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by zentiggr 8y ago
Good goals, but we know the current market structure is light years away from perfect. Definitely a situation where any partial progress toward clarity and openness is a big step in the right direction. The potential for cascading changes
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Let's make the next mandated change to Facebook's operations a red bordered, 90% screen coverage dialog, modal: "We are required to notify you that we have leaked information from your account, please be advised that we have
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Somebody managed to find a low level PDL that referenced nearly everyone in the company globally. Just the reply-all "I'm not sure this as anything to do with me, please take me off your DL" mails forced the servers to be ta
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by zentiggr 8y ago
This - my time as control room crew on a sub, we knew we were in for as long a maneuvering watch as we had to stand, to get from open water to a pier or vice versa. Only in very unusual circumstances did the watchstanders rotate, with the e
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Not at all strange - convicted terrorists convince people that the threat is being met. The threat of unknown terrorists keeps everyone anxious and biases towards granting more police powers in order to curb those unmet threats. PsychOps 10
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by zentiggr 8y ago
OSMAnd and Navigator on Android allow you to "disable" road sections. Not an area feature, but for things like the I-74 Bridge project where construction blockages change sometimes almost weekly, it's a big help to toggle in
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Or I'm remembering poorly after ten years, most likely
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I am thankful that something distracted me in the few seconds it took me to start making a left turn, and slowed me down enough that the semi that ran the red light missed my car by a couple of feet instead of ripping the car apart and kill
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by zentiggr 8y ago
5 CDs, with live switching as you progressed in game. Still like that one although I'd not revisit it.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
In a locked disused lavatory in the basement?
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I'd be fine with uMatrix as basic browser feature. Barely use anything else ever.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Just look at Kenny Tarmac :)
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by zentiggr 8y ago
And those are sites I don't visit anymore. Push, pull, mess with me, I go elsewhere.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
That's made my day a little brighter - thanks!
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by zentiggr 8y ago
uMatrix has a horrible time with the crazy amount of bits and pieces to be temporarily approved for wix sites. Not that I need to dive into 11/70 trivia... played around on them when my dad worked in Maynard, had front panel banks as
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Yep, just couldn't resist saying it I suppose. I'll try to be more original.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Grunt candy.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
For serious depression issues, I'm not sure 'abuse' is appropriate here... The inability to _want_ to do anything or _care_ often isn't a conscious choice.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
> At some point they will find an engineer to do it anyway. And at some point when <future Google mostly comprised of scum> is thoroughly obviously malicious, we can expect/hope/encourage them to lose customers until they
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by zentiggr 8y ago
<The founder of Zynga> ... ships a clone of another game. Why expect anything else?
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by zentiggr 8y ago
"Can't chop off heads if there aren't enough to start with" .... now there's MBA logic for you.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Fire 5 old and 10 young? QED
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Experts supposedly could tell expensive wines from table wines... this doesn't pass muster for me anymore either. <rant>I'm getting to the crotchety old man stance of - drop copyrights, drop patents, everyone gets paid for [
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I think an Android app called Prioritize Me did something functionally similar. Haven't looked it up again recently.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
> The second thing that troubles me is security "best practices" today may not be best practices tomorrow. Some of his example companies are using practices that were "best" 10 years ago. What happens in another 10 ye
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by zentiggr 8y ago
And every manager (but for a few well informed) will scream every time that gold standard has to be adjusted for new zero-days and completely new vectors etc etc, forcing rewrites over and over. Never underestimate the power of inertia.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Right, and that applies to probably all but a small percentage of organizations. Not malice, just management that doesn't properly account for the negatives involved in poor security policy. Banks are no exception to the rule that all
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by zentiggr 8y ago
I would have a very hard time not looking him dead in the eye, saying "F* you", and spitting in his coffee. When "best we can" obviously means "best (for us as) we can (scam the marks for)", you are a parasite.
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by zentiggr 8y ago
> The F-35 is going to end up being a good aircraft and will fulfill what it was designed to do. Before it's outclassed by something that didn't take so many decades to get to the field in usable form?
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by zentiggr 8y ago
Unknown unknowns?

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