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by taftster 8y ago
I had this happen the other day too. I spent at least 5 minutes each going through 3 different captchas. The slow fade-in / fade-out thing was new and quite annoying. The images were also quite blurry as well. I suspect that if you h
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by taftster 8y ago
Contrast that with musicians who get sued over copyright for using one or two bars of music from another composition. Unfortunately I'm concerned that this isn't even about a single method being OK and a large API not.
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Corel buys Parallels for Mac(zdnet.com)
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by taftster 8y ago
Colorado checking in. Results for "duck" ... a. Top stories [not organic result] 1. Wikipedia b. Maps to "duck" restaurants [not organic] 2. Wiktionary 3. allaboutbirds.org/guide/browse/shape/Ducks 4
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by taftster 8y ago
Well that's fair. Realized AND acted on a problem vs. just realizing the problem. It unfortunately has to hit them in the public eye before they are willing to really start addressing the problem. I further contend there really is no
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by taftster 8y ago
If it can be gamed for profit, it will be gamed. > The tactics include pummeling rivals’ listings with overly positive or negative reviews, and repeatedly clicking on links to products they want boosted to trick Amazon’s algorithm into r
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by taftster 8y ago
> "25-year-olds fresh of out of engineering school being christened 'Senior Project Manager' and put in charge of a large, very complex technical project" This is so true. I have nothing to say except you are just hit
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by taftster 8y ago
I don't know. I agree with your statement about market-based companies. But if you could please cite the fabled "well run government institution", it would probably make your statement a lot stronger. I at least have seen
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by taftster 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. Very interesting stuff.
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by taftster 8y ago
So you're saying, adblockers in the UK are illegal due to copyright concerns? I don't think that holds. If I buy a magazine and rip the ads from it, that's perfectly fine. This logic even holds in a school setting.
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by taftster 8y ago
I mean, I know this is probably not in your control and all (and I know I'm off-topic). But wouldn't an adblocker be appropriate for your school environment? I most definitely wouldn't want my kids to see any ads, but obviou
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by taftster 8y ago
Most two-way implementations are generally privately controlled. You can act as your own certification authority and sign both the client and server certificates for a private communication. Totally curious, it sounds like you were going fo
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by taftster 8y ago
Actually yes. It takes a horde of military personnel to operate the hodgepodge of modern military information systems and technologies. There's nothing easy about it. All sorts of incompatible and buggy tools. Our enemies would have
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by taftster 8y ago
Don't forget that ISPs have been known (at least in the past) to slow traffic down to certain sites. You shouldn't assume your bandwidth is necessarily routed fairly or anonymously. As a personal story, a few years ago I was havi
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by taftster 8y ago
Here's the thing. I don't want a device with a usb interface. Some environments are so locked down, the ability to plug in a usb device is completely unfeasible. Similarly, cell phones are not a good option in these restricted e
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by taftster 8y ago
Could you clarify if you think this is good, bad, or just interesting? Your comment might be received as though a change like this taking three years is somehow not efficient or tsk-worthy.
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by taftster 8y ago
From your link: > Update (2016-11-02): Andy Chu notes that precedence climbing and TDOP are pretty much the same algorithm, formulated a bit differently. I tend to agree, and also note that Shunting Yard is again the same algorithm, exce
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by taftster 9y ago
Funny that you need a $3000 laptop to run vi. Funny in a sad way.
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by taftster 9y ago
Et-al's Law: "All interactions on social media will be scripted by bots" If you add Atwood's Law to this, all social media interactions will be scripted by bots written in Javascript. Then the brain-bender: What if you
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by taftster 9y ago
From the article: > "Think of this as a blog post version of a dad joke: my primary goal is not originality, but self-entertainment, and if anyone else finds it entertaining that's just an added bonus." We need more of thi
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by taftster 9y ago
The only search engine that is resistant to SEO is one that doesn't have enough traffic for any SEO to matter. If it's popular, it will be gamed.
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by taftster 9y ago
His comments. :) But "its" would have been interesting.
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by taftster 9y ago
> "But my rent certainly went to pay his mortgage on the property" Um, yeah. That's the way it works for property investors. Find a property, borrow money to purchase, rent out property to cover mortgage costs. This happe
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by taftster 9y ago
Actually this is a great comment. I wonder how many ideas grew out of Slashdot? What was its influence on the world? The "watering hole of the open source movement." +1 Insightful Slashdot shaped the minds, ideas and opinions of
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by taftster 9y ago
Right. And if you add 0x28 (file separator) and 0x29 (group separator) to the mix, then you have a whole set of nice options to concatenate multiple data files into a single stream, etc.
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by taftster 9y ago
There is more to this than just "Save Snopes". From a linked article: > "The legal fracas between Bardav [Snopes parent company] and Proper Media [hosting company] is complicated by the fact that Mikkelson's ex-wife
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by taftster 9y ago
> "Your new password must contain 9 numbers, and include at least 4 different numbers but cannot include the same number more than three times." Talk about reduction of password entropy.
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by taftster 9y ago
Right exactly. I don't have (and have never had) a Facebook account. But I know that they have much more information about me than I would want them to. They most certainly have some sort of "shadow" account sitting there
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by taftster 9y ago
The thing is, with Facebook, we all knew it was mostly public information and that you'd be a dolt to reveal everything sensitive about yourself in your profile. Most people instinctively know to leave certain tidbits about themselves
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by taftster 9y ago
> "OK, Gimme back my beer, it's done!" 2 hours later. In BF none-the-less. You're my hero, you put me to shame.

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