mjgoins

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by mjgoins 16y ago
Can you describe how you envision this working? Why would you choose to use a client that correctly implemented the drm features? How could a free/open source client even accomplish the drm?
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by mjgoins 16y ago
According to some quick searching, pets and their food, etc. in the US in 2009 was a $45 billion industry.
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One Laptop Per Child's flawed security policies(usenix.org)
1 points by mjgoins 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjgoins 16y ago
The communist party in indonesia at the time had a huge women's front. They were an essential piece of the politics at the time. EDIT: and post-1965 events, being a communist was an automatic death mark.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
The site's down :( I wanted to hear about why Pfizer shouldn't make iphone apps...
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Can you point to some evidence that patents generally have had a useful role in our society, other than pharmaceuticals, which is the usual (and also incorrect) answer?
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I believe if the final destination of the tor communication had been https, wikileaks could not have eavesdropped and read the documents. The article fails to make that distinction when it says: By necessity, however, the last node thro
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by mjgoins 16y ago
It must be a lot of work to make these, wonder why the creators don't want credit.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
I'm having trouble picturing the implications of an AGPL database. His brief mention of "everything it talks to should be GPL" doesn't really help.
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by mjgoins 16y ago
The 'delete everything sensitive' step would either not be reliable (unlinking all the files) or would take an extremely long time (writing zeroes or noise over all those bytes).
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by mjgoins 16y ago
Releasing with this so-called license is a risky move. They should explicitly release the work into the public domain, using the words "public domain". Otherwise it's not clear (from the perspective of software licensing, which will eventua
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Decentralize the web with Diaspora(kickstarter.com)
15 points by mjgoins 16y ago|0 comments
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by mjgoins 16y ago
mint.com is a much more absurd idea than facebook. And the fact that it has users is even more mind-boggling.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Might be better to use an ip address that won't actually point to a machine. Pointing arbitrary names to localhost is probably 99.999 percent safe... but better fully safe than sorry. rfc3330 mentions example ip addresses that are reserved
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Is that why it requires js, and looks like "Back < & Future" if js is disabled?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Can you provide a link or citation for the thing about the Turing machines? Sounds interesting.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
The whole notion of the "Hard Problem" is completely dismantled in 'Consciousness Explained' (1991) and then later 'Sweet Dreams' (2005), both by Daniel Dennett. Highly recommended for philosophers who know about computer science, or comput
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I have a Starling Netbook from system76. Nothing to write home about, but I've had few, if any real problems with it. It's a little flimsy, physically. And I am a proud free software zealot, so I moved it to debian.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
And let's hope they're kids under 18, since doing what you describe will probably be a federal crime (see DMCA) in the US, and probably most other nations. The fact that it will be proven jailbreakable doesn't mean we should all accept bein
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I think this is an update to the same site, with a new topologically strange bagel. Not really a big improvement over the previously-submitted one, though.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I think it's an april fool's joke. See the bottom.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
This (flash) site has sound. Horrible annoying, and unexpected sound.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Are native Americans simply exempt from the basic courtesy of not being depicted as ridiculous cartoons?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Actually those measures are popular among regular (meaning non-powerful) people. Both the left and the right are in favor of a non-interventionist foreign policy in the US.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Can anyone point to why flash is so processor-intensive? Is it a necessary property of doing what flash does, or is flash implemented inefficiently?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Nope, they'll just take it away, and there's nothing you can do. Enjoy the future.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Don't they mean ½?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
IMHO, OpenPGP did it right. And there is an effort to use OpenPGP to authenticate hosts and users on the web. It already works for SSH: http://web.monkeysphere.info
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Why. Do. People. Use. Periods. This. Way?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
It's third person, but with a visual frame of reference fixed to the piece, at the time the piece appears on the screen. I don't see how that's even close to first person. It's also really fun.

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