simbalion

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by simbalion 10y ago
That was part of my reasoning. Installing Windows is a huge pain in the ass compared to installing Linux. If you need a service pack you have to go to their website, the download links are always difficult to find and buried under walls of
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by simbalion 10y ago
The website is down, this story deserves it's own website behind a CDN so people can be adequately warned. win10antitrust.us is available on namecheap.com for $0.88.
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by simbalion 10y ago
The year of linux is behind us. Today in 2016, Linux is the superior platform for both user-friendliness and stability. It is easier to use and install on a wider variety of hardware. The old belief that Windows is "easier" is dep
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by simbalion 10y ago
Blatant anti-trust violation in several nations. Microsoft has _repeatedly_ lost anti-trust lawsuits in the past 16 years for this exact sort of behavior. How is it that they have not learned their lesson? Windows 10 is failing, and now the
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by simbalion 10y ago
Is anyone else bothered by the mis-use of the term "zero-day" in the media?
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by simbalion 10y ago
You suggestion implies we can't have one without the other. Tacking on small concessions is how the most evil people in American politics are able to pass insane and crooked laws.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Actually, the DMCA is evil. It was invented by evil men. It's been used countless times to terrorize people and maintain a corporate oligarchy. Nobody should utilize the DMCA, you should find a way to get the things you need without re
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by simbalion 10y ago
Let's Encrypt is a cure for all SSL woes.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Computers and the internet are relatively new, compared to advertising. The ad-blocking era is only about 5 years old. Give it time, you will see that I am right. Again, facebook is not a social product. Facebook is a portal product with a
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by simbalion 10y ago
First, the article is dumb, twitter is already a giant. Twitter is bigger in social media than facebook because it is open to the public, while facebook is a gated community. Second, "the problem with twitter" as commentors have b
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by simbalion 10y ago
The author is really late to this particular party. https://replacethessn.xyz/
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by simbalion 10y ago
You are right. It's wrong. Those responsible are completely insane.
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by simbalion 10y ago
this is proof that police officers in 2016 are meant to be nothing more than executioners. This is exactly what the current government wants America to be. The insanity in our government and police departments is completely out of control.
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by simbalion 10y ago
Welcome to 1984.
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by simbalion 10y ago
The article is very ignorant. The internet remains primarily a P2P technology, and will probably continue to be that way forever. The amount of valuable resources on the internet which are utilizing P2P methods are 10000000 to 1 compared to
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by simbalion 10y ago
Keeping in mind that you can get a VPS for as low as $3.50 per month, I don't see that there is ever a reason to use shared hosting, and several reasons not to, performance is only one of them. If you're website is that unimportan
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by simbalion 10y ago
That might be true, but web-search is an absolutely vital service for cultural health in the information age, like the telephone system used to be. Every search engine does sell ads, which seems to be working for them all so far. If that ev
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by simbalion 10y ago
I'm not saying a VPS is not appropriate for a static HTML web-page, but there are perfectly capable VPSes avaible for $3.50 to $5. I'm not in agreement with many of the commenters regarding CDNs. I don't believe in a free lun
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by simbalion 10y ago
My expertise is not marketing so I don't feel I could adequately answer that question but there are plenty of focus group studies which show what sort of UX works best. It's a safe bet that most of the big corporations who are alr
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by simbalion 10y ago
That's because all those other sites are poorly built. It's not because the article's site is a brilliant example of "doing it right". Putting bare text on the web is always going to be fast. So what. If he presente
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by simbalion 10y ago
the guy says he's not an idiot then brags about spending $30 per month on a VPS (idiot), for a single-page static HTML website with all inline-code (idiot+1). It's not being negative to point out the glaring flaws in a person&#x27
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by simbalion 10y ago
Removal of the headphone jack on the iphone is an idiot test. Idiots will buy apple products no matter how functional or not functional they are, simply because they're named iProduct. Anyone with any sense will see this as a good oppo
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by simbalion 10y ago
No you are right. It will be Google's continued inching toward a revised "do evil whenever it's profitable" business model that is going to unseat google. I mentioned DuckDuckGo because it seems it would be most likely t
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by simbalion 10y ago
The 7 step process shows us how the majority of people are "dumb". And by dumb, I mean they lack the creative ability to look forward and imagine how a technology can change the world. Those of us who are not suffering that disabi
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by simbalion 10y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that if anyone has an idea for how to improve on search, they're not going to share it in this thread, they're going to complete it quietly and publish their product.
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by simbalion 10y ago
I agree with what you've said but I wanted to add that there is room for improvement on Google's model. For example, selling page 1 results is unfair, but that is something google does. I think DuckDuckGo is an example of how Goog
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by simbalion 10y ago
philosophy and moderation.
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by simbalion 10y ago
You might want to raise a stink, show this article to their support staff: http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-crack... Raise the point that forcing insecure practices on government operate
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by simbalion 10y ago
And we'll never need more than 64kb of RAM too. It was not many years ago when strong 8 character passwords were completely suitable. So respectfully I think your statements are false. One of the reasons the guide recommends Keepass is
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by simbalion 10y ago
Diceware is not suitable for general use, because it is important to have a unique password on every service. That practice isolates you from the damage of sites like LinkedIn and Dropbox being compromised. If you use diceware for everythin

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