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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yeah, this seems to be the main issue with this, fixing it up to be in compliance with a myriad of either business/residential regulations seems like it would be both a giant headache and a giant cost.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So....an arson investigator should have a sizable arrest record for arson?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
At first I thought this was some web 2.0 (or 3.0 or whatever) version of those old prank call soundboards.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> if they have done anything egregious. The way they tried to downplay the significance of Cloudbleed, for starters.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So to return to my question, would you apply this criteria to all historical courses? That the lecturer must have firsthand practitioner knowledge of the field? How would this work for, say, ancient history?
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> To me it feels analogous to an academic who writes on history of math without being able to prove or understand theorems. You're suggesting that in order to study the history of something, you also need to be a practitioner of it?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> If you want to learn it as a living language you have to step outside the academic mainstream. Your tone makes it sound like there is some conspiracy to keep ancient Greek out of curricula. In fact, the reason is that there is virtual
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by Ansil849 5y ago
You're exactly right, the KB entry is infuriatingly vague about both the exact regions and the rationale for this.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I would a thousand times over rather have my local ISP monitor DNS than Cloudflare. But the choice isn't ISP or Cloudflare. There are many options for secure DNS resolvers [1]. [1] https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers&#
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> what is Mozilla doing that's so bad? Automatically enabling Cloudflare to monitor DNS queries is my biggest current pet peeve. The whole reason I used to use Firefox was that it wasn't a corporate product. Allowing a corporat
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Except that's not practical in real life. Do you get a lawayer to read the 40-page pamphlet full if liability disclaimers that comes with your coffee maker or any other appliance?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
So this scenario I proposed in another comment, you are fine with? If on line 37, page 409, of a car rental agreement that you sign, it states that if you are an hour late in returning your vehicle, the car rental company will take your fir
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I'm not sure it's legal to say that in certain use cases, you will siphon off an unspecified amount of money from your customer? Imagine if an app like Venmo stated that?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I really wonder if you have the same approach to all other situations with fine print, not just software contracts? Ebay scams, usury lending agreements, everything? If on line 37, page 409, of a car rental agreement that you sign, it state
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I asked this question in another comment, but same thing: Just curious, is this your attitude towards other things as well? There used to be a very popular ebay scam, which had people sell large screen TVs and video game systems for very ch
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> To answer the hypothetical, the author is still at fault even if was malware. Wow, that's as explicit victim blaming as you can get.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> But I’ve gathered it was spelled out in the license? Just curious, is this your attitude towards other things as well? There used to be a very popular ebay scam, which had people sell large screen TVs and video game systems for very ch
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by Ansil849 5y ago
The responses here to this story defending the plugin author are appalling. They all seem to boil down to "you didn't read the fine print or the source code, so whatever the plugin does is defensible". What if instead of taki
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I feel like their response is not at all an overreaction. The plugin author was underhanded in their conduct. I wouldn't want to use a platform which allowed nonsense like that to proliferate, so am happy to see dubious stuff like this
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Are there any updates on this? Like any accountability or an explanation why this happened?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yes, and? What about all of the data that is kept not owing to legal/regulatory requirements? That's the key issue here, not some trite truism about regulatory record-keeping requirements.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> please consider if you wanna to be a resource hog.. Perhaps the corporations could also consider whether they want to be an information hog in the first place and slurp up people's data. You know what the easiest way to fulfill a
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The Google Drive team is aware of it and is working on remediating it. So reviews of copyright infringement claims _can_ be requested, but only if they reach the front page of HN? That is not OK.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Not to meander too much, but I think this is a genuinely interesting question. Is theft the 'easy way out'? I'm not so sure. It's a job like any other, requiring skill to be successful, and comes with a slew of stressors
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Time locks have been around for more than 100 years, I'm pretty confident that if something like this was desired by the powers that be, it would have been implemented. What I'm assuming is stopping it aren't the engineering
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> and move on to a better life That's exactly what is being attempted via the theft.
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I would be extremely interested in what definition of punishment you are using where punishment is defined as not being unilateral, which would mean it's some sort of bilateral punishment with consent of the punished party?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> unilaterally and directly harm other people. Which is precisely what "punishment" does. Try being less vindictive and more understanding about the root circumstances that lead someone to perform an act of desperation.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It doesn't have to be the lock that's secured. What about a hinge mechanism which takes a programmable amount of time to open the container door? If it takes 10 minutes for the door to open, the lock doesn't matter as much, s
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Average time needed to get into a container (X) needs to be > average time train pauses (Y). This seems like it should be a solvable problem. For example, just thinking out loud, what about some sort of container door hinge mechanism whi

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