KNoureen's comments

KNoureen | 12 years ago | on: Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate

Considering NSA and other three letter agencies apparently have quite plenty of surveillance equipment installed, I think your revolution will be met at the door step by two gentlemen in black suits.

KNoureen | 12 years ago | on: New York Times silently edits its "lost all credibility" line

Question: Isn't Newsdiffs setting themselves up for a lawsuit by re-printing the article?

KNoureen | 12 years ago | on: Facebook agrees to block sexual assault 'humor'

Facebook is a private company and depends on income from advertisers to provide a "free" service. So in reality it is the advertisers who control Facebook I would say, and therefore have some weight to throw around.

KNoureen | 12 years ago | on: What if Google starts doing it?

Payment for a service is not always with hard currency, but as in this case, with information about ourselves and our connections.

KNoureen | 12 years ago | on: US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits

> campaign donors

I would dare to say this could be a contributing factor to the state of politics and law. Essentially, laws and regulations are bought by the highest bidder.

I think many agree with me that neither religion or money should have influence on direction of politics.

For the anonymity on legislation; No. Legislation, political- and judicial processes IMHO be 100% transparent.

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents

Isn't it good that the PTO resists pressure from either group? I mean, the only part which would have influence on how they work is the entity above PTO, whichever that one is (Supreme Court/DOJ/?).

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Firefox 23 will block non-SSL content on SSL pages by default

Firefox 23 does not have TLS v1.2, but Nightly will very soon. During March there have been very active development in NSS for TLS v1.2 and they are AFAIK checking in bit by bit now.

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo's Mayer gets internal flak for more rigorous hiring

Micromanagment is not always a bad thing, and Steve Jobs is one shining example of this. Of course not everyone is good at it, but time will tell how this ends up.

My guess is that current management have become stale, comfortable and somewhat corrupted. Recruiting favors those with connections within the company, not the ones with experience, knowledge or brilliance. She could of course outright fire managers, but that could lead to worse consequences than micromanagment would.

Anyway, time will tell.

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Firefox: Why we won’t enable Do-Not-Track by default

Are you trolling us? DnT is a HTTP header sent by the browser, it does not block or delete cookies.

On another note, cookies are domain specific, which means that a cookie can't be accessed by another domain.

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Linux is Garbage

Sigh... Page dedicated to trolling?

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Goodbye, Uploads

I see a lot of worrying and annoyed comments.

But this is an OPPORTUNITY for eager hackers to create an external solution to GitHub for distributing project builds and related binaries.

Or am I wrong?

KNoureen | 13 years ago | on: Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups

If you have the time for it, you could try a VPS and your own IMAP/SMTP-server and web-interface.

I migrated off Google a year ago to my own server, took a day to sit down and understand/configure it and have since then run smoothly w/o me touching it. And since I host some other people's domains and mail for a small fee, I actually earn a few $ / year.