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Re:Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:40AM (#10282942)
Actually the law cares only about tracking not cookies.
And there are a lot of ways to track users even without cookies.
Re:Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:13AM (#10282879)
I don't think the law specifies to use cookies to disable cookies and it's a good thing - lawmakers shouldn't care about technological solutions.
Re:Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
on Saturday September 26, 2015 @08:04AM (#10282858)
Or how about Google making a form of Adsense that doesn't track users?
I somehow have a feeling that large corporations intentionally are trying to make this law ridiculous. E.g. why blogspot pages would need such warnings? Please Google just stop tracking.
Re:Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock
on Saturday September 26, 2015 @07:50AM (#10282828)
I think law is fine and there should be only a handful of sites in the Internet that would need such warnings.
Problem is the abuse of technology to track users.
Re:Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story
on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:08PM (#10242064)
As a Northern European I'm often amused by all the studies of allergenic properties of milk coming in from different parts of world.
Re:Cancer patient gets a 3D-printed titanium rib cage
on Sunday September 13, 2015 @11:30AM (#10211686)
You could make the titanium parts hollow. That would solve the density problem.
Re:Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough
on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @01:09PM (#10124436)
Just to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.
Re:Surely you're joking, Skype
on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:45PM (#9701481)
There is no "delete" on Internet
Re:Japanese Change Trays
on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @02:30PM (#9654762)
Actually I can't even imagine handing cash directly to someone - this kind of seems rude to me. It would be even worse if the note was folded. Doing this also might involve hand contact (which again might make someone uncomfortable). (I'm from Northern Europe).
Re:New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler
on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:51PM (#9102678)
I'm sorry, I misread it as "New NSA backdoor".
Re:Hackers Cut in Line at the Burning Man Ticket Sale–And Get Caught
on Monday February 23, 2015 @12:28PM (#9095545)
I wonder if any of the "hackers" will get sued.
Re:Most people probably shouldn't go to school
on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @01:27PM (#8992157)
Non vitae, sed scholae discimus[1]
[1] Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Seneca
Re:Google Analytics, Casualty of Spam
on Sunday January 11, 2015 @09:54AM (#8870108)
Adding to this - most privacy/adblock plugins also block analytics.
So I really have to doubt that Google Analytics is of much value.
Re:GoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube
on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @03:57AM (#8849510)
The problem is not that they are doing this, but that they can.
This is a technology problem and it will not be fixed by shaming offenders (GoGo probably didn't have any evil intentions at all).
Re:World War II Battle When Americans and Germans Fought Together (2013)
on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:29PM (#8815582)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups
This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2
Re:Misfortune Cookie
on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:20AM (#8771568)
Some might actually think that the vulnerability affects only Checkpoint devices.
Re:CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem
on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @07:57AM (#8762107)
You can disable third-party cookies in most browsers.
Re:How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases
on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:27AM (#8739210)
I'm using disconnect.me
Re:How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases
on Thursday December 11, 2014 @05:32PM (#8737430)
Amazon product pages already have Facebook tracker embedded, so Facebook knows what you are looking at. No need to provide your phone number.
Re:23andMe UK
on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @03:21PM (#8689587)
Entering a fake name doesn't really help. If one of your relatives also orders the kit, your name can easily be found out.
Re:Quicksort in 3 lines of shell
on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:31PM (#8591017)
I guess he meant pseudo 3 lines.
Re:HP 3D printing
on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @03:24PM (#8529299)
Printing with blood is more of a niche market right now.
Hussein used to do that, but it never went mainstream [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran]
Re:Against the Grain: Should you go gluten-free?
on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:00PM (#8517417)
I suspect a guaranteed job there actually did help a lot of people with mental disorders.
Also back then Eastern Europeans were eating way less meat and sugary foods. Also self grown food was very popular (due to lack of food in centralized stores)
Re:Ad blocker that clicks on the ads
on Monday October 27, 2014 @10:42AM (#8515691)
Those worried about supporting content creators - there are other ways to do this( e.g. Flattr).
Re:Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us (2000)
on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:47AM (#8514465)
Early humans: "The future doesn't need us"
Hunter-gatherers: "The future doesn't need us"
Bill Joy: "The future doesn't need us"
Nothing new here and they all were right.
There's a similar project on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdog/airdog-worlds-fi...
Re:Art project: Train rats to trade markets
on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:44AM (#8366226)
Rats? Is there a pun intended?
Re:Google Wi-Fi Roundup Has Lawyers Chasing Landmark Jackpot
on Thursday September 25, 2014 @02:11AM (#8365857)
If it's ok to collect electromagnetic emissions in range from 430 to 790 THz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum], why it shouldn't be the same for 2.4 GHz?
Re:How Google’s CDN prevents your site from loading in China
on Friday September 12, 2014 @02:28PM (#8309574)
It's not like Google is blocking something.
Google is blocked by China.