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by nknight 15y ago
I noticed that a few years ago and found it surprising but figured it would show up soon. Is there a technical reason it hasn't, or just lack of sufficient motivation an anyone's part?
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by nknight 15y ago
An invasion of privacy does not cease to be an invasion of privacy just because a small group of deeply unethical people persist in it for years.
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by nknight 15y ago
I mostly agree with you in principle, but sometimes you push the big red button and sort out the pieces later, like when it's not a Sunday.
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't dispute for a moment that some people wanted VLAs or that they're useful in some contexts. On the other hand, your cited field is relatively small, and the use case could have been satisfied with a mechanism much more in line with
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by nknight 15y ago
Lots of projects provided the tools to do lots of things right in years past, but they eventually came to recognize that if they didn't provide secure defaults, they were ultimately harming everyone out of some twisted sense of principle. I
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by nknight 15y ago
The vulnerability is that Rails is insecure by default. That used to be the case for a lot of things, then finally people noticed how the real world works, and started fixing them. Apparently the Rails developers have actively resisted the
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by nknight 15y ago
It's a matter of sanity, not difficulty. VLAs are not well-loved by many of the same people who write the compilers.
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by nknight 15y ago
One is not obligated to support all features of a standard in order to support some, a reality Microsoft has consistently availed itself of during its existence.
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by nknight 15y ago
Development and operation of internet-based services is "years behind everyone else"? What is it you think "everyone else" is doing? And how will anyone manage to have an SSD and data drive in their laptop when there's no physical room for
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by nknight 15y ago
No, I can't. For the moment, I need that optical drive rather badly. In the future, I won't even have the option, as Apple is highly likely to eliminate it entirely in the next few iterations.
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by nknight 15y ago
Seriously? As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up to my MacBook Pro already, another 2TB standing by, and a few TB more available over my gigabit LAN, but when I'm not at my desk, where exactly do you think all that st
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by nknight 15y ago
Some of us use laptops and need as much storage in them as possible.
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by nknight 15y ago
A review process that would not be accepted in a negotiated agreement by the copyright trolls, and one not permitted under the DMCA. What's a "Coder in London" doing trying to educate a US citizen and resident on US law, anyway?
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by nknight 15y ago
No, but I'm clearly better versed in the law than you are. The DMCA wasn't used because Google negotiated a separate agreement. Without that agreement -- in which Google also had to give things up -- the DMCA would control, dictating both i
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by nknight 15y ago
It won't stop a private individual, either, not even one with a budget of approximately $0. Cold boot and similar attacks, even just yanking the memory or forcing a CMOS reset, are trivial. Please tell me you don't do this for a living.
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, it's exactly what you said, whether you know it or not. Google's action was dictated by US law. If you have some magical way for a US company run by US citizens residing in the US to get around US law, I'm sure we'd all be inter
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by nknight 15y ago
You want Google to be sued into oblivion and have its executives possibly jailed for criminal copyright infringement because you judge compliance with applicable laws to be evil?
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by nknight 15y ago
I understand how this might be confusing to a third party, but Linode's response thus far makes perfect sense to those of us who have been customers for a while. We're pretty aware of the general parameters of Linode's internal systems.
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by nknight 15y ago
People still have cable?
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by nknight 15y ago
Yep. Classically, we abdicate responsibility as soon as physical security is breached. With virtual machines the problem is mostly the same, but it moves from "true physical" to "virtual physical" -- once the host environment is breached, a
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by nknight 15y ago
Why are you looking at it as "X has the same assurance as Y" instead of "Y has the same assurance as X"? If you've got a vault that holds a massive diamond, and a little gold ring, do you become concerned because the diamond "only" has the
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by nknight 15y ago
Your comment appears to be a complete non-sequitur. You have no reason to think I wouldn't recognize such a model. Such a model has nothing to do with applying for a job at a game studio when you don't need money. And Mojang isn't following
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by nknight 15y ago
First of all, yes, I think it's reasonable. Second, where are you getting $19.95/month from, anyway? I haven't seen the plan in question mentioned, and even if this particular VPS happened to be Linode's lowest-end, the last time I looked (
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by nknight 15y ago
In an actual court case, the reasonableness of everyone's actions would be evaluated, but it's hard to imagine a court finding it unreasonable that someone placed data worth $13,000 to them on a respected VPS provider. That doesn't mean Lin
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by nknight 15y ago
Building things for someone else according to their desires?
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by nknight 15y ago
You can't secure against God. Of course it's technically possible for a Linode employee to do.
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by nknight 15y ago
This is exactly the problem I'm getting at, you're not actually working within the confines of C here, you're creating funny workarounds for the fact that certain C features don't work how you want them to, and you're violating the type sys
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by nknight 15y ago
> 2) Carefully. Can you provide code demonstrating how you will "carefully" create a C array of structs with a variable-sized member? It will be very educational for me, at least, and I think others, as well.
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by nknight 15y ago
Unless there's been a concerted effort in the last ~year or so to improve GCC's error messages and compilation speed, clang's primary technical strengths remain unchanged relative to GCC. Saying we're comparing old versions isn't really use
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by nknight 15y ago
You're demonstrating a clear ignorance of what clinical depression is.

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