hNewsLover99

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by hNewsLover99 9y ago
See also the link to "This might be the coolest visualization of evolution ever" and comments re: "Wolf359" and "Microcosmic God" by Theodore Sturgeon at... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by hNewsLover99 9y ago
Talk about your fluff pieces! Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid for with pre-tax dollars" to "paid
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by hNewsLover99 9y ago
Talk about your fluff pieces! Sorkin's article ignores Ballmer's billion-dollar tax dodge... er, break... for buying a basketball team.* Ballmer should revise his boast from "paid for with pre-tax dollars" to "paid
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Wow! 42 comments on an article titled, "Why the internet ONLY JUST works" (emphasis added), and the word "security" occurs once, and the words "malware", "privacy", "malicious", "ransom
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Ask HN: AirPod Security Questions
6 points by hNewsLover99 10y ago|3 comments
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AirPod Security Questions
2 points by hNewsLover99 10y ago|1 comments
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Thanks for that tip and link, CarolineW ! I'll add this to my reading list. The wikipedia summary for Microcosmic God is chilling... Outsourcing with a vengeance!
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Experimental acceleration of evolution was the plot of the 1964 teleplay, "Wolf 359", which was one of the very best Outer Limits episodes. A scaled-down version of a distant life-bearing planet was constructed in a laboratory sa
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
A classic DrDobbs blog. Here's a link to Walter Bright's preceding part 1 blog: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/safe-systems-...
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
This decision implies that a website owner can, on a landing page, and/or via postal or email message, notify Google, and other search engines, social media and data brokers that the owner does not grant, and indeed revokes, any author
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, having once "used this car to its full extent"
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
I hate to speak ill of the departed. but none of the comments at the original story explore this point: This guy sounds like a bit of an overly-solicitous Tesla fanboy and/or sycophant, who, possibly, having once "used this car to
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
"The database is being sold for 750BTC..." Once again Bitcoin is the "getaway car" of choice for hackers and ransomware extortionists around the world.* Where are all the Bitcoin fans when this happens? Probably reassur
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Does anyone know if any large-scale landlord is also receiving user data as well as cash from its ISPs? EULAs are broad enough to let any ISP, website or app provider to do anything with customer data that they want. Landlords could alrea
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
So... these internet-founding Einsteins actually think that Bitcoin should be a part of "our" future Utopian web? Well what do they (and all the other blockchain fan-kiddies) think of the fact that Bitcoin has now replaced Wester
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
(Various edits) Facebook's justifications for its delay (i.e., waiting to confirm that the site was hijacked, and disregarding the obvious violation of community standards) are pure baloney. Facebook's terms contain COUNTLESS LOOP
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
DAO's claim of being "jurisdictionless" -- and thus not subject to any state or federal laws governing the rights and duties of business organizations, fiduciaries and beneficiaries or creditors and debtors -- then its equity
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Interestingly, but not surprisingly: 1) The mainstream media coverage of the Johns-Hopkins study (or at least the reports that I have seen) omits the study's admission that it understates the total "medical error homicide rate&quo
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
CORRECTION: "Medical error homicide" refers to a medical error (i.e., an avoidable iatrogenic event, such as mis-calculating a dosage by making a math error, as in the famous case of the Boston Globe medical journalist, Betsy Lehm
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Why are cars and motorcycles that can travel at 160 mph street-legal anywhere? Such vehicles should be legal on ly on private, properly-engineered high-speed tracks. Audi and all other car makers are hereby put on notice that it is forese
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
The "broken" items listed in Scott's 2012 blog are primarily personal productivity- and convenience-killing annoyances. Of far greater are the rather-more important things (like hospital operations, critical infrastructure a
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
Interestingly, but not surprisingly: 1) Like the hundreds of comments attached to this post (or at least the ones that I have read) today's mainstream media coverage of the Johns-Hopkins study (or at least the reports that I have seen)
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by hNewsLover99 10y ago
I feel your pain!! Last fall I got a very adjustable but affordable chair from Staples; best one I've ever had. Reg. $199 and WORTH IT, but frequently on sale for $99. PLUS 30-day risk free trial, return no questions asked. Staples C
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by hNewsLover99 11y ago
I'm no expert but it seems to me that the relative value of two programs (or functions or classes or whatevers) can be determined by only their LOC count only in the most trivial cases - e.g., a class that uses a single construtor&#x2F
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by hNewsLover99 11y ago
Here's just one pre-1998 use of the term "open source software", by Bill Joy, at 13:50 in this 1985 interview of/report about Bill Joy, Sun and Unix 4.2 on the Computer Chronicles: "As for the future of Unix, he [Bi
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by hNewsLover99 11y ago
Talk about "Lies, damned lies and statistics." Why do these reports always understate, by many orders of magnitude, the number of U.S. patients killed by medical errors every year? 440,000 patients are killed by avoidable errors e
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by hNewsLover99 11y ago
If they go out due to bankruptcy/liquidation, the b'y trustee can "avoid" what(ever few) privacy and IP ownership protections that my exist in the Evernote EULA and sell all of your data AND identity to data brokers... a