organized as a military service branch within the Department of the Air Force, one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense." [1] So yes, any new military service branch
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by taftster 7y ago
That's a really interesting perspective, and yes I think you are most definitely in the minority. Your point is well taken, though I wonder, however, if corporations stop lobbying over taxes, will they just move that budget over to ot
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by taftster 7y ago
I think that was somewhat implied in the article: > "Difficulty finding qualified, affordable COBOL programmers." Continuing to emulate the COBOL environment doesn't quite solve the problem that finding COBOL developers is
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by taftster 8y ago
Agreed. I think of it more as a joking reference to RTFA. The humor of this probably originates from the early slashdot days.
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by taftster 8y ago
Actually, historically its use doesn't necessarily have a pejorative connotation. You can take it to mean "The Fine Article" just the same. It's more of a joke reference with roots to 'RTFA' used frequently in
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by taftster 8y ago
OR just don't read the article. If WSJ wants to charge for access, and I'm not entitled to said access, then I'm just not reading the article. This is as close to voting with my wallet as I can get. Routing around with outlin
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by taftster 8y ago
Zelda was simply a means for Nintendo to sell Nintendo Magazine subscriptions. They had to have made a killing on subscriptions, and they were absolutely required for solving games like Zelda. For example, you have to place a bomb in this
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by taftster 8y ago
> Not everyone is cut out for college. Actually I quite think it's the opposite. We should be saying, "Not everyone is cut out for escalator mechanic." Those who aren't cut out for "real" work and traditiona
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by taftster 8y ago
I don't know. You're making the leap to suggest that 33% of Americans are responsible for 90% of the innovation. I don't think that's the case at all. It's probably more like 0.1% of Americans are responsible for 9
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by taftster 8y ago
Google runs a very profitable ad network. People who use adblockers don't directly help support their revenue. I have a conspiracy theory that google is making it hard for people running adblock to get through captchas. I want all the
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by taftster 8y ago
Right, that's what I'm saying. I was putting forth that humans are pretty random with their timings. But the truth is, they are probably not and that we all probably click in some uniform distribution. But I am pretty sure, if you
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by taftster 8y ago
I'm not convinced that picking the pictures has anything to do with actually convincing google if you're a bot or not. I mean sure, it's an indicator. But I _know_ that I can pick the right pictures of school buses and store
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by taftster 8y ago
Right. I think I have seen similar behavior for mouse movement as well. Not sure, but I think moving your mouse around randomly helps as well. The timing of picking the images, as you say, helps. As does the order you pick them in. Of cours
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by taftster 8y ago
One thing is account creation. It's usually a bad idea that user accounts are created by non-humans. In general, anything that writes to a database may have concerns about robot/automation/abuse. I agree with you, for "r
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by taftster 8y ago
Yeah, I don't get this age-ism thing at all. I'm approaching my 50's, and I'm still climbing in my effectiveness and productivity. I haven't even yet reached the top of my game yet. I am getting better every year
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by taftster 8y ago
They obviously didn't test it the first time out. Why do they need to test it this time?
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by taftster 8y ago
$5/user/month with a custom domain. It's the same pricing as GSuite. Just doesn't reflect the right price point for me. By the way, how is Fastmail's spam filtering? Gmail/GSuite is probably the best, and on
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by taftster 8y ago
What's interesting about your statement is, I believe, that's one of the reasons why Trump was elected. There are a certain demographic of people who want our country to be run more like a business. These people likely thought Tru
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by taftster 8y ago
How many licenses of GSuite to you maintain? One license, $5 / month. Seems reasonable. I have six family members. $360 / year for GSuite, that's untenable to me.

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