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by parfe 16y ago
I don't have a platitude for why we need to defend speech. My only argument has ever been that my icky speech today is your essential speech tomorrow. By the time you think something needs to be censored is beyond the line of where you co
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by parfe 16y ago
I understand your reasoning, but I don't think you took it far enough. If something can be implemented in hardware, than it is hardware. If your mind could exist as a machine than I could print out schematics with every switch/gate/electr
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by parfe 16y ago
I never claimed it was acceptable. Only that it was irrelevant. Why should anyone besides PHPFog's lawyer and the kids' parents care? It's because PHPFog chose to play PR guru and throw the drama into their postmortem as a distraction. D
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by parfe 16y ago
> No, they are mentioned because they are the criminals who intruded and vandalized the system! "They" are not relevant in any way! "They" are tabloid meat for an internet drama. "They" are a distraction from the fact that a hosting
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by parfe 16y ago
You're conflating armed robbery, a violent crime, with hacking a web site? That's the end of this thread.
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by parfe 16y ago
> They aren't shifting responsibility Yes PHPFog is. The only reason these kids are even mentioned in the blog post is to shift blame. Their part in the post serves no other purpose. The entire event could have been recounted without
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by parfe 16y ago
No, we call them juvenile delinquents and treat them like children. And we certainly don't call the bank the victim.
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by parfe 16y ago
I promised myself I'd avoid another analogy but... If I give the bank my money and the next day I get an email saying "Sorry, we didn't feel like locking up last night and some kids looted the vault." I'd have a hard time calling the bank
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by parfe 16y ago
Let's not forget that the victim here is PHPFog's (potential) customers and not PHPFog itself.
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by parfe 16y ago
>I fail to see you address the point that these kids caused harm to a business Very well. These kids caused harm to a business. So what's that change? The business screwed up, badly. The agent of destruction is quite irrelevant. Ha
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by parfe 16y ago
> When a teenager smashes in a storefront window, do we say they should've had bars over it? Depends what's behind the storefront windows. On the other hand I can certainly agree that we stop with the technology analogies before a car
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by parfe 16y ago
I disagree. Lucas names these children and attempts to personify them so blame can be shifted to the "bad guys" rather than his company. Lucas's post does not say "We screwed up." He says "We got screwed by Elliot." I'm saddened most bec
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by parfe 16y ago
Maybe then they'll stop with the half-assed apologies and recognize that there's a right way and a wrong way to do things. PHPFog built a castle out of sand and you're upset that a wave came and demolished it. I'm always surprised at how
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by parfe 16y ago
The Death Star was a trap[1]. It wasn't semi-complete. It was fully operational[2] and designed to lure in the Rebel fleet to a single location. Destroying the rebels in detail had proved to be too time consuming. [1] Ackbar, Return of t
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by parfe 16y ago
Your method is likely storing a plain text string that would grant access to other accounts you own.
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by parfe 16y ago
A seemingly good question I ran into was "Enter the last 5 digits of your driver's license." I always have my driver's license with me, which sounds good. The problem is NJ driver's license numbers are actually encoding of your data. The
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by parfe 16y ago
I was trying to find something and it seems to be the Passenger Vessel Services Act which is now part of the Jones Act. I think the travel agent understands the rules incorrectly though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Vessel_Servi
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by parfe 16y ago
Was the Maritime Treason line a joke? I'm not sure I follow how the wiki article applies to leaving a cruise early.
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by parfe 16y ago
Do you know of any startups using a LISP as the primary dev language?
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by parfe 16y ago
First, find a better color scheme for something you intend people to read. That was painful. Second, when I was a CS student I expected to be graded on my response to a particular problem. If you wanted me to roll my own sort, I expect th
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by parfe 16y ago
2008 - U.S. aims to boost Libya trade, trim deficit http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/06/us-libya-usa-idUST... Libya are the bad guys this week. We were dealing with Libya in the Billions based on that article. Suddenly $75.00 for a
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by parfe 16y ago
Uh, no. Don't even think about getting into a "you don't do this" argument with me, because I have a list of exactly where most my spending goes, and I spent a year living in the desert on sustainable goods, don't own a smart phone, have b
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by parfe 16y ago
And I've never spoken with a Libyan, Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan or Belorussian. I'm also not chastising someone else for dealing with any of those countries. In fact, I'm saying the opposite. Even if I view another country in a negative li
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by parfe 16y ago
Domains are easy for you to harp on because you have nothing invested in it and any claims you make do not actually apply to you. You'll happily fund places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and China because it's hard to avoid, but then come a
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by parfe 16y ago
Each "brutal dictatorship" is going to have their own nuances and idiosyncrasies but throwing down a blanket "don't deal with them" is flat out pointless. We deal with nasty governments on a daily basis. From the gas we put in our cars to
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by parfe 16y ago
It's a full on delusional platitude to discount dealings with brutal or dictatorial countries. You seem to imply there should be consideration in who we deal with based on the political conditions which is actually not even feasible at this
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by parfe 16y ago
Does your IPhone Made in China count?
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by parfe 16y ago
I have no idea how close my interpretation has been as IANAP but: Take the balloon analogy for the expanding universe. Tape pennies all over an empty balloon. Now inflate it. Every penny is moving away from every other penny. Now imagine
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by parfe 16y ago
If you finish you're prompted to submit your code along with your resume for employment consideration. Keep that in mind as you move on to each next step. Had to piece together one of my solutions into a single solution. https://www.grep
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by parfe 16y ago
This has created a pretty serious issue at my current job. My experience is increasing in value faster than policy lets my salary appreciate. Policy is forcing me to find a job elsewhere. I cannot rationalize continually taking a relative

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