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by dlitz 15y ago
What's the deal with these "covenants not to sue", lately, and how are they different from actual licenses? My guess is that such covenants would not be binding on third parties who buy the underlying copyright/patent rights, but I don't re
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by dlitz 15y ago
> On paper the GPLv3 is awesome, but it adds some major restrictions that make it unappealing to corporations. Oh, stop with the FUD. The only people GPLv3 is a problem for is proprietary software companies , and people who think they
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by dlitz 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that nobody would have rejected the RSA paper with a note that argued that there was some 32-bit limit. If I've got my history correct, the Diffie-Hellman _New Directions in Cryptography_ paper had already been published, a
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by dlitz 15y ago
Reminds me of Slashdot comments.
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by dlitz 15y ago
Jonathan Coulton said it well: "I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I love that we have laws and people to enforce them. But if I had to give up one thing, if I had to choose between copyright and the wild
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by dlitz 15y ago
Probably, but so does single-member district plurality voting, which is what we currently have. :-/
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by dlitz 15y ago
Introducing: Namecoin http://dot-bit.org/
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by dlitz 15y ago
It was done this way on purpose.
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by dlitz 15y ago
Here's my follow-up: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode encodings : Just use UTF-8.
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by dlitz 15y ago
Yes, the original UTF-8 spec was much more forgiving. The most recent spec, RFC 3629, restricted the range of code points and made the decoding of invalid sequences a MUST NOT requirement: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629#section-12
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by dlitz 15y ago
"See you on Google+" Has Google rescinded its real-names policy on G+ yet?
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by dlitz 15y ago
Visitor.js should be the new FizzBuzz
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by dlitz 15y ago
GoDaddy needs to be boycotted anyway. We're talking about a law that would create a national Internet censorship infrastructure in the United States. This is serious stuff. We need to send the message that when you pull crap like this, it
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by dlitz 15y ago
This sort of thing is why Windows/OSX/Unity developers' idea of what's needed for "usability" is mostly BS. Most people aren't nearly as incapable of learning this stuff as we like to believe.
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by dlitz 15y ago
My initial solution works in real Ruby, but it didn't work in this demo: http://imgur.com/YBYwN Apparently, assigning the result of a comparison to a literal breaks this demo. Edit: Also, bonus points if you can elaborate on why you think
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by dlitz 15y ago
Yes, the article is wrong, but ordinary developers shouldn't be using these low-level APIs anyway, unless they're implementing another, higher-level security protocols (such as OpenPGP, PKCS#5, PKCS#1, SSL, or SSH). I'm not familiar with iO
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by dlitz 15y ago
A salt is really just a nonce: It doesn't have to be random or unpredictable; it just has to be globally unique so that attackers can't work to crack more than one password at once (or pick out identical passwords given a list of password h
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by dlitz 15y ago
Fairest... except for the censorship.
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by dlitz 15y ago
It also works as expected on Ubuntu. The main difference is that /var/run/motd is generated on each login, rather than only on boot, but that's irrelevant to the author's problem.
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by dlitz 15y ago
I've been using Debian/Ubuntu since ~ 1999, and it took be about 20 seconds to figure this out. "ls /etc/motd. Oh, it's a symlink, ok, rm /etc/motd. Done." In Debian, almost everything in /etc can be edited, and the system is designed to
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by dlitz 15y ago
How do you suggest that a non-sexist person should deal with a situation like this, without privileging the claims of the writer?
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by dlitz 15y ago
What does the SPDY protocol do that the SSH2 protocol doesn't aside from being completely HTTP-specific? This seems to me to be yet another unnecessary new protocol.
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by dlitz 15y ago
You'd end up filtering out really good blogs like ERV, because its author objects to apostrophes and sometimes writes like a LOLcat: http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2009/12/drug_resistant_prions_vi...
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by dlitz 15y ago
I can't believe it's not yet obvious to some people that DRM isn't an anti-piracy measure, it's a vendor lock-in measure. How many times is this fact going to have to be demonstrated until people take notice?
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by dlitz 15y ago
Don't you think intelligent people have better things to do than to rewrite old code, just because Apple's platform lacks important features that have been well-known for several decades? The notion that every time we have a new language/pl
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by dlitz 15y ago
"This." is so last-decade. Now we use CoffeeScript: @
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by dlitz 15y ago
> If you found a bunch of house keys, each one labled with the address of the house, would you go to each house and open each door? I'm so tired of these analogies. The Internet is not like the physical world. Why don't we talk about
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by dlitz 15y ago
> Users do not mess with their car's firmware. This canard is completely irrelevant. Free software creates a free market for the maintenance, distribution, support, and modification of software. Users of free software might not make t
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by dlitz 15y ago
"In what way? It is the GPL that prevents GPL software from being distributed via the App Store. Frankly, I see no reason why it should be a problem, as the binary distributed that way could easily link to a web page with the source...." Th
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"super123" - the most common password in Sweden?(dlitz.net)
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