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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 15th, 2012, 03:22 PM »
Quote from Arantor on June 15th, 2012, 03:01 PM
And it IS getting sites to consider how they're doing things, the fact that we're having this debate is proof of that.
But I already concidered this before deciding not to sign up for Google analytics. I'm lazy. I don't like to think again just because buerocrats tell me to. :whistle:

The people who are doing malicious stuff already thought things through and said fuck it, we'll do it even if it's unethical.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 15th, 2012, 11:04 AM »
Quote from Arantor on June 15th, 2012, 12:26 AM
I don't mind having to think about privacy and I think it's a good thing that people do, but saying that this makes people think about privacy is like making police wear pink suits for people to think about police more, but only if the police are outside the police station (A solution that strikes way more police than it probably should, just like this law strikes way more sites than it should). It's just not a good approach. The thought behind it is good. I don't mind the govt having a snoop around those pesky Facebook "Like" buttons that track you whether or not you utilize them, but when they start punishing hobbyists like me who are acting in good faith, that's just silly and makes me want to kneejerk at them, something I probably will.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 15th, 2012, 12:19 AM »
Quote from Arantor on June 15th, 2012, 12:04 AM
These are things that reviewing the site and its software would bring. You as a site owner are responsible for what your site does, burying your head in the sand to these issues does not absolve you of that responsibility.

Just because you may not be subject to a law trying to protect privacy, does not mean you shouldn't try to protect their privacy!
Makes sense, and I agree that I as a site owner have a responsibility to ensure people visiting my site don't get tracked any more than reasonably so. But not tracking people more than necessary is something I can do without having to plaster nasty banners above my sites asking people to agree with what little tracking I may have in place, and it is something I can do without government intervention. The law has a good intent, but in my opinion it misses the point entirely with implementation, and I will promptly ignore it and carry on as before.

I don't think making people plaster ugly banners on their sites protects privacy. Me actually not tracking my users protects privacy, and from my understanding of the code of the forum boards I use right now, I am not tracking people to any real extent apart from a. User info b. impersonal session info. This tracking is not being used in any way, and if I were a user and I knew this was how a website I visited operated, I would be very very fine with it, as would any sane person (I hope).

Are there sites out there that track more than they need to? Of course. Are they likely to comply with these rules any soon? Nah. Rules about what you can and can not track would be better suited, but then again that would take real courage on the legislators part, so that shit ain't happening.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 14th, 2012, 11:55 PM »
You have said a lot of things, however in reply to me you have only told me that this is a EU law (fair enough, this is not really something to think about, I'll save that for one of my anti-EU-rants), that the plugin architecture of Wedge will not allow this (fine, if there's no way around it there's nothing to discuss about this, unless you want me to comment on the plugin architecture, something I am not competent to do) and asked me if I will be so "brave" as to ignore this, something I will, for the reasons live627 state above, and because this kind of stuff gets me annoyed. As for the rest of your posts, I did not assume they were directed at me. I may however take a moment tomorrow if I have time to scour over them and reply, but for now I only read your one post.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 14th, 2012, 11:43 PM »
Quote from Arantor on June 14th, 2012, 05:49 PM
Will you be so brave about ignoring it then?
Yes, in fact I will. A law like this does nothing but hold society back. Ignoring it sounds good, fighting it sounds better.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on June 14th, 2012, 05:23 PM »
Seriously, fuck this. This can be a plugin. Most of us don't really give a shit about UKs rampant idiotic laws. Sorry for the harsh language, but stupid legislation annoys me to no end. At least make this "feature" toggleable. I don't like cluttering stuff just to please buerocratic imperialistic dimwits.

Cheers.

PS: I mean no disrespect to the English people, you're all grand.
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Plugins / [Plugin] Re: Improved attachments upload
« on June 13th, 2012, 02:49 PM »
Guys, guys.

If we can get our hands on this plugin, maybe we can create a GUI interface using visual basic to get our hands on the Wedge sourcecode!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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Off-topic / Re: The 10 Year Sigh
« on June 12th, 2012, 11:28 PM »
Oh fuck.
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Off-topic / Re: What the...
« on June 12th, 2012, 01:32 PM »
Quote from Nao on June 12th, 2012, 10:50 AM
As we say in France... "Comments are not made for dogs" :P
That's the strangest french thing I've heard of in at least a week.
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Off-topic / Re: The 10 Year Sigh
« on June 11th, 2012, 12:50 PM »
While I find it kind of hard to reply to this, I suppose I find it even harder to not reply to. Be careful. Some people get depressed after breakups, and you sound like one of them.

What I can tell you is that from my experience, alcohol never made anything better or easier. What does make things easier and better, at least did for me, was to get out and do activities with other people. Doesn't really matter what you decide to do, I think, as long as other people are around. Merely the act of dressing up to meet people will help you feel better.

Good luck
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The Pub / Re: Features
« on June 7th, 2012, 12:26 PM »
1: http://wedge.org/pub/feats/
2: http://wedge.org/pub/feats/6108/new-revs/
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Off-topic / Re: Function Time Limit
« on June 4th, 2012, 07:05 PM »
Yeah mysqli is pretty much everywhere
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Off-topic / Re: Bitcointalk.org $11k bounty for new forum software
« on May 16th, 2012, 06:11 PM »
It is currently based on CPU time, won't be looking forward, seeing as it takes more and more cycles to generate it won't make any economical sense to generate them / and it will take too long.

The place is for avoiding governments and other annoyances. Look at wikileaks for an example.
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Off-topic / Re: Bitcointalk.org $11k bounty for new forum software
« on May 16th, 2012, 05:44 PM »
I think bitcoins definitely have their charm and place in society, but they're a little bit too unsteady at this moment to be considered for anything big.
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Archived fixes / Re: Minor display glitches in Wireless
« on April 29th, 2012, 11:25 PM »
Quote from live627 on April 29th, 2012, 11:07 PM
Norodo: But does it work? Meaning, does it behave like it advertises?
Well, as far as I can see, it sure does. No discrepancy between the emulator, and my mobile, which is an E7. (This is, when I set the emulator to have the right resolution, something that is easily done in the menu.)

Even the UI behaves eerily similarly.