wardenclyffe

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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
I trust that you've read the excellent essay "And then there's Haskell..." http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20070219/0441... (Edit: After further research if you were on Hacker news mid january last year this would in fact b
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
They are still fighting the popularity of Windows XP which is a tough act to follow. I upgraded to Windows 7 about 6 months ago, and despite tweaking it to get it very close I still suffer bouts of profound exasperation when using it. I'm n
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
I stand corrected, sorry about that, originally it did, which was the cause of much amusement for a while. Obviously they fixed it.
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
They are paying attention, one of the companies I deal with used to manage a lot of other companies, and their main website was listed for all these other companies. Check out the analytics for 26th of May 2011: http://imgur.com/5zXtE
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
I know, it's inspired.
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
More likely those companies already lobbied the hell out of the situation and got people to make it someone else's problem.
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
The ICO would have website owners pop up a box to new users asking them to give consent to using cookies. Which if they refuse has to create a cookie so that their selection is remembered. (Edited for clarity)
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
You have the ability right now, go to your settings and switch your cookie handling to "prompt me for all cookies", and tada! you are now in control. It's a pain I admit, but such is the burden of maintaining your privacy online. Whenever I
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by wardenclyffe 14y ago
I am currently a webmaster (and I don't know if that's still used either, doesn't feel like it), and this is going to be a huge pain in the arse. The main reason it is a pain is the vagueness of the legislation, nobody has any idea what the
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by wardenclyffe 15y ago
Or just have the relevant code next to a city that corresponds.