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by null_ptr 13y ago
So if I have a random characters + numbers password that's reasonably long, do I actually have anything to worry about? Microsoft and Google don't allow brute forcing through their web login interfaces, do they? I keep things like
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by null_ptr 13y ago
If you're worth anything you don't need to break into song to get them to hire you. Your time would be better spent honing your skills and looking toward new opportunities. Workers have the right to dignity just like everybody els
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How Munich rejected Steve Ballmer and kicked Microsoft out of the city(techrepublic.com)
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Didn't Amazon recently (in the past year or so) remove the ability to download a copy of the video you bought to any device, not only to Kindles?
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by null_ptr 13y ago
You're right. What I meant was that doing your regular system updates is enough to upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3, there's nothing special you need to do on top of that.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade There's nothing special about upgrading Debian between point releases.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I'm surprised there's people here that don't.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
What a relief that e-mail marketing spammers will still be able to track multiple opens! What value!
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Does "Google is planning on being the registry for these new top level domains" mean that if I want a .dad or .new domain name my only option is to buy it through Google? (or through a Google reseller)
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Turning up the voice of America (independent.co.uk)
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Why does Unicode have such powerful control characters that can be used to construct misleading strings? Is there a non-malicious use case for them?
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by null_ptr 13y ago
There are a lot more computer software jobs today than there were 30 years ago, and this caused an influx of clueless gold-rushers trying to get in. There always were bad programmers and buggy software, it's just that today there'
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by null_ptr 13y ago
There's something to be said about the quality of programming API-kids do these days, if FuckIt.lang projects are so popular. Not to jab this project itself by any means, but hiding defects "on your way to doing that million doll
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Perhaps karma did.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Looks cool and I'd love to have one to zoom to work and around the city, but I would hate to be in an accident against a normal car, let alone a multi-ton SUV, and that's what pretty much everyone else drives.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Interesting, my account's Security History shows a few failed login attempts in the last 3 days from Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, and my account is not even popular.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Those Office blurbs are horrific, I thought this was a joke. These are selling points in the 21st century ? Are you kidding me? Technology is supposed to make things efficient so you don't have to spend your entire day pushing pencils
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by null_ptr 13y ago
It's easy to forget that all this cool content on the Internet is made by people, isn't it?
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by null_ptr 13y ago
You'll get a lot of Russian mobsters that way, buying their way in and buying property to get a foot in the EU door.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Sorry, but ccTLD domain hacks and financial services don't mix well. Financial services should be stable and secure, their front page even embeds a Vimeo video over plain http.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
I thought it was the Humble Indie Bundles that run on win/linux/mac, and that's still true as far as I know.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Just because an initiative does not target a specific group of people does not necessarily mean that it discriminates against them.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
"No need to spend hours looking up command line functions — or learning to use Linux itself." User-friendliness is always nice, but I think the long-term solution to a web and computing experience controlled by a handful of gree
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by null_ptr 13y ago
It's only the Unity lens, that's why you see people here recommending Ubuntu derivatives like Kubuntu and Xubuntu.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Oh, this is not modern web design. This is just the web design pushed by San Francisco hipsters onto their brethren. None of the web sites average people visit as part of their normal life look like that nor will they ever.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Mammoth corporations have fuck-all to do with common sense. They're run by apathetic shills that couldn't care less about technology, progress, or people (not to knock the talent that works in the trenches).
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by null_ptr 13y ago
That's what you get when everything has to be implemented in JavaScript or else it's not hip enough to put on the internet.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
Don't forget the stress relief video games can give. Society managed to make even sheltered 1st world lives stressful thanks to unrealistic expectations imposed on a personal and professional level. We're all apes though, despite
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by null_ptr 13y ago
“The thought was that well-fed developers could create value better than the stock market.” And amen to that. I can't believe the quote above was meant to be a snarky comment instead of a blunt dose of realism.
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by null_ptr 13y ago
No need for the scribd link, Firefox's built-in PDF reader has taken all the Pain out of PDFs for me :)

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