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by biff 13y ago
Interesting thought. Could there be "shunned" Bitcoins where, if they held certain blacklisted wallets in their history, businesses and users would choose not to accept them? One could imagine people still choosing to trade in th
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by biff 13y ago
This is a strange blind spot for film to have, especially with regard to genres like science fiction or fantasy where the art is limited only by the creator's imagination and conventional boundaries are expected to be tested. Maybe Hol
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by biff 13y ago
That extreme standard used to be part and parcel of being a parent. Not that I'm saying anybody can pull it off flawlessly, but zero-tolerance is simply a way of saying they won't even make the effort. The relationship between of
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by biff 13y ago
One of the most immediate (and probably least expensive) improvements we could make to our public school system would be to replace the zero-tolerance policy with adults who are capable of examining situations on a case-by-case basis and ap
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by biff 13y ago
To summarize, Wall Street's saying "They couldn't possibly be that stupid." and Congress is saying "Just try us."?
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by biff 13y ago
Interesting. My guess was people downloading GTA V, which is something like 16GB and released yesterday. Will keep an eye on the U.S. part of the map to see if it starts turning red as school gets out in each time zone.
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by biff 13y ago
On the other hand, could get hit by a bus tomorrow.
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by biff 13y ago
Doesn't help the cause if you're already doing a long-distance flight...
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by biff 13y ago
Well, more like encrypted webmail isn't secure, isn't it? Think PGP is still up to snuff if anybody cares to learn it.
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by biff 13y ago
I think it all begins with educating people about the issue and motivating them to care about privacy again. Ideally they would find this so distasteful that politicians must fix it. If there isn't a political solution, it falls on th
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by biff 13y ago
It also sounds more pleasant than "dragnet" or "fishing expedition", but if this starts by treating everybody as a possible suspect for an undetermined crime those terms are closer to the truth. A forensic analyst doesn&
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by biff 13y ago
It's a pity this didn't get more attention on here, as this is a surprisingly detailed article on the subject. The one tiny aspect I've been thinking about a lot lately involves the anti-Spotify crowd. This piece throws in s
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by biff 13y ago
One idea I saw out there that I like a lot is to have a modest fixed copyright term on created works by default, but allow the copyright holder to pay to extend the term when it's about to expire. A payment that grows exponentially wi
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by biff 13y ago
I remember when that decision first came down, and his show was playing The Kinks "Living on a Thin Line" into and out of break (the first part: "All the stories have been told / Of kings and days of old, / But ther
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by biff 13y ago
Agreed. Looking at a 2006 Gallup poll regarding warrantless wiretapping, it was 80%/16% Republicans, 42%/53% Independents, and 27%/69% Democrats (approve/disapprove). ( http://www.gallup.com/poll/208
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by biff 13y ago
Well, they HAVE managed to create an unprecedented level of openness and transparency. Perhaps in a different direction than we were assuming, but still...
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by biff 13y ago
That's how it does hidden volumes huh? I always thought it was something sneakier, like flag a handful of files that exist in the regular volume for it to build its hidden volume out of.
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by biff 13y ago
It doesn't strike me as a good road to go down to require judges to guess as to whether or not a defendant is being honest about whether or not he or she can remember a password on an encrypted volume. Especially considering that it's possi
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by biff 13y ago
It's always felt like a fundamental flaw in copyright to me, though, if as implemented it discourages the legal dissemination of content. At the start a 14 year copyright term (+ 14 if author was still alive and chose to renew) was consider
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by biff 13y ago
I wonder if it'll trigger the Copyright Alert System as well, giving innocent downloaders grief with their ISPs.
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by biff 13y ago
Microsoft later issued a statement apologizing for Orth's tweet and clarifying that he was not a company spokesperson. Wish it could be left at that. People make mistakes sometimes. Besides, if Microsoft's upcoming console ends up requir
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by biff 14y ago
I suspect it isn't. The writer is in the Bay area according to a blurb at the bottom of the article, where the FB account in the screenshot is listed as from New York.
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by biff 14y ago
Do gamers enjoy paying an extra fee to play used games online? There seem to be no end to the accolades thrown your way for centralizing multiplayer on EA servers and shutting them down a year or two after game release. In case you really
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by biff 14y ago
One possibility is to bundle your work with others and create your own stream-on-demand network. A walled garden where you publish trailers and maybe one or two free-to-access programs to YouTube with your branding on them, charge a nomina
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by biff 14y ago
Rude: "Thank you", vocal communication, simple requests for information Perfectly acceptable (?): futzing with electronics when dining with others, talking loudly into the ether regardless of setting, sending passive-aggressive links to Goo
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by biff 14y ago
He is now apparently safe with his girlfriend outside Belize with a couple of folks from Vice Magazine, and the guy that was arrested was deliberate smokescreen on McAfee's part. http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/ If the plot gets any
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by biff 14y ago
Might also be a good way to restock the public domain in the face of virtually unlimited copyright terms, if the holder of those rights became responsible to determine whether the cost of continued protection is worth it for a given work.
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by biff 14y ago
Noticed that I didn't hear about this happening to the RNC. Funny thing is, they were using a live cover band featuring GE Smith for the event where the DNC seems to be using snippets of the actual songs. So I wonder if that's what's getti
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by biff 14y ago
It's necessary to have a framework that makes taking the correct action more rewarding or less punitive than taking incorrect action. We mostly rely on government to handle this. It's not perfect and it works in some folks' interests more
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by biff 14y ago
This is starting to prove -- the hard way -- why regulations, certifications, and all that other stuff that feels like meaningless overhead the majority of the time has become a grudgingly accepted part of our lives. It comes back to the mo

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