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by dodedo 15y ago
A salt only protects against pre-computed dictionary attacks (rainbow tables). It does not offer any additional protection in this scenario.
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by dodedo 15y ago
'My CS teacher also resolved many difficulties with the = sign by always reading code like "a = b" as "a gets b"' This is one of the great things about Pascal. The := sign is used for assignment, and the equals sign alone is used for equali
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IAMA author and I think the reach of copyright should be curtailed(reddit.com)
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by dodedo 15y ago
If you're not selling it, not making it available yourself, you shouldn't be controlling it. It'd be nice if copyright law were amended to properly capture its justification as a tool to promote the progress of science and useful arts -- it
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by dodedo 15y ago
This is not a question of license, which a user may or may not have agreed to participate in. By simply purchasing media I obtain all fair use rights -- I can make a backup of it without ever engaging in a license agreement.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Leap years are defined by a known algorithm: If the year is evenly divisible by 4, then it's a leap year, unless it's divisible by 100, unless it's divisible by 400. This defines all future leap years. Because of this, we /do/ know how much
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by dodedo 15y ago
"But Britain, along with Canada and China, would like to keep the current keeping system, arguing that, in the 40 years that leap seconds have been gracefully inserted in our midst — most recently in 2008 — there have been no problems to sp
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by dodedo 15y ago
Do you also believe that non-profits and churches should be able to freely lobby? Currently both are severely curtailed in their political speech, unlike for-profit corporations. This is why there are two ACLU organizations: http://www.acl
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by dodedo 15y ago
Those are not divisions, they are shares in entirely separate, publicly traded companies. The valuation is market valuation -- not a number made up by Yahoo.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Your statement about the law is for the most part not true. There's a much more in-depth discussion of this at this older HN posting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227980 I agree with you that yahoo should have sold to microsoft, b
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by dodedo 15y ago
I think the point that it's more about the notions of the wealthy family than of the girl. Wealth allows families to transcend or disregard social norms. In this case it is clear that her family chose to raise her a particular way, and give
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by dodedo 15y ago
I know several, in fact. It's fairly common result of rich parents spoiling their kids.
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by dodedo 15y ago
I believe he's pointing out, accurately, that wealthy families in Pakistan can be just as privileged as middle-class Americans. He's saying it's unfair to use this girl as an example of those actually living in under-privileged poverty co
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by dodedo 15y ago
If it were a serious enough threat to the public health we could always exterminate the armadillo species. Make an animal legal to hunt, add a bounty, and the population will be decimated in under a decade.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Some of those would be easier to exterminate than others. Many animals carry influenza or plague, but isn't leprosy limited to humans and armadillos?
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by dodedo 15y ago
To build on your last point, it's clear that we as a society desire the Google search product. It is necessary for legislation to be compatible with the Google use case -- not the other way around.
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by dodedo 15y ago
"the burden of proof is on the person who uploaded the content to prove they have the right" It is impossible to prove that you have the right to content. There's just no reliable legal mechanism for this. Sometimes I can author an original
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by dodedo 15y ago
This is a terribly misleading response. You might as well point out that we're not forced to use banks and therefore they shouldn't be regulated either. The logic simply does not follow. In fact, he is not wrong to expect that reasonable re
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by dodedo 15y ago
Seems like he would be holding the buyer liable in small claims, not paypal.
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by dodedo 15y ago
I think the point is not so much that he was prescient, rather that he drew attention to these issues early on, well before they began to threaten the free exchange of information and ideas. One could say RMS is simply pointing out the obvi
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by dodedo 15y ago
"So the 'dystopia' is the artificial disability to lend books?" It is the inability to communicate freely.
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by dodedo 15y ago
Why? Because IP laws are incredibly unjust, that's why.
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by dodedo 15y ago
He was already the twentieth+ artist to do this. Many artists before him have been releasing content successfully and many more will continue to. As I said, it is interest in compelling content which generates buzz. Your assertion that it w
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by dodedo 15y ago
He's suggesting that because Radiohead eventually took down the page, the experiment was a failure. He's conveniently ignoring the fact that their online opt-in pay system generated more revenue than their last published album before they d
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by dodedo 15y ago
That's a nice story about Radiohead but it isn't true. In fact, Radiohead's online release of In Rainbows was a smashing success and generated more money in opt-in online sales than their entire previous album. Cite: http://www.nme.com/new
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by dodedo 15y ago
What you are claiming is not true. Here are some sources that refute your claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Sales_and_chart_pla... In October 2008, a report from Warner Chappell revealed that although most people paid noth
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by dodedo 15y ago
This guy doesn't get it. Here are his two main misunderstandings: 1) Every artist who's made an online release of their content in a desirable format (without DRM, etc) has seen sales in proportion to their general popularity. Every single
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by dodedo 15y ago
"It does not carry over to any other release, and says absolutely nothing about DRM or atypical release plans" This is demonstrably false. In fact, every artist who's ever done an online release of their content without DRM has seen sales i
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by dodedo 15y ago
That's an interesting theory but I'm not convinced it has a factual basis. Maybe readers decided that King's book just sucked and were waiting for it to improve? Neither you nor I can draw a meaningful conclusion on that point. What can be
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by dodedo 15y ago
I remember The Plant. Stephen King made over $700,000 writing a partial novel which he declined to finish not because it didn't turn a profit, but because his download statistics didn't show the opt-in payment ratios he wanted. It's an in

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