nobodyorother
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Comment · 9 years ago
My kingdom for Tab Groups! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...
Comment · 9 years ago
I just use double-ROT-13 as my TPM, that way I can invoke the DMCA too!
Comment · 9 years ago
> The end state will be the fully autonomous module with no capability for the driver to exercise command. You will call for it, it will arrive at your location, you'll get in, input your destination and go to the freeway.
Except it won't. You'll go to three Sponsored Locations that offer similar, but not quite the same, services as the destination you selected, while the windows are used as projection screens for advertisements related to your destination and locations you're passing.
- Me: "Take me to Central Park."
- Car: "I'm sorry Tom, I can't let you do that. Going to MOMA, the New Museum, and Battery Park."
- Car: "We'll be passing a Wendy's restaurant momentarily. Did you want to stop to pick up some chicken nuggets or a tasty hamburger? I can offer you a 2 for 1 deal expiring in 5... 4... 3..."
- Me: "We were just planning on pizza, thanks."
- Car: "A $2 non-subsidized convenience fee will be added to your total."
This is my hell.
Comment · 9 years ago
But they aren't, not even in Delaware. That's a common misconception that greedy folks love to spread.
Comment · 9 years ago
What is Apple's effective tax-rate, world-wide (for, e.g., 2016)? I've not seen this spelled out anywhere, yet.
Comment · 9 years ago
Found the bug! Seems like the new behavior is non-compromisable, but keszybz and pottering both put forward potential solutions that leave everybody happy(?), but that haven't been acted on since July. So, there was some compromise between the requestors and developers, just not in the places I expected to find it in the bug report.
Comment · 9 years ago
I hope it's Google's bug bounty program that's paying off.
Comment · 9 years ago
Essentially: https://xkcd.com/1172/
It's great that they're making systemd, but if it doesn't work for you, it won't. (Rephrasing a Github bug I read a while back) systemd seems set on replacing the existing software stack with software that works for its creators, without regard to established historical standards of behavior.
For example (in the GH bug), folks using systemd for networking can't necessarily connect to intranet sites, because systemd doesn't keep historical behavior: it doesn't try all the DNS servers you've provided for each request. Instead, it always connects to whichever DNS server hasn't failed most recently. That's faster, that's good.
If you needed systemd to connect to your local DNS server to resolve intranet names like http://myreports/, and 8.8.8.8 to resolve external names, that would work fine... Until the local server took too long to respond to one request. Then, all future DNS requests would go to 8.8.8.8, effectively blackholing your intranet. That's broken, that's bad.
The resolution supplied in that bug, IIRC, was users shouldn't do it that way. So, the resolution appeared to be that the user should've been hired as the network administrator instead of their current job. Maybe it's been fixed some other way since then? Please correct me if so!
Sure, systemd might be faster, but faster isn't better than working-as-expected.
Comment · 9 years ago
Incinerate, rupture, enervate, deconstitute, liquefy, melt, vaporize, expurgate (maybe), evanesce, squidify, particulate (particulize?), atomize, gluonification, skeletonize, exsanguinate, devertibraification, and maybe even defenestrate.
Those are just the ones off the top of my head, I'm sure we can come up with more. Regardless of the verbage, the EFF deserves a pat on the back (and my recurring donation).
Comment · 9 years ago
The ":" implies bidirectionality (or at least, non-directionality), you could clarify it in the graph by replacing ":" with "dislikes" or "->".
Comment · 9 years ago
As of last weekend, NYT-over-onion serves ads like their other entry points do.
Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 9 years ago
Could you thank the folks involved in this? The TOS is great news.
Comment · 9 years ago
Nope, I got promoted to Wall St., 5th floor! Just leave it unattended in the Blue Room, by the donuts, and I'll pick it up in a few.
Comment · 9 years ago
You don't need anything that isn't already publicly available: see every security bug reported on the mailing list, and reliable hop tracing via coordinated parties recording traffic (Tor's version of Bitcoin's 51% problem).
That said, it's still the most reliable limited-anonymity provider I know of.