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by biff 11y ago
I was limited in what I could write in the post, but this was something that just hit me after years of being able to log in with my username/password on Yahoo!. I'm sure it was a well-intentioned guard against spammers that merci
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Yahoo Email 2 factor fail
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by biff 12y ago
(from the article:) In fact, late last week, the CTIA wrote the FCC to tell it that the kind of blacklist approach taken by Foss’s company wouldn’t work. According to the lobbying group, it raises privacy concerns—and causes other problems
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by biff 12y ago
The most amazing thing to me is that if you had a student that demonstrated extreme aptitude and interest in any other subject in school they'd be looked at in the best possible light. But if it involves computers, they're a &quo
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by biff 12y ago
The article suggests Twitter should take a more active role in policing its community, and the author doesn't appear to think "don't engage trolls" is adequate advice... but, really, what position is Twitter in to take a
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by biff 12y ago
Well, that's reassuring. Been reading lots of confusing and/or unsettling things on this topic in the news over the last year and really needed to hear a flat denial from somebody in charge to move past them.
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by biff 12y ago
Artist: Soundgarden. Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, and Down on the Upside, specifically. Devo is my go to for programming music (Freedom of Choice, New Traditionalists, Oh No! It's Devo). Not gonna lie, you may well hate them, but fo
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by biff 12y ago
I think what's especially dangerous about it, as a software developer, is that broken crypto runs identically to properly-implemented crypto. If one is in the mentality of rewriting a program until runs without crashing a few times, w
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by biff 12y ago
I think Park Dietz hits on an important point, one which the writer may not entirely buy into, but I do. Tragedy after tragedy veers into "discussions" about gun control, violent videogames, violent music, violent movies, and late
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by biff 12y ago
As broadband becomes more pervasive I think we'll see other uses (for example, I could see VR being incorporated into virtual high schools for things like simulating a chemistry lab.) How long did it take for electricity to be consider
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by biff 12y ago
I enjoyed the article, but I'm not entirely convinced online gambling can be so easily lumped into the moral panic category with the rest. Unless it's gotten to the point where the games are tightly regulated for fairness and con
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by biff 12y ago
If that was the reaction to an incoming cellphone call, every time by every person, I don't think anybody would have a problem with cellphones in public spaces.
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by biff 12y ago
The goal of a movie theatre is leisure experience. If you know a movie is 90+ minutes, and there's a significant likelihood of you or your devices causing a disruption to the other 100 people in the audience in 90+ minutes... On a dif
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by biff 12y ago
Everyone puts their foot in their mouth from time to time, I guess.
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by biff 12y ago
Notice one performance of “Ceremonies” or “Distant Lands” streaming radio show like Hearts of Space that brings in 26 cents for the full writer’s share compared to 2,088 performances of “Gypsy Rain” on Spotify that brought in a total of 60
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by biff 12y ago
Perhaps even Firefox's Eich has rethought LGBT equality since his 2008 donation. To be fair, he has had ample opportunity to say if this is the case by now. Though, while I don't personally agree with his position at all, I do r
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by biff 12y ago
Well, it's like Jonas Salk said: you can't patent the sun. Clearly somebody has realized that's a fixable situation.
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by biff 12y ago
I don't disagree at all. If Facebook puts itself to be in this position without possibility of opting out, that is what I hope would trigger people to seek an ethical competitor. And, similarly, that is what I hope would occur to them
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by biff 12y ago
I think, also, somebody has to be first to bring this technology to the market before it even occurs to others they'd want to compete. Oculus under Facebook might not bring the finished product most of us were looking for, but having a
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by biff 12y ago
I suppose it hinges on how intertwined you feel morality is with the law, and I don't mean to be insulting with this observation because it's a legitimate difference of opinion. But "Just because you can doesn't mean you
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by biff 13y ago
My own suspicion is that the laws may be adequate to the task of regulation, but the will to investigate and prosecute bad actors in the financial sector is not. Until the latter issue is fixed there doesn't seem to be much point in a
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by biff 13y ago
Does get me thinking, though... granted, the Internet allows the lightning-speed spread of misinformation, but at least it compensates somewhat by giving the same opportunity to the spread of corrections. Whereas in pre-Internet days, truth
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by biff 13y ago
But there are worries the harsher penalties may have actually led some women to falsely accuse men of groping in the hope of a cash settlement. It looks like until Japanese men and women – but especially men – learn to behave themselves
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by biff 13y ago
It's surprising how badly a financial news channel got this wrong. Seeing the title I thought maybe this was a blog post under the CNBC domain from a first-day intern or something, but this is just shameful.
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by biff 13y ago
This might be a place to start, but I could see it evolving (with donations from programmers and the tech industry) into an organization that can hire some full-time lawyers, so it can challenge some of these patent cases where they begin w
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by biff 13y ago
I like the concept. That we both feel the need to put quotes around "union" suggests the term might be too loaded to use for programmers, but fixing that's as simple as hanging a label on it like "Independent Programmer
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by biff 13y ago
The lack of anonymity holds Bitcoin back from being an effective digital equivalent to cash. I was just thinking about this the other day. If you have one well-meaning blacklist on certain Bitcoins, you could have dozens. Stolen coins, dr
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by biff 13y ago
Genetics and environment each play a part, I suppose, but cruelty can be a learned behavior. The price point means this is more likely to be used by people who will take it seriously, but it just struck me as a particularly ghoulish piece
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by biff 13y ago
People used to worry kids ripping wings off of houseflies weren't right in the head. Budding aerospace engineers cheated of their true potential because no U.S. company had the ingenuity to market $100 wing scissors?
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by biff 13y ago
Note, I'm not saying it's a fantastic idea, just something that happened to occur to me as a possible development in Bitcoin's future. It'd likely be along the lines of anti-spam lists. You might have one that's hi

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