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by joesmo 11y ago
I'd rather they hire a qualified person who understands the issue to prevent any side, including the side I don't agree with. They failed at that miserably in this case and the previous poster was right: they should be ashamed of
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'm sorry but this article is not only stupid beyond belief, it was written by the same prosecutor who prosecuted the Sergey Aleynikov case, obviously a zealous idiot. It shows he knows nothing about encryption ... or the law for that
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by joesmo 11y ago
"The nice thing is, 35 seems to be a starting point for me." Nice. I'm 34, almost 35, and I feel the same way. I'm actually seriously thinking about starting a business now whereas in my twenties, I was more interested i
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by joesmo 11y ago
You don't. Many successful startups are started by people over 30 ( http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235357 ).
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think the conclusion is self-evident to any avid reader of literature. I can't think of a single good author who abuses exclamation marks. And that's because someone who abuses exclamation marks in this way is a pretty poor writ
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by joesmo 11y ago
I too got started programming games when I was around twelve. I agree it's probably the most competitive and least-forgiving areas, but it seems to have a lot more challenges, both technical and creative than any other area as well. I&
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by joesmo 11y ago
I forgot to mention the two year contracts which rendered competition essentially meaningless until about two years ago or so.
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by joesmo 11y ago
US banks lack any care about security in this area and rely on being able to eat the costs of fraud. This is clearly obvious even from logging into their sites. Many sites require weak passwords, have no two factor authentication, mix secur
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by joesmo 11y ago
A decent carrier like T-Mobile who has had no contracts now for years will not do this, except to offer lower priced plans, which they have.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think the manufacturers intend the phones to be obsolete after two years, but there are perfectly good phones that will run for years. I've had a Nexus 4 since early 2013 and it came out generally in 2012. Still runs just as well as
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by joesmo 11y ago
"It is fn. expensive when compared to EU prices. Why is that?" In the US, there are only 4 major cell phone carriers and their plans are so similar in price, it might as well be a monopoly.
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by joesmo 11y ago
This is hardly news. Until we put in real consequences for both police and judges who intentionally misbehave or oftentimes fail at their job, none of this will change. Here's an idea: penalize the cop for every false positive. Docking
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by joesmo 11y ago
I do not define culture as "Hollywood movies and pop music," and do not appreciate the personal attack. You should learn how to read properly. My cultural horizons are broad enough, thank you. Just because a right isn't spell
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by joesmo 11y ago
That's because easily copyable art didn't exist. Yet art still happened ... thus art doesn't depend on copyright.
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by joesmo 11y ago
So you are saying that there was no art before copyright. That's a new one.
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by joesmo 11y ago
I'm already not supporting them financially. Why should I have to also deprive myself of culture as well because of them, especially when I think access to culture is my right? Your argument makes no sense.
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by joesmo 11y ago
That's ridiculous. Just because the idiot masses aren't complaining about it, doesn't mean it's not a huge problem. At least one person, Aaron Swartz, has already committed suicide after being targeted and threatened by
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by joesmo 11y ago
Almost 35, still haven't seen Star Wars in entirety, though I did own it on VHS for many years. Can attest that I did not "suffer" for it, though it has been a cause of awe and disbelief in others. Ok, just to be fair, some r
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by joesmo 11y ago
I think it is my right to access culture, and it is my duty, if at all possible, to avoid supporting organizations that cause such pain and suffering in the world. I don't see what's so hard to understand about the fact that I don
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by joesmo 11y ago
So they're criminalizing yet another everyday activity that hurts no one and is already protected by civil law. It seems to me the US and its puppet follower states just love the idea of criminalizing things that occur naturally, hurt
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by joesmo 11y ago
That's possible, but it would have required proper execution from the Buzz, and later, the G+ team. From a security / privacy point of view Buzz was worse than Facebook almost instantly, though it clearly tried to emulate Twitter
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by joesmo 11y ago
Didn't Google learn from Buzz that the world didn't want another social network of the kind that already existed? I guess not. Google's just amazing at building technology no one wants/needs. Wave, Buzz, G+, are all grea
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by joesmo 11y ago
Because if you're working in the US, you don't get any of the benefits the article refers to. Without guaranteed health insurance, I don't consider life to be good in America or anywhere else. When you're one small injur
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by joesmo 11y ago
I see all you can do is stoop to calling names, but I'll give you a proper reply regardless of the fact that you don't deserve one. No, it's the artists who feel entitled to make money off their work, work that oftentimes is
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by joesmo 11y ago
It wasn't even armed. What did they expect?!
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by joesmo 11y ago
The difference is in Switzerland you don't have to be mega rich to have a good life and because those places don't have different laws than the rest of the US, they only compare if you're rich enough for laws not to matter, a
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by joesmo 11y ago
The frustrating part about living in America is that the solutions to problems are not only known, they're achievable. Yet because of a combination of stupidity amongst regular people and corruption amongst officials, people continue t
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by joesmo 11y ago
Not this particular Github repo maybe, but once they start taking down stuff, they will eventually hit something that will make people quite upset. Though from what other social networks generally experience, that won't be enough to dr
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by joesmo 11y ago
"But wait, what about the moral dimension? The fact that if you block the ads, the sites lose their income?" What a ridiculous point. Sure the advertisers want to make this into a moral issue, but is it? No. It's not. Adverti
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by joesmo 11y ago
"The great point, in relation to this topic of their latest investment, is that companies that depend almost entirely on their "communities" can screw those up and destroy their value." I think it's pretty much inev

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