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psykovsky··on Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around
Except you can customize the search bar to use any search engine.
psykovsky··on Firefox, you're supposed to be in my pocket, not the other way around
How do you define executing the addon? Clicking the Icon in the addons bar? Just having it there?
psykovsky··on Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own
Why pay if they can do it for free? You have any idea how much advertising they would need to show their users just to make those $10 back? ;)
psykovsky··on Why do some countries drive on the left and others on the right?
Portuguese trains also ride on the left hand side.
psykovsky··on If you've nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear
Or maybe that was just a convenient excuse at the time. Now they present me a screen to input my phone number every time I login. I choose to ignore it.
psykovsky··on Case study: tinnitus with distortion
I can say the same about the #8 I suffer from.
psykovsky··on The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
The fork only handles SMS/MMS. There are no IM features in it.
psykovsky··on Facebook’s Piracy Problem
They will only do that when they can do it the Google way: double dip on ads revenue, first taking a 30% cut on adwords and then another 30% on youtube, leaving the content creators with something like 49% of ad revenues and google with 51%.
psykovsky··on ‘Flash Boys’ Programmer in Goldman Case Prevails Second Time
Do you have any proof, or do we have to believe the word of someone who belive's the word of someone else, who in his turn is unknown?
psykovsky··on Der Spiegel Targeted by US Intelligence
Why do I smell politics all around? Is it cynicism, or?...
psykovsky··on XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
I could almost bet that they don't even validate certificates, IF they use any kind of encryption at all...
psykovsky··on XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Google for the World’s Private Communications
And most of those routers can be configured remotely by the ISP's who own them... Turtles all the way down.
psykovsky··on Multiple UberPop drivers in custody in France
They were picking up folks, period.
psykovsky··on Show HN: Phishing as a service
Isn't hovering the link and just see where it goes enough to detect a phishing attempt? You really need to open the page?
psykovsky··on Man shoots downs neighbor’s hexacopter
Immagine what he will do when a police officer tells him to do something stupid...
psykovsky··on Why do ten Chicken McNuggets cost the same as twenty?
Come to Portugal. We'll serve you beer with your burger!
psykovsky··on Not OK, Google
Are you trying to unistall a shortcut/link/symlink?
psykovsky··on Not OK, Google
It SAYS it is disabled, but do you know if it can be remotely enabled at will or if they mean it is disabled only to send your search terms and open a google.com page but still enabled for spying?
psykovsky··on Going undercover as a sex worker
The Netherlands is great in that respect. The sex crimes rate is very low because of it. I think Belgium also has the same "system" as NL.
psykovsky··on No Time to Be Nice at Work
eheheheheheh Bit of a tongue-in-cheek comment. Not calling you a pussie, but what you described is what we see everyday in the world wild web. I suppose it isn't any different on a work setting.
psykovsky··on To Soften Image, Brazilian Police Ride in Atop Horned Beasts
site != sight And that ain't even an auto-correct typo.
psykovsky··on European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs
All those services are surrounded by huge bureaucratic machines. As is any private company who wishes to make business.
psykovsky··on European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs
Bureaucracy services, mostly.
psykovsky··on European Court Strikes Down Law Allowing Users to Rip Their Own CDs
Minor correction, the authors tax charged on printers and copy mediums is in addition to VAT, not the same as VAT.
psykovsky··on List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013)
https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr
psykovsky··on The story between VLC and Sourceforge
Love your typo. =) I suppose you wanted to write abandoned projects, but abdomen projects has a nice ring to it.
psykovsky··on Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
Meaningless numbers without any profit to show for it.
psykovsky··on Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
Where is that value coming from? Are they even profitable? Stock value means jack shit.
psykovsky··on The facts about ADP and Zenefits: Response to the claims made by Zenefits [pdf]
"By accessing and/or using the Site, you indicate your acceptance of the sale of your soul to the devil."
psykovsky··on Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked
From their pdf report [0]

>>> In the case of Kaspersky Lab, the attack took advantage of a zero-day (CVE-2015-2360) in the WindowsKernel, patched by Microsoft on June 9 2015 and possibly up to two other, currently patched vulnerabilities, which were zeroday at that time.

[0] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...

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