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by smokeyj 14y ago
Say you try logging into your gmail. Couldn't they spoof the DNS and point you to a "proxy" that skims your credentials?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Wouldn't you have bigger problems at that point?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
I should have known my distaste for IP was out of historical ignorance and susceptibility to propaganda campaigns! Only a fool would ignore the self-evident and empirically observable benefits of the Courts! I have since shed my contemporar
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by smokeyj 14y ago
It seems like IP exists to empower corporations to monopolize segments of the market. Does anyone actually believe it's to empower consumers? Because that's the argument I typically hear. Edit: I just want to know if we're all on the same p
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by smokeyj 14y ago
The only similarity between these options are aesthetics. To argue they're the same product is to say all red coups are the same. No, they just happen to be red.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Can someone explain why copying is bad? Do people really believe that a marketplace is so fragile, that unless an omnipotent actor interferes with trade, consumers will become victims to "copying"? Or that the poor consumer won't be able to
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by smokeyj 14y ago
I think it's clear we have to out-lobby the lobbyists so we can bribe our government to listen. I have ten bucks, what do you got?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
If you don't think bribery goes on in local government you've never been involved too closely. A city official in my town was just convicted of voter fraud. Imagine how many people go uncaught.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
They redefined it as lobbying. Convenient, eh?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
You're evading the question. How many more privacy breaches have to occur before you consider FB reckless? I'm not talking about security breaches, I'm talking about code being pushed that breaks expected privacy functionality. This is espe
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Damage control != caring. Caring would be fixing their systems after the first few privacy fuck-ups. Why are you so determined to paint FB in the best of light? Honest question. How many more breaches have to occur before you consider FB re
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by smokeyj 14y ago
What kinds of systems are in place to make sure private information stays private? Facebook invites so many people to spill their personal lives on the internet, and many of them are under the impression they have privacy and control over t
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Who's hating on Facebook because they have money? I'm hating on Facebook because they can't secure a CRUD app, and don't really seem to care much either. This isn't the first occurrence of a permissions snafu, which tells me they should inv
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Maybe privacy controls should offer privacy, instead of tricky-dick shenanigans.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> Not sure what is meant by a "default router". Default settings. Many wifi routers work just by plugging in ethernet. > I simply think that saying "open up your wifi I'm not suggesting anything besides grandma isn't her IP. I don't
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Is it a crime to plug in a default router in the UK?
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> My point is that it's usually down to the ISP or whoever provides to router to make it secure. Which ISP configures wifi routers? And I always see unsecured connections from default routers. Don't tell me you're never connected to the
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by smokeyj 14y ago
An IP still isn't a person as your computer could be remotely controlled. Maybe grandma shouldn't have been so negligent when updating her Java package when a known zero day exists.. Expecting anyone besides a HN dork to know WEP is outdate
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Except the person buying the inferior product is trying to re-sell it to the next sucker for a larger mark-up than you are. I have as much sympathy for speculators as I do gamblers.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Organic foods for increased vitamins seems like an expensive alternative to vitamin supplements. But I feel like people who eat organic foods would rather not eat manufactured vitamin supplements, leaving the main benefit of organic food to
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> They are world's apart .. you might want to cut down on the hyperbole. Rustynails backed his comment with evidence and reasoning, while your reasoning is backed by.. hyperbole. You seem like the type who would defend patents over for-
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> Capitalism is based on there being a customer. All the capital in the world doesn't do any good if there's not a buyer on the other end. Another argument for a strong middle class. I fail to see how these sentences form an "argument".
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by smokeyj 14y ago
A linux/Steam console would be pretty sick.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
I wish we could validate (or invalidate) the benefits of IP and copyright protection, given people speak about the benefits as if it's fact. Too often I hear garbage along the lines of: Without patents there would be no innovation! Without
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Title should be "threat to sue over the letter 'e', with arrow above it. Game changer!
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by smokeyj 14y ago
> I highly suspect Assange is actually just trying to avoid jail time, if he's going to these lengths to avoid going to Sweden for questioning on unrelated accusations of sex crime. He offered to be interviewed from the embassy. Isn't i
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by smokeyj 14y ago
I think most of the industrialized world will go through this inevitably, but it's important to remember that liberty is a long term strategy that requires education and diligence. In a way, India is about to prove why biometric data on eve
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by smokeyj 14y ago
So many gems in this one. > One area in desperate need of disruption is the delivery of government services. Seeing disruptive describe a bureaucratic process is tickling. > Over time, systematic corruption and mismanagement have br
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Facebook might be able to make a profit extorting people, given they probably have some record of everyone committing a crime in some form or fashion.
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by smokeyj 14y ago
Totally right. Google makes copyrighted material available too.. Lock 'em up!

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