lordlimecat

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by lordlimecat 9y ago
At some point, you have to assign at least some of the responsibility to the folks getting loans they cannot afford. It doesn't make predatory lending right, but lets not dehumanize or patronize the victims by implying they lack agen
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
Disabler that only responds to crypto-signed request encrypted with hardcoded per-device keys. Have fun. "It can be hacked" really only because good security practice like the above would involve extra costs and the dealership &#x
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
Not shown in the graph: Hydroelectric, which conjures up images of beautiful dams, rather than the hundreds of thousands of people who die at once when it fails.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
They started doing this about a year ago, and I remember some of the AgileBits folks telling me I was full of it: local vaults were still first class citizens, nothing to worry about. I moved away back then, because the writing on the wall
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
That is a good thing if you care in the least about security. Being secure is a selling point of browsers, and hence they take code quality seriously-- bug trackers, bug bounties, regular and automatic updates. History has shown that third
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
Not to mention that they would be riddled with security holes, with no regular update schedule or bug bounty in sight. DRM isnt going away, this may be the lesser of two evils.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
If Firefox and Chromium don't work with EME I will go buy a a hat, and eat it. I'd hazard the folks who truly get locked out, users of more ideological browsers on more fringe linux distros, already were not using flash or silverl
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
If the platform is obnoxious, people will abandon it for other alternatives. You know, like the crappy ones (flash, silverlight) we've been trying to ditch for a decade now.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
He could always do a chargeback.... (Note: Dont do this, it pisses Google off and you will lose all your files)
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
This very article demonstrates that the largest enterprise Linux distros -- Red Hat and CentOS 7.3-- both recognize and support usernames beginning with a digit.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
The FDA source seems to be the best one, and was useful-- thanks for that. I'll concede that I (and it appears Wikipedia) are wrong on this matter. For future reference, you could probably just list that, and drop the attitude. You sho
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
My recollection of how Bitcoin turned out indicates that most of those people will not make money. That, in fact, the simple rules of how markets work mean that most cannot make money, on several counts: * Those with resources will have a
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
That's OK, people investing in crypto currencies will either not see or dismiss stories like this in their pursuit of wealth.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
>>Timing the market >Doesn't always work Thats putting it lightly, you're describing some form of survivorship bias. If it were that reliable and simple the major active fund managers could score reliable index-beating re
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
It tells me that its a terrible investment decision and that I am better off at the blackjack table. At least casinos are regulated.
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
From Wikipedia: >Although the botulinum toxin is destroyed by thorough cooking over the course of a few minutes,[26][27] the spore itself is not killed by the temperatures reached with normal sea-level-pressure boiling, leaving it free t
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
At some point blaming administrations 30 years ago for practices continued by subsequent administrations becomes deeply dishonest. California for instance (referenced multiple times here) has had many governors since the Reagan days and cou
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
Prison should be run by the state to accomplish its aims (whether rehabilitative or retributive). Outsourcing it and attaching financial gain to it just encourages abuse. Certainly they could have whipped him daily and that too would have d
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
"Blocking ads" is typically justified because the data is being sent to your computer, which is then rejecting parts of the data. The other side of this coin is that when you voluntarily send data to the server, what they do with
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
The US federal budget is 3.8 Trillion. Using parent's numbers, you would need $5.3 Trillion to just cover healthcare + housing, assuming zero inflation. What tax rate are you proposing will genenerate $5.3 Trillion off of taxing the ri
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by lordlimecat 9y ago
The same way we have every time an industry has disappeared in the past: by participating in the newly opened industries. Is it rough when (for example) shipping crates put a bunch of longshoremen out of a job, when they are in their 50s an
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
>I intend to file no lawsuit, seek no apology. WHY???? Of all people, the ones who get targeted have standing! Of all people, she might have a shot of pulling in the 4th AND the 14th amendments! I know people want to live their lives r
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
The thing is, the bill of rights doesnt say anything about that. It says "the government shall not", and it seems to me any sane interpretation would say it applies wherever the government is active and claiming jurisdiction.
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
Trump will find that that support dwindles day by day. The country has always been split roughly down the middle between conservatives and liberals, and liberals are generally united against Trump. What happens when his conservative base s
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
> The AG ignored the legality of the order Just because legal counsel says its legal does not mean it is legal, or that the AG "ignored its legality". Different attorneys will have different frameworks and theories on whether
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
Youre being too generous. GP's statement was, "Did you know that polkit, the systemd replacement of sudo," He calls it a replacement of sudo which is is definitely not.
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by lordlimecat 10y ago
It should be noted that the GFW currently has the ability to detect most or all of those. Long gone are the days when OpenVPN over TCP 443 could fool them.
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by lordlimecat 12y ago
A CA hitting the "generate CSR" button and not knowing what it does should not be a CA, full stop. 100% of the job of a CA is understanding private keys, public keys, CSRs, and the security policies surrounding them. And I would