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by elehack 15y ago
Unfortunately, government action is also incredibly limited in what it can do. Tragedy of the commons - all it takes is a few nations that don't subscribe to whatever sustainable fishing agreement is devised, and fishers can fish unsustain
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by elehack 15y ago
If you're lucky, you can find a low-end netbook on clearance at Best Buy or the like for $199. Other than that, you do seem to have to go digging online. Deeply.
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by elehack 15y ago
Got one, thanks!
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by elehack 15y ago
What if they don't know they don't know how to make a captcha? It's an obfuscated image, those are easy to make and check! If you don't know basic things like "never trust the client", and you don't know that they exist to know , then yo
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by elehack 15y ago
I might generalize that to say that "better to ask forgiveness than permission" just doesn't apply to customer relations.
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by elehack 15y ago
IANAL. If you run your own mail server, then they would serve the subpoena to you, and you would have the opportunity to contest it. The subpoena assumptions - that those holding the data have an interest in it - hold, and the system works
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by elehack 15y ago
One thing I'm unclear on is what the definition of "provider of an electronic communication service" is. From the bill text ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-1981 ) and Title 18 definitions section ( http://www.law.c
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by elehack 15y ago
I like the name of "defenestration" for this technique. Particularly with the OED reference to back up the technically non-standard but still precedented usage of the term.
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by elehack 15y ago
Focusing on professional-only also has substantial difficulties. Will employees want to carry 2 phones, or will they want to be able to use their consumer smartphone for business as well? If they had and learned an iPhone or Android devic
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by elehack 15y ago
This analysis seems very superficial - it's (almost) just a rundown of privacy features and doesn't get in to track records (except for Twitter), attitudes, ever-changing defaults, and backdoors (such as Facebook apps - last I knew, adding
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by elehack 15y ago
Maintaining consistency is an issue. In many cases, though, the external attributes are generally extractable from the file content itself, so you can do a rebuild if the data gets corrupted. The BeOS mail application used the extended att
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by elehack 15y ago
What problems are they solving that no one has? And what effort is frivolous? The file system stuff they were doing was incredible and highly useful. I'd really like to have a file system where I have indexed metadata committed directly w
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by elehack 15y ago
It's not quite that simple - the loser-pay model would mean that no one could sue major companies because they couldn't afford to pay their super-premium lawyers when they lose.
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by elehack 15y ago
Ubuntu's software center, built on apt, has support for commercial software sales.
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by elehack 15y ago
Thank you. Quite annoying that there isn't an obvious way to get the release notes when browsing to mozilla.com.
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by elehack 15y ago
There is a major difference between personalization and "pure" relevance, at least as used here. However, it is more of a question of inputs than actual terms. "Pure" relevance is solely a function of the query and the document - R(q,d). P
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by elehack 15y ago
A rejection that's also just flat wrong in some places. Sure, the first OpenID-enabled site you visit asks you to set up an account on a 3rd-party service. Once you've done that, all subsequent OpenID sites require no new accounts . So
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by elehack 15y ago
Yep, it is a pretty big issue. However, WebGL does make it worse: it trivially exposes local privilege escalations as remotely-exploitable root vulnerabilities. It also does so bypassing a lot of the sandboxing work that browser vendors ha
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by elehack 15y ago
It is probably indicative of a larger problem, although one that is very hard for the community to solve. A big issue with hardware support is the lack of specifications and vendor participation. Vendors are getting better at that, but it
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by elehack 15y ago
LinuxCertified.com sells laptops preinstalled and tested with Linux. In former days, they were rebrands of generally-cheap machines (e.g. rebranded eMachines), but now they're selling a variety of unbranded machine as well as certified Len
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by elehack 15y ago
Maybe there is room then for a short HOWTO on finding hardware. Not an extensive compatibility list, but some hardware that is known to work well to make the purchasing process easier.
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by elehack 15y ago
I think there's a huge opportunity here, that Microsoft is trying to enter with their "Private Cloud" advertising, for the Software plus Services model that runs against servers you own or lease. Sold properly, that could work very well wi
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by elehack 15y ago
However, he primarily breaks security on devices he purchased , so that he and others can repurpose them for their own needs and desires. That is a very "hacker" thing to do. "I have this device. Can I make it do something useful?" If he
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Personalization in commerce: An ethical bargain(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by elehack 15y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 15y ago
IANAL, but here's my understanding of it: 1. Yes. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. No longer the same when all the original code is gone (see BSD Unix). Note, though, that BSD is descried as a rewrite, not a refactor. There may be a line short of that,
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by elehack 15y ago
So far as I know, it's alive, well, and providing blazingly-fast access to Linux ISOs hosted at other member universities.
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by elehack 15y ago
Tor has a way to work around this - bridge nodes. They're hidden and their IPs are distributed in various non-batch forms (e-mail, social networks, http://bridges.torproject.org ).
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by elehack 15y ago
IANAL, of course, but I looked at the TOS again and it doesn't assign the rights to TwitPic. It just grants them the (non-exclusive) rights to use & sublicense. So they can use, they can sell, but they can't go after you for doing so vi
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by elehack 15y ago
> In that future you'll type all your urls in the google search box,... Many users are already in that future. One of Google's most common searches is "facebook.com" or "www.facebook.com" (if memory serves, both are in the top 10, along
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Florida legislature: No tolerance for print(roughtype.com)
2 points by elehack 15y ago|0 comments

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