mdpopescu

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811.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Always replace Hitler with Stalin or Mao or you'll be swamped by the idiots quoting Godwin's Law.
812.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
I was so hoping for a reply to this... I guess it was too much of a slam-dunk.
813.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
I believe that Greenspun's article at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2013/12/12/why-do-people-... is very apropos.
814.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Now copy those vouchers with a quality copier and resell them many times.
815.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Ah... the "intrinsic value" theory. Hasn't this one died already?
816.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
"the environment of fear" This, exactly.
817.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Ah - that's the master password for LastPass. I should have clarified that.
818.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
That doesn't actually help; you need to think more like a prosecutor. By investigating the vulnerability they have, in fact, committed a crime - see for example http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/09/how-weevs-pros
819.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
What's the problem with writing it down? I periodically generate a strong random new password, write it down and put it in my wallet with my credit cards, until I type it enough times that I learned it. Writing it down and leaving it e
820.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Very good point, thank you.
821.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
The noise you hear is five hundred patio11 followers writing that app... myself included :)
822.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Ah... yes. I have no idea why it's still so hard to find remote jobs in 2013. I really, really don't want to move my whole family yet again because you really like my smell or something.
823.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
"I might add..." is a colloquialism; it's something that is said less formally. He meant "you should add..." (or "I might add if I were in your place".) It's a way of saying the same thing, but for no
824.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Isn't security is under one of those "things you can fix later"... The problem is that the saying is: make it work, make it good, make it fast. Most programmers stop after the first step. "Make it secure" is not eve
825.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
As a direct example, my parents are both poor. They are retired and their total pension is about $400 a month... which they mostly spend on smoking and coffee. Oh, and they also have four TV sets (my father has an obsession). Ok, so I can a
826.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
Is objection required? Does it have to be explicit - say, I can use Disney's movies without paying for them unless they explicitly tell me to stop?
827.
by mdpopescu 13y ago
I think you missed the "free" part of the definition. The trade between the North Korean death camp guard and a prisoner is between individuals but that doesn't make it capitalistic (because of that "free" part bein