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by kefka 10y ago
Capitalism, the economic theory as posited by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" fails when stuff approaches infinity. We already have a taste of it with the internet, where it's 'Create once, share everywhere'.
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by kefka 10y ago
There's a simple path to change things here. Start criminally charging Facebook for every criminal act they fail to remove. If they're playing the censor, then they need to be punished when they fail in that role. The other choice
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by kefka 10y ago
A private individual, sure. I'll accept that argument. But a corporation should have no such leeway. Companies exist for the mutual benefit of the citizens, and their shareholders. Just because we've lost that sense of ethic doesn
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by kefka 10y ago
And that answer is what is wrong with capitalism. Why can a drug maker jack their prices up 100x? Because it's profitable. Why do gas companies raise their prices when there's an impending disaster (hurricane, blizzards, etc.)? Be
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by kefka 10y ago
uBlock is a great extension. You ought to check it out. It'd help with the advertisements.
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by kefka 10y ago
That was a very. Bad. Joke. :) Bravo.
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by kefka 10y ago
I've also written up a comprehensive IoT infrastructure using Tor, Node-Red, MQTT, and sensor/actuator nodes as you choose. It's all documented here: https://hackaday.io/project/12985-multisite-homeoffice
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by kefka 10y ago
The US has never had an issue poisoning and killing drug users wholesale. We only have to look at the disaster of the Prohibition, and federal agents poisoning alcohol with methanol. People died. A lot of them. And those poisoning murders w
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Secure, Private IoT: Using Only Your Own Computers(hackaday.io)
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by kefka 10y ago
Yeah. I had a similar idea of a system of distributed serverless computing. Much to the chagrin of certain users who badmouth, it has much more to do with distributing computation on any machine. My idea was to run a cluster of Erlang nodes
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by kefka 10y ago
I absolutely have the right to buy a copy , watch it/read it, and sell it to someone else. First sale doctrine states that. I don't have the right to make and sell copies. I do certainly have that right for the original.
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by kefka 10y ago
Absolutely. The difference between default and not is 4 million users... It doesn't matter how good the mod team: its just not tenable with the hordes. Anyways, I have ecletic interests, where the communities are small and well behaved
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by kefka 10y ago
In all honesty, Reddit is a webified Usenet with many downsides. Fortunately, a well moderated group is only as good as the mod team. There are well-maintained groups on reddit. None happen to be any of the defaults, however.
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by kefka 10y ago
>The only form of "DRM" I don't mind are the e-book stores that provide you with a personalised copy that includes my name/e-mail, but otherwise leaves the book unprotected. And that also implies that you give up righ
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by kefka 10y ago
My apologies. I'm used to having rip-offs like Elsiver and such in academia that I assumed that you (the author) were also in the same predicament. When the search on the common academic piracy pages showed this book, I assumed that I
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by kefka 10y ago
For those who are poor, and still wish to read this, go to here: REDACTED as per author's request
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by kefka 10y ago
The tools to work remotely can be nice as you put it... But if you can work remotely from home/desk, so can people who are willing to work for 10% of your salary. In person means "Im on the radar, im there to consider, and there t
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by kefka 10y ago
It's also because MS refused to have existing X86 apps to run on the platform. I'm sure it was to chunnel everyone into metro of whatever they call it. They could have had a whole ecosystem by default (at least for 2d apps). But n
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by kefka 10y ago
And, when/if they say no?
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by kefka 10y ago
Well, in the VR side of stuff, we have the Rift DK1 and DK2, Vive, and the OSVR. Everybody has their content for the Rift. They were first. And it shows by the number of people making content. The Vive is pretty awesome. The controllers are
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by kefka 10y ago
At work, on my desk is a Hololens. In some ways, it's cool. In others, it is a complete pile of garbage not worth anyone's time. Cool: New display type, that puts out really good looking holograms floating in reality. Really solid
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by kefka 10y ago
The "Pro" stands for "Problematic". But yeah, my next machine purchase will not be an Apple. If I need OSX support, I'll look at the current Hackintosh install lists and go VM.
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by kefka 10y ago
I've also worked on quite a few methods of using Tor and Hidden Services, where my whole network is in .onion . I can send data to .onion addresses natively via DNS ( https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/w
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by kefka 10y ago
Indeed, at least with Tox, all I need is a separate key exchange, somewhere. In person works wonders. So does random email, or instant message, or you name it. At least for communications that need that layer of security and anonymity, it&#
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by kefka 10y ago
How does a rubber hose work when the people are talking via Tox or via .onion sites?
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by kefka 10y ago
If anything, I would use a lock analogy. Locks are rated in how many seconds/minutes they can withstand from a dedicated attacker. Perhaps that would be a way to determine a similar safety rating for passwords/crypto based systems
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by kefka 10y ago
Passwords are obscurity, are they not? And in the end, so are 2048 bit RSA keys. It's just a prime-number needle in the haystack. Look enough places/try enough passwords, and you will find it.
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by kefka 10y ago
Show me an example of federal cases in which a legislator has recused themselves like the way you expect Clinton to do. Or, why do you hold her to a higher standard than others? (Yes I think they're all corrupt.)
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by kefka 10y ago
Someone's always willing to pay. It just might be in bitcoin on some .onion site :)
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by kefka 10y ago
Absolutely. I highlighted this as one of the warnings in the Howto I made. Any protocol you use must be vetted for security and privacy, if you intend to use Tor for those purposes. My purpose is very different. I wanted to communicate wi

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