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by inlined 7y ago
There could be other solutions that are harder to fake. E.g. a failsafe that an SSL pinned address returns 410 GONE. That’s stupidly cheap to run indefinitely.
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by inlined 7y ago
Also, there are other ways to implement copy protection. Eg Apple moved from DRM to fingerprinting downloads so torrented music could be traced to the leaker.
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Engineering has the concept of “fail safe”. It literally means that the failure mode is a safe mode. If the dns of the DRM server can no longer be reached, a fail safe would allow the book to continue to be read.
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by inlined 7y ago
Did you pick 1984 because ironically it was once wiped from all kindles? https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...
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I keep hearing complaints in the US that EU regulations strangle companies, but as a consumer I’m wildly envious. When I vaped, I tried to get a new disposable part in the EU. I had to upgrade my whole mod because the parts on the market in
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by inlined 7y ago
That’s what’s so infuriating about DRM. Lawyers may argue that we clicked OK to some fine print somewhere, but the product is advertised as something you buy, not something you lease. That’s why I feel like the right of first sale should be
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by inlined 7y ago
That’s a descriptive argument (describing what is, based on technicalities). I’m making a proscriptive argument about what should be. When DRM replaces an entire market, it’s reasonable for customers to have similar expectations. Eg when I
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by inlined 7y ago
1. How much cost is really involved in keeping up the DRM server in maintenance mode on Azure? 2. Maybe this will give the EFF enough case study to argue (successfully, finally) that the DMCA allows corporations to create rules that violate
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by inlined 7y ago
I just got a ruby gem from someone who actually made tables on the stuff. I made a script that cut out far past and future times to lower loading time from 10m to 30s and figured I could upgrade the gem to leverage an expert’s research as t
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I asked whether apple’s user friendly (integrated) experience, iPod halo effect, consumer interest in the new iPhone, and their shift to low cost Mac mini would be a threat. He laughed it off. I asked “what about those who have gotten tired
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by inlined 7y ago
I think that was newer than my training. This was the Vista timeframe.
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by inlined 7y ago
Iirc, even the Win32 APIs sit above the subsystem layer. There was the OS/2 subsystem back in the day, Win32, and one more I can’t remember from my training 11 years ago.
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My hardwired memory is when Ballmer mocked me publicly during an intern Q&A for asking if Apple could become a threat in 2006.
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by inlined 7y ago
Where does j & k fit into your quaternion representation?
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by inlined 7y ago
My favorite incorrect fact is that there are 24 timezones. In fact, the number of offsets from UTC fluctuates throughout the year (at least last I worked on scheduling in 2012. Back then it was either 39 or 40 depending on DST)
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by inlined 7y ago
AP isn’t the worst thing in the world. I technically entered college as a junior. I still took four years, but I got preference in picking my courses, dabbled with extra math classes (was going for a minor but it would have taken me past 4y
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by inlined 7y ago
AFAIK you don’t get to choose where you go in case of an ambulance, but if you are taking yourself to urgent or emergency care you can shop around. Heck, I had four torn ligaments this year and at least checked yelp reviews before going to
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by inlined 7y ago
A mild correction: it was an effective 10% bump. Google used to have an individual and company multiplier to the bonus which could top out to 25%. The company had repeatedly hit the 25% company multiplier and had strong feedback that the em
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by inlined 7y ago
For me the most important part was in the abstract: autoscaling. It’s not just about going to zero but going to hundreds of thousands. I can remember my two most painful times with memcache: 1. A client scaled rapidly & we had repeated
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Facebook has vending machines for common hardware with the actual cost to the company listed. Everything is free, but it’s there to make you pause and reflect on whether you need it.
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by inlined 7y ago
FTA this company docks you currency for staying late.
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by inlined 7y ago
It would take a very concerted effort. There are multiple levels of encryption and the best practice is that only verified builds can run in production and only non-humans are ACLd to access security keys. Any attempt to do so would be limi
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by inlined 7y ago
Though since the Snowden leak Google really upped their game. Everything internally is encrypted in transit and at rest. Even when you use Google Cloud you automatically get encryption at rest.
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by inlined 7y ago
Interesting idea. I’d tweak it just a bit. When designing APIs I find that bools are often a smell or a missed opportunity. What if, for example, there was an X-Intended-Audience? That could be integrated with Active Directory, Groups, IAM
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by inlined 7y ago
The analog loophole can’t prevent leakage but steganography can trace it back to its source. Iirc Windows 8 prerelease copies used to put an imperceptible watermark on the screen of the user account. When a leak was published to the news a
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by inlined 7y ago
You enrolled in an optional program for personal use. It’s different if Apple coopts that for a different use and the set is likely incomplete.
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by inlined 7y ago
I can’t imagine Apple, a champion of privacy, wants to keep a mapping of serial number to user emails. Even if harmless or if it already exists, it might taint Apple with a creepy vibe.
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by inlined 7y ago
I was there at Google when G+ launched. I think there were a few other initial issues that prevented it from landing: 1. The real name policy was draconian. Leadership didn’t listen to internal or external outcries for far too long. 2. The
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by inlined 7y ago
Where functional case classes are available natively I love them. I wonder though why the author didn’t use the Scala triple of Try[T] and its children Success[T] and Error
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by inlined 7y ago
To be fair, DLL Hell has a lot more issues than just versioning or registering the unload handler. First, there’s load order which can mean that you’re not actually loading the DLL you think you are. The second is WOW64 (Windows on Windows)

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