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by bxr 15y ago
No prob. I know the Hacker News crowd has a lot of self reliance attitude, and I've been there too, but I've recently been coming to realize that for any legal matter its best to just go to a professional. Its often too far outside of our
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by bxr 15y ago
>The crime here wasn't even that she was banned, it was threatening others with the same if they reported about what happened to her. Hmmm, yes, there is some meat to that issue. I guess I must have missed that bit after getting fed up
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by bxr 15y ago
A worse than expected quarter and their product is no longer top dog? I'd hardly call that a death spiral. A march to mediocrity, maybe, if they don't start producing products with wider appeal. In all the IT World articles I've seen over
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by bxr 15y ago
This article is trash. Reporter does something that they were asked not to, it happened to involve technology, blogger misses the point and calls The Administration a bunch of Luddites.
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by bxr 15y ago
Get a lawyer. What you're doing may be legal (I believe it is), but you still do need to worry about getting sued. It sounds like they're just trying to push you around, get a lawyer to check what you're doing is fine and respond to them
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by bxr 15y ago
Facebook has issued a statement to ReadWriteWeb and (as of this post) has yet to contact Ars. That action speaks volumes about what Facebook's real concerns are.
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by bxr 15y ago
Even if they aren't served outside that window, not everyone's waking hours are 9-9.
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by bxr 15y ago
I don't know what route you took to decide that this form of advertizing is "the best" for the user. Do you really think that waking me up in the middle of the night to look at an advertizement is good for me as a user? You contrast it to
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by bxr 15y ago
I personally don't know any more, but this might be a good starting point if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482679 is a link to a post on reddit from a moderator of a forum that deals in ps3 modding. He outlines t
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by bxr 15y ago
Oh, I don't disagree at all. My take is that Sony will continue to ignore their terrible lack of security and lay all the blame at the feet of the people who happened to exploit their terrible security. As you say, Sony makes a mess of se
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by bxr 15y ago
You're looking at this backwards, this is good for EA. Of course its not going to help Zynga, but its going to clear out the cobwebs at EA and increase their quality. Out of those two producers, the one with greater potential to (and prov
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by bxr 15y ago
I thought it was going to have to do with left click vs right click until half way into the article. In retrospect it was kind of a silly thing to assume, but thats what my first pass saw, and I use enough software at work that likes to th
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by bxr 15y ago
I really hope the rumors aren't true, even though I know they probably are. The Sony PR people are going to shift the blame to the hackers for having a protocol and server so susceptible to privilege escalation. I don't agree with what the
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by bxr 15y ago
>I don't see it as "they" are collecting the information. This is an interesting distinction, that I don't really know where I stand. _They_ wrote the software, but it runs on a device _you_ choose to own and operate. Allow me to as a
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by bxr 15y ago
Thats it? That response is a bit of a letdown (but in a way exactly what I'd expect from rms). It kind of goes without saying that you're going to be skeptical of things said by someone who disagrees with your philosophy, but I wouldn't f
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by bxr 15y ago
The things that stuck out to me were a kmalloc/kfree and a goto/label (which isn't the biggest giveaway, but the only C I've seen that used gotos and wasn't terrible code is the linux kernel, the goto is also used in the same style as they
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by bxr 15y ago
Its not about the fact that they comply with court orders, of course they're going to, it is in their ability to give the courts unencrypted data that they shed light on the real issue to do something they said was impossible. If it were im
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by bxr 15y ago
I'd rather not put all my eggs in one basket, even if there is already one sufficiently more valuable egg in the basket.
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by bxr 15y ago
It seemed pretty factual to me. I wouldn't exactly call it fear-mongering, an actual portrayal of the situation is fear-educing enough. It would be irresponsible for Ars to not point out the ways this data could be compromised and the sev
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by bxr 15y ago
>They'd in no way be able to get your physical address, unless you lived alone in the countryside. You seem to be using this claim to dismiss the importance of the data, but I lived in a very secluded area, do I not matter?
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by bxr 15y ago
>All of this should have been obvious to anyone that bothered to think about what was going on This is easy to claim, but we live in a world of tech. You need to step back and get some perspective. We have piles and piles of domain spe
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by bxr 16y ago
Normally a gui tool doesn't advertize how you invoke it from the commandline, but there are plenty of cases where the command-line invoked application doesn't retain the foreground while running. This tool is probably non-interactive at the
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by bxr 16y ago
>so that you can create window blinds any time you want them, and increase energy production in the process? That would be a great thing to have. Does give a whole new meaning to 'rolling blackout' though.
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by bxr 16y ago
When I downloaded mongrel2 I wanted to take a quick peak at superpoll beyond what was in the blog post about it, an hour later I was still reading the source. It is some of the best-written C I've seen.
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by bxr 16y ago
>I wish, instead of picking on whichever startup suddenly succeeds, we picked on the industry as a whole. The industry is made of individuals, and complaining about the practices of an industry has to be done in broader strokes than the
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by bxr 16y ago
>We trust them anyway Much of that trust is based on the fact it is a felony, not what could just be an internal slap on the wrist.
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by bxr 16y ago
>we're not aware of anybody having been affected by these theoretical vulnerabilities. on the flip side, we have (literally) saved thousands of college kids from losing their theses I like the idea of what your service does, but this st
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by bxr 16y ago
I think that many of the points hint at it, but don't directly address the fact that the work space is inherently temporary. If I were to get up right now and go use one of our lab bench computers I'd be getting more done even though its n
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by bxr 16y ago
You tell the reader the very real/important fact that the mental model we use to solve the problem in code isn't the same metal model the user will have, even though the programmer is so accustomed to that model it will certainly heavily in
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by bxr 16y ago
Do firmwares like cyanogenmod offer the ability to revoke privileges to certain apps by just providing them with garbage data? If they don't already, I think it would be an interesting area to explore.

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