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by pseudonym 14y ago
The question then becomes, who decides what that falls under? It's the kind of question that results in laws against braiding hair without a Cosmetology license.[1] And it's a lot easier to code for public consumption, given that all you ne
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Well, I would contend the "line" would be "an accredited penetration tester can't break your software", much like a health inspection is "an accredited health and safety inspector can't find anything wrong with your business". But that open
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The key word there is "prevailing quality standards". If a developer writes something, in good faith, that's vulnerable to SQL injection, or stores passwords in plaintext on a server, is that negligence?
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by pseudonym 14y ago
And yet not a word about battery power. You'd think that if this is in this one, they'd have it at the top of the list.
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by pseudonym 14y ago
My issue (well, one of my issues) is that I'm on a rather pristine new work computer, and while I do use Calibre at home, I don't want to put it on this machine. Additionally, I don't want do deal with the hassle of creating a Kindle accoun
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Every once in awhile the state of DRM really hammers itself home, to me. Case in point, when someone is literally giving a potentially interesting book away and I can't be arsed to take it because getting it onto my reader of choice is just
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Of course Amazon doesn't support it-- they, like the C&Ding authors, subscribe to the kool-aid of "everyone that was lending these books would have been a sale".
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by pseudonym 14y ago
You're perfectly welcome to use the same password multiple times-- it's as secure as you yourself make it. When Google generates an App password, it displays it once-- and then trashes it. On that same page is a list of the identifiers you'
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The only issue is that a lot of programs (mobile apps, especially) seem to interact directly with the Dropbox API, which leaves no possible interface for a secondary authentication. Google gets around this by having app-specific passwords t
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by pseudonym 14y ago
Well, the obvious starting point is this[1] SA Thread that directly led to the Reddit-embarassing that resulted in the dropping of the pedo boards. You may or may not be able to view it, but the short version is that they created a "Reddit
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by pseudonym 14y ago
From the top of the Kickstarter page: >"People often want to know how they can support the site in a way that doesn't involve t-shirts or looking at advertising, and I think we may have a way." The kickstarter rewards aren't something y
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by pseudonym 14y ago
>Also, for the installed hardware base, Windows is and has always been the most consumer-friendly operating system on the market. It's certainly not perfect, and it might not suit power users, but it more than serves its purpose. I'm go
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by pseudonym 14y ago
In my experience, some of the best advice I've ever received has been from anecdotes that run counter to the text of an article. ...I kid. It's actually an interesting idea. I don't know about scrapping them entirely, but I think a lot of s
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by pseudonym 14y ago
The problem is more in the "One of my ram chips went bad, so I had to replace the logic board."
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by pseudonym 14y ago
To be fair, I don't think anyone missed the initial IPO, given that roughly half the stories on HN at the time were about how terrible an investment it would be. I imagine that if they had to pull and re-file their IPO (not being a follow
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I would be very surprised if dentists saw this as a disruptive threat-- since these are real teeth, these are still subject to needing to be cleaned on a regular basis, unlike just dropping your dentures into a cup before you go to bed at n
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I would agree with this, although I'm in the unenviable position of needing a lot of dental work after not having had any for awhile. I'd far rather have research be done into making longer-lasting and/or cheaper or easier to implant perman
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by pseudonym 14y ago
I have one gmail account down and two up. Sounds very localized, to me.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
As someone who lives in Marin and goes to Sol Food, I can say that the 30 minute wait isn't because they have shitty service. I'll also note that it's generally a better idea to phone in your order, unless you're eating at a non-peak hour.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
I work in the game industry. It is, traditionally, a higher stress environment than other jobs. If someone can't take the stress of the job, is it the fault of the industry, the company, or the mental processes of the person in question? I
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by pseudonym 15y ago
Devoid of the proper context, it's amusing to think about your post in terms of the uncertain legal implications of users actually reading and understanding the TOS.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
I've been using them for awhile and have just been too lazy to transfer. That said, with this, I'll be swapping over on December 29th.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
Honestly, this is just making me spend less on Steam, since I know most of the cheaper games I'm interested in will end up as HIBs sooner or later, complete with Steam keys.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
>>Black is not the only logical solution. Given that Apple itself has tablets shipping in white, I'd agree with this. This article does a good job of presenting how Apple potentially came to the answer of how a tablet should look,
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by pseudonym 15y ago
The backlash here is comparable to EA's banning of users from their single-player games, I would say. Shitty customer service is crappy, but the backlash is greater in proportion to the criticality of the asset in question. In Paypal's case
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by pseudonym 15y ago
Keep in mind that his overarching idea seems to be "technology is bad, mkay?" He also supports SOPA and was calling for a "Flag Terrorist" button for all Blogger blogs.
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by pseudonym 15y ago
In situations where I can't avoid it (I've come into more projects with no development database and no concept of the idea than I'd like to say), I've taught myself that starting any data modification on a live server always begins with STA
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by pseudonym 15y ago
It doesn't, but it's more the fact of "removing your license to re-download the item". Given that this particular attempt at DRM could probably be defeated by right click+copy into the same directory before "selling" the track, deleting off
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by pseudonym 15y ago
In the case of the physical CD example, yes. But in the case of iTunes, there is no physical medium to be the key. Personally, I can't see this company working unless they can hook into iTune's servers and de-authorize the Apple account f
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by pseudonym 15y ago
A single-sourced, anonymous, piece like this one wouldn't (or at least shouldn't) be making the front page of widely read publications. Shouldn't it be? I think HN was perfectly fine in this regard. There are a lot of companies that aren'

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