mishmash

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by mishmash 15y ago
> How do you intend to handle this situation with every other app you, and presumably your wife, have ever downloaded? Not sure yet. Path is actually the first (and will certainly be the last) social network I've ever joined - and it wa
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by mishmash 15y ago
> What are you talking about? Do you expect them to perform complex data analysis to figure out that certain contacts are young children, and then explicitly ask permission to share those? Or do you expect them to preemptively ask for a
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by mishmash 15y ago
Because asking for advice from those wiser than oneself clearly makes one a moron.
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by mishmash 15y ago
To get perspective, actually. Most lawyers are wicked smart and it sucks you aren't in a position to have such a valuable resource available in your own life. HTH.
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by mishmash 15y ago
One of my kids has special needs. This means he rides a certain bus and goes to a certain school. It would be trivial to uniquely identify him for the rest of his LIFE with only the information contained in my contacts list. So now, without
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by mishmash 15y ago
> I'm unclear on why them having the information you cited First of all, my wife and I actually read and attempted to analyze Path's Terms and Privacy Policy before joining. They did not in ANY WAY have our permission, either implicitly
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by mishmash 15y ago
Your comment seems trollishly silly, but... the internet and residential electricity are also both inventions of the 20th century - I guess we could destroy those too without bothering you?
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by mishmash 15y ago
I've just: 1) saved their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use 2) requested a complete deletion of our family's account 3) requested deletion of any/all stored information 4) considering contacting our lawyer As I emailed to Path's
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by mishmash 15y ago
It would be nice to go a single week without seeing how utterly complete the notion of privacy has been destroyed.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Cool, I didn't know that (started late 90s here) but that wasn't what this person attempting to do. Apparently she had asked for the source from another dev's script and saw something like: action="process.php" And just thought This
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by mishmash 15y ago
>Am I insane for being completely satisfied with $80,000/yr to do really cool multithreaded programming work on some seriously beefy hardware? (Midwest area.) In 10 years of midwest experience, $80k is probably a bit on the low side for
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by mishmash 15y ago
> Anyone have any ideas on how to get the IP blocks of MPAA member companies? It's been tried before. Maintaining the list is very difficult for the exact same reasons that would have made PIPA/SOPA technically inept. e.g. http://en.wi
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by mishmash 15y ago
Great commercial and easily relatable. Just yesterday I was looking for shirts at a top3 US retailer and encountered something I'd never seen before: - there were six rows (shelfs) and about 7-8 columns - there was a maybe 14x10" "70%
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by mishmash 15y ago
# or $ gives the reader an indication of what type of account should execute the command.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Thanks to everyone involved!
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by mishmash 15y ago
Instead of hockey stick growth, would this be like light pole growth? ;)
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by mishmash 15y ago
Both of your examples are of people who are and were extremely well known both before and outside of GitHub.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Same here. Our turn-around is usually two days. We routinely get the "we've received" emails but our next ones won't ship for 1-3 days after that. It's annoying considering the "unlimited" plan claim.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Nice to see, thanks.
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by mishmash 15y ago
> hover Hover apparently stores your password in plaintext, as discussed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727123 .
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by mishmash 15y ago
Hm that's an interesting feature, thanks.
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by mishmash 15y ago
Thanks. Gandi seems to be the forerunner in the other thread too.
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Ask HN: Registrars for the Paranoid (July 2011)
13 points by mishmash 15y ago|6 comments
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by mishmash 15y ago
After some positive research, I just purchased two domains from Hover. This is unacceptable however and I will be moving them away. What registrar would anyone say is the most security focused and/or government resistant? Maybe it should be
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by mishmash 15y ago
>..I don’t really know how Apple should do it differently. My preference would be to just stuff the other 3GB on the recovery partition.
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by mishmash 15y ago
> Edit 2... Dude. just. fucking. stop. You are wrong - be a man and admit it. It was a local install where I had simply erased the HD first. I left out the rest of the footage because, seriously, I THOUGHT YOU WOULD GET IT. Another sad
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by mishmash 15y ago
> What evidence? Now, the question is, are you man-enough to apologize? http://i.imgur.com/ziYaW.jpg edit: and the GM is still broke. :(
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by mishmash 15y ago
blows off steam Thanks, you're absolutely right. It's sad I even needed the reminder. peace :)
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by mishmash 15y ago
Follow my directions: install to the rescue partition, boot DiskUtility, erase drive, then try to clean install. After that, come back and report your results. meta: It's getting insane the lengths you must go to to back up a simple stateme
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by mishmash 15y ago
I am such member, and yes I now realize it breaks the NDA to post this.

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