Let's face it; the intention of Bitcoin is to act as a decentralized currency, controlled by no organization. Anonymity is one of the largest drawing points, if not one of its fundamental goals (though not entirely accomplished, I know). The US and other governments will attempt to bring this tool under their heavy handed, arbitrary and profit-seeking hands to, at best, take money for themselves, and at worst, destroy the currency's usefulness.
For those wondering how they can keep their bitcoins out of the hands of mettling governments' hands, look up "bitcoin tumbling" and other forms of laundering.
>Too much of this page is spent on navigation and link lists. It's the landing page, but we don't need to link to every single sub-section of the site.
aaaand the disagreement begins. I like debian.org's website /because/ it's a portal to the entire site.
If that is the CEO of Site5, I would never use that company again, and I publicly laugh at their audacity in denying their team's incompetence.
Yes. Not using true information is a good practice for security questions. If the CEO of a technical company thinks so, as well, then don't fscking ask me for my mum's maiden name!
1) Ask for a backup password and specify it should be kept offline.
2) Tell users to lie on the maiden name question.
Do NOT point the finger after a breach at your company to one of your customers. Terrible practice.
I agree on your points about the War on <term>, and the necessity to move back to a position of having more concrete definitions and end-games for war. I take issue with your dismissal of Paul's concern of the issue.
(All politicians of any success will be playing politics; it's a matter of whether they're playing them to the right ends, personal ambition aside. If this is Rand manoeuvring, I want to see more of it.)
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Drones represent another removal of the "difficulty barrier" between law enforcement and their unquenchable desire to subjugate civilians. Just as guns don't kill people, drones don't kill people. And just like gun-control advocates don't trust the people to bear arms, drone-control advocates don't trust the federal government to respect the existence or the privacy of its citizens.
The difference is that a civilian murderer usually gets punished. It is a shock to the system to hear of any law enforcement officer or agency to be seriously reprimanded for the most egregious of murders, assaults, and violations of trust.
I do not have scientific data on the subject. I know a lot of people have expressed their disdain for Unity, with not so many expressing affection (though people bitch more than compliment.)
I personally switched to Xubuntu and shaped the desktop to act like GNOME 2. There wasn't much reason to do so before Unity; Xubuntu's take on XFCE is almost as heavy as GNOME2 was.
Hey, fuck this author, right? Not even using enterprise level tooling for his deploys (Chef/puppet). Because if someone installed Chef, they wouldn't need to know this stuff!
name.com is very usable and otherwise handy; I don't like this policy, but I wouldn't wish GoDaddy on my worst enemy.
(OK, maybe I would)
EDIT: I really don't understand your thinking; I am the opposite. I respect name.com for being forward about it and not acting like a politician (treating me like a child).
its also been a while since I've done web dev.