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by sorbus 15y ago
I'm not sure if we both read the same comment. The second paragraph focuses on the fact that Dropbox is not suitable for sensitive content, and therefor he suggests using another service that offers client-side encryption (Tarsnap, possibly
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by sorbus 15y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4550335/how-to-write-rfid...
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by sorbus 15y ago
I expect that an argument could be made that this applies to videos as well - they're just moving images, after all. So Tennessee has (accidentally?) banned the distribution of horror movies via the internet.
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's not NATO and the Army, that's DHS/ICE. It is entirely possible for portions of the "government" (that mythical monolithic entity) to protect the internet while other portions attempt to destroy it.
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by sorbus 15y ago
The standard convention is to put [video] in the title - a convention which is sadly being ignored here, along with the inexplicable use of a URL-shortener. It should be possible to locate all submissions so marked as videos with HNSearch (
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by sorbus 15y ago
> If people want what Bitcoin provides. That's the key point. There is a huge demand for alcohol, for drugs, and for cheap/free content. In the first two cases, this means that there is real profit to be had in selling it, and the illeg
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by sorbus 15y ago
Throw a non-negotiable 1-year imprisonment into whatever penalty they enact for using bitcoin. Then imprison the thousand most prolific users (business that accept it, people who publicly exchange it, etc.), and continue doing sweeps of any
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by sorbus 15y ago
Tineye suggests that it comes from Spaceballs - or at least, of the other similar images it finds, most have Spaceballs in the filename.
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by sorbus 15y ago
This is the perfect way to hide such actions, though - an extremely obvious change, so that more subtle changes will be ignored. The article does note that MI6 is continuing to target the magazine, too, so it wouldn't be surprising if they
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by sorbus 15y ago
The really interesting bit is in the graph: it looks like there's a fair percentage of users - 3%, roughly - who, every seven days or so, on the weekend, switch from IE to one of the other three major browsers, mostly Chrome.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Previous discussion (on the initial proposal by shahedkhan30) at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2606311 There didn't seem to be much enthusiasm about the idea there - a mixture of discussion about the "build it first, then see if any
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Spammers will always win. If it is made by the hands of a human, it is pretty much common sense that it has aspects that can be exploited. They seem to be losing on HN. Mostly because we're very low-profile, but for a while there were
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by sorbus 15y ago
I was suggesting the possibility of different coupon services marketing themselves to different segments of the populace; the most common characterization (as far as I can tell) of people who use Groupon is as cheap or stingy, so a service
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's also a very good way to figure out how many people would actually be willing to pay for it. Not the best way, obviously, due to the number of irritated developers, but it might provide more accurate results than a survey, and certainly
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Scale allows them to offer better deals -- if Groupon can generate 1,000 takers for a Dreamdu5t Cafe coupon and Google Offers can only come up with 200 then Groupon can drastically undercut whatever margin Google is taking and win you
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by sorbus 15y ago
One of the comments says that it's on youtube. There are a few there, but I'm not sure if one is official - none of them really look like it. That does seem like a feature that would make a lot of sense for live videos to have. Could be tha
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by sorbus 15y ago
Yeah. Other identifying features, then - I'm sure that someone has come up with a way to identify images which ignores such basic changes to them, especially considering what TinEye does.
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by sorbus 15y ago
I would flag them if I could - I seem to have lost that privilege. Not entirely sure why, though I suspect that the system decided I was overusing it.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Apple's lawyers are on the back of anyone who makes white iPhone cases, jailbreakers, etc. Yes, you did.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> Money does not shift from new investors to the creators of Bitcoin. I'm not quite sure what confusion of ideas lead you to believe this. Please explain how new investors obtain bitcoins, if not from the original members of the system
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by sorbus 15y ago
> This is already a problem now, imagine how bad it would be in a society with 1/4 of the current high school graduates not graduating. By comparison, the dropout rate in 2008 was 8.0%, down from 11.8% in 1998[1]. [1] http://nces.ed.go
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by sorbus 15y ago
I'm guessing sometime around when everyone is legally required to have a camera and microphone attached to their head which note everything they see and hear and automatically charge them for any content that they view. Of course, you would
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by sorbus 15y ago
They deleted all content attributed to him - which is as simple as just searching for "The Oatmeal" - and then threw in a word filter to replace "The Oatmeal" with "The Fag". Not really the same thing as deleting or banning all his content,
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by sorbus 15y ago
And, while we're legislating copyright reform, let's throw in a requirement to store the hashes (or other identifying features) of any content that has a DMCA filed against it and check all new content against that list of hashes to prevent
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by sorbus 15y ago
Users affected matters, apps infected doesn't.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Similarity and number are both explained by copy-pasting a pre-written message, which is not considered automation.
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by sorbus 15y ago
What are your criteria for best? Do you want something extremely fast? Do you want ridiculous battery life? Do you want an extremely light and portable machine? Do you prefer large screens or small? Extremely high resolution or the standard
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by sorbus 15y ago
> And really? 5 downvotes for saying that the link does't work? This community has really declined. Downvotes for an error message posted with no context[1] on the other hand, are entirely appropriate. [1] The error appears to have been
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by sorbus 15y ago
> What I don't get about these programs (for desktops/laptops) is...do you guys have passwords on your user accounts? And if so, they must have somehow cracked them to get access. > In that case, I know if I was going to steal a lap
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by sorbus 15y ago
I've always heard that the status LED is hardwired into the webcam, so that there is absolutely no way for software to prevent it from turning on when the webcam is active. So yes. It would probably be a very brief flash, though.

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