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by jb613 11y ago
The problem with "which license will lead to the largest and most viable ecosystem of free software" is that it's the wrong question to ask, because the perspective is too narrow. What matters most IMHO is which option will
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by jb613 11y ago
2 things: 1) 11 years. The code in question was 11 years old. Another example not to rely on "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". 11 freakin years. 2) Security off by default is yet another example indicating how secu
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by jb613 11y ago
The fact that Cobol is still alive and kicking illustrates that once in place, large systems are hard to replace. Costs and budgets matter too. EDIT: why did this get downvoted - am I factually incorrect or you simply disagree and want an
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by jb613 11y ago
The point of exactly how profitable the "walking dead" are is vastly underrated. The decision is between making giant profits now with low-risk VS miniscule profits but potentially large future profits with high-risk.
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by jb613 11y ago
At play, children learn the most important of life’s lessons, the ones that cannot be taught in school. To learn these lessons well, children need lots of play — lots and lots of it, without interference from adults.
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by jb613 11y ago
Like it or hate it, it's the word that everybody understands. The words "computer" or "digital" or "network" or "data" etc are insufficient. Clearly "computer security" is not the sam
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by jb613 11y ago
Considering that so few even walk anymore, what difference does the temperature make? That Jenny and Johnnie may actually stand at the bus stop shivering for all of 10 minutes? Who cares? Frankly, it's good for the pups.
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Toughen up kids: Cold is a lousy excuse to close schools(chicagotribune.com)
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by jb613 11y ago
Can anyone explain why my comment was massively downvoted? Am I factually wrong or is it because you simply disagree. If it's the latter, then you are building an echo chamber where new or different perspectives will be disincentiviz
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by jb613 11y ago
If you purchased the product then the length of the copyright does not affect you.
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by jb613 11y ago
Creators have a right to determine what their product sells for. If you don't like the price then you have a right not to purchase it. However, I suspect you only care about yourself - as long as you can copy/download for $free.
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by jb613 11y ago
Sure, in many instances, corruption may have played a role too, but corruption requires work too - something the article implies is beneath the fuerdai.
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Professor John Pfaff prescribes as the solution: "What makes it very hard is that the person we really need to target now—whose behavior we need to regulate—is the district attorney, and the district attorney is a very politically inde
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by jb613 11y ago
TLDR: it wasn't the crime waves, it wasn't longer prison sentences, it wasn't the declared war on drugs - it's that the probability that a district attorney files a felony charge against an arrestee goes from about 1 in
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by jb613 11y ago
An underlying motif of the article seems to be that the fuerdai not only do not want to work hard but also that they only deserve the best jobs. One example: "It’s no surprise that most fuerdai, after summering in Bali and wintering i
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by jb613 11y ago
Firefox hsa NoScript (disable Javascript) - while Google is motivated (by ad $revenues) to ensure Javascript executes. Yet in other threads you concretely have stated Chrome > FF.
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by jb613 11y ago
perhaps the "modern Web" is the problem. Really, it should be simple - http requests + html + css + js. Decades of "features" have resulted that we can't build browsers from components.
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by jb613 11y ago
For one, it only a subset of Noscript: "A simple extension that brings SOME OF NoScript's functionality to Chrome" Secondly, in order to achieve its goal, it's relying on a hack: ... if (getElSrc(this)
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by jb613 11y ago
It's all relative. ~3/4 of the default whitelist is google, yahoo, mozilla, microsoft, cloudflare. While technically, your "thousands of javascript files" is true, in reality, it's making the problem sound bigger
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by jb613 11y ago
> "you basically can't trust NoScript to protect you from browser vulnerabilities" You make it sound like NoScript should not be trusted. In reality, nothing is secure but NoScript is one of the better security options (p