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Re:Science of Science on Friday July 05, 2019 @12:27PM (#20363722)
this sounds like a forced meta analysis field that could easily fall with existing ones under work/education studies.

if you want the real deal for the title, see STS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_societ...

but do you still think of "friend to one/you/someone" when it is spoken "ventilen" as one word?
what do you mean walkable city? a walkable city you do 10k steps without even noticing! a US city that is not NY or boston in summer you have to drive to a park/beach like you would to a gym, do your steps and drive back home.
so true. the fact that browsers have dns resolvers is weird.

to me only the kernel could do it, and it would limit outgoing port 53 by default to every other process.

if I want to set configuration on my hosts file I damn sure want everything to follow it, not have to worry about thousands of applications that might or might not use it.

less lawyers on retainer to establish a precedent?

you are talking about dirty politicians, who are standing against something initially designed to twart oppressive regimes such as China's great firewall... any dirty trick in book is fair game to them.

I'm happy for you that you speak a language google happens to have support in, and that you have the time to besides creating and uploading content, to monitor it is not censored at a later, random, date by google. And that you were able to provide the US based documentation they required and that your videos content happened to not be in the blacklist of any nation state.

/s (I guess)

Re:Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018) on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:43PM (#20355962)
gabage article IMHO.

someone who analyzed 200 years of data is criticizing people who analyzed 50 years of data before. and both think they can extrapolate to events that are assumed to cycle every 900-11,000 years!

all sumarized by a writer who uses star war analogies.

spare your time. don't bother reading this. Go read Foucault instead if you care for this topic.

Re:Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018) on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:34PM (#20355891)
you mean, excluding actual capturof wealth after ww ii, like Crimea? Or soft ones like belt and road taking over Africa's infrastructure or the fight to keep Venezuela under US control?
Re:Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @02:49AM (#20342167)
only took them 5 years.
Re:Blockchain takes us back to medieval times on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @08:01PM (#20340481)
to be honest, generating 1-2 real and credible articles per day talking bad things against kleptocurrencies and elon musk, is a very banal feat.
Re:Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018) on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:19PM (#20339496)
that's the sort of elitist behaviour that plagues digital world.

dvd locked by region? don't worry, more expensive models can be bypassed by those two button presses, only the poor is really impacted.

tracking users and OS security bugs, don't worry, the latest $600+ devices will get a patch. only poor, used device buyers and developing countries models will be affected by not receiving a patch.

the modern world now is divided into the elite and the not-economically-viable-to-port-security-patches. And everytime we, the elite, dismiss something as a nuisance because we are the elite, we are making things irreparably worse.

my sugestion: do not give in to drm because you can work around it. instead pay the extra cents and get a used hardcopy. the convenience of a ebook is lost if you have to work around a drm anyway. and that way their drm sales drop to zero and they have to rethink this whole falacy.

The number of people accepting DRM content is used as a sales pitch by Pearson printing to force universities to use DRM text books that can't be resold! again, screw the poor, right?

PS: sorry for the rant. DRM makes me salty.

Re:Sensitivity Conjecture Resolved on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:07PM (#20339412)
any practical application outside of complexity field eco chamber?
Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:08PM (#20315773)
this will not help much as some google products use IPs (4 and 6) directly too.
Re:PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:07PM (#20315772)
pleroma (and i think maybe mastodon) provide media proxy that i think work for youtube. so when one person shares a video, one instance serves it to all the other users
just like Duo Managed?
Re:How AMD Gave China the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:20AM (#20304521)
russia solved their oil supply problem anexing a neighboring country and no sign of a world war. why do you think china anexing taiwan would start one (also, remember china already sent a column of tanks there one nigth and again, nothing happened with the world)

International apathy is at an all time high, thanks to most countries dealing with internal political issues (which in most cases involve rigth wing groups and fake news)

Re:Everything everywhere is securities fraud on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:38PM (#20298482)
that's only the first part of the piece. Then it goes on to show how everyone forgot how to do business and instead blindly trust random indexes, from exchange rates to chicken price (and one can easily extrapolate to BTC, which is oscillating on $9-15k every 15min for the past 5 hours btw --exchange wash trade scam news in 3, 2, 1...)
Re:RPM Packages Explained on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:58AM (#20294974)
hiding packages you have installed from your ISP/NSA/etc.

this discussion comes up time and time again (in rpm, apt et al). the consensus is: if you need that extra feature, manually download sensitive packages via ssl or something. everyone else (with nothing to hide, heh) keeps benefiting from a global cache of unencrypted transport of (mostly) open source data.

Re:RPM Packages Explained on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:56AM (#20294953)
it doesn't explain anything!

this is a indepth user guide, at most.

They automated a system that relies solely on trust? ...China hackers are surely having a great day.
Re:How to ensure your tech talent pool is poaching proof on Saturday June 22, 2019 @12:18PM (#20250358)
> Developers are not hired to fill a specific job description

how do you handle that during layoffs, where you must cut a percentage of a specific project/role to fall within law?

(ps: I am actually fine with the only answer I can see: you forfeit layoffs legal benefits and call them by what the really are)

people here can't associate two news next to one another? there have been a boom of hansonware being paid by USA city officials. and less reported, two new darknet markets booming.

you can call that accetance, but that is the same "acceptance" it had earlier.

Re:The murky business of crystal mining on Saturday June 22, 2019 @11:55AM (#20250235)
you also believe people selling mid life crisis people sports car fall in the same category?
maybe they also have nothing to hide /s
what snowden released had several previously public benign components.
proprietary command line interfaces
except for guns.
shouldn't the advertising agency having the data in the first place already be considered a leak?
except they will be (very) easy pickings for malware that do their own thing. e.g. Mirai botnet.

it's very backward to suggest planned obsolescence as a security feature instead of open software/standards

Re:The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:58AM (#20194211)
I had never ever seen that neon colored os/2 logo before. why pick such an outline oddity to report on some unknown banality from the past?

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