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by will4274 9y ago
> Changing a password should always invalidate all existing sessions Doesn't with Google. They display a prompt and let you select which sessions to expire.
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by will4274 9y ago
It makes perfect sense to me - he doesn't know what a PGP key is and just read the word key.
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by will4274 9y ago
How far up the chain is Sr Director of Security at Equifax? That sounds 2 or 3 rungs from CEO? Or is it just corporate speak?
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by will4274 9y ago
> As a semi-professional musician, that definition of art as "what I can't do" is really a rough thing to hear. I think you've misunderstood, on two fronts. First, the definition given was "what Rush Limbaugh can
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by will4274 9y ago
> That may be so, but I've never met one or heard from one You've never heard Barack Obama speak on TV? http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35209628/ns/technology_and_science... . > "For bragging ri
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by will4274 9y ago
You're missing it. If the original law is overbroad, it makes sense to modify the original law, not pass a second law adding exemptions where it doesn't apply. If something as innocuos as letting your kids walk home was "enda
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by will4274 9y ago
The fairness doctrine enforces two sides of view, aligning nicely with two parties. But, most issues don't have two sides. Some have three, four, or five and some have just one side. The fairness doctrine is gone because it wasn't
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by will4274 9y ago
There is a setting to globally disable and enable all apps. If you disable it, no apps can see you, even if your friends use the app. Facebook actually has tons of settings - discoverability is a big problem
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by will4274 9y ago
> "these people surreptitiously collected my data for purposes other than those which they disclosed." They didn't collect it surreptitiously. They collected it openly, for purposes other than those which they disclosed. W
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by will4274 9y ago
> Money is not speech What does this even mean? It costs money to put advertisements in mass media. Either you believe everybody should be able to do that, or you believe that only some people should be able to address the public at larg
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by will4274 9y ago
I would guess personalized search results went mainstream on 2005 or so, as Google became popular, but perhaps some of the portals Google replaced (ask Jeeves and Yahoo) had personalized results before that
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by will4274 9y ago
The text calls out "routine use" - this clause is to permit, e.g. the last access date on the account to be the date of access to the GDPR export request portal (deleting the prior value). The point of GDPR is to force companies t
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by will4274 9y ago
> Why is x 73rd on Google search ranking? It's unlikely that a human would be able to produce the exact same ordering, for any possible search term for all the pages and pages of results that Google shows.
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by will4274 9y ago
> I suspect Hacker News would simply delete the user's information from the site and explain that they control no data on the subject. No, that would be illegal. Hacker news can set itself up so that it doesn't keep user data l
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by will4274 9y ago
There is a screenshot in the Business Insider article I linked
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by will4274 9y ago
> out of touch Or maybe just not perfect? Google trends show that "the Ukraine" is about 1/3 as popular as "Ukraine" in common usage. It's more like calling the FSB the KGB - wrong, for sure, but was correct
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by will4274 9y ago
> security questions Security questions are a generation of security behind TFA. Everybody was born in the big city closest to their Facebook hometown and your teachers' names are all in the online version of the yearbook. Apple is
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by will4274 9y ago
Consider a tiny (5 machine) piece of the internet. Three hubs, an outlink and two smaller hubs, all connected (a triangle). With 4 bits, the left hub can have all the 0xxx addresses and the right hub can have all the 1xxx addresses. No matt
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by will4274 9y ago
> why would you not want this on non-private sessions Information leaks. You click a link from your email to a news article. The URL for the news article has your email in it. Then you click an ad on the news article. The ad just got you
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by will4274 9y ago
> I've been using the web for over twenty years and it has never harmed my computer or invaded my system in any way How do you know? Basically every browser has a RCE vulnerability a month and has for 20 years. From ancient JPEG vul
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by will4274 9y ago
And is it really cool to copy paste the same comment on every article about BSD? Seems like a form of spam to me..
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by will4274 9y ago
> if you want to We didn't want to. And when the economy crashed in 2009, I saw my neighbors whose parents made more money than us sell their homes and move to cheaper neighborhoods and my parents used their savings to make it throu
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by will4274 9y ago
> > $130 meal is a once in a lifetime type celebration (e.g. 50th wedding anniversary, > Most "traditional" weddings (like you see in TV shows) cost $130 per guest for meal and alcohol. Many people attend many of these in
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by will4274 9y ago
I'm 25. I make about $150k. My father would never tell me how much money he makes ("it's rude to talk about money") but he probably makes at least double what I make. My mother doesn't work.
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by will4274 9y ago
> I think most middle class people go out to nice dinners a few times a year for anniversaries and birthdays. I grew up "upper middle class" in the USA. We went out to nice dinners on anniversaries and birthdays - meaning $30 e
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by will4274 9y ago
https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-denies-allowing-j... > Saudi Arabia has denied a report that it would begin allowing Jews to work inside the Gulf kingdom. > In an official statement, the Saudi Labor Ministr
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by will4274 9y ago
> The estate tax has been nearly the best way of reducing wealth inequality, second only to the income tax Any source for this claim? Comparison of countries with and without estate tax and their wealth inequality? My impression was the
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by will4274 9y ago
Again, logical fallacies only make sense in the context of a specific topic. People can actually be motivated by racism - regardless of whether Israel's actions are human rights violations. In some cases, the leaders of BDS made anti-S
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by will4274 9y ago
Au contraire, whataboutism is not always a logical fallacy. It can be simultaneously true that a) Israel is a human rights violator and b) BDS focuses on Israel to the exclusion of other human rights violators because of the anti-Semitic be
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by will4274 9y ago
> It's a political stance against Israel's violations of international law by creating settlements and trying to annex them into Israel (among other things). This is the BDS viewpoint. The Israeli viewpoint is that BDS's s

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