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> Why do the country's accountants need guns or bullets? If you've actually inspected a reasonable subset of the multiple sources you found on this, you'd understand that these are…

No surprise at the MS non-response here. Anyone forced to use Teams every day can see that it's being maintained by a skeleton crew (at best) on the dev side. Every single day I mi…

> Not that I want to give them any ideas, but surely the best solution would be to just lock the account down to the region the billing account is from? I'm pretty sure (based on d…

I've been in largely the same situation as OP - early-stage startup, rushed work on an MVP requiring far too many bells and whistles, CEO doing a crucial demo before potential inve…

> This [2] post also documents Cliqz being covertly auto-installed with .NET Framework. No, it documents the same thing as the other link - that unrelated chip.de downloads (includ…

Read it again: > would only be able to travel 2–4 miles on that amount of electricity… in an hour . Most people could walk faster.

The specific UK mechanism that is the subject of this subthread was introduced in July; it's not what your wikipedia link describes (social engineering to get a number ported).

The majority of people on Earth who use languages that aren't covered by ASCII may also appreciate it, I'm guessing.

> In 2008 Facebook itself was in infancy That's quite an overstatement, to put it very mildly. Facebook was allowing open non-.edu signups by 2006, and the buzz around it from it's…

You're really reaching now. People were regularly using phone cameras long before smartphones. By the time smartphones were a few gens in it was ultra common, and a big benefit of …

This article appears to be from June 2017.

That's a good hot take, and I don't really disagree about (some of) the tendencies of this article, but this is still a pretty shady / unethical company by most measures. > I was t…

> I am saying that if you look at Wikipedia history you can find plenty of places where an anonymous user/occasional editor fixes a spelling mistake that was then reverted. You're …

Neither the fact that Weev is a gigantic asshole, or your conjecture about what he might have been convicted of since, retroactively erases the injustice of the DOJ's absurd prosec…

I am curious as to where you are getting the idea that "unionization in Canada is still as strong as the strongest years in the US". That's pretty much the opposite of my personal …

I'm going to assume that you are just reaching out for counterfacts without being particularly well-versed on the history here, because the Russian Duma was, from inception to the …

The post kind of dances around exactly what 'information' was exfiltrated from the targeted user, but it's pretty clear from a close reading that it has to have included his Chrome…

> On Windows, once the file is open, it is that filename that is open; You can't rename or delete it It's simple for any application to open a file in Windows such that it will all…

Google found these vulnerabilities in the first place, and many serious ones before Spectre/Meltdown too. We don't know if state or other actors found them first, but we know that …

Google just can't seem to win with some people. Notifications like this have an obvious benefit, in that they make the degree of tracking that is happening very clear even to the n…

Your app is only slow now if you are blocking its content and/or most basic usability on the loading of external trackers - a lame yet increasingly common practice that needs to st…

This is not an "HN-ism". It is not proper to use quotation marks when paraphrasing. Doing so is explicitly attributing words to someone that they did not say. > not how writing or …

There are some very good points here, but letting the junior go ahead and use Perl (or any language / platform that the company doesn't generally use or support, and that there's n…

If you had read the article beyond a few paragraphs, you would have realized that McCain introduced no such section to the bill in question. You're definitely part of the problem t…

Drives ideally stay in a server machines until they die in a data center, and maybe even typically.. but MS could hardly only take into consideration what was 'typical' when it com…