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by bbatsell 16y ago
This is a much bigger problem than ATDHE: http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizur... DHS seized a domain that had twice been ruled by a court of law in the corporation's home country, an EU state, to be operating comp
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I thought this was the most interesting part: > The day after that, Bing contacted me. They were hosting an event on February 1 to talk about the state of search and wanted to make sure I had the date saved, in case I wanted to come up
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Right, the only thing wrong with Windows Vista was its RAM caching strategy.
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This is a fantastic idea. There are a few elements to it that one could use to dispute its value — for example, Netflix has no way of knowing what level of service a customer has paid for. They also don't appear to differentiate between di
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> W3C did not invent the term world wide web, www, or w3 - there is no deception. W3C was founded by (and remains directed by) Tim Berners-Lee, who did, in fact, invent both the term "world wide web" and the actual world wide web.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
No. W3Schools is nowhere close to being 99% accurate. They refuse to correct blatant, longstanding errors. They refuse to make clear that they are not affiliated with the W3C. They repeatedly encourage very poor practices. Moreover, the
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I don't think there's much problem with Apple providing a unique ID to an app — the problem is that Apple is providing a unique ID that's universal to every single app, making it far easier for some very troubling data correlation and ide
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by bbatsell 16y ago
The whole point of this feature is to make e-books behave slightly more like real books. As it stands normally, you can't share your purchased e-book with anyone — it's prohibited by the terms of use you signed and enforced by DRM. This
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by bbatsell 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the... I don't know of a statute that makes it illegal to attempt to restrict access to works legally in the public domain, so no, I don't think that implication follows. Once a cl
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by bbatsell 16y ago
a) Works produced by the U.S. federal government, with the sole exception of protected trademarks, are legally in the public domain. Amazon's wording is unfortunately murky — it does say "own or otherwise control", which can never apply to
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 5 explicitly grants Congress the power to coin money. It restricts the individual states to only using gold and silver as legal tender. Income taxes were never "banned". Before Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Uh, the publicly-edited, well-sourced, and very thorough Sourcewatch wiki article isn't even in the same galaxy as "ad hominem". Personally, I think it makes Cato look good. I don't always agree with Cato or what they do, but they are at
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by bbatsell 16y ago
While your joke is humorous, it's not particularly applicable to this situation. The affidavit only highlighted four "infringing" songs, and according to TechDirt, every single one was explicitly provided to the blog by the record label (o
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by bbatsell 16y ago
After seeing the post I linked, I searched the Googles in vain to find a wisp of what he was referring to. It's perfectly fine to not break confidences, but you can't call someone "bat-shit insane" and then demurely say you won't cast aspe
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> It's unfair of me to cast aspersions against Greg that the general public wouldn't be in a position to back up Hasn't stopped you yetº. Why balk at the request to provide a little substantiation? º http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by bbatsell 16y ago
This happened a month ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897648
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I'm not a cryptographer by any means, so please forgive and correct any errors. I'm assuming you're just saying that building rainbow tables once you have a static salt and the hashes becomes a feasible proposition? Wouldn't using a dynam
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> If the secret files are really so wide open that they're just counting on people not being able to take them, then there's some much larger problems that they better start addressing. It's a hard problem. Before 9/11, "the secret fil
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> that tweet went out before the alleged incidents No, according to your own link (and the facts), it went out a day and some hours (it was at 2 AM on the 16th) after she alleged that "Assange used his body weight to hold her down durin
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> Is it customary that the Swedish authorities would involve Interpol in a case like this ? You can check for yourself: http://www.interpol.int/Public/Wanted/Search/ResultListNew.a...
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> Until IPTV or whatever you want to call it can perform as well as cable, and it can't yet, I don't see cable dying. As someone who recently moved from Time Warner Cable to U-Verse, U-Verse (which is an entirely multicasted IPTV system
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by bbatsell 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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Uses an invisible Flash object, so if you're using ClickToFlash or other Flash-blocking plugin you'll have to manually load the object.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
It seems to me that Netflix management is a little more forward-thinking than that. Hastings, et al. know that streaming is going to be their primary market and if they're having to pay off every possible intermediary in the future, their
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by bbatsell 16y ago
My understanding is that they now only host the latest documents purportedly to cut hosting costs. Some argue that it's a bit of manipulation in order to garner more donations. You can google for mirrors of the old content.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
They demoed it quite prominently onstage when they introduced it, and the screen says "Hi-Speed Scrubbing" when you start scrubbing (and changes as you move down). It's not the most discoverable feature ever, but it's not a hidden Easter e
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I'm really not sure I agree. Remotes do their jobs best when one fully learns their layout and can operate every function while keeping their eyes on the content they're wanting to see, not looking down at a small screen to figure out wher
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by bbatsell 16y ago
The reason Apple has stayed with C2D on the 13"ers is because Intel has disallowed manufacturers from using any integrated graphics chipset other than Intel HD Graphics, which is very poor compared to Nvidia and ATI's chipsets. Since the 1
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Yes; however, Verizon has been testing Voice over Revision A, which would route voice packets over the data channel and thus allow both voice and regular data packets to coexist. According to various articles from a few months ago, the rol
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Texas sends Amazon a $269M uncollected sales tax bill(techflash.com)
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