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by rickmb 14y ago
I see the familiar pattern of programmers not saying "no" and not explaining clearly what they need to work. None of the other people here are being particularly unreasonable, they're just ignorant. And given that "how to work with programm
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by rickmb 14y ago
I completely disagree with the conclusion. If I go along with the premise that people are merely "acting" stupid, that is all the more reason to casually dismiss them. I can have patience with people that have limited capabilities, but peop
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by rickmb 14y ago
With respect to #1: in countries with a functioning justice system, humane prisons, no death penalty and no insane "three strikes" rules, criminals are more likely to surrender and just accept defeat.
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by rickmb 14y ago
BREIN has shopped around all over the country, using different courts every time. Most of the time they lost. But suddenly they stopped, and brought all their cases to the same court in The Hague where they started winning cases most people
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by rickmb 14y ago
This judge isn't so much corrupt as politically and ideologically motivated. This became most clear in his judgement in which he described the Pirate Party as a radical party because they favor copyright reform and transparent government. H
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by rickmb 14y ago
Anything that doesn't require you to submit to centralized storage under third party control (euphemistically known as "the cloud") has a shot at dethroning Dropbox. Especially outside the US, where people, governments and businesses are be
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by rickmb 14y ago
The thing is, buying Apple hardware immediately solves my problem for a long time. I may only have to upgrade the OS (cheaply and painlessly) from time to time. If MS could offer the same, no problem. Those two days of struggling and the re
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by rickmb 14y ago
Which is what makes RMS so valuable. He does think about things others take for granted, and he raises the alarm if he feels there's something there to be concerned about. Sure, he raises that alarm early and often (and in an annoying voice
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by rickmb 14y ago
I tried to encourage my team to test better against IE by creating a nice setup on which they could easily use all relevant IE versions. After two days of struggling with all the insanity of Windows licensing, installing and the crap suppor
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by rickmb 14y ago
Not quite the right thing: the subpoena is too broad. This is very typical for law enforcement everywhere these days. Luckily SparkFun was diligent enough to negotiate it down to relevant information, but it the "gimme all your data" attitu
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by rickmb 14y ago
Not so much confusion as setting off by BS-alarm. It's basically like calling a taxi a "driverless" form of transport, just because you don't do the driving.
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by rickmb 14y ago
From the way you throw the word "hipster" around like an epithet, I already guessed you are not a Mac or Windows user... Sorry, couldn't resist. My point is, making all those assumptions about people and their motives is just as "idiotic" a
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by rickmb 14y ago
Another male here. I agree with the bad choice of the word "douchebag", which seems juvenile, but I disagree with it a) being sexist, and b) the general idea that swear words are somehow generically "childish" or "unprofessional". It's puri
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by rickmb 14y ago
That's pretty much my experience, with one additional issue that really keeps me coming back to Firefox: Chrome doesn't handle sleep and wake-up well. Ironically, one of the applications that suffers most from this is Google Apps. I'll have
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by rickmb 14y ago
This only involves the top blockbusters. For most other US produced movies the waiting time for releases can easily be well over 6 months. Besides, 6 weeks is still a long time in the age of instant global communication. Basically, all the
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by rickmb 14y ago
The headers suggest ancient, unmaintained systems running outdated, no longer supported software with multiple known vulnerabilities. I would be surprised if these systems haven't already been p0wned a long time ago.
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by rickmb 14y ago
"In the wild" in this case was just their honeypots. Actually vulnerable site should be very rare. Also, one would assume that any website still using php-cgi has plenty of other security vulnerabilities.
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by rickmb 14y ago
So their target audience is developers that are incapable of installing their own tools and that are cool with the cheap look and flimsy build quality of Dell laptops. Unfortunately, that market actually exists, and nine out of ten times th
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by rickmb 14y ago
Apparently, it also backs up Gmail specific stuff like labels. Which is nice, but if Gmail every bites you in the ass so hard that this is the only way to recover, would you trust Gmail again? As for myself, I just imap my Gmail accounts an
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by rickmb 14y ago
"Back in the day", Microsoft didn't make security blunders. It made things fundamentally insecure as a matter of policy , and could get away with it because they had a virtual monopoly. This significant difference informs how people respon
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by rickmb 14y ago
That's not a bad list of things to strive for, but the whole concept of "this is what I know, I'm awesome, so this what it takes to be awesome" puts me off. People can do perfectly well if they are lacking in some of these areas, especially
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by rickmb 14y ago
I don't think he's overreacting. I read further, made it almost to the end, but stopped when the author kept re-iterating his "stealing" BS. So he's against DRM. Fine. He's still repeating the same bullshit propaganda / newspeak that serves
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by rickmb 14y ago
I came here expecting someone trying to pull a anti-privacy fast one. Nice try. Just because an IP address alone is not enough to legally beyond doubt identify a person doesn't mean collecting IP addresses in combination with online behavio
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by rickmb 14y ago
Enjoy the Kool-Aid. And the burn-out. No more than 40 hours per week and 30 days paid vacation is not "entitlement", it's common sense . It helps to keep people healthy, happy and productive . QED. Sure, it's doable, and sometimes even ne
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by rickmb 14y ago
Which would be relevant if the cost of bare servers wasn't just a minor part of the cost of maintaining the infrastructure for most organizations.
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by rickmb 14y ago
VPNs aren't just used for file-sharing. One of the main reasons why people outside the US (including American expats) use VPN services is to get access to geo-tarded services.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Now of course it was improper to reveal this before informing WooThemes, so they can patch it and inform their users before this hole gets exploited on a massive scale. But just look at the code itself. Does this look like the authors even
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by rickmb 14y ago
This is not a shot at you but your comment sums up the 'privacy problem' in the tech industry right now. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Whether or not normal users understand these things isn't relevant. The fact is that in countries with strong
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by rickmb 14y ago
I think you'll find the "walk away" part is not that simple, considering the fact that it would constitute a crime . The kind of crime law enforcement is quite familiar with and that leaves plenty of traceable evidence because it involves
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by rickmb 14y ago
#2 was 100% real. Yes, it was a joke, but it's only the kind of joke you make if you have absolutely no intention whatsoever of inviting female hackers to your event. The humor didn't cross the line, the being explicitly uninviting to women

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