EdHominem

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by EdHominem 10y ago
Why do they deserve the benefit of the doubt when their press release contains actual lies? When someone lies to me everything they say becomes suspect. It's the standard we expect individuals to live up to, why do you want to give mor
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by EdHominem 10y ago
The correct way to do this is immediately release a bulletin to admins to block the affected service, then push a patch to disable it, then push a patch to fix and reenable it when they feel ready. It's only unwinable because Microsoft
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by EdHominem 10y ago
You know who sounds really petty though? The whiners taking Microsoft's side despite them missing the bug in the first place and sleeping on the report, and now attacking the person who reported it. > They're patching it, but n
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Maybe right away, but at what point do I not care about casinos, and resent my tax money helping them enforce their system? Also right away. I get that it's "cheating", but I really don't care. Not at all. When predators
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by EdHominem 10y ago
That's not true though. No law can override your requirement to report a crime. If one does, it obviously isn't valid. He had every reason to think this was the minimum he had to do. Which has been shown to be true.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
If that country kills people or keeps slaves then surely I'm not being intolerant by fighting and enslaving them, I'm adopting their views. /s Also, if you're sacrificing someone and I tolerate it, there's no reason
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by EdHominem 10y ago
> How did you know you wanted a Bluetooth speaker, or that such a thing exists? Because I want a speaker and my phone supports Bluetooth. > you knew what speakers are, and you knew what Bluetooth is Umm, yeah. And if I didn't kno
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Bash is portable across other OSes... They could work on a good port. Or, remove some bash-isms from the code so it would work in another shell if that was an issue. I understand they took the initially easy route. But it'll be harder
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by EdHominem 10y ago
> "We’re working with the git community to move more of these scripts to native cross-platform components written in C" Sad. Rather than fix the root problem they rewrite the product in a less-agile language and require everyon
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Why are you (and others) so negative about feedback? We can't get better at something unless we realize why we aren't doing it well. > what other great power has ever done so, unless it was for their benefit? Right, it's f
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Well, it's certainly a deal than neither of us would take, but if the person bought intelligently and drove conservatively, it could be a win for them. Certainly to the point where I don't want to forbid them making that contract
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by EdHominem 10y ago
I can't imagine that anyone worldwide was going to buy their first and only smartphone, but decided to spend more to get a special high-security black phone, and is then without a phone because of this. And even if they were, I'd
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by EdHominem 10y ago
They gave the people to another government because of a treaty signed before anyone currently alive was born. Yes, I do expect the UK to "renege" in the sense that I expect everyone else to support self-government for Hong Kong.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Copying an API is just reciting a bunch of facts. Individual details which aren't protected, stripped from the protected context of the work as a whole. If you're saying that the API reference itself can be copyrighted, yes, I agr
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by EdHominem 10y ago
No, it was legal because it was a requirement which overrode all lesser orders. No law can compel you to break the law, or cover up abuses of it.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
> I don't get your point about "after the fact. To pick a name is creative. To use that name afterword is not - it's literally referring to something by its given name. My mother was being creative, you're just readin
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by EdHominem 10y ago
> The Snowden leaks were quite probably illegal. Not at all. It was required behavior. Until the government enacts a useful whistleblowing program someone who witnesses criminal actions has literally no legal choice but to leak. Ignori
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by EdHominem 10y ago
> They're creative, rather arbitrary designs. Which isn't relevant. Harry Potter is a creative work, including the character names, but the page numbers those characters appear on are not. Similarly, Java is a creative work, an
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by EdHominem 10y ago
That's not the part they most need to be able to do. They merely need to be able to understand an argument without getting distracted by tricks. The actual analysis of the code is something that they could then listen to expert finding
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by EdHominem 10y ago
That's because they've been given the position and it's gone to their heads. If new architecture had to be reviewed by a representative sampling of your workmates, randomly selected for each review, I don't think you&#x2
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by EdHominem 10y ago
There's a difference between pursuing someone in court to make them pay taxes and kidnapping them to take them to a hostile regime and hold them indefinitely. China acts as if it owns people of Chinese descent. Such as the Taiwanese.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Ahh, right, right. The people were given to one country by another. Silly people.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Yes, North Korea has a full-ownership policy too. I hear it's quite efficient.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
No, critically it comes with an off switch for when you find it's been compromised. If you didn't want that, there were cheaper phones - even counterfeit.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Not if they're saving you from being shot. One of the features of a secure-phone is failing secure. If you want a regular phone running whatsapp, use that.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Nope, the thing that triggered Manning to leak was being told to ignore evidence and collaborate in framing innocent Iraqis for treason.
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by EdHominem 10y ago
The issue is that you probably wouldn't do two tests if you'd planned a short one. So you'd randomly get an overly strong, or overly weak, result. The actual effect depends on your data and how noisy it is, and if that correl
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by EdHominem 10y ago
Follow-up - Rogue One sucks in 3D. It's only an annoyance, blocking the set for some stupid spaceship models that wouldn't have been impressive compared to Babylon 5. Also, the movie is Star Wars so there's no drama whatsoeve
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by EdHominem 10y ago
This isn't a gameboy. If you want toy security I can sell you a phone painted black. But if you want to stay alive when the Syrian police are hunting your people you might want to rethink that. I know people click through warnings. I
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by EdHominem 10y ago
The users of the counterfeit phones had no way of knowing the phone was fake and probably contained physical and software backdoors. Crypto devices should brick themselves if they discover they've been tampered with. It's a clea

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