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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Agreed. At least if things break noisily then the user will have an idea that things are now different. If you silently fall back with no feedback to the user then they may never know that they should have lessened security expectations.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
The FSF has no problem with non-free binary blobs on hardware, as long as they're burned into ROM[0]. The idea is that the firmware burned into ROM is not user serviceable - that it's never intended to be replaced and is intrinsi
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
There's not much difference to the person being stifled, at least, not initially. Yes, you can litigate absurdly expensive court battles (assuming the government allows itself to be sued), have your voice silenced for the years and yea
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>The generally obstructionist principles of the profession combined with the complete lack of discipline in constructing those aforementioned Perl scripts spells doom that we (as an industry) are busily automating out of existence. This
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Wee woo wee woo wee woo, let's call the tone police! I thought hackers were for meritocracy, and not nitpicking silly things like avatars.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>Working for free is a luxury for the people not struggling to ends meet. Go back to your gulch, John Galt. Just because someone chooses to be altruistic does not mean you have to crap all over their altruism.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
> One should expect them to be as smart as those working for internal agencies, if somewhat less focused on attacking real-world systems. It's this reason, along with DARPA and similar funding, that I call it the military-industrial
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>I don't know if it's always the case, but where I live, any kid can find weed easily. Ironically, it may be more difficult for adults! This has been my experience. When I was at university there was cannabis everywhere, it wa
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Many drugs containing opiates are mixed with acetaminophen[1] by drug companies to reduce their abuse potential as acetaminophen is very toxic. The thought is that people that would abuse these medicines would think twice. All it really d
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>You have a group of 19-36 students at home, and the skills to teach positive group dynamics? No, but I had friends and social interaction when I was a child, and this social interaction also taught me empathy. It helped to have good, e
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
> I will never forget the day I mentioned to another mother my concern about lack of empathy and kindness among the students, and she told me: “That’s not the school’s job.” Is there nothing left that parents are meant to teach? Or is i
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
The difference is that there are many groups who have publicly declared their intent to blow up Israeli airliners, so it's not as if you're defending against a non-existent threat.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>I just don't see a clear defense for mass gun ownership without oversight though. Well, there are several federal[0] and many state[1] gun regulations on the books, so I don't know where you get the idea that gun ownership has
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>These people are going to be competing directly with you for jobs Okay, and? There's already a lot of competition out there for jobs. A little more won't hurt. Being a programmer is not like being part of a religious order.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Speaking for myself only: I think it's great. It's the same view that I have toward people who learn my native language as their second language - it opens up a path of communication with them that I did not have before.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Some GamerGate supporters have made claims that video game reviewers have covered games and develelopers that they have backed financially through Patreon without disclosing this to their audience. This disclosuee would allow those making t
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
True, but in some cases the barriers that governments erect to enter the marketplace are barriers that I very much want. I want agribusiness to get their food to me in a clean state. I want car companies to demonstrate that they can produ
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Have you ever lived in a community with an HOA? Some of the people there take finding violations, infractions, and actionable offenses as their second job, and will not hesitate to sue you just because. So enabling these people by requiri
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
So you want BeOS?
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
Do you use a kernel with a version greater than 2.5? Then you have SELinux as a part of your kernel source, so the NSA has sponsored made changes to your kernel.
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
There are no claims that SELinux does anything other than secure the system, but if you're going to distrust things based solely on who sponsored them (Chinese government for this Linux distribution) then it makes sense to ask if this
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
>I would trust that as much as a distro brought to you by the NSA. So do you run a version of the Linux kernel where SELinux[0] has been merged into the mainline? [0] http://selinuxproject.org/page/Main_Page
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by cuckcuckspruce 11y ago
While I don't agree with the license requirement the least we could require is publication of the source code and validation by an industry body made up for subject matter experts for safety critical code.