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by intransigent 10y ago
Political quagmires like this only get untangled by terrifying psychos, unfortunately. People only shut their mouths when they get threatened into a fearful silence, and/or sometimes if they get bribed enough. Otherwise, you'll al
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by intransigent 10y ago
Yeah, in a way, this sort of thing is indicative of a turing tarpit. It's not obvious which, among all the moving parts, is responsible for any of the outcomes, just by looking at the commands themselves in isolation. If someone did a
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by intransigent 10y ago
Because many developers don't honestly believe that SQL represents a code execution boundary. Much of the time, the tendency is to think of SQL as simple I/O with a disk. And one rarely needs to worry about escaping interpretted e
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by intransigent 10y ago
Well, the idea of global doomsday for all, beyond mere tactical retaliation, is probably drawn from the media, with movies like Dr. Stangelove playing the part of the primary narrative. As to how much any world power has actually strategize
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by intransigent 10y ago
Since when is Social Media participation a compulsory activity?
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by intransigent 10y ago
Old people aren't quite as tuned-in to the technical realities of the internet and its in-groups and out-groups. The premise that "there is no anonymous" escapes 4 out of 5 people I talk to. It takes very careful explaining,
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by intransigent 10y ago
Be nice and play ball, or you'll be subjected to a set-top-box appliance again. (it puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again.)
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by intransigent 10y ago
Consider the possibility that lead poisoning inflicts just the type of mental disabilities that would lead a person to vote in such a fashion to begin with. With that in mind, is this really how you feel?
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by intransigent 10y ago
They are supposed to be captured from a twitter feed.
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by intransigent 10y ago
Because it kind of smells like bullshit seizing moral high ground, and not actually changing anything. Religion promises everything and delivers nothing. My arguments are not irrelevant. You seem to be hinting that I'm a forum sliding
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by intransigent 10y ago
Pledges don't require signatures. I've taken the pledge of allegiance to the United States of America... Specifically, though I was pointing out flaws with respect to the part about " having teeth ": with actual teet
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by intransigent 10y ago
- Taking the hippocratic oath - Passing the bar - Obtaining a pilot's license - Completing series 7,(63,66) exams Yes, these are things people do. But these things are each different from each other, and different from a
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by intransigent 10y ago
Isn't the petition itself a kind of database, naming and identifying specific individuals? What if the petition itself is abused as a source of information?
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by intransigent 10y ago
Wouldn't that require the building of a database that is used to discriminate against individuals listed therein?
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by intransigent 10y ago
VGER.
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by intransigent 10y ago
If it helps, there are probably wi-fi, mobile broadband, and cellular telephone providers that probably won't ask for your name or address, although you'll probably get gouged for bandwidth.
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by intransigent 10y ago
It doesn't matter what I think, because the inexorable tide has washed over this question long ago. Anybody willing to outspend their rivals with enough money to bury the world in obfuscated asynchronous callback hell, just to lock peo
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by intransigent 10y ago
I definitely get the sense that this was a situation where a guy made too much money way too fast. Like almost overnight. Reading between the lines, it sounds like he had been pent up, and when an effectively unlimited budget reared its hea
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by intransigent 10y ago
So, magnetic fields can be used to confine fusion plasma with "five nines" reliability?
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by intransigent 10y ago
Jesus, that really does sound soul-crushingly abominable. I remember working night jobs surrounded by that sort of crowd. Everywhere you look it feels like you're witnessing the distressed underpinnings of all civilized behavior disint
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by intransigent 10y ago
No. The premise of what if we only had a single monolithic email service, run by a single corporation as a public utility. Not gmail specifically. Insert any named service into that role as placeholder. Yahoo, hotmail, gandi.net. That e
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by intransigent 10y ago
I think it's a sphere packing thing. [0] Equally sized circles touching on edges "like" to pack into a six-up orientation, not unlike a revolver pistol. My hunch is that it's an artifact of pi, somehow. Six being easily
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by intransigent 10y ago
Patterns: The email message contents say the sender is joe@example.com but the originating mail server is owned by advertiser-d00dz.net and was routed through cdns and isps that example.com is not known to operate, based on
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by intransigent 10y ago
A lot of people simply don't understand what little integrity email actually has. People like to think that they can rely the sender address as an unspoofable source of truth, and do not understand that the message is just a text file,
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by intransigent 10y ago
Have you considered possible interference and noise introduced by other rival devices competing for the same spectrum? This has been my hypothesis, considering the disruption patterns I've noticed. At home, well removed from other poss
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by intransigent 10y ago
Watch, and TV aren't defensive "moat like" structures intended to reinforce or barracade. Defense, in an industry like this, is vertical integration, so more like tools such as Xcode. The Apple watch is a luxury item and fash
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by intransigent 10y ago
Clojure or Closure? What language are they talking about?
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by intransigent 10y ago
Considering that all our eggs are in one basket, right now, any topic of discussion in the vein of colonization is a good one, as long as it keeps people thinking in that direction, I'd say. In the short term, their are still the intra
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by intransigent 10y ago
Pffft! Astounding to see that some goofballs took the time to encrypt an SD card partition, and then hide the password in immediate proximity to the ostensibly secured resource. Thumb to the wind, and the author MITM'd it in minutes? A
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by intransigent 10y ago
...and yet for some reason there are a lot of programmers who believe their job is to produce more code. Fuck those guys. Seriously. I hope this isn't a potshot at languages that tend to be verbose. Coming in cold o

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