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cuckcuckspruce
9y ago
It's certainly a DMCA violation if you broke any DRM to make that copy. That does not require distribution.
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cuckcuckspruce
9y ago
I don't know where you are looking, but I have no problem getting fully digital rips of current run TV shows in 720p/1080p that are wonderful - excelled only by BluRay rips from the box-sets when they come out.
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9y ago
Wouldn't you be a little salty if the runner up for President of the United States once asked if she could order your extrajudicial killing because she didn't like what you were saying about her?
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cuckcuckspruce
9y ago
If you're serious about this, consider running UUCP as the mail transport. It can be tunneled through SSH easily (or have TLS applied to it with something like stunnel), allows either end to initiate a transfer of data (assuming open
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9y ago
This is the number one reason that I use tinc, and something that competitors (including WireGuard as promoted at the top of this thread) don't have without additional work.
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9y ago
Can it do mesh routing in the same way as tinc? Otherwise it's a poor replacement. It was not immediately evident in the three or so minutes I took to look at the project's web page.
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cuckcuckspruce
9y ago
Most SimCity 2000 discs come with the DOS version, the Windows 3.11 version, and the Windows 95 version. The DOS version runs just fine under DOSBox if you don't want to get into Wine too deeply.
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9y ago
Yes, thanks.
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Ironically, many GNU manuals are included in the non-free sections because Debian considers the GNU FDL non-free because it allows invariant sections - sections that cannot be changed.
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9y ago
If you brew beer from scratch at home and share your recipe then your beer can be both libre and gratis!
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Open source focuses on the technical. Free software focuses on the political Stallman has said many times he wasn't trying to move the state of technology forward with GNU projects - just trying to have a libre computing base because
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9y ago
Mail over UUCP and Usenet over UUCP are optimized for short(-ish) messages, and deal with packet loss, dynamic IP addresses on remote connections, partial transfers, and synchronization scheduling as part of their implementation. It would s
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How many bankers have gone to jail for crashing the US economy? The FBI doesn't give a shit as long as it's the anus of the average citizen being ravaged. They only care when it's against the 1%.
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All of these social networking protocols feel like we're just re-inventing UUCP at a higher level.
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9y ago
There are software engineering fields where people commit to precise specifications - they typically interface with humans on some biological level (medical devices, etc), and they are quite expensive.
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9y ago
There are plenty of other interests in the main character, and many characters that you become close to as part of the game. The fact that there is a group of heroes, all very close, all interested in saving the world, means that this game
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9y ago
The WiiU has been dead since the Switch released. Nintendo put out BotW on the WiiU because they hadn't put out a Zelda game on it yet and Switch supplies were short. I wouldn't say that it's hurt sales for the game for the
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9y ago
I'm not claiming competence in anything. All I am doing is saying that when evaluating competence that you should test the thing you are looking for - competence - and not accept confidence as a substitute or proxy for competence.
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9y ago
>Taking the point further, can anyone think of a mechanism by which the paper has a positive effect? Yes - by reinforcing in people that confidence is disjoint from competence, and that 'trust-but-verify' is the best policy whe
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9y ago
Less nice technically or socially? Speaking as someone who has played countless hours of competitive video games in my downtime after work, I assure you that, socially, 'less nice' is a charitable way to describe gaming chat, dev
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9y ago
No, but potential for bandwidth caps with fees for going in light of the removal of network neutrality legislation might tip the balance in the favor of the codec that looks better at a lower bitrate.
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Same way that private corporations ensure money is spent where it is intended to be spent. Fire (read: impeach/do not re-elect) those that do not their job by spending money not for its intended purpose. Discover this by regular, full
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Capitalism should be abolished. As it stands, capitalism serves little positive social purpose. The overwhelming majority of laborers get paid little if anything for their work, and still there is a glut of production. So there should be no
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>So I think they should credit some of their Mac earnings to iOS, and factor that into their figure for the iOS app. Doing separate accounting for paired apps on different platforms makes less sense when those apps have synergy with each
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Cool. I think you're entitled for charging your rates for your labor. Do free work for me.
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As a developer, I can't eat good will, and my landlord doesn't accept it for my rent payment.
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I'd rather not say which exact states, but she was non-pregnant and not considered disabled by the state or the federal government despite applying for it, having the statements of her doctors, and having had a kidney transplant, chron
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Some perspective from the US. My girlfriend has lupus - diagnosed at eight. The lupus destroyed her kidney by her fourteenth birthday. She got a transplant at sixteen. Her transplant was covered by her mom's insurance with the rest
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cuckcuckspruce
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As a data point, my Samsung Galaxy J7 came with the Facebook app and I was able to uninstall it without issue. So it looks like this doesn't apply to all Samsung phones.
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If you can trust your administrators then you don't need to worry about shell escapes in editors. The idea for sudoedit is that it allows you to allow non-root users to safely edit files, and if they shell out of their editor then they
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