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by fl3tch 14y ago
Exactly, it's news when it ruins a middle class white man's life, but nobody cares about the millions of people born in poor urban neighborhoods whose lives were ruined from the day they born, because their community was ravaged by drugs, c
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It's times like this that I think everyone can be proud to be part of the human race.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I suspect the vast majority of people never read the TOS and decide to sue, or not, for completely independent reasons.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
100000.01 + 100000.03999999999999 gives 200000, so it's not wrong, just rounding to 6 sigfig.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> why trust a third party with the keys? For the same reason that people choose Facebook web hosting over their own privacy protected servers. They are not tech savvy and know little to nothing about security. They don't even know what
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Limitations of message size won't solve that because the messages will be broken into hundreds of pieces, just like they are on Usenet. In theory you could limit the total amount of content coming from an end point, but it's probably not fe
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by fl3tch 14y ago
That's what I've been using and it works great. Some of their US nodes are slow, probably because overloaded, but I maxed out my 20 Mbit internet connection testing their UK London server. Edit: I should also point out that a $20 Linode box
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by fl3tch 14y ago
You said to describe the product from the perspective of the user, not the developer, but then you preferred the developer description of Java (language, library, VM) over the user description (play games, chat with people, view images in 3
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Unlike oil company executives, zero climate scientist salaries depend on global warming being true. That's just not how or why academic researchers get paid. They push the "agenda" because that's the model the data supports.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Debian has the Debian Free Software Guidelines and the community as whole is less supportive of proprietary software, not to mention that it's all volunteers. I think Valve would rather work with a company-supported distro like Ubuntu, whic
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by fl3tch 14y ago
This looks like it's mostly targeted at sex predators, but I wonder if the system is also activated if you jokingly tell a friend that they are "smoking crack".
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by fl3tch 14y ago
The difference is that most Skype users don't even know they are carrying traffic for the network. The client silently punches a whole in their router and makes itself a pain to close (for example by reconfiguring what the red X does) witho
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Unless it's recorded, there's a good chance they won't believe you. Oh, you have a bruise? That could have been caused by anything. Judges and juries tend to side with cops. So cops have little to gain by recording everything, which is of c
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by fl3tch 14y ago
That could deanonymize you. Lots of public places have cameras. On the other hand, have you ever tried creating a Google/YouTube or Facebook accout over Tor? They want SMS verification. So you have to buy a prepaid phone somewhere and that
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Well, "Knowingly accesses and without permission... uses any data" would make the accessing and transmission of contacts (a la Path and many other apps) illegal. Except there's probably a clause somewhere that you agreed to without reading
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by fl3tch 14y ago
You mean like a CA? Of course they could do that, but then it wouldn't be Windows Certified (it would just be Somebody-Else Certified), which is how OEMs want to brand their products. This is all about dealing with Microsoft's hegemony.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
There are lots of videos about China's ghost cities, like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> Things like citation support http://download.zotero.org/integration/Zotero-LibreOffice-Pl... I've written grant proposals and papers published in peer reviewed journals with LibreOffice and that plugin.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I'm convinced that all the people repeating the mantra about memory and CPU use switched away a year ago and haven't actually tried a recent version. The alternative (to being ignorant) is that they are flat out liars, because anyone who h
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I might add, if you think 15 years in prison for using Skype is outrageous, what is the penalty for refusing to cooperate with a US court order or National Security Letter? And how is that functionally different from what Ethiopia is doing?
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by fl3tch 14y ago
You don't need fancy technology to snoop on people in America. All the companies are based in the US, so it's just a matter of the government compelling them to build the spy mechanisms into their products or turn over their data. Ethiopia
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Yet another problem created by cloud storage. If instead of putting everything on a community storage service we took Eben Moglen's suggestion of storing everything in our homes (which would require better bandwidth and ISP AUPs, of course)
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Since time immemorial students have shared information on good and bad professors. This will be yet another thing that is passed along. Don't take his section, he forces you to buy a code. Take her section and you can use my book.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It will get to the point that we need biometric scanners or implanted RFID chips with private keys to do authentication, since brute forcing even unrememberable passwords will be trivial eventually.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
If it was Israel, I'd bet dollars to donuts that they got help from American agencies. Either way, a professional government agency somewhere , which apparently knows a lot about cryptology and presumably computer forensics, designed this
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> The command located every Flame file sitting on a PC, removed it and then overwrote memory locations with gibberish to thwart forensic examination. I'd like to know how many writes it did since this would finally settle the issue of w
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Interestingly, when reddit upgraded to bcrypt, they refused to do this because so many users don't know their passwords and it would lock lots of people out of their accounts forever (remember, reddit doesn't require email addresses to regi
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Pretty much. The idea that a lone polymath experimenting in his basement, a la Ben Franklin or James Maxwell, could make a genuinely important scientific discovery, disappeared a long time ago. We're chasing the long tail of knowledge. Each

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