nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
"Cheating" may mean that for you, but it's not what it means for most people, and certainly not for "Americans" in general. Panos is pretty clear in his post about what was going on. This wasn't "hints" or anything close. 20-95% of the cont
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by nknight 15y ago
By your own admission, you are "not technologically inclined", so what is it that makes you think you achieved anything remotely like "the highest level of achievement"? You might think you did a good job, but not only are you obviously goi
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by nknight 15y ago
What you describe as "cheating" sounds more like "researching" or "studying". Cite sources for your facts and what you have there is probably a perfectly good paper.
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by nknight 15y ago
Given an overall badly damaged classroom dynamic, excluding those found cheating may not have made much difference.
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by nknight 15y ago
You mean the FSF-vetted and DFSG-compatible license Plan9 has been under since 2002? It's not GPL-compatible, but it's definitely Free. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#lucent102
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by nknight 15y ago
I seriously doubt Google is dumb enough to store user passwords in plaintext. There is absolutely no reason to. Passwords get stored as non-reversible hashes.
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by nknight 15y ago
No gray area in the US since 2001. Kyllo v. United States, IR imaging of a private home is a search subject to the 4th Amendment. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-8508.ZS.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
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by nknight 15y ago
If you substitute "practicality" wherever you see "worse is better", you'll have a much clearer idea of what the "philosophy" really is, and realize it in no way conflicts with critical systems. All software design and development is done t
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by nknight 15y ago
MIT == Academia, New Jersey == Real World. That's all this debate has ever truly been about. "The right thing" in any particular situation is whatever results in a working system. Economics dictate that perfection rarely wins. There's a rea
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by nknight 15y ago
Except that _wasn't_ the new TOS at the time the articles went up. They changed it _after_ the world exploded. See the bottom of their blog entry: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846
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by nknight 15y ago
Common misconception -- illegal insider trading is something most ordinary employees will never even be capable of. The definition is something along the lines of "trading based on material non-public information", which is not "I think thi
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by nknight 15y ago
I find it strange that more attention hasn't been paid to the more obvious path: Multiple interpreters in one process. You can safely run a separate Python interpreter in each thread of a process. More overhead than threading, but less than
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by nknight 15y ago
Echelon can be guarded against with in-transit crypto. Physical access to systems is far more problematic. Even if the data is nominally encrypted on-disk, the key must be in RAM to make use of the data, rendering it vulnerable at the time
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by nknight 15y ago
People placed in a group constitute a herd. Herd (mob) mentality applies to government as much as to any other group of people, and government is just as prone to authoritative and/or charismatic figures turning its mentality toward a negat
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by nknight 15y ago
The report the KDE devs filed ( http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=18701 ) addresses this directly: The way OAuth2 is handled by your platform allows in principle anyone to impersonate our application, as all that's
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by nknight 15y ago
Not... abusing... Huh? Off the top of my head: Communist registration, mail censorship, Japanese internment, McCarthy, Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover and/or COINTELPRO, warrantless wiretapping, PATRIOT Act, Guantanamo Bay, the current crusade again
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by nknight 15y ago
Development that has been stunted by forcing a child down one path without critical thinking and active decision-making on their part will _not_ result in an adult equipped to make difficult decisions.
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not so sure of that. We don't get an exact transcript of what he said, nor what he was asked. It appears to me that he may have actually been thinking of "adult (or mature) video games" as pornography, which has always been subject to r