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What makes it unethical? Why should I be treated differently than search engine spiders? If somebody doesn’t want their site scraped then they can let people know with robots.txt. …

Teach your students to ensure there’s a delay between requests so they aren’t hammering anyone’s server, and follow the rules in the robots.txt. I’ve scraped more than a billion pa…

One of the best parts about having the freedom of speech is that I’m free to label those people genocidal racists.Freedom of speech doesn’t protect you in any way from being shamed…

I rematch with people all the time. I literally rematched with someone in my last game just a second ago playing 10/0. Are you the sort who refuses to resign even when you have a h…

They’re spoofing the numbers so that would likely cause apple to blacklist numbers belonging to innocent people.

That’s not at all why this is a big deal. Sessions recused himself from overseeing the special counsel. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has been conducting honest and …

I have uptimerobot.com send me an email when it’s down. That email is forwarded to my cell phone via text using [phonenumber]@txt.att.net.

Most people still ignore crypto.

Isn’t that sort of debate pretty common when it comes to history books? The entire point of the book was to write about history from the point of view of those who “lost.” Of cours…

I read that, and it isn’t exactly a scathing critique. He appears to recognize at least some value in it. Do you by chance consider yourself a conservative?

I googled around a bit, and it appears that most of the criticism comes from those on the right who aren’t a fan of the narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_Unit...

There is an aclu app called mobile justice that does this. There appears to be a different one for each state. I was previously under the impression that it uploads the video if yo…

Do you have any evidence to support this? I’ve never heard of anybody being sued for that reason.

I’m addicted to fifa, and EA just announced that the ultimate team web app comes out on wednesday. It always comes out mid september.

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I’m aware. That set of characteristics is more straightforward than other definitions I’ve come across. Umberto Eco’s definition is commonly used but requires more context. There’s…

>During former FBI director James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Comey was asked whether the FBI had ever received the DNC’s hacked hardware. >He said they …

> He says stories like this work because they fit into existing right-wing conspiracy theories. >"The people wanted to hear this," he says. "So all it took was to write that story.…

Dutch intelligence watched them do it. They were able to watch people coming and going through a security camera. https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...

Fascism doesn’t start with torture and death. The word has certainly been misused, but it is an apt description of the ideology guiding the trump administration. The most common de…