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by Shendare 2y ago
So... the electric company can't become a monopoly because you can spend the money and effort to create your own electric company? How can that not be said for anything anywhere that becomes an obvious monopoly?
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by Shendare 3y ago
Thank you for the correction!
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by Shendare 3y ago
In addition to the non-cookie fingerprinting mentioned by others that can happen, there is a loophole in the GDPR cookie control legislation that allows "legitimate interest" cookies to continue to be placed and tracked when you c
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by Shendare 4y ago
I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still in it, complete with custom color printed labels I splu
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by Shendare 6y ago
Why can't somewhere.com have the public key for user@somewhere.com and serve it to other e-mail providers on request? Letting one's provider hold onto the private key doesn't provide the same level of security as the user bei
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by Shendare 6y ago
I am a layperson, so the answer is probably painfully obvious, but why can't e-mail have TLS-style key exchange, where the sender's server gets the public key from the recipient's server and encrypts the message with it befor
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by Shendare 7y ago
"Targeted" for me would imply that Windows is checking first to see whether Firefox is installed, and only showing the suggestion if so. If this is just a general suggestion that gets pushed out to all Windows computers, then it&#
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by Shendare 7y ago
Plausible line of thought.
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by Shendare 7y ago
Though in this case mitigated by the split between .docx (macro-less) documents and .docm (macro-enabled). Either file type can also be unzipped and have their contents inspected for anything suspicious.
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by Shendare 7y ago
Norton Utilities, XTree Pro Gold, and Borland Sidekick were the tits on MS-DOS.
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by Shendare 7y ago
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167193 Percussive Maintenance (uncountable) (humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device or person work.
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by Shendare 7y ago
Such is the difference between an emoji and an emoticon. https://writingexplained.org/emoji-vs-emoticon-difference
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by Shendare 7y ago
> I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous. Wouldn't that require that every field of every record in the database be globally unique? If something as simple as gender is a field in t
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by Shendare 7y ago
> Authorities are looking to promote tourism at Dahshur, located about 17 miles south of central Cairo. > The site, which lies in the open desert, attracts just a trickle of visitors and is currently free of the touts and bustle of Gi
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by Shendare 7y ago
To replace punch-in/punch-out machines or sign-in/sign-out sheets, perhaps.
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by Shendare 8y ago
>The fairness doctrine was hardly ever envoked. I (a layperson) don't really follow this. It sounds to me like "while the rules were in effect, they were rarely broken". >an era when there were only 3 stations. But this
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by Shendare 9y ago
Agreed. Distributing actual EA assets and using EA-owned branding (and artwork?) seems to be the problem. Simply running alternate servers, distributing patches to the game, and using their launcher without copyrighted artwork or branding (
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by Shendare 9y ago
I like the idea on some level, but could consciousness be separated from biological motivations like pleasure and pain? That feels more like the idea of universe-as-computer than in the examples of conscious, living celestial bodies.
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by Shendare 9y ago
But how literal to the definition do you go before you cease to be reasonably practical? "Unlimited" is an abstract absolute concept. Nothing in existence can ever be unlimited, looking out to, say, the heat death of the universe.
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by Shendare 9y ago
Agreed. He removed the second B2B2 probability annotation as though it were a repeat of the first and inapplicable to the probability set, but that's not the case, and it shouldn't be removed. Apply lower-case to the younger boy i
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by Shendare 9y ago
Thanks. I like GDPR anyway. Makes me think God Damn Privacy Rules, and we're increasingly lacking in effective ones.
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by Shendare 9y ago
I feel like the challenging and political nature of Mr. Malamud's communications were a big misstep. Putting government representatives on the defensive turns an already difficult bureaucracy into a brick wall. On the other hand, there
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by Shendare 10y ago
Of course, acknowledging and appreciating differences differs greatly from enforcing differences.
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by Shendare 10y ago
It sounds like you would be better served with a Bluetooth proximity-based device like a Gatekeeper. http://www.gkchain.com/gatekeeper.html I haven't looked into the OTP functionality of it, since I decided to go with
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by Shendare 10y ago
Exactly! How on Earth could you prove an offending image wasn't yours?
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by Shendare 10y ago
Subtitles are simply translations of speech or text into another language, and are generally (though not always) center aligned near the bottom of the frame.
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by Shendare 10y ago
And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.
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by Shendare 10y ago
That's why you don't block; you flag. Let people make their own choices, but informed. Allow users to flag a link or post with tags such as Satire, Misleading, Controversial, Editorialized, Biased, Debunked, etc. Everyone else can
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by Shendare 10y ago
Or if the exact same intermediate files are being overwritten over and over again, wouldn't a RAMDrive be a good place for them?
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by Shendare 10y ago
That article could not keep straight whether it was talking about average lifespans or maximum expected lifespans, or maybe average maximum expected lifespans? The only claim it managed to get across to me was that we can expect the end of

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