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cornewut

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About cornewut

I have an anxiety disorder. This is my therapeutic account.

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    Comment #10282942

    Actually the law cares only about tracking not cookies. And there are a lot of ways to track users even without cookies.

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    Comment #10282879

    I don't think the law specifies to use cookies to disable cookies and it's a good thing - lawmakers shouldn't care about technological solutions.

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    Comment #10282858

    Or how about Google making a form of Adsense that doesn't track users? I somehow have a feeling that large corporations intentionally are trying to make this law ridiculous. E.g. w…

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    Comment #10282828

    I think law is fine and there should be only a handful of sites in the Internet that would need such warnings. Problem is the abuse of technology to track users.

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    Comment #10242064

    As a Northern European I'm often amused by all the studies of allergenic properties of milk coming in from different parts of world.

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    Comment #10211686

    You could make the titanium parts hollow. That would solve the density problem.

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    Comment #10124436

    Just to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.

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    Comment #9701481

    There is no "delete" on Internet

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    Comment #9654762

    Actually I can't even imagine handing cash directly to someone - this kind of seems rude to me. It would be even worse if the note was folded. Doing this also might involve hand co…

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    Comment #9102678

    I'm sorry, I misread it as "New NSA backdoor".

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    Comment #9095545

    I wonder if any of the "hackers" will get sued.

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    Comment #8992157

    Non vitae, sed scholae discimus[1] [1] Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Seneca

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    Comment #8870108

    Adding to this - most privacy/adblock plugins also block analytics. So I really have to doubt that Google Analytics is of much value.

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    Comment #8849510

    The problem is not that they are doing this, but that they can. This is a technology problem and it will not be fixed by shaming offenders (GoGo probably didn't have any evil inten…

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    Comment #8815582

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2

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    Comment #8771568

    Some might actually think that the vulnerability affects only Checkpoint devices.

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    Comment #8762107

    You can disable third-party cookies in most browsers.

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    Comment #8739210

    I'm using disconnect.me

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    Comment #8737430

    Amazon product pages already have Facebook tracker embedded, so Facebook knows what you are looking at. No need to provide your phone number.

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    Comment #8689587

    Entering a fake name doesn't really help. If one of your relatives also orders the kit, your name can easily be found out.

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    Comment #8591017

    I guess he meant pseudo 3 lines.

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    Comment #8529299

    Printing with blood is more of a niche market right now. Hussein used to do that, but it never went mainstream [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran ]