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mrSugar··on The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business
This was explored (all the way to its grim dystopian conclusion) in tv series Dollhouse. Might want to check it out.
mrSugar··on Show HN: Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go
Only thing that works is active and ongoing moderator involvement, plus a well implemented "report/flag post" feature.
mrSugar··on The trouble with text-only email
For me, the alarming fact is that this "privacywise" option was not the firs one chosen. Instead, they went with a "privacyunwise" option as a default, and only backed out because of user uproar. Bad Mozilla!
mrSugar··on Accenture left a huge trove of highly sensitive data on exposed servers
No. If it is public, everyone is authorized.
mrSugar··on The Debugging Mindset
Sounds like a variation on Ayn Rand's "contradictions do not exist, if you think you see one, check your premises, some of them will be wrong".
mrSugar··on ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV
That is what multicast was meant to address. Sadly, it did not catch on.
mrSugar··on 'My life was ruined by a typo'
Well, #00ff00 could be difficult to dictate over the phone... :-)
mrSugar··on China has wealth of data on what individuals are doing at a micro level
What about just not saying or doing stupid things at all?
mrSugar··on FBI director: Cover up your webcam
The potential for burglars to get in through windows is a huge attack vector. And yet we lock our door.
mrSugar··on PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS
Hopefully he doesn't also think that a totem pole is a guy from Poland who looks after a totem. :-)
mrSugar··on We found over 10000 bugs in various open source projects
Perhaps the append() also returns void. I've seen this kind of bug uncaught by gcc exactly because of that.
mrSugar··on How and Why to Log Your Bash History
Work through ansible and manage your local ansible.log however you wish.
mrSugar··on Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision
Suddenly, the phrase "like a bug on the windshield" gains new level of meaning
mrSugar··on Linus Torvalds on C++
So, he hates GTK+ more than he does C++? what does that tell us about GTK+?
mrSugar··on WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users
Because one end in this "end-to-end" is you, and the other is Facebook's government-facing data storage.
mrSugar··on G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative
Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have only used ImageMagick lightly, for e. g. resizing or merging simple bitmaps, and I never found it lacking. However, I recognize that there are users who need more.
mrSugar··on G'MIC, full-featured ImageMagick alternative
So, a question: why? Just so that there is an alternative (not that there is anything wrong with that), or is there an issue with ImageMagick that discourages some people from using it?
mrSugar··on Debunking myths about artificial intelligence
Ok, we are still safe. As parent demonstrates, machines still can't even compose coherent text. Nice try, robot slave!
mrSugar··on [dead]
Everything old is new again. It is as if things went around in cycles or something.
mrSugar··on Windows 10 needs Windows Firewall enabled to install fonts
Maybe it has to call home to microsoft to find out if the font is whitelisted? That would of course imply that in Windows 10, "disabled firewall" doesn't mean "all traffic allowed", which I find bizarre...
mrSugar··on The decline of US power?
You should be upvoting comments because you think they add value to the topic/discussion, not because you happen to agree with the poster. That is how echo chambers are created.
mrSugar··on Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat
But how would that serve ads to the eyeballs? You forget that most of modern webcontent is just packaging fluff for eyeballs to more easily digest the real content payload - the advertisments.
mrSugar··on Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen
What's important is that they all hate the customer together... Or at least have a healthy disdain thereof.
mrSugar··on Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'
Try re-reading the post you replied to. The author does not want you to respect the cause for which he has taken the risk, but the fact that he felt strongly enough about it to put his life on the line for it. And yes, even suicide bombers deserve a bit of respect if they do their thing out of conviction, and not because they have been brainwashed about 72 virgins in next life.
mrSugar··on Rocket vs. Docker and the Myth of the “Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform”
Yep, that one worked just fine.
mrSugar··on Rocket vs. Docker and the Myth of the “Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform”
Well, I can't read it at all on my android phone, because whatever javascript they use, prevents me from scrolling down. While the page was loading, scrolling worked, but as soon as everything loaded up, it jumped back to the top and stuck there. I hate today's web, where people are apparently unable to serve a plain text article without javascript.