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by namelost 9y ago
Apple wants to protect you from attackers, who may have physical access to your device , who want to install a rootkit on your phone. It's fair to say that the GPLv3, which predates the iPhone, did not anticipate the nuances of people
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by namelost 9y ago
No doubt, but the academics who designed this alphabet definitely can write Arabic, and the letter W was going spare anyway.
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https://www.xkcd.com/538/ applies. Neither Touch ID nor passwords keep determined intruders out. If someone really wants to know what's on your phone, they will arrest/kidnap you and threaten you with prison&
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by namelost 9y ago
Not quite, legal tender means if someone owes you money, you have to accept it.
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W for У is natural because that's how it works in Arabic.
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UUIDs are not secure unless they are version 4 (random) and generated from a secure randomness source.
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by namelost 9y ago
Copyright does not work that way. Copyright awards protections to a creative act. If you use a computer to generate songs, there is no creative act, and no copyright. If you copy a song someone else generated with a computer, there is no cr
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by namelost 9y ago
Many people around these parts reject software patents as immoral, because software is just applied mathematics and mathematics should not be patentable. So yes, any use of a software patent offensively is malicious.
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by namelost 9y ago
There's nothing wrong with that, but the mathematical background really isn't that complicated. It's just linear algebra and calculus.
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by namelost 9y ago
It's not so much dynamic typing, but a lack of typing. Dynamic typing means that type checks are made at runtime. e.g. in Ruby: irb> nil >= 0 NoMethodError: undefined method `>=' for nil:NilClass and Python 3
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by namelost 9y ago
Do you really think that China is capable of an easy and bloodless transition to a democratic system? Perhaps Chinese people know better than anyone just how violent revolution can be.
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by namelost 9y ago
Presumably HSBC objects to a for-profit business running a patreon & donations. I can see how from a bank's perspective that could look like something illegal is going on.
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by namelost 9y ago
I'd disagree. What Bitcoin fans want is "digital gold", not the gold standard. The gold standard is a system where paper currency is backed by a guarantee that it is redeemable for a given amount of gold. Of course the govt c
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by namelost 9y ago
Wouldn't you rather have parks and green space inside cities, than wrapped around them? Green belts create an artificial pressure to turn green space inside cities into residential and commercial land. The green belts are a scam. The
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The green belts need to go. Cities should be allowed to expand outwards.
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http://jennifermarohasy.com/about/ > In September 2015, I was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) – I had previously worked at the IPA from July 2003 to the end of 2008. http
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by namelost 9y ago
21 fucking years ago. > In 1996, Dobbertin announced a collision of the compression function of MD5 (Dobbertin, 1996). While this was not an attack on the full MD5 hash function, it was close enough for cryptographers to recommend switch