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by thirsteh 15y ago
"According to Microsoft, no government in the world has successfully used Linux for large operations (Brazil and Cuba reportedly attempted this, but then abandoned the effort)." :)
692.
by thirsteh 15y ago
What's with the Java applet?
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by thirsteh 15y ago
The entire article was invalidated (in my mind) by the simple fact that you can choose when you want to open your RSS reader. You don't have to be pinged every 20 seconds. Don't punish everyone just because you can't control yourself. RSS
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by thirsteh 15y ago
And pretty much all of them are a collection of poor content. Good then.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Indeed. What I'm reading is, "Google Public DNS and OpenDNS are relatively centralized, meaning CDNs might deliver you content from a cluster in Great Britain rather than your home country Germany because your DNS server is located in Londo
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by thirsteh 15y ago
An expiration warning isn't usually what you'd see if somebody was trying to do something malicious, but rather a CN mismatch and/or not-signed-by-recognized-CA error -- but yes, difficult for "the consumer" to distinguish. It's up to the
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Sweet! Recommend making that "Start" link way bigger; took a while to find while just skimming.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Highly recommend Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter for those who are interested by this: http://amzn.to/qJVAAF
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Reason #3 in "Why we're so good" ( http://www.thiswebhost.com/reasons.html ): "We want to help. Customer service is very important to us, so we'll treat you like a valued client and not like a number."
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by thirsteh 15y ago
At first glance it IS rather convincing, though!
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Fake. We already had this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2867296
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Yep. And the screen looks strange in nearly all of the shots.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
My immediate thought was "Nice try, Kayak employee" until I saw the bio at the bottom of the page. Your points are a bit strange, and in some cases largely baseless criticism. You seem to want less power, and less overview? In that case, us
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by thirsteh 15y ago
The reddit thread http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/j6sr1/a_simple_and_e... has a bunch of good comments that outline why Notch isn't really in a position to post stuff like this.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
The "Linux" servers are Akamai's.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Haven't looked at KISSmetrics, but I assume it's some manifestation of evercookie: http://samy.pl/evercookie/
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The Man Without a Facebook(youtube.com)
1 points by thirsteh 15y ago|0 comments
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by thirsteh 15y ago
As somebody who works in the industry, I'm hardly surprised by this, although ~99% is pretty crazy. There seems to be a much higher percentage of snake oil/pretend vs. real deal in security than other industries. There are some really, real
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by thirsteh 15y ago
It doesn't matter if we do. The original question was if he just openly admitted to illegally downloading copyrighted material, and the answer is he didn't.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Oh great. Now I feel like watching Office Space again.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
I don't know about the U.S., but at least in The Netherlands you are allowed to freely download copyrighted movies and music for personal use. For now, anyway...
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Even if these tools are commonly used for suspicious activity, in a legal context simply stating that you use them does not constitute evidence of any wrongdoing. The former does not simply mean the latter; rather, it is speculation on your
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by thirsteh 15y ago
No, just like saying you like µTorrent doesn't implicate you for piracy.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
"Oh man! Let's hope nobody notices!"
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BET24 warns over data breach – 19 months later(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by thirsteh 15y ago|1 comments
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by thirsteh 15y ago
Short version: Apple! Apple! Apple!
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by thirsteh 15y ago
And there goes Stephen Hawking's fearmongering about hostile aliens barbecuing us for our water.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
What a juvenile post/bunch of comments, and total non-story (if it only happens with URI's that aren't actually valid). Besides, this is an issue with Facebook's commenting system, if anything.
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by thirsteh 15y ago
It's a funny thing, this "Apple effect" -- and, love it or hate it, you have to have a little bit of respect for it. Shows how much brand matters. Not a lot of companies can sell something like ASLR and basic application restrictions this w
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by thirsteh 15y ago
I read the article, but I'm not sure I understand exactly what "makes OS X king of security"? ASLR, privilege separation, and encryption aren't exactly new things (at least in Linux/GCC/SELinux/AppArmor).

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