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Re:Twitter’s Policy Reboot: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @11:20AM (#10888238)
Twitter's rules say they can remove your verified status at any time for violating their ToS. It's pretty obvious that Milo has violated their ToS many, many times, so he's not verified anymore. Don't know what the big deal about that is.
Re:Here’s what Ashley Madison members have told me on Monday August 24, 2015 @08:17AM (#10109211)
I'm not quite sure what you're confused about. The gender inequality that still exists. It's pretty straightforward.
That's why I said "popularized by," not "invented by." The Nazis co-opted a lot of things that weren't theirs, but they're now known for being used by the Nazis. The swastika is a good example: definitely not invented by the Nazis, but popularized and pretty much taken over by the Nazis.
When you're advocating the creation of superhumans using terminology popularized by the Nazis, you sound pretty Hitlery.
The important part isn't the alloy. I mean, yeah, it gives them a leg up - but there's nobody willing to put in the time and money to figure out what's in their cymbals, because it's just more worth it to make your own.

The Zildjian name is more valuable than any of their cymbals. If you don't buy Zildjian cymbals, it's because they're too expensive, or it's because you don't like the sound. It's a better idea for a company to go and make a cymbal that fills one of the other niches in the market than to try to replace Zildjian.

It's sort of like Coca-Cola's secret recipe. If you wanted to put the time and effort into it, you could figure out what's in it. But why bother? Coca-Cola's success is due to the brand, not to the taste.

Re:You cannot start a tweet with “D. Tusk” on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @01:32AM (#9883055)
Lots of services limit usernames to a certain range of characters, but some don't. However, there's tons of invisible unicode characters that you can use instead, so even without this one, the problem would still exist.
Re:Urho3D – C++ game engine with HTML5 examples on Monday June 15, 2015 @02:00AM (#9717747)
Unit can already export to HTML5. Since this uses Emscripten and Unity uses some sort of custom IL->JS, the performance probably isn't much better.
Re:Draft Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement on Thursday May 21, 2015 @10:32PM (#9586380)
Part of HTTPS is making sure that the person you're talking to is the person you think you're talking to.
Re:The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @01:51AM (#9537032)
"You?" I'm a man too.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Silk Road on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @05:28PM (#9455268)
It's not, though. He ordered the drugs, meaning that all the needed was confirmation that it was really him that ordered the drugs - signing for the package is enough evidence. That's enough for an arrest anyways, and probably enough for probable cause.

Can we stop jerking about how the cops are the REAL criminals here? DPR was in no way a good person.

Re:Update on Heml.is on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:50PM (#9423086)
> I got kidnapped by the swedish government and locked up for my work with another project – The Pirate Bay.

That's called "being arrested for breaking the law."

Re:MongoDB and RocksDB at Parse on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:47PM (#9423069)
MongoDB is a fun toy database right now, nothing more. Unless you have the resources to fix every problem that comes up, you should use a mature database like Postgres or MySQL (MySQL is not as terrible as some might think).
Re:Render HTML via WebGL on Thursday April 02, 2015 @04:07PM (#9312851)
It uses html2canvas which is its own rendering engine to an extent.
Using fallacies while not understanding them makes you look like an idiot. Just FYI.
Re:Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf] on Friday February 27, 2015 @10:58AM (#9119504)
But I need the entire blockchain for it to be decentralized, or someone else stores the entire blockchain, which is centralized.
Re:Lightning Network: “Bitcoin Doesn’t Scale” [pdf] on Friday February 27, 2015 @08:17AM (#9118643)
Bitcoin either needs tons of bandwidth and storage space, or centralization. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Re:On the Origins of Bitcoin's Polarization on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:24AM (#8927686)
Don't forget...

* The wastefulness of miners!

* The blockchain bloat!

* The lack of anonymity!

* The deflation!

* The lengthy block confirmation times!

* The lack of security!

* The lack of chargebacks!

* The badly coded software!

* The fees!

* The centralization!

* The slow, slow, slow transaction speed.

It's in the shill handbook. Check under Appendix B.

Re:On the Origins of Bitcoin's Polarization on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:16AM (#8927662)
Oh great, another Bitcoin rant about how the common person just doesn't get it, but Bitcoin really is a great technology - they laughed at Galileo!

Maybe, just maybe, Bitcoin actually is a shitty technology and that's why people don't trust it?

Re:Filezilla at SourceForge is malware on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @09:10AM (#8850542)
There's really no reason to use SourceForge anymore. GitHub can do almost everything SourceForge can do, aside from app reviews I guess. GitHub also doesn't make you feel like you're in 2004.
There is no circumstance where you can be entrapped into killing someone or ordering the killing of someone.
Isn't this the one that turned out to be a scam?

https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin/issues/71

Re:The No CAPTCHA problem on Thursday December 04, 2014 @11:22AM (#8699989)
You don't think Google will figure something out when a bunch of tokens from different IP addresses are all being used by one IP?
Re:The No CAPTCHA problem on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:50AM (#8699800)
It's no easier for bots. They still have to answer the old OCR challenge or a computer vision problem.
Re:The No CAPTCHA problem on Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:52AM (#8699449)
The goal isn't to make things harder for bots, it's to make things easier for users.