nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
The biggest useragent problem I have these days is clicking a link to a specific article on some site with my phone, and getting redirected to the front page of their totally separate mobile site, left with no way to find the article I was
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by nknight 15y ago
I could. Or I could just look at the thing they already did for me. Much like I could create a bootloader configuration when I install Ubuntu, but that's already done for me. There are a lot of things we could do on our own. Sometimes we do
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by nknight 15y ago
I happen to like being informed, when I SSH into my server, that there are some package updates available. I happen to like a quick status check popping up for me to either look at or just ignore at my pleasure, especially since 99% of the
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by nknight 15y ago
Your "unedited words": "That stunt should never have happened where it did." It happened on a military firing range, in the presence of experts. Demanding more is requiring of them essentially perfect foresight. This is equivalent to requir
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by nknight 15y ago
Where are you people getting this "Android makes no money for Google" perception from? Android makes money for Google in exactly the same way all of their other products/services make money: Advertising.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm telling the owners no such thing. I'm telling you shit happens. The owners will be compensated, and I'm sure there will be measures taken to avoid future incidents of this sort, but your blanket and aggressive condemnation of the acti
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, the iOS model isn't that great IMO. Rather than relying on verifiably safe bytecode, Apple uses a combination of TrustedBSD-based technology on the phone, and human-directed testing in their labs, in an attempt to keep native code
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by nknight 15y ago
On the contrary, I am an experienced systems operations engineer, and know only too well how badly excessive and/or misdirected risk mitigation costs companies. I have never been accused of being too reckless, however. Developers I've worke
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by nknight 15y ago
"They crashed a plane into someone's house. They should never have been flying where they were." Shit happens. Life is not safe. Get used to it.
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by nknight 15y ago
You're right, they do revolt by quitting. I don't see a big exodus. I have several friends there I know would be out the door in a heartbeat, and 5 years ago I knew one of the guys who is now one of the most senior on the Chrome team. Unles
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by nknight 15y ago
> RE this whole conspiracy (not mocking it by calling it that...) Then I will. It's a conspiracy theory, worthy of all the mocking typically associated with such a thing. Anyone who's been watching Google long enough, closely enough,
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, it does. If the judge was going to find the media shield law inapplicable because it's a civil action for defamation, he did not need to reach the much hairier question of whether her blog was a "medium of communication". Judges a
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by nknight 15y ago
EFF would be more likely, I think. The ACLU's focus is mostly government-related, they don't step into a lot of private lawsuits.
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by nknight 15y ago
Yep. This is not a limitation of the law, this is a deeply unimaginative judge. The "ordinary meaning" of "medium of communication" is extremely broad, and even if implicitly narrowed to the general context of the statute, easily includes m
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by nknight 15y ago
Untrusted native code isn't strictly necessary. There is no need for locally-run software to be in any particular form, so long as it doesn't depend on the developer's server to function. Java bytecode is excellent precedent for what is bro
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by nknight 15y ago
He keeps saying "free software", and also says "anti-free software movement". He means "free service", which is a radically different scenario from "free software" in either sense, and should be treated as such. Whether we're talking about
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by nknight 15y ago
If they're going to make a fuss about it, PayPal shouldn't even make the "donate" button available without getting explicit agreement from the customer to clear, unambiguous rules. And no, sticking it in their giant ToS doesn't cut it.
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by nknight 15y ago
Because it's not a useful option for normal people, and carries its own set of legal ambiguities that vary from place to place. All these "use bitcoin" responses are as useful as "let them eat cake".
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by nknight 15y ago
Businesses are not under a general obligation to facilitate the activities of their competitors. Nor is Verizon a monopoly in the usual sense, upon which special obligations might be placed. Unless some sort of settlement were reached, you'
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by nknight 15y ago
> Is Mixtent wrong? Their raw data may or may not be accurate, it's impossible to say because they fail to present the raw data or detail their methodology. Their interpretation of the results is at best simplistic and incomplete, and
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't think companies are doing that. The causality just isn't being addressed properly. I can come up with a lot of plausible reasons why you're more likely to find "good" engineers focusing on Python or Java, and why Ruby developers mig
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by nknight 15y ago
Tenther claims are not going to get you far in front of the US Supreme Court. Congress has extensive powers over interstate commerce, and when it chooses to regulate an aspect of interstate commerce, state regulation in that area is automat
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by nknight 15y ago
You're talking about a related but distinct legal issue. CAFE is an exercise of Congress's commerce clause power, and as part of that power, they have allowed states to set stricter standards. Had they not specifically done so, states wou
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by nknight 15y ago
You may want to chat with your corporate masters at AOL before you keep talking. I doubt they'll be pleased with one of their staffers going around publicly saying it's OK to lie.
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by nknight 15y ago
Reading the text of the law[1], I'm surprised battery manufacturers haven't already filed an interstate commerce lawsuit. States can usually place all the restrictions and requirements they want on retailers and residents, but trying to for
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by nknight 15y ago
Are you going to ask why ESPN confines its coverage to sports? Confining your coverage to a geographical region or industry or both is not the same as confining your coverage to companies who are willing to effectively bribe you, which is a
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by nknight 15y ago
Since you've already admitted you can't be trusted, I see no reason to believe such a slur on your competitors. Not that it would be right even if it were true.
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by nknight 15y ago
That's not "changed his mind", that's "found ways to route around the braindamage with unofficial things the GNOME 3 'designers' won't accept".
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by nknight 15y ago
Egh, I realize this isn't really on topic, but what's with the creepy photo? A quick search reveals a few pictures in which this guy looks perfectly normal, and one other which is similarly bizarre, and that other one is ALSO on a (differen
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm guessing you don't deal with Python much. Python actively discourages this sort of thing, it's actually hard to create obfuscated code of the kind you see in most other languages. That this was even possible surprised me somewhat, that

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