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by skymt 14y ago
Point taken. My objection was to praptak's generalized false dilemma of corporations cheating their employees versus weak copyright and widely accepted file sharing. Don Rosa's case is indeed more complex.
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by skymt 14y ago
Don't frame it like that. It's dishonest. Corporations withholding royalties from artists is obviously bad . But it's entirely consistent to condemn such abuse while still supporting the idea that artists ought to be repaid for their work.
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by skymt 14y ago
Oracle explicitly supports automated corporate deployment, albeit in a roundabout way. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/deploy...
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by skymt 14y ago
This is an oblique, needlessly wordy way to say that if you make public all the information needed to download a file, the authorities have the information to issue a takedown order for that file. Absolutely true, and MEGA was not created t
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by skymt 14y ago
If someone can replace your `git-add` binary or put their own in a directory earlier in your $PATH, they can do the same with `git`, `ls` or any other program.
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by skymt 14y ago
The post we're discussing mentions payouts of $0.30 to $1.50 per install. Factor in InstallMonetizer's unspecified cut, and you're looking at some pretty significant rates. What sort of software do you think can afford to pay that much to g
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by skymt 14y ago
For one thing, there's no code base called "JavaScript." There's V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, Chakra, and more, and an exploit in one is unlikely to work in others. Flash and Java each have a larger market share than any given JavaScri
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by skymt 14y ago
Just because the Java plugin is rarely used doesn't mean it isn't installed. Most PCs I see have Java installed, whether bundled by the OEM or some third-party piece of software, and Java always installs its plugin. Stat Owl reports that th
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by skymt 14y ago
> After resetting password, never login the user directly. Ask them to login manually again. What vulnerability could this close? In order to finish the reset procedure in the previous step, any attacker would need to know the user's em
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by skymt 14y ago
I doubt the degree of magic involved in the user experience factors into institutional technology purchasing. And fragmentation is hardly an issue when the school is buying all the hardware. Frankly, your comment reads like a pair of talkin
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by skymt 14y ago
Thanks, that's good to know. I've never run into that quirk because the first thing I do on login is run some desktop app.
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by skymt 14y ago
My mom recently bought a Windows 8 laptop, and she seems happy with it. She's a non-technical but experienced Windows user. Here's the entire Windows 8 tutorial I gave: "This is the start screen; it replaced the start menu. To get to the re
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by skymt 14y ago
"Screenshot-looking" appears to mean "the same size as the screen." Stenography would be significantly more complex. https://github.com/clayallsopp/ShotBlocker/blob/master/ShotB...
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by skymt 14y ago
Some players recommend beating the game several times (yes, it makes sense in context) without the DLC, because the extra content makes it harder overall. Unfortunately this Humble Bundle includes both game and DLC in a single Steam license
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by skymt 14y ago
It's a little off-putting that the documentation brags about the low line count without mentioning the use of Scintilla, which already implements most of a text editor . Still, I'm willing to give it a try.
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by skymt 14y ago
Have you seen Historious? http://historio.us/
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by skymt 14y ago
It doesn't necessarily need to be a full API. How about a database dump, or even a .csv? Just some way to get the data out of one system and into another.
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by skymt 14y ago
The only case I know for certain that Valve removed a single game from accounts was the time a large number of Dirt 3 keys were leaked from a graphics card promotion. A friend traded a game for one of the stolen keys, not knowing about the
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by skymt 14y ago
Yes and yes. Valve has been known to remove games from Steam accounts in cases of abuse, e.g. credit-card fraud or stolen license keys.
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by skymt 14y ago
There's one case I recall that's close enough. A couple years ago there was a chiptune cover album of the Miles Davis classic Kind of Blue, complete with a pixel-art version of the cover. The photographer of the original cover art sued over
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by skymt 14y ago
Reddit's mechanism for filtering content is "subreddit" subscriptions. For example if you're only interested in links about movies and music, you subscribe to the subreddits for those subjects. Of course, as Reddit's demographic is geeky, s
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by skymt 14y ago
Android's system for public contribution looks good to me: http://source.android.com/source/submit-patches.html If you'll look at a few recent commits in the Android code-review system, you'll see quite a few non-Google email addresses:
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by skymt 14y ago
Forced updates? Firefox has the usual set of update options, from automated and invisible to completely manual: http://i.imgur.com/eh84n.png
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by skymt 14y ago
While already quite clean, your JavaScript can be simplified somewhat. split() will take a regular expression: var wordCount = value.trim().split(/\s+/).length Additionally, JavaScript's regex dialect has a special character of "\W
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by skymt 14y ago
The patents in question: http://www.google.com/patents/US5978791 http://www.google.com/patents/US6415280 http://www.google.com/patents/US6928442 http://www.google.com/patents/US7802310 http://www.google.com/patents/US7945539 http
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by skymt 14y ago
Isn't that what MariaDB is for?
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by skymt 14y ago
Both Firefox and Chrome have features that disable plugins but still allow you to run individual applets on demand. Please turn these on; it's not much hassle and you'll be shutting down the most common targets for exploits. For Chrome, g
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by skymt 14y ago
I can think of a couple arcade examples analogous to the "in-game currency" variety of IAP. In Gauntlet, inserting coins adds to the player's health, which constantly ticks down. In Lunar Lander, inserting coins buys fuel, which is needed t
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by skymt 14y ago
I've seen what I think is the same bug on Webkit/Linux, and I traced it to the text-rendering CSS property. If you can replicate the glitch, try unsetting text-rendering.
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by skymt 14y ago
Blurblogs look great! A couple polish points: * You should set a <title>. * The site header ("Mission Mission") for the Sutro Tower GIF post is just low-contrast enough to be difficult to read on bad displays. Maybe you should up th

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