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by poet 16y ago
Check out "A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet". This is the paper we focused on in an Advanced Networking class when we talked about naming. It aggregates several key principles from the literature into one system. I haven't rea
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by poet 16y ago
I agree with you on a logical level, I just don't think that's how it plays out in the average voter's/politician's mind. The logical leap between guns and Tor just isn't made in practice.
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by poet 16y ago
But there is no "strong cryptography is bad" rhetoric out there... How about Tor being used for CP? That's a pretty prevalent and well known argument. Any competent lawyer is going to be able to spin the same argument for strong crypto.
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by poet 16y ago
Agreed, but it's your job as a citizen to try and pay exactly what you owe by law. If what Arrington did was legal, it wasn't wrong of him. No one should be paying more taxes than what's legally required. If there are any loopholes (so to
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by poet 16y ago
And you're forgetting that there are "end-user" programs that depend on those libraries as well, so they really do need to be packaged up. I'm not forgetting this. I don't think the user's programs should use the same libraries (or even t
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by poet 16y ago
I've always thought that it was a bad idea for Linux distros to package any language libraries at all. It seems like a lot of repeated work and your users will probably end up needing to install things manually in the end. Things will requi
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“Do Not Track” Explained - Opting Out of Behavioral Tracking(33bits.org)
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by poet 16y ago
The idea that a decentralized fault tolerant network is such a novel concept that it required a government to think of it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Even the telephone system is decentralized. There are decentralized fault tolerant
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by poet 16y ago
Erm, it's most certainly a fact. Government funded projects produced the Internet, while commercial companies were producing centralized, circuit switched networks. It's self evident that no one else was doing it; every single commercial co
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by poet 16y ago
All the networks you listed are circuit switched, centralized networks; they really don't have anything to do with the Internet at all. The claim that without ARPAnet there would be no Internet is almost self evident, considering how fundam
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by poet 16y ago
The value of a blog is the writing. They don't really depend on the one photo they use. The "value" of the website in question is that they get to laugh at photos that you can't use commercially. Without the photos, the website is nothing.
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by poet 16y ago
It's not the government's primary job to fund innovation. What we are seeing is that innovation is unable to sustain itself without government money. You've got this backwards. It is specifically the government's job to fund innovation is
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by poet 16y ago
AdSense policies are part of a larger superset of things that you can get cut off for. State and federal laws are also part of that set. As the article notes, "state law that prohibits people from using someone else's identity for commercia
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by poet 16y ago
This is a common misunderstanding. Yes, if someone purposely tries to release classified information they will face charges. That isn't what happened in this case. In the defense industry, an author can write a book (or a scientific paper,
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by poet 16y ago
The whole reason why this situation happened is that the vetting was not properly done.
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by poet 16y ago
It strikes me as a bad plan to depend on 400% growth that's sustainable over a decade. You're right, people are horrible at taking growth variables into account. They usually overestimate them . Facebook may well achieve the numbers outlin
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by poet 16y ago
Unfortunately this sort of view isn't very compatible with the indie developer ideal, or the ideals the author holds--which might one of the many reasons why you see so much Rails/PHP development in the non-enterprise space. I'd say a muc
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by poet 16y ago
If I could give one piece of advice to every startup who is worried about server security, it would be this: read the NSA's two page pamphlet for hardening Red Hat Enterprise Linux [1] for a quick overview and then move on to the ~200 page
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by poet 16y ago
I find educating the least talented coder I work with a mostly social problem that I can solve over lunch [1]. But yes, I've definitely felt the pain of monkey patching gone awry. :-p Working around a restriction enforced by your language i
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by poet 16y ago
I'm keeping this in my back pocket the next time I have a conversation about why I prefer Ruby's monkey patching paradigm to Python's strictness. This is better than all my current examples. :)
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by poet 16y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but it's important to note that excellent programming requires some pretty high level theoretical understanding of Computer Science (i.e. Algorithms). There's a slow way to do everything and a fast way to do some
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by poet 16y ago
Rackspace is within their rights as a private entity to make this decision, but I'm also within my rights as a consumer never to purchase hosting from them again.
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by poet 16y ago
Hurd falsified expense reports for personal gain [1]. Not sure what your definition of fraud is, but that qualifies in my book. I'm not saying I disagree with Oracle hiring Hurd, but HP's problem with Hurd had nothing to do with his persona
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by poet 16y ago
Tough talk like that will win you cheap points, but you're just wasting peoples' time by taking a rushed and uninformed barf in the comment box. Let's examine your basic claim that: "[excluding the blatant propaganda, the projects] are just
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by poet 16y ago
Using a new account is providing me enough cognitive dissonance to post again... TBH it's kind of arbitrary I'm using this account. :-p I'd be happy to proof read (in addition to Computer Science I also study English). Although admittedly m
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by poet 16y ago
Ignore the rabble. :-/
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by poet 16y ago
The underlying assumption that being a market economy precludes a market from being unethical strikes me as overly simplistic.
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by poet 16y ago
Editorialized submission headline for a highly editorialized piece. Regardless of the issues at hand, no thanks.
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by poet 16y ago
You're right. I did not realize your blog post was from 2008 (I falsely assumed it was a recent post). I based my assertions off of the fact that Google has a cache of the page in question dating back to July 1st 2010: http://webcache.goog
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by poet 16y ago
There's absolutely no way for your claim to be true unless the information is only found on blog posts. Decently crafted Google queries easily return the primary source (which is not a blog post). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=s

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