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by pconf 12y ago
This article fails my smell test. The adolescent vocabulary doesn't correlate with the otherwise polished writing style and the technical merits fall far short of the proposed remediations. It is therefore likely to have been funded
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by pconf 12y ago
It looks to me like the OP is making more of a beef about Verizon's advertised speeds being significantly different from their actual speeds. That Verizon is continuing to advertise speeds that it intentionally is not delivering,
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by pconf 12y ago
This is a story about what can happen when a governmental agency has: A) too little oversight, B) way too much (taxpayer) money, and C) way, way too little transparency. What can you do about it? A) join the ACLU and donate a little every
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by pconf 12y ago
A writeable open VCS would also make heartbleed-like vulnerabilities more likely. As such the OP's comments should be evaluated as potential astroturf. Were the NSA looking to introduce new and effective backdoors, and we know they a
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by pconf 12y ago
It's more than "coders who don't know how to code", it's also managers who don't know how to read code or review diffs. Sadly, there are lots of experienced coders whose planning horizon stops as soon as the
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by pconf 12y ago
> Maybe a typo Could be a bug in your web browser. The first sentence is a quote as indicated by the ">" character at the beginning of the line.
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by pconf 12y ago
>This sort of vague comment Not sure about "vague comment"s but anyone who has run an email server, used an rbl/rhsbl, and followed the logs < http://www.postconf.com/docs/spamrep/> would sa
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by pconf 13y ago
>There's more to it. That is alluded to in the 5th from last paragraph: "Facebook's terms of service forbid third-party verification of its clicks". What reason, other than fraud, would they have for such a clause?
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by pconf 13y ago
This is one of the reasons I only purchase AMD-based systems. Well that and the fact that AMD's CPU/GMU combo has better graphics performance. It's either that or support a company whose market advantage is based on anti-com
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by pconf 13y ago
It is unfortunate that FreeBSD chose those names to attract people to the pre-release versions. What's needed is a section of the website clarifying: CURRENT = alpha, dev STABLE = beta, rc RELEASE = passed all tests and released That&
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by pconf 13y ago
There are downside to AWS other than reliability (a la Netflix). One of those is privacy. If you host with AWS Amazon has access to all of your user data, and with Amazon likely the NSA. If you want to maintain a free and open forum for
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by pconf 13y ago
IMO data loss is less a symptom of untested backups than it is of developer-managed systems. I wonder if ycombinator has a sysadmin (who isn't also a developer)?
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by pconf 13y ago
Please correct if I'm wrong but it looks like the decision to scale using HG instead of git was made on 2 points: 1) git maintainers basically said you should split repositories and left it at that, and 2) HG's cleaner code and ab
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by pconf 13y ago
IMO the most important aspect of this whole debate is money. Lots of money is made from manufacturing and selling bicycle helmets. That's why the bicycle-naive general population only knows about helmets when asked about bicycle safe
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by pconf 13y ago
I don't use Google docs/sheets/gmail/... due to their terms of service. Why give Google a perpetual right to do anything they want with any content put in a Google app? https://www.google.com/google-d-s&
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by pconf 13y ago
Who clearly has not take even one semester of college level nutrition.
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by pconf 13y ago
These sorts of "studies" are still being published, many of them funded by the dairy industry. Has nothing to do with science or nutrition as is taught in college, it is simply sales and marketing not unlike similar studies done
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by pconf 13y ago
It actually started with the British whose spooks taught it to the US' Herbert Hoover before WWII. Read "Enemies: A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner" < http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar&#x
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by pconf 13y ago
Why would an email client need an RDBMS backend in the first place other than the fact that, like WordPress, the devs did not value KIS? Squirrelmail does fine without a db, as do all of the command line clients.
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by pconf 13y ago
>You can see how ridiculous the argument is ... It doesn't seem so ridiculous if you follow the money. The author is "executive director of SPUR, a Bay Area nonprofit membership organization" whose directors, advisors and
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by pconf 13y ago
Not exactly. The free market is also what enables neighborhood preservationists to keep redevelopment out. Well that and the horrid examples of redevelopment 40 and 50 years ago that are getting uglier and less livable by the decade. Deve
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by pconf 13y ago
This is typical real-estate developer rhetoric "we can continue growing forever". Don't look behind the curtain, though, at the real reason redeveloped neighborhoods are sometimes more affordable i.e., you get what you pay f
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by pconf 13y ago
we were trusting that such programs would not exist here It's still not clear what programs you are talking about. Because google provides no access logs "someone could go into our account and take confidential information, and
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by pconf 13y ago
This is perhaps true where budget is severely constrained, or where Windows servers are spec'd, or where developers do systems administration, or where the corporate culture won't pay for capable IT. Experienced IT staff can typic
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by pconf 13y ago
It doesn't take much reading of the literature to understand industrial espionage or any of the other substantive risks of outsourcing. Prism or not, when you put your intellectual property on someone else's networks you are taki
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by pconf 13y ago
I would rather see them challenge FISA requests on the basis of tax law. These requests are, in addition to everything else, a form of taxation.
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by pconf 13y ago
This isn't really an educational article. I say that because of the studies it selectively cites and the conclusions they reach. For example it's fine to call a facial skin abrasion a "head injury" if you are clear abo
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by pconf 13y ago
Rare to find somebody who understands the monitization of big data as well as this. It's too bad more users of google analytics, facebook et al don't know how much they're giving away.
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by pconf 13y ago
>I have /boot, /home and sometimes /srv in a different >partition. I don't know of any other way to accomplish >that /boot is typically located on the same disk as root, so that should be ok. /srv and /home, however, would be p
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by pconf 13y ago
The docroot path? That would indicate the Ubuntu devs who chose this location had little or no sysadmin experience. Files and dirs under /usr should not be mutable, that's what /var is for. At least they didn't locate it on the root direc

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