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We'll know when having a secret is a criminal offense.

I think universal end-to-end encryption is an all-or-nothing proposition. You can't sell it by saying, "It's secure, except when it isn't." It's also a slippery slope to establish …

I use SpamAssassin in a prequeue SMTP proxy and it works pretty well, but it's nearly the last check after many other lightweight tests.

I've run mail servers for decades without configuring them and have never had issues. Reputation is probably the most important (note that my domains and even some of my servers we…

You're projecting your ire on the wrong person. I ride 20+ miles daily in large city with outdated, poorly maintained infrastructure for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike. I…

The tragedy of Rikers Island is that it's inhumane to everyone involved, guilty or not. I absolutely feel empathetic to all of them. It's disingenuous to suggest that it's a proble…

Every fact in this story is presented in a way to support the author's premise, and there are no trustworthy narrators here. If you remove the emotion, an equally plausible scenari…

The severity of his own injuries indicates that he might have been going too fast for the conditions (whether or not he was exceeding the speed limit, which nobody can confirm conc…

A person is dead because of this man's inability to control a lethal force. There may be nuances to the case, but he isn't innocent, even by his own account of the facts. As a cycl…

Apple has been a driving force for better UI in a number of areas, but some of their choices are baffling. Even in this page, the "Contrast" section uses a large black header, but …

I learned how to touch type before home computers were commonplace, so I get frustrated when I can't close my eyes and type what I'm thinking. Maybe I'm a dying breed. I've had lap…

The keyboard's alright, but the spongy wrist pad is challenging to keep clean. I like the ergonomics of the mouse, but it's a dirt collector. They need to find a new material for t…

You definitely don't want to name the alias 'say' because there's already an OS X command by that name. In fact, if you both have Macs and want to have some fun, create accounts fo…

What you don't understand is that Bill Gates is from the future. I don't wanna talk about time travel shit. Cause if we start talking about it, then we're gonna be here all day tal…

My guess is that Netflix couldn't negotiate agreements for a lot of the content that makes the service attractive without relenting on DRM. We'll know when Netflix turns evil, beca…

Is it correct to say that POST is not idempotent? Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. Maybe it would be more accurate to say there's no guarantee that it's always idempotent.

Is that a good thing, though? I'm not a gamer, and there are times when I take a break from YouTube and Reddit because it can be difficult to discover new content without the resul…

Sometimes I think of Youtube as a modern Library of Alexandria[1], a repository of knowledge that could only exist through patronage and containing a sizable amount of resources th…

Agree with the first paragraph, but in the second I don't see how requiring a periodic reboot is a solution. Your "service needed" light is a "Case closed, WON'T FIX" message made …

The move to deprecate HTTP is solely inspired by the need to authenticate online communication. It's necessary to protect speech on the web, because it makes it harder to tamper wi…

That's true if you're trying to save money by putting a ton of domains behind a single wildcard cert using a single private key. But there are security advantages to using multiple…

I'm excited about this, too, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I can't connect a bluetooth keyboard to my Lumia 920, or treat it as a USB mass storage device, or mount a thumb d…

I don't understand why the genre matters. Most of the problems with shuffle play go away if you prune the songs you don't like out of your collection. True randomness is fine if yo…

There's more to the Internet than HTTP, though. I'd be a lot happier if this effort were being invested in improving DNS so that other services could benefit.

You might benefit from the inverted method and using a normal teaspoon to add the grounds and stir, instead of using the included accessories (I never use the funnel, and the stirr…