iy56 | 12 years ago | on: Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed. That's a real healthy attitude to take.
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iy56 | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities
Solution: anonymous buyers.
iy56 | 12 years ago | on: Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)
It is less bad. The US government doesn't have any obligation to protect the rights of citizens of some other country not living in the US. If your government disagrees, tell them to sign a treaty.
iy56 | 12 years ago | on: Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
It just means they feel like the other party is forgetting about the cost. For example, if I hear my friend raving about this new phone that only costs 99 dollars, I might remind him that it would require him to upgrade to a data plan that costs 20 dollars more per month. That doesn't mean that the phone isn't still worth buying, just that it's not as cheap as I think he is imagining it to be.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away
No. I validate the credit card before completing the transaction. Maybe you should check whether the game is terrible before you buy it.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
The approaches are not mutually exclusive.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
That's an incredibly naive expectation. ISPs have been replacing error pages with their own search pages serving ads since the 90s.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
But you already don't stop your ISP from interfering with your traffic in transit. So why is it a big deal if you continue to not do it? Or is seeing a few ads more important to you than, say, all of your email?
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
Yes, this technique could potentially be misused. You can say the same thing about any technology.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
If the best argument in favor of HTTPS everywhere is that it will prevent your ISP from showing you ads, the movement is doomed.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
They are not making it necessary, only convenient. You're not harmed by seeing a few ads.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
Even if you hire a 50/50 split, it doesn't solve the problem because the ratio in conference attendees is far from even. The conditional probabilities still lead to the conclusion the article complains about.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented
Software is commonly accepted as copyrightable, and no exception is made for quines.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks
Having to support many different textbooks across different students is a recipe for chaos. Especially when the topic is something like calculus which can have such radically different treatments.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Security reporter tells about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house
Verification really doesn't matter. Emergency responders aren't going to ignore a report like this where human lives are reported to be at stake just because it comes from an unverified number.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way
With Opera 12.14, I saw the same thing. I had to open the page in Chrome to see the weirdness.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: Men who spy on women through their webcams
Most likely this will lead to official certification and registration of pen testers like locksmiths and alarm system installers are required to have in some states..
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: EA apologises over 'dumb' SimCity launch
Probably they spent more time playing on the highest game speed, which taxes their servers more. They eventually disabled this speed when it was clear their infrastructure could not handle it.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
Refuse to enforce this clause of the DMCA and pardon anyone imprisoned because of it.
iy56 | 13 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
Can anyone repost the text here for those of use whose work filters block tpb?
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