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by jgowdy 8y ago
There are a lot of considerations around making sure that all parties have adequate representation and they're able to read the terms of the agreement or have it explained in their native language. So yes, I think all binding legal co
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by jgowdy 8y ago
I know case law disagrees with me on shrink wrap licenses, but I'm going to state my argument that T&C aren't really a contract. If the language is inaccessible to one party who also doesn't have representation, and they
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by jgowdy 8y ago
Cue the apologists claiming this isn't going to be a money grab very largely targeting American tech companies, and that GDPR regulators are going to be very gentle, rational, and friendly in shepherding companies towards privacy compl
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Literally all of the equipment used to kill people, from the rifles, to the bullets, to the fighter jets, to the parts to repair the fighter jets, are manufactured by private companies in the United States. So I’m confused by your confusio
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Toddler is what was said, so toddler is what I was correcting. I didn’t make the statement in your question, “toddler is the age you use to consider whether someone grew up with a game console.”
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by jgowdy 9y ago
NES released in North America in 1985. Toddlers are 1-3 years old. I don’t mean to be pedantic but as someone born in 1979, your statement didn’t match my experience. I agree though, I already had significant time on my Atari 2600 and on
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by jgowdy 9y ago
I’ve had a good experience with SSD Nodes
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Per month. Very small yard. Fake grass in the back.
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by jgowdy 9y ago
You don’t need to honor the “premise” of the OS, nor do I think the developers of the OS care which software I prefer to run. Run whatever you’re comfortable with. If it was such an issue for them, I’m sure they’d remove the GNU packages t
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by jgowdy 9y ago
No it is not. The water districts are extremely powerful, and the biggest usage districts are held by agricultural interests. They have staggered elections to stop water board takeovers and ensure that they can shift water costs from usag
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by jgowdy 9y ago
And the main solution for that is just install the GNU tools you prefer from ports or packages. Super simple.
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by jgowdy 9y ago
In my humble opinion, burning fossil fuels to create electricity to “mine” this “currency” is unethical because it literally has no net gain to society, not even entertainment. The same goes for the manufacture of the electronics used to m
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by jgowdy 9y ago
The people who are pushing back against HTTPS really bug me to be honest. They say silly things like “I don’t care if people see most of my web traffic like when I’m browsing memes.” That presumes that the ONLY goal of HTTPS is to hide the
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by jgowdy 9y ago
You have to offer the source code to the people you give the binaries to. For example, if your product isn’t free, you only owe source code to those who you sell your product to (assuming that’s exhaustively who you distribute it to). You
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Are you aware that the Linux Foundation employs Linus Torvalds? And that a very vast majority of Linux (and most other) open source development is done by developers who are paid employees of major corporations like Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, e
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Enumerate a number of unfortunate circumstances in the United States of America today. Check. Insist that these instances of these happenings are quite different than they ever have been before. Repeatedly emphasize how historic and unpre
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Of course the US can and will continue to hide from its extreme poverty. There’s not nearly enough attention for any serious action to take place. It’s already well known to those who care, and unknown or forgotten by those who don’t part
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by jgowdy 9y ago
They aren’t dropping fat binaries. ARM desktops and laptops are on deck. They might make sense next year or in three years or never, but Apple is going to leave that door open. They’ve learned the lesson not to be locked to a single CPU
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by jgowdy 9y ago
A judgement against someone else is a civil affair, not a criminal issue. Law enforcement officers enforce criminal law as a matter of course. In a lawsuit when one person owes money to another due to a judgement, that debt is private and
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by jgowdy 9y ago
It's not a fantasy. Uncollected judgements can be enforced through direct property seizure if you follow your State's laws. Typically you call law enforcement first and pay them a fee for an escort to seize the property. For bu
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Important point you touched on there. In the case of businesses you should always use zero balance accounts for checks, EFTs, ACHs, etc. The smaller your business, the more you're at risk of an existential threat if someone takes mon
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by jgowdy 9y ago
I’ll jump in here. I believe the constitution does provide a right to travel both domestically and internationally. When I choose flight as my mode of transport, and I choose to do business with a private company, (entering into a private
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Which is funny because in the past and in other legal areas, a contract requires a meeting of the minds, requires that everyone have adequate representation available, etc. Yet with click through contracts you have none of that. You don’t
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by jgowdy 9y ago
I prefer Linode in a lot of ways, but the current best price/value for me is SSD Nodes. https://www.ssdnodes.com
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by jgowdy 9y ago
> At some point, you'll need to interoperate with those horribly dogmatic vendor hugging networks that serve the majority of traffic on the internet. And this has been their defense all along. It serves the status quo to imply that
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by jgowdy 9y ago
I have to disagree with the primary point being offered up in this post. In my career I’ve met quite a few network engineers who don’t think sufficiently outside the box. They typically say “this is how it’s done, this is how it works.”
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by jgowdy 9y ago
Agreed, which is why I’m worried about retpoline as it’s a rather hacky (but obviously pragmatic) solution that isn’t compatible with shadow stacks that mitigation strategies won’t be compatible with.
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by jgowdy 9y ago
The problem I see with this concept is ROP mitigations like Intel’s control flow enforcement don’t seem compatible with intentionally using tweaked addresses with ret. The address they inject won’t match the shadow stack and the program wi
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by jgowdy 9y ago
When is Apple going to recognize that we want Nvidia GPUs? Come on Apple. People are literally buying outdated MacBook Pros to have a CUDA compatible GPU.
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by jgowdy 9y ago
There’s a fine line here between dumping, bundling, and loss leading. Amazon bundles video with a Prime subscription. Not all customers under that promotion have to be profitable, and not all of them have to be profitable in the same way

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