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by personZ 12y ago
It seems that HN now automatically applies a -1 to my posts. Add this to the cowardly slowban and I'm done with this site: The users have gotten stupider, the administrators are halfwits (I'm talking about you, dang), and its util
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by personZ 12y ago
While this seems to be a battle of anecdotes, everyone I know who owns a smartphone uses it as their primary non-work email device, Facebook device, browsing device, LinkedIn device, etc. Many home personal computers no longer get turned on
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by personZ 12y ago
If they're taking over Paypal accounts or stealing credit card numbers, it can be as simple as buying a lot of capacity at the various VPN provider. We know from the attack on Tor that they had many thousands of google compute instance
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by personZ 12y ago
Maybe HNers are bored, or shallow There are certain times of the day when thin content makes a strong showing on HN. Normally that isn't Friday @ 9am, though, so a little surprising to see this. Perhaps it appeals to the "be a b
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by personZ 12y ago
Indeed, the post you replied to is not based in actual reality. The entire foundation of the adblock industry was an aggressive attention-war plied by the ad business, where soon webpages were an armed conflict of aggressive ads each imposi
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by personZ 12y ago
Resource conservation is one of the primary justifications that people cite for why they block ads: many ads have high level of animation, auto-play videos, and so on, that it lags down the experience, especially when a single page has a
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by personZ 12y ago
I'm starting to realize that quite a few on HN actually have no idea what happened during this period (too young?), and at this point they're just going by what they read on Reddit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by personZ 12y ago
This thread hilariously earned me a glorious slowban. Hacker News literally descends into yet another conspiracy site. However why don't you contrast your comment with mine. Are you actually countering anything I've said? No, you
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by personZ 12y ago
Evading? How in the... I'm sorry, acting emotionally offended by reality (and hurling spurious and misplaced claims like "kinder garden excuses") is the domain of the rank imbecile, and has absolutely no place on HN. This sou
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by personZ 12y ago
You should read up on it more. Firstly, what the British government did or didn't do is not really relevant to conversations about the US government. Secondly, even if the UK government were at all relevant to this conversation, te
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by personZ 12y ago
This isn't some lowbrow conspiracy site, and I don't expect the participants to have the sort of superficial, facile understanding of world events that you've so evidently demonstrated. If reality makes you "pissed"
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by personZ 12y ago
The common narrative is that the US contrived the whole thing to justify an attack. This is how that unfortunate situation gets used to explain all sorts of nefarious conspiracies. But they really, honestly had reason to believe that Iraq h
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by personZ 12y ago
I tried in the Halton area (West of Toronto) and had about 40 things from a single individual in Hamilton who continually posted far right conspiracy type things. I suppose this is the issue with the network effect -- right now it looks pre
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by personZ 12y ago
I'm surprised there haven't been kickstarters for little robotic bug killers yet. The processors and sensors are getting powerful enough, and within the right power band, that the premise of having a stabby little anti-bug device
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by personZ 12y ago
Yet they behave like Microsoft, or IBM, or HP. And those are unquestionably technology businesses.
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by personZ 12y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/bank-it-spending-2012-12 The banking system functions largely on the choice, application and integration of technology, and banking is more of a technology business than just about any other.
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by personZ 12y ago
I mean, Obama has straight up said that he plans to attack NK. He said absolutely no such thing, and it is rather incredible if people think this. The US has warned that they will respond, which will end up being a complaint in the UN. Ju
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by personZ 12y ago
But you don't have to see proof, and it is no one's burden to convince you. The US is not trying to prosecute North Korea in court. This isn't an amendments issue. And despite the ridiculous recurring claims, the US is not
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by personZ 12y ago
Not only does this pdf contain zero information, there is no reason for it to be in PDF format. I have to imagine that the few people who voted it up thus far did so while avoiding actually loading a PDF, but assuming that it has some subst
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by personZ 12y ago
They can say that it shows the threat that the US has from other countries on a hacking front There have been attacks on the US government IT infrastructure. Stolen designs and files from military contractors. Attacks on energy and distri
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by personZ 12y ago
As peeters said, most organizations rely upon the historical volume of emails to operate effectively. This isn't a simple solution. Add that a narrative around this story is that the hackers "spear phished" an IT admin. This
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by personZ 12y ago
"What I remember is a well-argued article pointing to many parts of the hack that would seem to disqualify North Korea" That article was a classic case of "assume the end result, and then make everything you've heard...i
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by personZ 12y ago
"Opportunities to get backing for war are rare, and so there is good reason to think that the government would try to capitalize on them."..."USS Maine, anyone?"..."Queue an invasion of North Korea." Literally
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by personZ 12y ago
Many well-known security professionals ...who are pandering to a crowd, and based upon essentially no information at all, but just the same sort of "I think" gut feeling notions that we see on HN. While there should always be qu
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by personZ 12y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/north-korea-hacker-... North Korea is suspected in a number of similar attacks. Because really, what is anyone going to do? Attack them? They have nukes. Iso
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by personZ 12y ago
There is no MO regarding an attack from a country like North Korea. That country says bombastic things with regularity, and has seemingly little concern for blowback. How a country like Israel or the United States might do an attack like th
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by personZ 12y ago
In fact, if anything, the following quote indicates an insider is just as likely to be the source The common narrative in discounting any involvement of North Korea is that they're too famished and uneducated to perform such an opera
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by personZ 12y ago
Except when wine tasters can't distinguish between red wine and white wine with food coloring This oft referenced study took oenology students and asked them to use adjectives to describe the odors of the wine. The only wines teste
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by personZ 12y ago
That's a bit of an extrapolation though, isn't it? Many people simply run VMs that connects to some arbitrary pgsql instance, which might happen to be on RDS if they want to simplify the management of that. Those VMs can absolutel
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by personZ 12y ago
I don't personally get the RDS value proposition, but how does it lead to vendor lock-in, much less severe vendor lock-in? I don't believe there is really any lock-in whatsoever -- backup your database and move it wherever you w

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