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by blihp 8y ago
I think he's talking about David Reed's work: http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...
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by blihp 8y ago
They aren't necessarily evading taxes. When you participate in an ISA or pension program, you are using the tax code as intended. When a film production company decides to film in a given location due to favorable tax credits, that
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by blihp 8y ago
For individuals and small businesses, sure it makes no sense. But large enterprise customers will pay a lot of money for support windows that are far too long. That's why Red Hat (and every other large company) offers them. Even whe
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by blihp 8y ago
They don't need the cash, they want the cash. What management and shareholders stand to gain from it is cashing out. That's the way business works. Not saying it's the way things should be, just the way they are.
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by blihp 8y ago
Unfortunately, that's going to be the situation at virtually every large tech company these days. To their credit, IBM has been a longtime contributor to Linux so if Red Hat was going to be acquired, IBM is far from a worst-case scena
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by blihp 8y ago
The timescales of the moats provided by the actual technology in the digital realm have always been short. That's why you see so much time and money spent on broadening and extending copyright and patents... that's the long-term
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by blihp 8y ago
That ship sailed long ago (at least one or two copyright extensions ago in the last century) when copyright and patents ceased to serve their intended purpose and started being used to protect business turf in perpetuity.
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by blihp 8y ago
re: opening up Safari on the iPhone 'any website you have in your bookmarks can track that' I assume that's because it's checking/refreshing favicons? If that's all it is there's nothing nefarious about
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by blihp 8y ago
That's not the fault of most of those communities. Many of them have tried to set up their own municipal wifi/ISPs and many (most?) have been stopped cold by legislation and back room deals at the local and state levels by the te
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by blihp 8y ago
Unless you've got a legal/regulatory structure to enforce it, it can't work. And there is absolutely no will on the part of corporations or Congress to do such a thing as it runs contrary to their interests. Even if it were
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by blihp 8y ago
It was very easy to see where this was going from the very beginning and many did raise red flags but were largely disregarded because... FREE! There was plenty of user generated content for decades before Facebook/Google/etc cam
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by blihp 8y ago
Despite your intentions, I don't think it's possible for you to be one of the good guys. The mass collection and aggregation of the data in the first place is the problem, not merely a few bad actors downstream.
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by blihp 8y ago
That won't help even a little bit in this case. That's like trying place the responsibility to reduce the amount of garbage generated on those who drive the garbage trucks. The decision to engage in the bad behavior usually does
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by blihp 8y ago
Not to mention completely unnecessary.
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by blihp 8y ago
Yeah, they're getting sneaky about adding 'features' that don't work if they're not connected yet have no actual need to be connected in order to implement them. Mine isn't Android TV (though I suppose it'
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by blihp 8y ago
Sure, but even with a bulk rate is it economically worth it for them to do so? My understanding is that the current trend in massive data collection has been viable because they've externalized significant costs (i.e. consumers paying
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by blihp 8y ago
Don't plug in the Ethernet or give it your wifi password and even the smartest TV gets dumb really fast. I'm actually going to be plugging mine in soon (only for a little while) just to see who/where it's sending data.
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by blihp 8y ago
Apple has far more control over their platform than they did in previous platform migrations. They'll more likely announce a 'little checkbox' in the developer tools, put minimal effort into emulation performance, and mandat
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by blihp 8y ago
But more important than a lot of the actual porting work was that the overall portability work had been done. Gone were most of the inline assembly / platform-specific hacks and optimizations that earlier iterations of Mac OS and 68k
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by blihp 8y ago
I'd be very surprised if there was one you couldn't (and would be worth noting in the database.) Most of these boards expect you to be fairly literate both from a hardware and software standpoint.
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by blihp 8y ago
Fair enough... but I still don't blame you ;-)
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by blihp 8y ago
It wasn't exactly hidden seeing as how there was a YouTube video titled 'Exploit jQuery File Upload Vulnerability' available since 2015. I don't blame the author (given the timing of the Apache change it probably would
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by blihp 8y ago
Contracting is effectively going mercenary. It's straight up 'I've got the expertise, you've got money... let's get together for a while.' There's no career path for you as far as the client is concerned
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by blihp 8y ago
Just a few years ago there were some spectacular deals if you didn't mind a (major) fixer-upper: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cheap-detroit-houses-auction_... While you're unlikely to find anything like tha
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by blihp 8y ago
Exactly. I'm not suggesting that it's all going to come crashing down or even happen overnight, just that the trend line for them isn't up and to the right. I sincerely hope the auto companies realize this and plan accordin
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by blihp 8y ago
That's my point. The auto companies had spectacularly poor management for decades (2 out of 3 of the American big auto companies went bankrupt during the crash... the crash didn't do them in, the 30 years prior to the crash did.)
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by blihp 8y ago
'Some auto executives say they can hold on to their roles as hardware providers while also tapping into the growth of more-profitable services' Simple question for anyone in the auto industry who thinks this statement makes sense:
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by blihp 8y ago
I'm in the same boat. Been running my SB for ~2x longer than I've ever stuck with a primary system before. No complaints, it's been a great system. But I'm really looking forward to getting more threads. Probably won
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by blihp 8y ago
And luckily we had AMD then, as we do now (only recently), to pick up the slack. Sure I'm exaggerating a bit, but no more than you are to say 'incomparable'. Intel upgrades for the last 7 years have been modest at best. If
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by blihp 8y ago
I think so. I'd bet that the reason Intel is removing HT is for market segmentation rather than architectural reasons.

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