Viewing profile — For_Iconoclasm

This is false if you're only using Fios for internet service. Verizon asked me if I was providing my own router, and I said yes. The tech who "installed" and activated my ONT confi…

There is an extremely simple logical construct surrounding this: consent is not the default state of the other party. What is not easy to understand is how people don't understand …

Most people that I know use foobar2000.

I use LastPass, but also use generated passwords to answer security questions. For these questions, one can enable the options for only using alphanumeric, unambiguous characters.

Sorry, but it's the website for git. Things have websites. How difficult is that to reason, really? The top of the page explains what git is. Isn't it obvious that the site is git'…

Oh, it is absolutely a problem! But, having people not knowing what they're talking about has always been a problem. Nothing short of a strictly-enforced policy mandating that HR d…

I would answer that rhetorical question with no, HR departments have not have heard of social engineering attacks in computer security. Almost any company asking for a password wil…

> defining "evil" would be a good start I think the best way to tackle this would be defining specific tenets the way that the FSF does with freedoms 0-4. They don't just say "You …

> I see a lot of votes for python, but a disproportionately small representation of python fans in the comments. This is probably because describing the virtues of Python (clean & …

Or, if all of the engineers quit instead of building the tools, then those websites cease to be for lack of workers.

I'm not going to argue with your opinion like others are doing, but I find it very interesting that you have this viewpoint. It would sort of be like a car enthusiast preferring an…

> programming, ultimately, is thinking. I very rarely feel slowed down by my environment. It's possible for it to happen, but most of my time is spent thinking about a problem, not…

Duly noted! Although, I was not praising Jobs nor Apple in post. I was drawing a comparison (showing similarity) between the ideals of RMS and the ideals he was against. He is hypo…

My biggest gripe with Stallman is his "I know what's best for you" mentality. His moral standards are more important than whatever you can come up with. During a question & answer …

I worked on a natural language processing project as my required directed study in college. We focused on language generation and took an extremely naïve approach to the problem si…

Well, it got me on the pointer arithmetic questions. I remembered that C automatically handles pointer arithmetic (multiplying by sizeof(type)), however: Question 2: I didn't think…

That is also true. You can use that version for as long as you want! The company I work for uses a newer stable version of nginx in production, but I think I actually make use of a…

I feel the same way. Nginx has been the little ngin that could, supported by a bunch of talented hackers dedicated to bringing something to the table that the big-time servers, eve…

They're also probably the ones that type "google" into the Bing search bar to get to Google. :)

Facebook Notes support simple HTML. You can't use bold or italics anywhere else, to my knowledge.

This site looks pretty cool. I'd like to see some more cities listed.

I got robbed in Brooklyn the exact same way a few weeks ago, but nobody was watching over my car. :(