Comment Re:Sensational headline (Score 1) 147
"AdBlock to the rescue"
I'd also suggest something like StartPage.com, and make use of their proxied results.
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"AdBlock to the rescue"
I'd also suggest something like StartPage.com, and make use of their proxied results.
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"I am sure most of you don't remember the internet before ads."
The Internet before ads was a technology in its infancy. Ads did not make the Internet better, time did.
(and, as someone who *does* remember the Internet before ads, it was quite wonderful)
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"Tell everyone that ad-supported hardware will be going away, and that new fancy cell phone will cost $900 on top of the contract."
The problem with your statement is that it implies that there is someone other than the consumer who pays for advertising.
If advertising went away tomorrow, the aggregate cost of all goods sold would go down as a result (and we would stop paying for crap that *nobody* wants).
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"AAC is by far the best audio codec that I have come across...Too bad its proprietary"
Proprietary in what way? It's an ISO standard, among other things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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"having to carry another device...is just not practical when Authy and Google Authenticator etc are available."
It's the size of a thumb drive. Calling that "not practical" is ridiculous. Also, I cannot imagine a scenario where I would entrust the authentication of a brokerage account to a third party.
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"When every piece of marketing-subsidized hardware in the future looks and smells like today's whored-out smartphones, attempting to secure said hardware will be rather difficult"
You can't do better than 'when this mythical event happens...' ?
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"You want to keep it? Then keep it on your own hardware."
Exactly.
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If you're going to bleat about Schwab, you should at least acknowledge that they:
1) Support two-factor authentication, and
2) Will send you a security token free, for the asking.
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With the possible exception of #3, I think voicemail has this covered.
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Any reason not to just do this on your phone? e.g: my phone doesn't ring unless the caller is in the address book / contact list.
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"Unwilling != incapable"
This.
We throw away ~half the food we produce in this country. We burn it or bury it, but god forbid we give it away.
Likewise, we happily pay to incarcerate a larger percentage of our population than any other country in the world, but we'll be *damned* if we will let people have a little apartment - which would be cheaper.
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I have used Apple software since the early 00s. Like any software, there have always been bugs. There always will be.
I have had no more problems (and possibly less) with Yosemite and iOS 8 than with any other release. Those who use words like 'nosedive' either have short memories or are in need of clicks.
Let us recall the software update of a decade ago that erased every external drive with a space in the volume name - and let us be happy that things like that do not happen any more.
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As robots make it less and less necessary for people to work, we have to get rid of our outmoded notion that in order for a person to be a respected member of society, be fed, have housing, that person must have a 'job'.
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"If you air gap email and financial systems, you're stepping right back into the mid-1900s."
But it's not all or nothing; I 'airgap' some things at home, in the sense that I keep all my financials on a separate computer than the one I play on. Its turned on and connected to the network only when it has to be (it does get connected, so its not really airgap). There is plenty of middle ground.
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If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
