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by waitwhat 15y ago
I assume Mark is refering to the DigiNotar hack (and earlier Comodo ones) and the ensuing shit-storm which showed what an awful security model the current CA/certificate system really is.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
AdBlock is a personal decision and only affects what you see. .xxx-blocking is likely to take the form of censorship and will make it easier for the censors to affect what other people see.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Sadly yes: the patent trolls get to sue, but because they have no products themselves (indeed, they have no nothing other than a legal shell and a few patent assets) they aren't sued back.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Nice try, ICM Registry! (Domains are $200 p.a.)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
There are other countries...
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Police officer suspended for downloading movie in his squad car(host.madison.com)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Or in other words: Ah yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
As noted elsewhere, lots of things are easier to pronounce than "w w w", even things with fewer syllables. They haven't caught on either.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
What about it indeed? .xxx doesn't solve that problem unless you forbid porn on every other domain. In other words: .xxx really is a solution only for wannabe-censors.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
"triple X" has the same number of syllables as "x x x"
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by waitwhat 15y ago
That, IMO, is the reason for .xxx -- to make life easier for those who want to censor the internet.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Ah yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
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Europe’s Odd Anti-Piracy Stance: Send Money to the US(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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Millions of DiRT 3 Steam Keys Leaked(tomshardware.com)
6 points by waitwhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
So I went to bitcoinmarket. They appear to show 1 BTC = (exactly) 15.00 USD all day every day since the beginning of August, never changing. Meanwhile, MtGoX currently shows 7.00.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Anything in a modern operating system other than the kernel can be considered to be running in a virtual machine The level of isolation between processes running on the same machine doesn't really come close to that afforded to processes
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The Immutable Laws of Computer Security(technet.microsoft.com)
52 points by waitwhat 15y ago|37 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
This way the demo pages are as succinct as possible, the code isn't confusingly intertwined with the html/css/js generated by their CMS (in this case WordPress) and matches as closely as possible what was described in the corresponding arti
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by waitwhat 15y ago
He has 1391 "friends" on Facebook. I think this is past the point you can claim to actually know all of them, or even recognise all of them in a crowd. This is also past the point where you can fool yourself that anything restricted to "fri
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by waitwhat 15y ago
He shouted "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_thea...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
It doesn't matter how much free information is out there, the majority will still do better if there's someone there to help them understand the material. Also remember that the "competition" also has access to the same free information.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
America can't win every race indefinitely (American Exceptionalism aside.)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
each search costs something like 70c Even two years ago, there were 3 billion Google searches per day. I think it's safe to assume this figure has gone up a bit since then. http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...
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by waitwhat 15y ago
A robot scraping yelp's deep data is going to be site-specific, and having to scrape another javascript variable is not much more than a slight speed-bump.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Interesting. Sounds a lot like ThinApp for Linux. http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/
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by waitwhat 15y ago
(They're amoral, if anything.) which is nice because it improves matters But you haven't actually demonstrated that it improves anything, you simply asserted it without proof. And this is not something that can just be assumed to be true,
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by waitwhat 15y ago
You might want to put a comment somewhere that bids will only be accepted if it is actually possible to fly JetBlue to get to the bidder's home/business.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
You're being ridiculous. I don't have access to Unilever's internal marketing materials, and I doubt that you do either.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Previously, people in India did not have access to washing powder [...] Now they have access to washing powder, which improves hygiene. What an awful example. Before washing powder, people used a bar of wash soap: cheaper, more convenient
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The American networks aren't exactly set up to sell advertising to all of the other 192 countries in the world... Sure, there are a few global brands that might buy in anyway, but the advertising would be less targeted and there would be le

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