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by slavak 14y ago
I've actually ended up doing this in some cases. But I have to say: If the guy illegally copying your software and working on it via debugging and disassembly can give me a better user experience than you can, then you are doing something v
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by slavak 14y ago
His belief is not required for it to be illegal. "Wrong," on the other hand, is a whole different concept...
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by slavak 14y ago
Actually it's most certainly not theft. It's probably categorized as breach of contract -- though don't take my word here. Regardless you've just ended up proving his point.
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by slavak 14y ago
There's some kind of cognitive dissonance in the crypto community, where on the one hand they hammer into people the concept that they should always use trusted libraries and not screw with any of the settings, but on the other hand- many
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by slavak 14y ago
Which takes for granted the fact that your input stream is even ASCII to begin with. I'm too lazy to check, but I'm pretty sure this isn't going to catch all printable Unicode characters, for example - and then you're left scratching your h
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by slavak 14y ago
Full disclosure: I am an employee of the company this blog belongs to
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FEMA Disaster Declarations Summary Visualized(sisense.com)
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by slavak 14y ago
No, he's saying that if the idea was viable it would probably have come to fruition within more than 60 years of research we apparently had time to do on it.
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by slavak 14y ago
Here's a list of the trackers Ghostery blocks on his website: - AWeber - Federated Media - Gigya Socialize - Google +1 - Google AdSense - Google Analytics - Twitter Button I could see his point if he was just using Google Analytics to see t
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by slavak 14y ago
Did you try contacting the developer of AdBlock and asking him about this?
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by slavak 14y ago
I've found myself having to deal with roughly 100% more bullshit launcher-patch-launcher-settings-signup-login-wait crap since I've started buying games on Steam instead of just straight up pirating them like I did when I was dirt poor. Hon
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by slavak 14y ago
" Specifically, the groups say that compelling private companies to “speak,” by requiring them to carry all traffic across their networks, instead of allowing them to discriminate as they see fit, violates the principle of freedom of speech
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by slavak 14y ago
Remember back when consoles weren't connected to the internet and there was no way for developers to push patches to users? Remember how people used to complain their console games work fine, while their PC games require installing 3 patche
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by slavak 14y ago
http://www.singaporeclassifieds.org/wp-content/uploads/produ... Because they are both white boxes with large pictures of the product on the front? Well color me outraged! I think anyone with any eye for design would agree the two boxes ar
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by slavak 14y ago
I had voice search on my Android way before Siri was introduced. It could even perform basic actions, like telling it "Go to Wikipedia." Granted, it never pretended to be some kind of virtual assistant, but where exactly do you draw the lin
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by slavak 14y ago
There is most definitely such a thing as abuse of the law. The law should be followed in spirit, not only in letter. The courts often underscore this, but unfortunately by that point it's already too late, as the abuse has been done.
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by slavak 14y ago
Seems like the reason the US patent system is so fucked-up is the logical disconnect between the two following concepts: * The USPTO approves most patents applications without the most cursory examination by a qualified person. * Patents gr
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by slavak 14y ago
Great, you've now effectively reduced your password complexity to a measly 8 characters, while forcing the user to remember a 16-character long password.
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by slavak 14y ago
He doesn't have to come to the USA to litigate it. That's what lawyers are for...
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by slavak 14y ago
That is why mailinator.com was created...
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by slavak 14y ago
The idea that you can be extradited to a country you don't live in for something that isn't even a crime which was committed somewhere else is, as they say, completely fucked .
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by slavak 14y ago
Being sued for something like this sounds like a perfectly good way to make some patent lawyer very famous and yourself very rich. Maybe I'm just naive, though.
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by slavak 14y ago
I'm pretty sure a product publicly available before the patent was registered can't legally be considered to be in violation of the patent...
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by slavak 14y ago
As to who the person was, Carreon had some ideas: it was someone "incited by Inman, or in the alternative and on information and belief, Inman himself." Isn't this by itself libel? EDIT: Formatting.
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by slavak 14y ago
Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/1060/
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by slavak 14y ago
Will you be directing the form submission page to a static HTML page reading "Yes"?
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by slavak 14y ago
Some people have this thing against sending their private passwords in plaintext to third-party websites...
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by slavak 14y ago
By sheer coincidence I had a chance to use Perl again today for a job interview. I now have a good appreciation of why it's considered a "Write once, read never" language. :)
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by slavak 14y ago
Great job on the transparency. And now I know about the Google Authenticator app. Fancy little thing, that; glad to find out about it.
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by slavak 14y ago
Is the author seriously implying a car loaded down with lots of cameras and doing an average of 30MPH is Google's ultimate vehicle for training driverless cars? If he's right, God help us all.

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