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by ewillbefull 14y ago
You should actually read that link; the emails indicated HBGary were interested in using Stuxnet (probably the framework or exploits it used), but not that they had any idea who actually made Stuxnet. So no, Anonymous didn't "scoop" anythin
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
> BitTorrent is worse for artists than the radio. Perhaps, but whether one promotional medium is more profitable for artists is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Filesharing is an exploding cultural trend, and in that sense it
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
What you just posted is completely fallacious. You've just redefined what "consumer acquisition" is based on a narrow exclusion you've arbitrarily chosen, especially when it is blatantly obvious what point the original article was trying to
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
I'm asking if you don't think BitTorrent drives concert/merch sales. And because we both know it does, why we shouldn't consider it a force of consumer acquisition?
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
What form of "customer acquisition" are we talking about then? Are you not including merchandising/performance revenues?
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
"Nobody rationally torrents a CD rip and then goes to the store to buy the real version." I think the comparison of the article went a bit over your head. It's all about music/artist promotion, and nothing to do with sales. Otherwise we sho
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
"Competing with piracy" is not a phrase that legitimizes it, it's one that acknowledges it (and the technological changes that surround it). Looking at it through cynical eyes is not very constructive. I don't think I've ever heard it said
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
Competing with piracy is not exclusively about providing a cheaper service, but about providing a more valuable service. I don't understand why you think competing with piracy would be some tacit approval of commercial exploitation of pirac
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
I am certainly not accusing you of any misbehavior, but even you would admit this incident did not serve your reputation well -- deservedly or not. And that is indeed your motivation for leaving.
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
That's just not true. People who want to be paid for their work need to let go of the idea of selling copies and embrace the idea of servicing their media to the public. Every amount of friction between the consumer and the content is at
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
This has no remarkable impact on Bitcoin or the community, it's just the founder of Bitcoinica (which was hacked several times) disassociating himself from Bitcoin because his reputation has been decimated.
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
If so, they're breaking so much functionality, protocol and ethics in the process. I don't think it's adequate just to bypass it, ISPs need to be confronted when they are sniffing/modifying traffic.
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
Thank you. It appears the EFF disagrees that cyber security threats were meaningfully narrowed in the amendments -- though this does not specifically pertain to any of my previous arguments. > Unfortunately, this amendment doesn’t addre
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
I assume that it means there is some compelling, /defensive/ purpose of disclosing the information. CISPA is completely indiscriminate and does not carry that same guarantee. Also your example appears to address what the ISP is allowed to r
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
How about the ECPA? Does this: > as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the service or to the protection of the rights or property of the provider of that service allow a telecom to randomly hand private information over to
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
> It is, in fact, voluntary: private companies that do not want to share attack data with the government are not required to participate. A bill that provides incentives (for example, legal immunity without any restrictions) is just as
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
I'm not sure how the intellectual properly blogging scene operates, but it doesn't seem necessary to call Florian a "self-described patent expert" unless they have some personal vendetta against him. It shouldn't be relevant to the case any
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
Groklaw has no need or position to launch immature attacks like this as well: > Interestingly, the judge was able to come to this easy conclusion despite the insistence of self-described patent expert, Florian Mueller, that the court wo
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
> The president threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act as well, yet he still signed it into law with the objectionable clauses. These are disjunctive. The President threatened a veto of the NDAA over very specific pro
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by ewillbefull 14y ago
What's wrong with the BSD license?
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
This is Hacker News, not Hologram News; we don't have to deliberately avoid a discussion about these relevant issues because it will upset copyright maximalists.
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
> Theft and loss of bitcoin is much much more common than theft and loss of any normal currency. Insecure. That's a pretty big conclusion to jump to. People using the currency have more of a burden to protect their bitcoins from hackers
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
Add attempts at suing reverse engineers for posting decryption keys (mathematically derived, no less) to that list.
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
I don't know if this is a troll post, but I'll humor it anyway. > The first is that it is insecure. As seen by the constant incidents of stolen and lost bitcoin's. If this is the standard by which you deem a currency insecure, you may w
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
Block rewards are not the only way to earn from mining bitcoins. You also earn transaction fees of processed transactions. As block rewards dissipate, transaction fees will naturally increase to compensate.
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
Why would you call this a "mathematical" flaw? Your original post implied there was some algorithmic issue, when you're really just proposing dumping the exchange market -- which is a completely independent mechanism of trade. > Also th
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by ewillbefull 15y ago
It's the difference between a Hacker News that tells you how to feel about an issue, and a Hacker News that assumes you're a big boy and can generate your own opinion. When linking to a source material it's best to stay neutral.