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by orborde 17y ago
> I can only imagine what will happen when the more... motivated Tea Party types start paying attention to stories with headline descriptions like "SECRET COPYRIGHT TREATY." Care to take a guess at how the debate will turn at that poin
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by orborde 17y ago
> The claim of the PhD and the 2005 paper is that you can verify the integrity of a compiler using another compiler that you do trust, all the way back in history. Right. I'm wondering how this was sufficiently non-obvious to warrant a
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by orborde 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand this; is this simply a method for detecting whether (for example) a gcc4.0 binary on your system is compromised, done by checking whether it matches the binary as compiled by a gcc4.0 compiled from source on anothe
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by orborde 17y ago
I can't speak for the parent, or anyone else for that matter, but it does not appeal to me to burn ingenuity trying solely to figure out how better to get people to buy stuff. It's an arms race, where you expend more effort simply for a bet
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by orborde 17y ago
Bear in mind that most of those are drug-related. Stuff that the people involved are well aware is illegal. This means that our prison populations are not really good examples to wield in the service of reducing the number of obscure laws t
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by orborde 17y ago
Link is broken. Here's a corrected one: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Get_Paid_What_You%27re_Worth
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HN Point of Order: Should I upvote responses to stupid comments?
3 points by orborde 17y ago|1 comments
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by orborde 17y ago
What is your home country?
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by orborde 17y ago
I was not saying anything about your actual beliefs; I was talking about what your brief, context-free zinger seems to convey. Without further explanation, most people assume you're a troll; more explanation on your part would have at least
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by orborde 17y ago
"First, the sites I was using to draw in users blocked my profiles ... worse they had put mechanisms in place that prohibited me from making new profiles." I want to know what this guy was doing to get banned like this; such treatment is us
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by orborde 17y ago
You provided no evidence to back up your point originally, and so it came off as a drive-by "I am an anti-feminist troglodyte who is either trolling or hopelessly incapable of thought" comment; both cases merit a downvote.
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Mathematical Basis of Hallucinations(plus.maths.org)
6 points by orborde 17y ago|0 comments
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by orborde 17y ago
Why? I don't think I'm unique in viewing "able to work remotely" as an excellent perk.