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by nske 11y ago
@drawk & @mdpopescu: I apologise, indeed I hadn't read all the facts about the coffee case and I don't find it ridicoulous any more. In any case, I really hope Michael Morton finds some real justice and Ken Anderson doesn&#x27
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by nske 11y ago
In a system where people win trials for milions if the coffee you sell them is too hot, I would be surprised if that victim can't literally crucify the Ken Anderson guy in court for all that he has, in terms of years and money. If not,
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by nske 11y ago
The problem with getting old is that one-by-one all the things that you dreamed of as young and you got to try when got older, feel old and demystified. Suddenly you look out and see less "magic", less mystery, less things to make
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by nske 11y ago
Sadly, that's true. I'm wondering how many feel that this is not a good direction where things are going -or if it's just me being "old". Why would someone want to use javascript on the client-side for things where
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by nske 11y ago
At least in the UK, it is definitely not like that. Most IT-related jobs do not mention a degree as requirement, and of those that do, many have an "or equivalent experience" clause. This is how I remember it to be when I was look
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by nske 11y ago
Most comments focus on whether that should be illegal, what the legal consequences should be, etc. These deserve a big discussion, all right, but I think it should be a different discussion. Because law should not be a replacement for bette
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by nske 11y ago
I can only speak about Greek. That doesn't work very well there because many times a word is accented depending on its role in the sentence or its grammar (and via versa). So if you just apply automatic spell-correction, you have to pr
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by nske 11y ago
It might be easier if you have to use it infrequently, however accents with deadkeys are much faster if you type. Can't imagine typing even a paragraph while having to pause, even for a second, on every accented character (mind you, in
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by nske 11y ago
I think it is better, in the way that if enough people care about it, there will be strong reactions which will pressure the senate to not sign it and the parliament to withdraw it. And if not, well, cynical as it might be, the people'
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by nske 12y ago
They are targeting people that want to deploy large quantities of such micro-servers, programmatically on demand. Otherwise, someone willing to pay as little as possible for just a single bare metal dedicated machine, is much better of rent
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by nske 12y ago
On one hand you agree with RMS on the existence of a problem (">> which are more closed/dangerous than what we ever had"), on the other hand you are criticising him for not doing enough things right or being detached fr
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by nske 12y ago
I'm surprised they even need to clarify that it is ok to play video games without a license (why on earth would it not be ;p). I'm also surprised that they require a license for viewing any live internet stream produced by any (ev
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by nske 12y ago
I guess when someone has a small business and also happens to be an idiot, chances are slimer that a smarter business partner will point out an idiotic idea, so his idiocity has the chance to shine in all it's glory at every instance.
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by nske 12y ago
Thanks, you mean LVM2/ZFS/BTRFS based snapshots right? I've seen that mentioned but I was thinking that eventually, with system updates, the snapshots will end up having less and less common blocks with their original source,
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by nske 12y ago
I think for many or most use-cases, it would make more sense to have "off-line" deduplication (like, I believe, BTRFS does), as you can free-up space on-demand, when you judge it would yield you the most benefit and the system is
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by nske 12y ago
Apologies for drifting the thread out of the CFAA scope, I was never specifically referring to CFAA to be honest -sorry if it seemed that I was.
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by nske 12y ago
You've also got the Sony VS Hotz lawsuit, where Hotz was forced to back-off. Edge cases, maybe, but demonstrate that not everybody draws the line at the same place. For you, someone finding a vulnerability in the software that provides
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by nske 12y ago
Researches that trespass a digital network aren't the only ones who are affected, though. Let's say, a quote from the OP article: "Lanier said that after finding severe vulnerabilities in an unnamed “embedded device marketed
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by nske 12y ago
But they should give a shit before they can pass judgement, because they're not important just to me and because there are actual victims involved (which might be different than the accusants). What if no private data were actually acc
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by nske 12y ago
There is something really disturbing about a system that allows personal ambition to play such an important role in how the institution of justice operates in effect, at least in specialised matters like this. Expensive attorneys and ambiti
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by nske 12y ago
I used to hate not having a MicroSD slot on my Galaxy Nexus. Then I realised that I don't really need to have that much music/videos/games (the only things that challenged my 16GB capacity) readily available on the phone. It
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by nske 13y ago
But then again you'd have to experience being Paris Hilton as well.
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by nske 13y ago
"If the effectiveness of a justice system is seen in terms of rate of incarceration, then the society that takes that view does not sound particularly as though it believes in freedom as a fundamental value, but rather prefers values
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by nske 13y ago
It depends, some other possible explanations could be that the US justice system is that much more effective or that US inhabitants are that much more disobedient to the same laws than those of other countries. Not saying that's the c
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by nske 13y ago
well, I think if we are talking strictly about efficiency, the intuitive answer would be: either a single government, or at least a government whose boundaries are set based on more practical and real rather than artificial foundations. Nat
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by nske 13y ago
No, but the best way to make bullying a less attractive tool to any government (China's too) is to show that it is not tolerated.
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by nske 14y ago
Yes, often people are too quick to give up on their marriage if there are not legal complications on the way but, when that happens, it is more of a social or should I say cultural problem. IMO it's always wrong to apply pressure through la
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by nske 15y ago
The downside is the average Joe thinks this stuff is easy enough and he should do it professionally. And then: - Market floods with professionals who antagonize proper web developers, since, to unknoweledgeable clients, the result appears t
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by nske 15y ago
In my opinion, most developers can produce a good, or even great, design in acceptable time if they just wish so, while the reverse doesn't apply. For a developer to come up with a good design, it takes: (a) common-sense, (b) compatible-to
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by nske 15y ago
I don't disagree. I might be mistaken about the use of the word "plausible", but I think it is not necessarily connected with evidence but with human perception. Of course rational people would only find plausible explanations that are back

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