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by ergo98 16y ago
There is a gradient of criminality, and committing a non-violent crime of opportunity (where he even discarded much of the proceeds) is pretty low on the scale. Yet now the justice system is going to spend tens of thousands of dollars+ inca
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by ergo98 16y ago
Great list. I grew up in a very poor family (although Canadian poor is global rich by some measure, that didn't comfort me). It's an experience that I seldom comment on because I've discovered that many people simply cannot understand. They
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by ergo98 16y ago
Community service. Monitored parole. Work programs... The guy stole a backpack from an unlocked car with visual valuables. Police in my area once tried to make it a crime to have visible valuables inside of a vehicle, locked or not, becau
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by ergo98 16y ago
A guy who is ripping off backpacks from unlocked cars isn't in the mafia or the Yakuza: He doesn't have a group of thugs to call upon. And I doubt he takes it terribly personally -- rip people off and you'll get burned eventually. Acting hu
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by ergo98 16y ago
I second this. In fact I always find comments along the lines of "I tried Flash but then uninstalled it" curiously suspicious: It is very common knowledge that it should be set to ondemand, as otherwise you will drown under a sea of hundred
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by ergo98 16y ago
How is this preying on uneducated consumers? If I bought a netbook that had an Atom 450 in it, and I knew what the processor was and what it was capable of, and then I took delivery and found out later that it really is an Atom 450+ that ca
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by ergo98 16y ago
For all we know, every modern appliance is counting down the days until the warranty expires at which point it self immolates, forcing you to buy another. That isn't the case in this situation, though. The expectations of the device were en
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by ergo98 16y ago
Modern processors could be considered software as much as they're hardware. Further, it delivers what the customer expects. It just turns out that Intel nicely provided additional functionality that you can unlock if you pay for your part o
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by ergo98 16y ago
You keep modifying your posts to always set it such that you've "pre-rebutted" what I later say, so this thread is futile.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Revisionism is boring.
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by ergo98 16y ago
What is the timing sensitivity of this? Is this practical beyond a high-speed, otherwise unused local connection -- on a single device with a single caller (the demonstration device) and thus no uncontrolled variances that would skew the ti
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by ergo98 16y ago
You have their deck or their paper? URL? I'd be interested in reading the actual material. You have it, right? You sound like you do.
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by ergo98 16y ago
It was not for nonprofit educational purposes. It isn't even reasonable to say it was for personal use given that Jeff's last blog entry was packed full of affiliate links. His blog is a commercial enterprise.
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by ergo98 16y ago
That's a nice shtick (the defensive bit was my favourite addition). It's also facile. They specifically detailed that it's an AES cookie encryption attack, yet you're acting like I'm going on a limb saying that?
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by ergo98 16y ago
What do you mean by "local SYSTEM"? I eagerly look forward to details on it. Where might I find them?
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The easy answer here is to say, "you mean besides DotNetNuke". Yes, I see you've already mentioned DNN. It's good that you have that example. It would be interesting if I somehow claimed that every app is immune to it. Countless apps h
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Exactly how do you know that? I have never worked on an ASP.NET-based site that relied upon cookies, encrypted or not, for anything. Even where the built-in forms authentication was used the username always had correlating server-side
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by ergo98 16y ago
I really don't think that Jeff's assumption of fair use would stand any legal test: You can't use excerpts of movies to add humor to a piece. That is not fair use. Fair use entails criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship,
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by ergo98 16y ago
The fact that he's the public face shouldn't make you think that he "built" it.
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by ergo98 16y ago
This exploit has remarkably little applicability to the vast majority of ASP.NET applications. These guys are grossly overblowing this to try to get attention.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Keep on doing what you're doing: Microsoft has been a good corporate partner in the technology space over the past few years, perhaps humbled a little, and it has served the company well. On the product front there isn't much to say - Windo
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by ergo98 16y ago
Bring up a discussion on piracy, DRM, intellectual rights, etc, and watch this play out in a very passionate way.
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by ergo98 16y ago
As someone who was using "AJAX" quite extensively using hidden IFRAMEs and then in 1999, XMLHttpRequest -- long before a Johnny-come-lately coined AJAX, I had to comment on this- http://www.yafla.com/dennisforbes/How-I-Came-To-Despise-AJAX
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by ergo98 16y ago
All they really need to get back in the game is to come within a lap of the lead browsers -- they don't need users to migrate back from Firefox and Chrome, they just need the "default" browser to be good enough that change isn't necessary.
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by ergo98 16y ago
I always look for affiliate links when bloggers suddenly start shilling merchandise outside of their competency. I don't mind when there's an obvious "best prices" DIV at the bottom or wherever, where its purpose and commercial motivation i
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's a revisited taxation on a gullible readership, many affiliate links there covering all budget points. My PC has both a standard, non-hybrid magnetic disk for volume, and a very, very fast SSD for speed. I use the SSD for development an
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by ergo98 16y ago
Can you qualify the "Windows only has an 8MB cache" bit? Of course on Microsoft Windows it uses all available memory, quite effectively. If you have copious RAM you get far-better-than-SSD "read speeds" when reopening applications (which is
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by ergo98 16y ago
>Apparently many normal people feel that they saw a major change for the better after this power redistribution. I would attribute the uptake of smartphones to the standard, endless evolution of technology. And while they fell behind, t
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by ergo98 16y ago
Apple has a lot of very positive points going for it (moreso with their recent changes to be less aggressive towards developers), however many of these pro-iPhone pieces (make no mistake, that is what this submission is, with such a distort
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by ergo98 16y ago
Very interesting, thank you. This is the most concise description of this product that I have yet seen.

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