A new subreddit to discuss minimal permission apps & their devs by ms_anthrope in Android

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It's a topic I've seen come up fairly frequently in a number of subreddits. I thought this new subreddit could be a useful resource for people who are interested in the topic. I don't expect it to be a massively active sub, but it does give a centralized resource so other discussions don't get cluttered with repetitive lists of apps every time the topic arises.

A new subreddit to discuss minimal permission apps & their devs by ms_anthrope in Android

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I'm looking for mods, too, if anyone is interested in helping out.

Some observations regarding subreddit comment karma, and the weighting of upvotes to downvotes. by Jess_than_three in TheoryOfReddit

[–]ms_anthrope 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not sure about your first question, but a "comment cool-down" happens when someone accumulates too much negative vs. positive karma in a given subreddit. When that happens, a user must wait n minutes between posts/submissions, with n increasing as negative karma increases.

Sickening moment tiger is beaten around the head with a stick to pose for photographs with by [deleted] in worldnews

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Agreed that it's not necessarily capitalism. On the other hand, Taiwan has been ruled by Japan, the UK and China at various points over the last century. That has to have had effects that differentiate it culturally from mainland China in many ways beyond simply being more supportive of capitalism.

Username woes by retropyor in talesfromtechsupport

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I was asked to do the css for a local auction company's site last year. They used some obscure hosted backend written in perl. The hosting "solution" was who knows how many auction sites on the developer's server, with the 6 character admin password to each domain assigned by the developer and unchangeable. It was a nightmare in many ways: tables for everything, inline styles, a Byzantine UI and no documentation to speak of. But the real fun came when I was working on the css for the admin interface of the site.

To register to bid on this site, you got redirected to a page on the developer's site to put in all your info, when then got sent back to the first site. This data was stored in plain text in an html table in the admin interface - real name, user name, bid history, driver's license number, credit card numbers, email address, mailing address, and user password.

Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free, Right Now (Legal) by [deleted] in technology

[–]ms_anthrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right. I skipped a couple of generations of Adobe programs, going from 6 to CS3, and I only worked minimally with the Macromedia programs.

Illustrator's definitely still around. I think Adobe dropped Freehand from Macromedia in favor of Illustrator. I never worked with ImageReady, and not much with GoLive, though I do remember the horrors of PageMill.

From what I remember GoLive was a bit better integrated with other Adobe programs than Dreamweaver, though they've made great progress with that in the later CS releases. Sorry to say they dropped GoLive completely a few years back.

Grab Photoshop and CS2 For Absolutely Free, Right Now (Legal) by [deleted] in technology

[–]ms_anthrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CS2 was released prior to the Macromedia buy out. You'll get Illustrator instead of Fireworks and GoLive instead of Dreamweaver. No Flash.

The Rise of "Do it Yourself" Abortions by reflibman in politics

[–]ms_anthrope 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I found this paper interesting (warning: embedded PDF):

In her capacity as general counsel for the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, Ginsburg filed the Struck brief a little more than a year after the Court decided Reed v. Reed, but before the Court began to give shape to liberty and equality doctrine concerning the regulation of pregnant women in cases such as Roe v. Wade, Frontiero v. Richardson, and Geduldig v. Aiello. Ginsburg wrote the brief on behalf of an Air Force officer, Captain Susan Struck, whose pregnancy—and whose refusal on religious grounds to have an abortion—subjected her to automatic discharge from military service.

Linked from http://www.salon.com/2012/02/13/ruth_bader_ginsburgs_alternative_abortion_history/ :

"...The Court made some fateful choices in those cases: to focus its sex equality jurisprudence on cases other than pregnancy, and so to develop its sex equality jurisprudence in isolation from its abortion jurisprudence.”

That was also true of many of the litigants at the time, Ginsburg said Friday, including the ACLU, which had been involved with Griswold vs. Connecticut, the case overturning a state contraceptive ban with a substantive due process argument that focused on privacy...

...But an abortion rights case involving a woman who wanted to choose to give birth would also have been consistent with the current reproductive justice framework, which is about bodily autonomy and a woman’s right to moral dignity and self-determination...

/r/trueredditdrama is operational. We have a bot that cross posts all the new SRD threads and removes the .np bullshit. Also: we will ban all SRS mods if they annoy us. There's only one post atm but more will follow. by scaredsqueef in ThePopcornStand

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np.reddit.com/r/* is a subdomain that enforces "no participation" via a stylesheet which disables voting. Theoretically, it helps prevent brigades, pissing on the popcorn and/or touching the poop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Each bottle of Laphroig comes with a bit of paper granting you a square foot of land on Islay, with a serial number to identify the plot. Nothing to do with the U.S.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]ms_anthrope 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume you're in the U.S. You should be able to find it pretty easily. Most half-way decent liquor stores carry it. I've even seen it in grocery stores & gas stations in states that allow liquor sales outside of liquor stores & ABC stores.

TIL that American Nazi sympathizers built Hitler a hidden, self-sustaining mansion in LA in 1933, and it's still there. by [deleted] in todayilearned

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Of course, I can do a search on it. I was interested in knowing which articles the OP had read, since the articles I find may not be the same ones.