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by andylei 13y ago
> So getting an internet connection from a company that has opted in means I have no protection against searches and seizures (almost arbitrarily based on an individual's web habbits) no, that's not anywhere in the bill. did you read t
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by andylei 14y ago
i think it wouldn't be that bad if you could have the cell formulas be autoformatted across multiple lines.
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by andylei 14y ago
i guess it doesn't have any stock tickers then? since its IBM ticker is just the ticker for USD<->IBM
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by andylei 14y ago
> There is no way that 20K database inserts in a day should affect them in this way I doubt its the 20k new accounts. It's probably the 20k new accounts' (per day) trading activity.
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by andylei 14y ago
> there's no reason the free market can't provide such a service sure there is. here's a bunch of reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
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by andylei 14y ago
> aggressive selling attacks what's the difference between a "selling attack" and just "selling"?
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by andylei 14y ago
> BitPay alone recorded a merchant transaction volume increasing by 7.6x between February ($687k) and March ($5.2M): ... so total transactions increased by a lot more than 7.6x, maybe 10x, 20x, who knows) your math is not good. one prov
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by andylei 14y ago
i think its ironic that you're putting forth the case for unmanaged economies while glossing over the results. i think most economists (including Krugman) would agree that managing an economy is hard, and that oftentimes, the people in char
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by andylei 14y ago
tldr: some things that people have said about Bitcoin are innacurate, therefore "financial journalists are way over their heads here, their “sources” are useless, and you will learn less than nothing by reading them"
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by andylei 14y ago
> Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump Is this comparison serious? See below > their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump) that's
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by andylei 14y ago
> Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it. this is actually irrelevant. netflix is contractually obligated to distribute all their content through DRM'ed channels. Hollywood knows that DRM isn't going to
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by andylei 14y ago
prior art is still a defense, just like it was before.
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by andylei 14y ago
it won't be
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by andylei 14y ago
> Sim City 4 is on Steam even making it easy to get right now doesn't Steam also have DRM?
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by andylei 14y ago
> to require a connection at all times, even in "sandboxed mode" where you're not going to interact with anyone else -- which is completely preposterous this is not preposterous at all. if all the simulation happens on the server side,
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by andylei 14y ago
This article (especially the headline) is honestly a joke. The BBC wants encrypted media extensions in HTML5. That's DRM for stuff like video. The logical leap to GNU/Linux collapsing is astoundingly ridiculous.
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by andylei 14y ago
no way man. i don't like how patents are applied to the specific cases i care about, and coming up with nuanced, balanced solutions requires way too much thinking. i say we ban all patents.
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by andylei 14y ago
> increasing disconnect of the lessons of college with the needs of our modern professional world. Nearly everything meaningful is done as a collaborate effort what's uniquely modern about collaboration? hasn't collaboration been impor
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by andylei 14y ago
> over 70% of the volume on the major exchanges these days. Very little of what happens on the exchanges anymore is directly attributable to long positions. this isn't the same as being 70% of price movement. HFT is comprised mostly of
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by andylei 14y ago
law professor orin kerr on aaron's law: > A lot of people have wondered how to amend the computer crime laws in response to the Swartz tragedy. So far I have seen a lot of interest in this, but not a lot of sensible proposals. Already,
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by andylei 14y ago
> The value in Ortiz "paying" is to show other prosecutors what can happen when they get over zealous what i got from the article is that Ortiz was not overzealous. she was doing what most prosecutors do all the time. why should we sing
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by andylei 14y ago
aaron's mindset really is different from kerr's, and kerr's thinks his is "better" (i'm not really sure which side to take on this point). but regardless of that point, how should we expect the law to respond to someone like aaron? should
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by andylei 14y ago
> if MAC spoofing is sufficient to prove "unauthorized"... i agree. but its not. MAC is one piece of evidence. without the other evidence, the charges would probably be worthless. > If one of the elements of the crime is that what t
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by andylei 14y ago
> I've changed my MAC/moustache plenty of times to "deceive some guards". Actually I'm doing it right now, this Comcast modem is a utter pain in the ass... Is this activity illegal? Like most questions in law, the answer is, "it depends
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by andylei 14y ago
> What, then, was the underlying crime, are you actually asking? read section II of this article: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/ the charges were wire fraud, computer fraud, unauthorized access, and computer da
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by andylei 14y ago
The federal charges are with respect to unlawful access to JSTOR's computers, not MIT's computers. Furthermore, Aaron didn't have to "spoof" anything. JSTOR tried to ban him from their computers for activities against their terms of servi
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by andylei 14y ago
except its not dishonest. one of the charges was wire fraud. from the article: > Wire Fraud. The Wire Fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. 1343, prohibits a scheme to gain “property” by false pretenses. This strikes me as a pretty strong charge her
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by andylei 14y ago
> 1.) We're reading TOS now? Is that against the law? so is your comment a joke reply, or do you have a serious argument? has this ridiculous response indicates that you concede that it is against the terms of service? > 2.) Irrele
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by andylei 14y ago
> In the spirit of the MIT ethos, the Institute runs this open, unmonitored and unrestricted network on purpose. Their head of network security admitted as much to us. irrelevant. the computers aaron gained unlawful access to were JSTO
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by andylei 14y ago
> You say it is irrelevant that "MIT runs an open network," but if exaggerated charges are being made, and he is being accused of maliciously hacking into this network, then it is relevant. actually it is irrelevant. the computers in q

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