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by Cowicide 8y ago
The only thing that breaks my heart with Facebook going wayside is I know of many people with illnesses who use Facebook as one of their only outreaches for family and friends. Really is a shame that Facebook's greed and lack of integ
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by Cowicide 8y ago
Did this also affect the Mac Chrome version of this extension? I just checked a few minutes ago and I'm on version 3.39.5. I was never asked to escalate privileges when I assume it was at affected version 3.39.4 beforehand. Or maybe I
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Rogue MEGA Chrome Extension Stole Passwords and Crypto Keys(torrentfreak.com)
6 points by Cowicide 8y ago|1 comments
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by Cowicide 8y ago
That's a great way to quit a lot of bad habits including smoking. When you feel the urge to smoke or vape, take that energy and use your hand on something positive such as a quick workout, cleaning parts of your home, etc. You can try
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by Cowicide 8y ago
I see, thank you for the clarification.
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by Cowicide 8y ago
I was thinking the exact, same thing as I read that. Burning Man has become what every human endeavor does once it gets "popular". Exploited. Seeing this in city after city across the USA as well. Formerly affordable cities used
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by Cowicide 8y ago
Up to 4%? Wouldn't that simply be considered cost of business for some corporations? Pay less in security, etc. and just consider the 4% a smaller tax of sorts?
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by Cowicide 8y ago
Yep, a picture of SpongeBob made me vote for Bernie instead of Hillary. Had nothing to do with her record or anything.
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by Cowicide 9y ago
For those wondering what this is, I grabbed this from the zip file: = Cowboy Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP. == Goals Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized
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by Cowicide 10y ago
Apple Safari support in the future? Also, if I'm using a self-updating malware blocklist within extensions such as Ablock Plus, how would Apozy do better than that to prevent phishing?
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by Cowicide 10y ago
>the core OS is strong. It works, it doesn't crash, Windows almost never crashes for me, but I haven't had a system crash on my Macs in close to a decade even after updating the OS numerous times without a clean install. Grant
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by Cowicide 10y ago
>On the opposite side, most of the people who prefers Windows complains that OS X lacks support (ie. a huge library of software, backwards compatibility, etc.). I've been very impressed with Mac backwards compatibility. Old Apple ha
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by Cowicide 10y ago
What's faster, specifically? I'm running both and they're both equally snappy even though the macOS has superior functionality with Mission Control, etc. compared to Windows half-baked, recent copy of the functionality.
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by Cowicide 10y ago
What makes Windows 10 better than macOS Sierra, in your opinion? I use both every day for similar projects and find that Windows 10 is lacking compared to Sierra overall.
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by Cowicide 10y ago
What's your practical alternative for WiFi security than WPA2-AES?
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by Cowicide 10y ago
It's not strange to see downvotes, IMO. Industry spends a tremendous amount of money and resources attacking our more sustainable energy future with rampant FUD. They want to milk their current infrastructure for as long as it's p
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by Cowicide 10y ago
Some of the wording seems a bit too advanced to throw on a newbie right away. I would massage the content with a more relatable, visual representation: >HTML is for adding meaning to raw content by marking it up. HTML is the frame of the
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by Cowicide 11y ago
Well, the fired worker who has cancer made a post where he thanked Ellen Pao and Reddit for paying for his COBRA insurance for up to a year after his firing. So, I'm not sure he was simply let go and that's that. I'm not say
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by Cowicide 11y ago
Obama needs to issue Snowden a pardon of some sort and allow this whistleblower to come home without fear of retribution for helping to defend our U.S. Constitution.
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by Cowicide 11y ago
That's a nice, oversimplified, right-wing talking point, but there also happens to be a huge disparity in per-pupil spending in Washington-area schools: [1] http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/District_Dossier/2014
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by Cowicide 11y ago
>People keep saying that, but they leave out the fact that the worst school districts--but urban ones--also have the highest per student spending. It's hard to follow your jumbled sentence. However, it appears you're implying
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by Cowicide 11y ago
>the USA is one of the top spenders per student in the world. People keep saying this, but they leave out the fact that it's not spent equally in all places. In poor neighborhoods, the schools there do NOT get the same amount of fu
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by Cowicide 11y ago
Could this be done with jpeg and gif compression? For example, could Adobe's apps export jpegs laced with patterns within the compressed pixels that could be traced back to the owner of the app? And, has anyone checked for this behavio
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by Cowicide 11y ago
I'll be impressed when Netflix finally opens up enough to allow it to work with Kodi without having to jump through mindless Chrome hoops to make Netflix (barely) work with it. Then again, Kodi already works great with pirated movies,
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by Cowicide 11y ago
>The attitude of the managers involved was wrong. That's a very corporate shill way of putting it. Their actions were murderous. They let people DIE. Do you not GET THIS somehow or are you attempting to gloss over this issue? >
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by Cowicide 11y ago
>GM has been part of many morally questionable practices. I think GM was on a terrible course from the mid 1970's to the early 2000's Yeah, erm.. about that timeline. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money&#x2
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by Cowicide 11y ago
I find it interesting when there's research that doesn't happen to be funded (indirectly or otherwise) by industry, it often ends up exposing potential dangers that all the other studies somehow missed completely. Then again, ther
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by Cowicide 12y ago
On OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 with Safari 7.1.3, it didn't do anything but show a beachball after hitting refresh, but I was able to close the tab without trouble or any detectable negative effect on my browser, etc.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
That would be very nice, could you put it up on GitHub when you get a chance?
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Do note that current plugins for Quick Look video do nothing more than be able to display static thumbnails of various video formats even if you have Perian installed. Unlike with Snow Leopard and Perian in the past, you won't see the

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