smutticus

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by smutticus 12y ago
Replacing man pages because 'they look old' is a terribly stupid idea. How about we replace them because there is something better? Or because they no longer fill a need? Things that are old and work are not to be messed with. Fra
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by smutticus 12y ago
Perhaps this is what you're looking for. http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/01/ftc-re... It's a start at least.
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by smutticus 12y ago
I agree with your first paragraph, but not so much with your second. This is one reason why people pay good money for production load balancers. This is also why people run independent scripts to retrieve test pages on their production serv
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by smutticus 12y ago
Disk space is cheap. If it really is a problem for you then work around it. But for most of us installing dev files makes sense if we ever need to compile something against those .h files.
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by smutticus 12y ago
Can someone with more details on his involvement provide more information? I'm confused as to what exactly this guy did for Mega.
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by smutticus 12y ago
Your link is, while great, completely unrelated.
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by smutticus 12y ago
First come first served. And if you leave your squat unattended, someone else can take it. The point is to incentivize rich people to put someone in their building. Not to divy up unused buildings among the homeless. There are tons of detai
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by smutticus 12y ago
Allow squatting in buildings that are unoccupied for more than 6 months. That way even the super rich are required to actually have someone live in their unoccupied buldings. If they buy them and live in them then fine, but if not they need
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by smutticus 12y ago
NTP is important as well. If I remember correctly, that decision was made around the time that NTPD was found to have multiple exploits allowing amplification attacks. Given that there are so many publicly available NTP servers, that makes
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by smutticus 12y ago
That's not a decision the FCC gets to make. Congress and the courts ultimately decide what is considered lawful content. These rules need to withstand changes that Congress might enact in the future. If Congress decides to force ISPs t
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by smutticus 12y ago
> DNSSEC is a government-controlled PKI. This needs to be better explained in depth. Do world governments control DNS because of ICANN's GAC? Does the USG control DNS because ICANN is contracted to the NTIA? Are the root key creator
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by smutticus 12y ago
The idea that this is somehow motivated by unselfish interests by Zuckerberg or FB is laughable. It's not about getting people online, it's about getting them on FB. It's not clear if Time is aware of this distinction. They m
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by smutticus 12y ago
I took that quote to mean he wanted Scala to be idiomatic. There's much mileage to be had from linguistic idiomaticity. Like you said, "software patterns tend to help drive synergy." I don't think your opinion and the au
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by smutticus 12y ago
I think your question is fair and don't understand why you were downvoted. I also question their definition of slavery. Are US prison inmates forced into labor also slaves? Slavery is not an easy thing to define.
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by smutticus 12y ago
If they want Title II they should promise Wheeler a job that pays more than head Comcast lobbyist. That's the cheapest and easiest way to get net neutrality.
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by smutticus 12y ago
What is meant by 'commercial code'? I have never heard this term before. I have never written code and sold it. I have written a lot of code which is part of business process, and no doubt still running. Do I count the code I wrot
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by smutticus 12y ago
I'm the author of the packet editor Hexcap. http://www.hexcap.org Hexcap is an ncurses packet hex editor and generator, and it's open source. It uses the dpkt library for packet encap and decap, as well as dnet and pyp
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by smutticus 12y ago
Facts cannot be copyrighted, only specific arrangements of facts can be copyrighted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
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by smutticus 12y ago
I hack on my OSS project on OpenBSD exclusively. I'm a stickler for good documentation, and the BSDs IMO are far better than Linux. I use OpenBSD because 3-4 years ago I discovered a bug in the FreeBSD kernel that meant my OSS project
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by smutticus 12y ago
They already do to some extent. Hence the debate over network neutrality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Communications_Inc._v....
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by smutticus 12y ago
This is just the commissioner starting a process to identify rules. This is the beginning of a long process to try and figure something out about OTT content. "Specifically, I am asking the Commission to start a rulemaking proceeding i
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by smutticus 12y ago
One of the main criticisms I hear about OpenBSD is that it's performance isn't as good as Linux. I've looked at a couple articles quoting benchmark comparisons, so I'll assume for the sake of argument that it's true
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by smutticus 12y ago
I posted this in a conversation in /r/netsec today as well. I don't agree that this is a bug. I'm all for having a discussion about whether this is a bug or not. I just hope that before the wget developers change anythin
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by smutticus 12y ago
For those interested in understanding why we conceive of time the way we do, I recommend Philosophy in the Flesh, by Lakoff and Johnson. Chapter 10 deals with Time. http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/l/lakoff-
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by smutticus 12y ago
I'm rather color blind and have a hard time seeing the links. For example, I had to move my mouse over the text randomly until I found the link was "Surveillance Self-Defense". When I'm reading the text on the detail pag
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by smutticus 12y ago
Why don't people in the bay area allow cheap housing to be built in their community? Why can't we have giant apartment complexes in the bay area?
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by smutticus 12y ago
I think this is satire, but not sure...
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by smutticus 12y ago
> If we hadn’t discussed race, “The Bell Curve” would have been dismissed on grounds that “Herrnstein and Murray refuse to confront the reality that IQ tests are invalid for blacks, which makes their whole analysis meaningless.” We had
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by smutticus 12y ago
Find a competent tax guy that understands both US and NL tax law. I can recommend someone that I used and liked. Msg me if interested. The Belastingdienst doesn't recognize Roth IRA's as retirement accounts, but one trick is to ow
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by smutticus 12y ago
I read the article again and I think you're right. I think there's some linguistic confusion here. The Dutch word pensioen regularly gets translated into 'retirement account', or somesuch. Whereas, and as you state, ther

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