esbranson

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by esbranson 12y ago
How can Comcast or Verizon claim to offer you X MBps if they refuse, or are unable, to provide downloads from the Internet, including from Netflix, at X MBps? How is that not fraud or a breach of contract?
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by esbranson 12y ago
> US soil with US citizens and US companies > FCC > Comcast > Netflix
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by esbranson 12y ago
> As long as we depend on fiber and copper controlled by big companies, net neutrality will continue to slip through our fingers like water. Why do you think that?
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by esbranson 12y ago
I've asked the HostAP mailing list about this as a feature request for wpa_supplicant.[1] From what Jouni Malinen says, it should be relatively straightforward.[2] (I think. I used a poor choice of words in my request.) BTW AFAIK Andro
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by esbranson 12y ago
Yes, that is what they're saying: GM be able to sell the volt direct, but not other cars. Every company would be treated the same ("play by the same rules"). They can all sell zero emission vehicles direct to consumers at a m
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by esbranson 12y ago
No, there is no "purely capitalist". You confuse "laissez-faire capitalism" with "capitalism". If what you say is true, "laissez-faire" would be a superfluous adjective, like calling it "capitali
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by esbranson 12y ago
> ... would allow a start-up electric car maker, like Tesla, a reasonable period of time to ramp up operations (or sales volume) before they conform their business operations to the franchise model," [president of the New Jersey Co
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by esbranson 12y ago
Marijuana offenses are not typically reported to the police as, or classified by police as: homicide, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, theft from a car, theft of a car, or arson. (I.e., the crimes that have dr
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by esbranson 12y ago
There seems to be a fundamental disagreement about the correct analogy. Is it akin to going to a bank during normal business hours and using lawful powers of observation, i.e., implicitly authorized? Or is akin to breaking into the bank aft
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by esbranson 12y ago
The difference between lawfully entering a 7-11 and trespass is just as you describe the situation with a server. Authorization can be implied, and "unauthorization" can be trivial. The real problem is that a lock on a door is mor
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by esbranson 12y ago
Yes, your analogy does stand. And it stands to reason that the intruder should be punished, and/or sued, for trespass. It is not a legitimate reason to be in someone else's house. Going around trying to open everyone's doors
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by esbranson 12y ago
Only if you think a guilty plea (in a court of law) doesn't result in a summary judgement because the offender agreed to it.
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by esbranson 12y ago
Take your rational thinking elsewhere. This is the Internet.
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by esbranson 12y ago
And then someone called the police when they found someone random was in their house without authorization. And the intruder said "I was only there to shut the door for them."
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by esbranson 12y ago
It in no way diminishes the effect of a crime if a person does not lock their front door. It is not the victim's fault if they did not install bulletproof glass and employ a security guard. If you think differently you have a twisted o
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by esbranson 12y ago
I think this article is misleading to British English readers. > HD Moore, creator of the ethical hacking tool Metasploit and chief research officer of security consultancy Rapid7, told the Guardian he had been warned by US law enforcem
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by esbranson 12y ago
It certainly gives more examples of data brokers than the article.
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by esbranson 12y ago
I think what you mean is "If selling private information is outlawed, then only outlaws will sell private information." Since I don't need private information about you to defend my life, I'm OK with that.
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by esbranson 12y ago
> the system of commercial surveillance that draws on government records, shopping habits and social media postings Also, your cable television viewing habits. Probably your Internet viewing habits (as seen by your ISP) and telephone h
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by esbranson 12y ago
Probably. I think my complaint boils down to a complaint that every new language is so intent on using an uncommon syntax style for little if any benefit. To me, R is amazingly cryptic for what little it is trying to achieve.
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by esbranson 12y ago
That's all well and good. But such a statement begs the question: Is the inverse true? Is using slang like 'wanna' bad ? And does it obstruct the goal of communicating information, etc.? Does using technically correct, but a
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by esbranson 12y ago
Your petty insult is matched only by your willful ignorance of and refusal to address the substance of my argument: > I'm pretty sure a computer could be used to solve most International Mathematical Olympiad problems quicker and mo
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by esbranson 12y ago
I actually can't downvote you. And I wouldn't. Downvoting without responding is cowardly, or at least not conducive to the aim of a civilized discussion. Its the Hacker News equivalent to anonymous hate mail. They are like rumors,
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by esbranson 12y ago
Incompetence?
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by esbranson 12y ago
Are you a Oregon elector? If so, what was your logic? Did you not read the procurement notice? Did you agree with it? If you didn't agree with it, did you lodge a complaint? Or were you too lazy? Were you too lazy to even read the pr
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by esbranson 12y ago
Because one of the jobs is to communicate to the reader the code's purpose and method clearly. And in this respect, Python and Perl are leagues apart on making this easy and natural for the author. Perl is widely known for being, commo
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by esbranson 12y ago
Does this seem like a natural way of speaking: "I am grated when ever it is twelve of the clock and I can not fall on sleep."? If you want an example lesson in language drift, go to Rome and try and talk to people in Latin. "
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by esbranson 12y ago
R is to Python as Latin is to English. Sooner or later you will have to communicate with the rest of the world, and you're going to find your choice of Latin, while having a substantial use case, to not be sufficient for the purpose.
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by esbranson 12y ago
I think you're wrong, and that spending does have a huge impact on test scores; the PDF you link even supports that higher family income correlates with higher test scores. My argument assumes that wealthier families spend more than le
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by esbranson 12y ago
Well, I think you're hitting on something. 1. I think you're wrong about the lack of correlation and, as nickff points out, better math ability is correlated with higher income, but 2. Math ability does not affect income. Correlat

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