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cornewuton Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

Actually the law cares only about tracking not cookies.

And there are a lot of ways to track users even without cookies.

cornewuton Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

I don't think the law specifies to use cookies to disable cookies and it's a good thing - lawmakers shouldn't care about technological solutions.

cornewuton Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

Or how about Google making a form of Adsense that doesn't track users?

I somehow have a feeling that large corporations intentionally are trying to make this law ridiculous. E.g. why blogspot pages would need such warnings? Please Google just stop tracking.

cornewuton Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock

I think law is fine and there should be only a handful of sites in the Internet that would need such warnings.

Problem is the abuse of technology to track users.

cornewuton Inuit Study Adds Twist to Omega-3 Fatty Acids’ Health Story

As a Northern European I'm often amused by all the studies of allergenic properties of milk coming in from different parts of world.

cornewuton Cancer patient gets a 3D-printed titanium rib cage

You could make the titanium parts hollow. That would solve the density problem.

cornewuton Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough

Just to elaborate - this has been a popular joke among physicists for some 50 years as fusion power was promised already back then.

cornewuton Surely you're joking, Skype

There is no "delete" on Internet

cornewuton Japanese Change Trays

Actually I can't even imagine handing cash directly to someone - this kind of seems rude to me. It would be even worse if the note was folded. Doing this also might involve hand contact (which again might make someone uncomfortable). (I'm from Northern Europe).

cornewuton New SSA Back End for the Go Compiler

I'm sorry, I misread it as "New NSA backdoor".

cornewuton Hackers Cut in Line at the Burning Man Ticket Sale–And Get Caught

I wonder if any of the "hackers" will get sued.

cornewuton Most people probably shouldn't go to school

Non vitae, sed scholae discimus[1]

[1] Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, Seneca

cornewuton Google Analytics, Casualty of Spam

Adding to this - most privacy/adblock plugins also block analytics. So I really have to doubt that Google Analytics is of much value.

cornewuton GoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube

The problem is not that they are doing this, but that they can.

This is a technology problem and it will not be fixed by shaming offenders (GoGo probably didn't have any evil intentions at all).

cornewuton World War II Battle When Americans and Germans Fought Together (2013)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jānis_Pīnups

This guy came out of hiding 50 years after the end of WW2

cornewuton Misfortune Cookie

Some might actually think that the vulnerability affects only Checkpoint devices.

cornewuton CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem

You can disable third-party cookies in most browsers.

cornewuton How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases

I'm using disconnect.me

cornewuton How Facebook Knows When Its Ads Influence Your Offline Purchases

Amazon product pages already have Facebook tracker embedded, so Facebook knows what you are looking at. No need to provide your phone number.

cornewuton 23andMe UK

Entering a fake name doesn't really help. If one of your relatives also orders the kit, your name can easily be found out.

cornewuton Quicksort in 3 lines of shell

I guess he meant pseudo 3 lines.

cornewuton HP 3D printing

Printing with blood is more of a niche market right now.

Hussein used to do that, but it never went mainstream [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Quran]

cornewuton Against the Grain: Should you go gluten-free?

I suspect a guaranteed job there actually did help a lot of people with mental disorders.

Also back then Eastern Europeans were eating way less meat and sugary foods. Also self grown food was very popular (due to lack of food in centralized stores)

cornewuton Ad blocker that clicks on the ads

Those worried about supporting content creators - there are other ways to do this( e.g. Flattr).

cornewuton Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us (2000)

Early humans: "The future doesn't need us"

Hunter-gatherers: "The future doesn't need us"

Bill Joy: "The future doesn't need us"

Nothing new here and they all were right.

cornewuton IRIS+

There's a similar project on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/airdog/airdog-worlds-fi...

cornewuton Art project: Train rats to trade markets

Rats? Is there a pun intended?

cornewuton Google Wi-Fi Roundup Has Lawyers Chasing Landmark Jackpot

If it's ok to collect electromagnetic emissions in range from 430 to 790 THz [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_spectrum], why it shouldn't be the same for 2.4 GHz?

cornewuton How Google’s CDN prevents your site from loading in China

It's not like Google is blocking something. Google is blocked by China.

cornewuton How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test

I find it interesting that google is building a self-driving car for public roads. There's such a vide variety of other applications (like agricultural and industrial vehicles) that would require much simpler control mechanism.