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70 human rights groups ask Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content(boingboing.net)
12 points by pdkl95 8y ago|1 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Only software written in assembly tends to invoke INT 21h directly. Or anybody that wasn't satisfied with the high-level libraries. We just looked up the functionality[2] we needed in Ralf Brown's list[1]. [1] http:/&#x
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Who maintains this server Ideally any hosing provider selected from a robust market of hosting services competing on cost/bandwidth, cost/server-{storage,cpu}, uptime/support guarantees, and any other actual recurring or
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> if you've ever set foot inside a supermarket, drugstore, fast-food restaurant, office, etc. All of which require a warrant before they can be used as evidence against you. You're conflating private recordings that are not
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Limiting the exercise of power is the goal. The police by design are supposed to meet a high standard of evidence for the use of their power to be justified. The reason for this should be obvious: unrestrained power leads to very bad
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Legality isn't a concern to groups that use the despicable, fraudulent practice of "parallel construction"[1] (aka "evidence laundering"). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Once you have everybodies location recorded You don't need anything flying to do that. The location of evert cell phone is already tracked both by the phone's telemetry[1] and deduction based on tower usage[2]. [1] https:&
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by pdkl95 8y ago
The laptop is their property; they don't need to justify how they want to use their own property. Locking down the bootloader against the laptop owner's wishes is an attempt to de facto usurp the owner's basic property rig
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'Camp' fire UPDATE Day 3 10 Nov -The likely cause. 100,000 acres(youtube.com)
3 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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Is is that hard to believe that two different trekkies (my friend, and possibly the author of the software) might have picked the same "random" constant that just happened to be the title of a TNG episode? It was very surprising a
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by pdkl95 8y ago
One day (1994) during AP CompSci, my friend was looking for ways to bypass the cheap Mac System 7 lockdown software ("Mac Control" by BDW Software). He found the fill that changed during password changes, and was astonished to fin
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by pdkl95 8y ago
To see the "spotlight of attention" masterfully exploited, I recommend Apollo Robbins[1]. Yes, his slight of hand is very impressive, but his act is fundamentally about how he fills up your attention input buffer, notices where
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> The most viable compromise proposal seems to be the spin bit That's utterly useless. If the "spin bit" becomes widely used, I intend to write a trivial patch that sets it randomly on each packet. If packets could be drop
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by pdkl95 8y ago
This kind of apology for a problematic change misses how allowing small changes eventually normalizes the change [1], allowing another similarly "small" step to be taken in the future. Today it's "just the sign-in page&
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Regardless of version number, it's new behavior that seems to roughly align with the arrival of v3. I used to be able to pass most recaptcha, but now I get that message on some sites (which are now completely inaccessible).
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Recaptcha v3 explicitly bans any browser that isn't one of "the two most recent major versions"[1] of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge. I don't mean it falls back to showing you an annoying select-the-picture quiz; if Go
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by pdkl95 8y ago
The Onion was also prescient about the end game for surveillance based companies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o (this video is especially interesting in light of Google's recent involvement in Chinese cen
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While it would be hard to argue in court, a copyright holder attempting to extend copyright beyond the scope of that copy-related right could be misuse of copyright [1]. Based on the doctrine of "unclean hands", a judge could rul
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by pdkl95 8y ago
For a disturbingly plausible sketch of what that kind of thinking grows into, see Tom Scott's short "Oversight". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuf1V1FhpY
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by pdkl95 8y ago
SoC devices with built-in LTS/etc cellular support have been available for several years. The only thing stopping a TV from bypassing your LAN is negotiating some sort of cheap bulk-rate, off-peak with the carriers.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Max Headroom, Episode ABC.1.6, "Blanks": [TV shuts off, surprising everyone] Janie Crane: "An off switch!" Metrocop: "She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!" e
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America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig Explains Corruption(boingboing.net)
123 points by pdkl95 8y ago|87 comments
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The generalized case that include sequences with repeated elements[1] are De Bruijn sequences[2]. These are cyclic sequences that contain each possible n -length string using k symbols, each appearing exactly once . B(k=3, n=2) = 1
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> Never allow all file types for upload by default, even if it is secure in your configuration The general form - never use default-allow - should be used in most situations where set of possible inputs cannot be exhaustively enumerate
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This isn't about "appearing taboo", it's remembering that data is always the product of the environment that created it. If you are using e.g. housing data, naively applying the data directly bakes in, for example, the d
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Debt existed several thousand years before money was invented[1]. Regarding the bible's many references to debt: note that it doesn't talk about inventing debt. The concept of debt - and the problems it creates - were already
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How Telltale Went Broke(youtube.com)
3 points by pdkl95 8y ago|1 comments
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> I've been making web things for a long time. I've been making internet things since before the "web" existed. > Forums didn't really exist on the web back then Gopher didn't really have the necessar
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Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi3D Live Vectorhack (oscope X-Y mode music)(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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Noah Webster did use a strongly prescriptive approach when he wrote his dictionary. His decision to use alternate or simplified spellings of some words is still seen today as the differences between American English and British English.

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