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vntok
6y ago
Of course. See iPhones having an active backdoor from the get go [1], NSA slides referring to Jobs as "Big Brother" and iPhone users as "zombies" [2], FSF's analysis of the iPhone and their conclusion that the iPhon
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6y ago
Hum yes, I'm French and have lived here for about 30 years or so. Travel across the EU is much much easier if you're a EU citizen, ceteris paribus. It's actually pretty funny that you would refer to that convoluted situation
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6y ago
The Schengen Area ( /ˈʃɛŋən/) is an area comprising 26 European countries that have officially abolished all passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders. The area mostly functions as a single jurisdictio
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6y ago
What do you mean, "citation please"? Things are permitted unless forbidden by law, so it's up to you to quote a EU-binding law that forbids Tor. I can't prove a negative.
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6y ago
Since its creation.
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vntok
6y ago
You might be confusing hashed with encrypted.
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vntok
6y ago
Nah. You forgot to quote the key word from those definitions: email. Not "newsletters subscriptions", not "promises to receive interesting emails", not "agreements to get sent x mails per week". Spam is unsolic
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6y ago
It's alright though, because senders who get blacklisted will act swiftly to get authorized again.
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6y ago
Don't be sorry. If you receive something you don't want to receive, that is the definition of spam.
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6y ago
If the recipient wants to unsubscribe after receiving an automated email, then by definition that mail was spam to them (literally unwanted mail). So marking that mail as "spam" is the correct thing to do, and nobody should care
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6y ago
Are you aware that Blink, Webkit and V8 are all open source?
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6y ago
> The book was not peer reviewed by the New York Academy of Sciences.[2][9] Five reviews were published in the academic press, with four of them considering the book severely flawed and contradictory, and one praising it while noting som
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6y ago
Waymo drives very predictably. Where does your data come from?
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6y ago
> I just want to have a place where I can tick, "Google, please never ever collect any of my data". You are asking for a paradox.
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6y ago
It is, especially in a legal framework, and it means I probably won't win if I sue you for writing that sentence. Do you have a point?
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6y ago
Exactly.
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6y ago
The CEO of Ghost did not ever call his ex-customer an asshole, though.
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6y ago
Customers who immediately try to raise a mob on social media whenever they encounter the slightest issue are toxic customers, there's no way around it. There should be a list of such customers for companies to filter them out of their
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6y ago
Yes, it's a rambling rant "man yells at the cloud", and it's since been recanted by its own author. What did you learn from that article exactly?
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6y ago
Not an insider although I have some contacts at Mozilla who talk freely over beers. Mozilla is definitely moving away from Firefox over the next few years, this is but one of the first steps to that end. They have decided to renew Google&#x
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6y ago
Why would it hurt? Those people will easily find well-paid jobs on Chrome's own security and devtools teams, where they can work on improving Chrome both in terms of security and developer-focused features, all the while bringing their
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6y ago
Mega
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6y ago
$10M is a debunked urban legend; the actual figure is only $3M, which is pretty standard. Microsoft's whole ad campaign for Win95 cost about $200M after all.
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6y ago
Not necessarily. For it to be a type of intellectual property it would have to be unique, distinctive, etc., which many domain names aren't. You can't really bring a claim to a domain name outside of trying to prove trademark infr
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6y ago
Again, Google is not forcing them to use ReCAPTCHA anywhere. You seem to have an issue with that program, so why are you taking it out on Google instead of on your government?
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6y ago
Google does not force companies to implement ReCaptcha on their own Web properties.
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6y ago
> That's an insight. You use automated stuff only, when the automated stuff is available? Wow. Haven't thought about that. You didn't understand what he said. What you wrote is not an insight. The actual insight is, in air
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6y ago
Being able to reflect on what works and what doesn't is actually the ethical thing to do so that the business' decision makers don't spend time, money and human resources on efforts that are at best useless and at worst detri
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6y ago
This is like reading books with one's reading glasses on for a while, then off for a while, then on again for a while. In Web analytics the medium to long term trend almost always trumps individual data points. Those don't mean a
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6y ago
It also is completely useless because of the tens of thousands requests random bots and hacking tools do each day on most websites, the many network hops for mobile users, the utterly impossible task of counting time spent per page (on acti
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