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Judge: FBI Can Hack Without Warrant Because Computers Get Hacked All the Time(techdirt.com)
118 points by fooey 10y ago|49 comments
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by fooey 10y ago
Seems to me, all the countries capable of taking out US carriers are powerful enough that if a war actually broke out, it's the sort of end of the world scenario where losing a few boats will be the least of our worries. When the nukes
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by fooey 10y ago
Only reason I use OSX is that's what I was issued at work. I don't own an iOS device, never have, and don't see myself ever getting one in the future. All of my personal mobile devices are Android, and all my desktops/la
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by fooey 10y ago
There's a reason the locations are trending towards being hosted in corrupt places where the leaders don't care if they're profitable so long as they get their piece.
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by fooey 10y ago
Reddit basically needs an image hosting service to succeed, and Imgur is now at least as obnoxious as all the previous generation of hosts that lead to it being created in the first place
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by fooey 10y ago
I wonder if Heroku would have the userbase it does if it wasn't for them being the goto place for throwing personal projects for the last few years. Clearly they don't believe that kind of marketing to be worth it now, but I'
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by fooey 10y ago
To me, it's not whether they're providing $7 a month in value, it's whether running a dozen dynos at $7 is worth more than than running a single $10 VPS on DigitalOcean. For me, they do not provide enough value. My apps run d
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by fooey 10y ago
Personally, I've never had a project that had so little traffic from robots or actual people that I'd expect there to be 4 hours a day with zero hits. Assuming you have any of the billion spiders out there hit your site more often
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by fooey 10y ago
When they neutered the free tier last time is when I started ignoring them as a useful hosting option. My approach was always to start projects on Heroku, and then to keep them there when they graduated to needing more resources than the fr
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by fooey 10y ago
The right of a parent to indoctrinate their children trumps the right of the child to have an actual education. I don't know the answer, but it's a gross feedback loop.
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by fooey 10y ago
It's in the national interest to have well maintained roads the military would be able to traverse. That's really why we have the interstate highway system in the first place. It's also in the national interest to have a well
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by fooey 10y ago
If you're using Babel already, WebKit hitting 100% support is irrelevant. IE is going to be the thing that prevents us from running ES6 natively in the browser for several years more.
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by fooey 10y ago
And then, IE happens to your plans.
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by fooey 10y ago
I'd love to see a Babel sort of thing that backs away from transpiling as much as possible and functions more as execution time polyfill. Maybe an http2 server that uses browser detection to push polyfills so that your app can just ass
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by fooey 11y ago
A couple years later the FTC blew them up so it ended up being moot.
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by fooey 11y ago
The company I used to work for bullied most of the employees into signing a 5 year non-competes. And that was after they'd already been in business for 5 years. My department collectively said no, but it was a huge showdown, and they i
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by fooey 11y ago
Unless they backdoor in backdoors, it seems like this will just force companies to make sure there's no possible way for them to access the data. If your company ever has any way to view the data, the government will find a way to forc
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by fooey 11y ago
I'm conflicted. I think I want kik.de to sue these guys for trademark =\
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by fooey 11y ago
At least they're internet famous among developers for being the guys who blew up NPM, so maybe now everyone will be excited to start working with them?
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by fooey 11y ago
How does the "explicit page" on a site ask for permission if your idea is that sites shouldn't be able to ask for permission? If you bury it in the browsers settings it might as well not exist as a feature
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by fooey 11y ago
If no prosecutor would ever touch it, is it really illegal?
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by fooey 11y ago
They'll just say "can't comment on an active investigation" if they don't find anything to make the whole thing seem worthwhile.
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by fooey 11y ago
Well then, that's pretty gross. Maybe this whole thing will turn out to be a giant Streisand Effect that gets even more people using encryption and call out the companies who aren't doing a good job.
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by fooey 11y ago
If one person has a backdoor, everyone has a backdoor. If the US government gets access, so does Russia and China and whoever else wants it.
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by fooey 11y ago
Android hasn't come up, but more notable to me, why hasn't this come up over Windows machines? Bitlocker has been a thing for quite a while now. Has the FBI/DoJ never encountered an encrypted desktop or server before? or has
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by fooey 11y ago
It seems hard for me to believe that Apple now has at least 10 instances where the government is trying to force them to decrypt their phones, and this hasn't happened with Google or MS yet. I don't recall ever hearing a big stand
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by fooey 11y ago
From looking for front end jobs for the last few months, so far as I've seen, everyone not running C# is on a Mac I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment That's a very big
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by fooey 11y ago
desalination is very hard and even harder to get rid of the waste brine
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by fooey 11y ago
well, Zappos had just been on the list of places I was considering applying to glad this happened first
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by fooey 11y ago
that's ok for a portfolio or dev site for a toy _app_, if it's not up 24/7 it's pretty worthless

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