s_henry_paulson

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Comment · 7 years ago
This isn't reddit. Everyone doesn't need to chime in on a subject.

If you're not a subject matter expert, I personally would prefer you not comment at all.

It's much more pleasant to read discussion from people that know what they're talking about rather than people offering their opinions because they think that other people want to read them.

This is primarily a technology site, so it's not surprising when you have popular articles in other subjects with few comments.

People can find something interesting without having the need to say something.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
The intent is in the certificate. Superfish could create and sign any certificate, meaning it could impersonate websites. This certificate cannot sign other certificates, meaning it can't be used in the same way as superfish. Thus the logical intent seems to be bloatware, backdoors, etc.. not snooping on HTTPS connections.

This is the distinction the person you are replying to is trying to make, because although similar to superfish, it is not quite the same.

Comment · 11 years ago
Once you get used to cmd+space. It's so much easier to hit the key combo, type the first letters of the program you want and hit enter than clicking through a bunch of folders and scrolling around.. but after reading this wikipedia article, I think I may have to find an alternative.
Comment · 11 years ago
Thank you for posting this. I had no idea.

And as a heavy spotlight user, it's infuriating to know apple is stealing my local computer searches and my location and then selling it to Microsoft.

Comment · 11 years ago
Having inline images be easy was the first thing that sold me on Confluence.

I mean you're already doing documentation, adding tedious tasks to it just makes it worse. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, done.

Your "old fogeys" thing is a managerial/personnel problem, it has nothing to do with the software.

And this is the first time that I've heard "too much whitespace" be a complaint. You want to be distracted from the content?

Comment · 11 years ago
a secret browser, where you can never clear your history because it will kill the internet for everyone
Comment · 11 years ago
If you've worked on projects like this, I'm surprised you'd write such a comment to sabotage such efforts.

You're never going to solve the problem of verifying people's identity without some kind of elaborate system based on public information, or a new public national id number system, and even then you'd never be fully aware that the person is who they say they are.

The problem this solves is real.

I move a lot, and I've gone through exactly what is in the video more times than I remember, in fact, as soon as I saw the video, I sent it to several people because I thought it was such a good idea.

Your representatives don't have any way to know that any of the e-mails they receive or the submissions to their own personal web pages are strictly from their constituents.. so why do you think this is any different?

Or are you suggesting that members of the legislature will read zero e-mails and zero submissions to their website?

If you honestly believe that your legislators don't have the time to deal with the people they represent, then the problem is not a technical one, the problem is that you need more representatives.

Comment · 11 years ago
In my country it's more common to use electronic tags that can be scanned to identify the owner.

It would technically be possible to switch the tags.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
The bubble started long ago.

This is what happens when you have lots of extra money floating around and traditional investments aren't producing results that can beat inflation.

People have been shoveling large amounts of money into tech for way too long, and even last year WhatsApp was sold for ~20 billion USD.

We've now past that and are now at a point where we're going to pump that bubble up even further.

Comment · 11 years ago
#7 is arguably even the most important.

If only administrators and those above them would be made to understand that there is more to child development than standardized test scores.

Comment · 11 years ago
I think he means it's one of those things that is assumed by the general public to be safe.

And I too would have never have thought about fetal ultrasounds being unsafe, had it not been for your post.

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