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by sorbus 15y ago
Rather, you should be asking why high-profile, extremely public break-ins are on the rise. The number reported by the companies affected has been extremely low - the same level as normal? - with the vast majority reported and publicized by
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by sorbus 15y ago
HN does hellban users; if you browse with showdead on, you'll see lots of dead comments from users who are hellbanned.
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by sorbus 15y ago
On a similar note, I haven't been able to flag comments/articles for a while. It seems that HN occasionally removes privileges when it thinks that they're being abused, though I have no clue what condition caused it to stop you from comment
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's been going on for a while. Since midapril, there's been a minimum of two stories about bitcoin each and every day[1]. There was, for a while, suspicion that it was an attempt to boost interest in bitcoin, and get more people using it -
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by sorbus 15y ago
So filtering/personalization is always present; we entirely agree on that point. Is it excessive, though? If it's not excessive, then, almost by definition[1], it's not a problem - or at least is not a major one. There is actually a huge di
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by sorbus 15y ago
Or was never an issue in the first place.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Is it actually excessive, though? You're just assuming that it's a real problem without any evidence to support that it is.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Given that I frequently hear about renting botnets, that's not necessarily the case - to acquire a botnet, one does not have to go out and compromise a bunch of computers. Of course, your phrasing suggests that you are presenting yourself a
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by sorbus 15y ago
You can set up an email account specifically for the responses, and have messages forwarded to it by a filter. That's extremely hacky, though, and yeah, there's certainly a service there.
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by sorbus 15y ago
So what you want is, in essence, a service which you can set up a filter to direct messages to (possibly safer than letting it interact with your account directly?), which then responds to each email it receives with a message that you prev
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by sorbus 15y ago
There doesn't appear to be anything in that about intent. Hell, you don't even need to make money off of the stream - it applies if the cost to license whatever works are being used exceeds $5000.
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by sorbus 15y ago
When I tried freenet it was so slow that it would compare unfavorably to a website being DDOSed, so that's perhaps a bad example. As far as bittorrent goes, it is entirely possible to DDOS the distribution of the contents of a single .torre
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by sorbus 15y ago
Maybe. Look back through his(?) comment history, and you'll see that the point where he was autokilled/hellbanned (around nine pages back) was, while a very downvoted (and nonsensical) comment, not actually malicious. Before that, he had a
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Microsoft: Using Open Source Kinect Drivers “Voids Warranty”(blog.makezine.com)
3 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
Wait, are you saying that it is impossible to write a review that is useful for the reader unless it is a review of a product which is not going to change in the future?
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by sorbus 15y ago
So the malicious user lies about their location (and other "basic info") - trivial if you're at the point of having users enter their seating location, only slightly more difficult if you also use GPS to verify it. Yes, they have to be in t
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by sorbus 15y ago
> It's beta software that is quite appealing to hackers because there are money involved, so attacks or flaws like these should've been expected. You don't seem clear about the attack: the hackers copied the wallet file from the person,
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by sorbus 15y ago
There was a thing a while back about Apple's retail employees complaining about low wages and few benefits, but I don't think that the allegations were ever confirmed, or that anything came out of it. The GP may have been referencing that.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Less pedantically, it does not seem like anyone has tried following the route to make sure that there aren't any pubs on it (the article even mentions that it initially passed two pubs, so it is plausible that there are others not included
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by sorbus 15y ago
Pseudo-anonymity brings out the worst in people, rather. (Or: If there is no risk of being punched in the face or otherwise given a strong physical disincentive, then behavior tends to deteriorate.)
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by sorbus 15y ago
Perhaps like looking at the number of driver deaths per million registered vehicles? ... oh. Wait. That's on the graph. And is the axis on which the "most dangerous car" is furthest out on.
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by sorbus 15y ago
Has that ever happened?
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by sorbus 15y ago
I've been watching a playthrough of Duke Nukem Forever (because I don't want to play the actual game). Firstly, it looks really, really fun. Not smart, not something that I would play through multiple times, even if I did play it - it doesn
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by sorbus 15y ago
Yep, I saw that when it was posted earlier. The only issue on the driver list I've ever encountered is wireless failing after suspending. Oddly, that issue only showed up after my latest kernel upgrade (and is a reason that I'm not using my
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by sorbus 15y ago
I've never had problems with any of those on Linux. YMMV, of course, and I may just have been lucky. While you might have problems if you build a custom machine or use extremely recent hardware (which doesn't have good drivers), the general
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by sorbus 15y ago
So, they have pending patents. And they think that your software is infringing on those pending patents. Those pending patents, which, being pending, have not yet been granted, and are therefor useless as far as litigation goes. Which makes
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by sorbus 15y ago
This appears to have previously been posted in a comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2644349
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by sorbus 15y ago
> >Or don't, because you clearly already made your mind up about the product before even laying a finger on it. > Huh, he did lay a finger on it, he used it. Did we read the same article? What I believe the grandparent meant was
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by sorbus 15y ago
I haven't noticed my karma decreasing when I've been inactive, but then I tend not to be inactive for long periods of time. By inactive, do you mean not visiting the site, not commenting, not voting on comments/articles, or some combination
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Internet Shame Insurance(lifehacker.com)
1 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments

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