Agent101

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by Agent101 17y ago
But the damage may be done by the time you get around to it.
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by Agent101 17y ago
The trouble is it is not only you that has to follow those guidelines. Friends can put up pictures of you and tag you. Not all content about you is placed there by you.
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by Agent101 17y ago
Not many people bought houses they couldn't afford in the UK. We haven't had huge numbers of repossessions in the UK (fewer than the 1991 recesssion so far). Our banks were more exposed to the american housing market (than europes), and ban
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by Agent101 17y ago
I'll grant you that current (and most proposed capability based) security systems are too complex for the user to manage. However the question on the table is research. We should be researching security models that don't rely on the user t
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by Agent101 17y ago
Personally I consider the fact that a random downloaded game run, by default, could delete all your personal data a pretty big security flaw that can be dealt with at the kernel level. So we have different meanings of security flaw. Probabl
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by Agent101 17y ago
The point of secure operating systems is not to reduce the number of flaws in the kernel. It is to make the authority gained by exploiting any single program minimal. So it should make flaws less horrible.
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by Agent101 17y ago
Research needs to be done into better operating systems, but I don't think it is worth implementing too much of them. Minix, from what I have read, isn't going to be a sufficient enough advance to get the man on the street to adopt it. For
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by Agent101 18y ago
I'm thinking of a variety of ideas, mainly to do with farming out the decision making process to qualified people who donate. E.g. sending out information to a few people and letting them chose whether to fund it or not. No point getting to
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Ask HN : Would people donate to an Operating System research charity?
4 points by Agent101 18y ago|2 comments
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by Agent101 18y ago
http://agent101.livejournal.com/5601.html <-- A ycombinator in Php. It can be done in 5.3, pretty it isn't.