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by cplease 12y ago
> Sex is legal. Forming a contract involving sex is not. Well, unless it's a marriage contract, but that's another beast altogether.
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by cplease 12y ago
> I actually don't want all desktop apps to be able to access all my data all the time. E.g. why should LibreOffice be able to access my browsing history, or Gimp be able to read the contacts in my address book, or VLC be able to re
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by cplease 12y ago
Good example of how a successful, popular app can be shipped with shockingly bad practices. Nice work by the author in patching the bytecode.
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by cplease 12y ago
My mind is also unblown.
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by cplease 12y ago
Seriously, this BUZZWORD meets BUZZWORD linkbait is getting old, especially the blockchain variety. Bitcoin is not the hammer to every nail. This is not a good idea and there is not even an attempt here to rationalize why this is a good ide
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by cplease 12y ago
Those who switch operating systems out of ideological disillusionment are liable to end up as disillusioned again as those who switch religions out of religious disillusionment. You may think the new one is more pure, but it's really j
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by cplease 12y ago
It depends on what you mean by "sandboxing" and "app." But basically, with a browser or mobile app, there's a limited number of functions that you may want to permit an app to access, and it's okay to isolate t
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by cplease 12y ago
Non "hostile," as you put it, software still has bugs. Attackers can use malicious inputs to exploit buggy software. Unless you personally built software from trusted source with a trusted toolchain, or reverse-engineered and insp
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by cplease 12y ago
> Unless you live in Germany Many populous U.S. states have net metering, New York and California inclusive.
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by cplease 12y ago
Absolute immunity is mostly a protection from civil lawsuits in personal capacity. When there is prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal case, defendants can get sanctions ranging to from dismissal with prejudice, mistrial, exclusion of evid
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by cplease 12y ago
Actually, prosecutors are governed by many rules from constitutional and statutory law as well as canons of ethics that apply to their special position. They have an obligation to promptly disclose any and all evidence they encounter favora
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by cplease 12y ago
Most salaried software engineers have contracts that any software IP they create belongs to their employer, whether they do it on company time/computers or not. You are correct that this is especially hairy if you wrote a project that
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by cplease 12y ago
Ok, I misread the post to read that Milton was the author, but apparently he was not relevant. Still, unless David had reserved rights to the piece it doesn't really change his position much. The DMCA has no application and this distor
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by cplease 12y ago
It's a political decision. The Court made up its mind that indefinite, unlimited, retroactive extensions of copyright to any finite term (heat death of the universe inclusive) limited only by the will of Congress are within the ambit o
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by cplease 12y ago
> the DMCA means he could put it up on his website and wait to see if anyone lodged any objection to his doing so (which they almost certainly won't). Wrong. The DMCA provides safe harbor for online service providers. It provides no
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by cplease 12y ago
The HN title is wrong and misleading. The NYT headline is "In Net Neutrality Push, F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating Internet Service as a Utility". That's a little different than "FCC regulating the Internet.&quo
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by cplease 12y ago
> Then again, when a password fails, then all you'd have to do is retry with a safer version And after three or five failed login attempts you get locked out and have to call the bank for a password reset, and throw away the damn ca
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by cplease 12y ago
Indeed. ldd any substantial GTK app and scroll past the dependencies. They are huge. Most of them are shared across applications. Desktop would be crippled if every app was compiled with the whole stack of X, toolkit and Gnome libraries lin
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by cplease 12y ago
I'm not sure what PG thinks is so holy about the software industry if his whole argument boils down to the fact that the USA has 5% of the world's population. By the same logic, 95% of the great plumbers, carpenters, electricians,
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by cplease 12y ago
To add to points others have raised here, student loans are almost impossible to discharge in bankruptcy and backed by the full range of government collection methods (withholding of tax refunds, automatic wage garnishment, etc.). The only
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by cplease 12y ago
No, it's not, and it's a pretty useless idea. An expensive, slow, and extremely CPU and network intensive protocol is not what you want to use for stealthy malware communications. It could be done; you could also hammer a nail wit
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by cplease 12y ago
Nice article, but it doesn't quite deliver. It says, the trick is not "black magic", but then defines debugging in terms of ptrace syscalls, describing the API a little bit, but without giving a clue as to how ptrace actually
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by cplease 12y ago
> you can call fork but you will pay a full cost of a creating a new process, manually copying the memory state to the new process and parent and child have to do a complicated dance to ensure it all happens right That fork() and associa
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by cplease 12y ago
This doesn't attack gcc or python, it's just a trivial kernel module that interposes SYS_read. There's no germline persistence a la trusting trust. e.g. if I compile gcc, compile the Linux kernel, and compile python all on a
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by cplease 12y ago
No, ESR has never been involved with Emacs development. He has a history of invading prominent free software projects on the strength of his "hacker" cred, pissing all over them with his pet peeve of the day, insisting on making e
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by cplease 12y ago
I don't think you read very carefully. As the author is careful to note, a share buyback is only a way to return money to shareholders a la dividends iff the shares are retired. But as the author points out, often the shares are not in
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by cplease 12y ago
> Still, it's pretty amazing what Windows doesn't include by default in this day and age, so a simple, lightweight set of tools like this definitely has its place. Others have already mentioned Powershell. Not by default, but M
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by cplease 12y ago
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/04/three-alternatives-ubuntu... Copy looks promising. If you're willing to pay you use a service like rsync.net, or if you're willing to do a bit of setup you can just use
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by cplease 12y ago
Craigslist.
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by cplease 12y ago
There's a reason that APL never gained a foothold and J has not been adopted by software engineers. You can program at the speed of thought in TECO as well, but the reasons for its limitations and peculiar history vanished long ago. Th

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