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Marvellous! :w should count the same as ZZ for the purposes of hiding better solutions, else it's fairly easy to walk up the leaderboard even though the better solutions are ostens…

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Thank you for pointing that out. I'll try to find the policy release where they say this is not necessary.

Which law? The 2002/58/EC doesn't.

You can enable session cookies only, even in the current UIs. Ditto for third-party cookies. Duplicating UI in a website is a solution looking for a problem. The web devs can nag t…

When everybody was running Windows on a smorgasbord of hardware / patchlevel / plugins / fonts, it was easy to fingerprint. Are we moving towards a more monolithic landscape where …

The EU Commission and the regulatory agencies actually agree with you. The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers.

> Note that you can use your webserver logs for analytics and that doesn't require the cookie banner In the EU, tracking user IPs actually requires consent. Even logging them does.…

If you can set cookies, the user has already expressed their consent by enabling the cookies in the browser. As long as cookies' existence is common knowledge (it is by now), there…

This is the kind of nonconsensual sureptitious user tracking that the EU privacy directive 2002/58/EC concerns itself with, not those redundant, stupid cookie consent overlays.

My point is that this will become the new social norm, much like now it is the norm to write short cryptic messages that readers may or may not understand.

That's a very good point. I would argue that insurance is a long-term relationship, it's a very mature industry, I don't expect there will be great savings in changing providers, a…

I'd ask them if I can install another one on the back door. If they're giving me free money, who am I to judge their motivation?

Brick-through-the-windshield tax.

I wonder what they will do once people start using http://the.links http://to.write.longer http://messages

If AAPL were interested in selling more shares (their cash reserves growth indicates they don't), they would usually sell the whole bunch of them at once, either to one investment …

The liability in car insurance is virtually unlimited. Cars are very good at killing people and damaging property. You don't have to insure against small payouts (large excess give…

Revenue is an iffy yardstick anyway. If you're the only player who is squeezing blood from that stone, it is not to the credit of the other players that they're squeezing harder. A…

You remember your searches on Altavista, Yahoo, or Hotbot having the same quality as Google???

Don't they traffic shape and have much lower speeds, though? If everybody in a building used mobile data at the full speed, where would the telcos put the base stations? And since …

Loads of products have fake bad reviews now, left by competition. The next logical step is fake corrections, and fake silly reviews on own product. I wouldn't be surprised if at so…

Mitochondria are self-contained organelles. Gene transfer would be if their DNA became part of the nuclear DNA. What you suggest is that there was first a lateral transfer, and the…