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by sorbus 15y ago
Everyone who was affected by the bug was notified by email, and Dropbox's CEO even gave them his phone number so that they could contact him. As I see it, that's the proper response to issues like this: informing everyone who was affected,
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by sorbus 15y ago
If the marketing copy said something like "if we screw up, you can sue us" while the TOS says "we can't be held liable if we screw up", then that might be relevant. However, I've never seen dropbox say anything like that in their advertisin
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's the intent; the video was shot by a vibration tester manufacturer (an awkward phrase). If you go to the URL at the end, it says that it's a promotion for a predictive maintenance tool that uses vibrations.
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by sorbus 15y ago
But a netbook is $250 on the low end, and a full laptop (low-end, but not horribly slow) is $400. A modern laptop (with an i3) can be had for between $470 and $500. Based on the selection available on Amazon, chromebooks seem to have three
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by sorbus 15y ago
That doesn't work well, at least in this case. From the article, "We're turning over to the Iraqis — mostly either for a small penny or for free — the infrastructure that we built in Iraq. But we won't see back any money from that infrastru
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by sorbus 15y ago
Ah, that makes sense. I didn't realize that the form checks IP addresses, though, in retrospect, that's an extremely obvious security feature to have.
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by sorbus 15y ago
In that case, either add the proxy to your hosts file, find the willpower to resist distraction, or establish a system of incentives to stop you from getting distracted (unblock Reddit from your hosts file, then write a program to, for ever
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by sorbus 15y ago
That doesn't make sense. He changed the passwords, as well as using Gmail's ability to end all other sessions. Unless he was giving his SO (he never calls her his wife) the password and she was logging in on that computer, there should have
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by sorbus 15y ago
> most distressing to me is that I am still unable to explain how those guys were able to get access to the account twice after I changed the password, security questions and backup email address from my Mac that does not seem to be com
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by sorbus 15y ago
So Bitcoin's scalability relies on a mixture of writing new software when it's needed ("The core BitCoin network can scale to very high transaction rates assuming a distributed version of the node software is built. This would not be very c
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by sorbus 15y ago
Do you have any examples of the IRS disappearing people?
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by sorbus 15y ago
There are a really huge number of books around - it's unlikely that they'll all be destroyed, unless some doomsday cult starts burning every book they can find, so there would be a large amount of knowledge that could be recovered without m
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by sorbus 15y ago
Or very lucky. Or good at spotting trends. Or going out of their way to notice patterns indicative of insider trading on the part of other funds. Insider trading is not the only way to do better than the index.
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by sorbus 15y ago
And, of course, there's fine print, down at the bottom of the post in very pale letters: "Note that this is in the second beta, and that it’s not dead certain that these features will arrive in the final version of the operating system."
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by sorbus 15y ago
Get a prepaid card, use it.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Note that the email mentions that some users (well, at least the user who disclosed the email) did not have any of their files accessed: "our records do not indicate that any files were viewed or downloaded." Presumably, they're doing somet
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by sorbus 15y ago
Fair enough; that makes perfect sense (and you can consider my earlier comment retracted). I suppose that I didn't get that you were using trial to indicate the process of obtaining a warrant.
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by sorbus 15y ago
You generally give them the non-hidden volume password, not the hidden volume password. This is because, unless you tell them so (or they see you using it, or have spyware on your system, etc.), there is absolutely no way to prove the exist
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by sorbus 15y ago
> these are the same morons who just a few days ago grabbed an entire rack instead of one server, not being able to tell the difference. The FBI agents who did that are very much not prosecutors (and we still don't know why the FBI did
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by sorbus 15y ago
What way of arresting someone so that they can be brought to trial do you propose that never uncovers their crimes? It is absolutely necessary to gather evidence and, at some point, accuse someone of a crime if they are to be brought to tri
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by sorbus 15y ago
This is how the system already works. When you have a bill that no one can realistically vote against, a bunch of junk gets tacked on to the end.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> To this end, I feel the cap of -10 on downvotes was a great idea. Is there really such a cap? Back when comment scores were displayed, there was a minimum display score, but actual score could go far below it, with no apparent minimum
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by sorbus 15y ago
He's selling the album on another website - there's a link towards the end of his post ( http://kindofbloop.com/ ). I admit that I do have an adblocker, but I still don't see how it's relevant that he has advertisements on his blog - unle
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by sorbus 15y ago
So your theory is that, to avoid inbreeding, we developed a "KILL KILL KILL" response to differences and diversity. Somehow, I don't think that that makes sense, unless you're thinking of it as a way to get societies to reject people born a
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by sorbus 15y ago
Wait, so what does the ad network have to do with the fact that he's selling an album on a website with no advertisements?
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by sorbus 15y ago
I really hope that you have citations for that. Not saying that you're correct or incorrect (I have not personally gone out of my way to find landscapers and determine whether they're legal residents or not, so I obviously have no data poin
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by sorbus 15y ago
It got many upvotes (or a small number of upvotes directly after being posted) which pushed it to the front page of HN, where it gets greatly increased visibility and hence more upvotes.
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by sorbus 15y ago
This post reads like a press release, which left a bad taste in my mouth. Looking at the website, though, if the summaries on the front-page are indeed produced by Winston, then I'm quite impressed. As logjam says, though, being able to h
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by sorbus 15y ago
Ah, of course - hadn't even thought of that. I'm still able to downvote comments, though, so that suggests that the karma thresholds for downvoting and flagging are different, with the karma required for flagging above 1700.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> The peak always comes just before the decline. By definition . If this is the peak, then they're going to decline. If this isn't the peak, then they're going to continue improving. It's a useless statement, is my point.

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