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Comment · 11 years ago
I suppose SSH is easier to use on machines you don't own, but the best practice would be to set up a VPN tunnel. 6 - 1/2 dozen.
Comment · 11 years ago
Wait, in GamerGate it was the activist journalists who were writing skewed articles that were the bad actors, wasn't it?
Comment · 11 years ago
I don't have the knowledge to support or contest anything except your last sentence. yum's UI is the only thing I like more than apt-get. But yum doesn't have the concept of depends vs. recommends, so installing nginx, for example, REQUIRES pulling down geo-IP libraries that are entirely unnecessary.
Comment · 11 years ago
I have several issues with your post.

1) Public places /used/ to be private! In practice, anyway, because CCTV wasn't ubiquitous, and constant recording by every passerby wasn't the norm. It's a public space, but 24/7 recording by a dozen private parties at a time is NOT the norm historically.

2) If most of our surveillance online is "by consent" but no one reads the EULA or signs anything, is it really consent? Just because people are ignorant to the problems, or do not feel immediate impact of online surveillance, doesn't make it right or consensual.

Comment · 11 years ago
So you're saying a company should have full time workers who ONLY monitor a specific system, separate from its day-to-day maintenance?
Comment · 11 years ago
oncall and support are instant turnaways? How do you get employed in IT?
Comment · 11 years ago
Regardless of my potential issues with tptacek, I stopped reading at

>The cheaters deserve to be outed.

Comment · 11 years ago
Same way the Mercury Seven were "founding astronauts": the first class, the inaugural group, etc.
Comment · 11 years ago
Look. Seriously. Like, totally.

Not everyone interested in Tor is educated enough to reinstall an OS. Or they need Windows for something else they do. Or 50 other things. Or maybe we're concerned about VPN leakage, or any other thing than tor that we might use to obfuscate traffic.

Comment · 11 years ago
As if Oracle's practices shouldn't have already warned you away. If this is what set you off...
Comment · 11 years ago
I guarantee you don't need the "middle" pack for a two-dev shop. Either use their hosted solution, host your own CE, or spend $390 a year to get the EE code with minimal support.
Comment · 11 years ago
Reverse racism is used (in my experience) to define racist behaviors taken as a response to "original" racism. Examples include quota systems at universities, or otherwise discriminating against whites/majorities in the name of social justice.

It's racism, but with a modifier to make it clear what's being talked about. I don't know why you're trying so hard to make it "not a thing".

Comment · 11 years ago
Gettin' real tired of people parroting this. Anyone who has used Github knows there is plenty of data (issues, labels, wikis) that aren't forked when you clone a GH repo.
Comment · 11 years ago
Their ANTISPAM policy is draconian, but I like their interface. I like that root passwords are in the web interface instead of going through email. Finally, their presence in more datacenters is useful for someone in the middle of the country.
Comment · 11 years ago
Subscription numbers on a default sub are useless.

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