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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> Is anonymity required for free speech? Yes. This is why for example voting is anonymous in the US, so your employer or local corrupt official or whoever can't force you to vote a certain way. > censorship is not what Mundie is pro
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
"That's what enables a massive amount of cyber crime: if you're attacked from a computer, you might be able to figure out where that particular machine is located, but there's really no way to go back one step further and track the identity
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
It feels like I'm seeing more calls for this crap lately, from in power / high status type people. That worries me somewhat. What's driving this? Are they afraid of loss of control, or does it just seem like an "easier" fix than things that
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
I started with http://monotone.ca/monotone.html#Concepts . Git and Mercurial took the same basic history structure and offer roughly the same abilities, but don't make such extensive use of certificates and have slightly different concept
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> The developers wanted to be able to get to known state for compiling, Visual Studio and anything else they were using went in to CVS That sounds like how Vesta works: http://www.vestasys.org/why-vesta.html (item 3)
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
"""GMail by all rights should be the dominant email client today, or at least every other surviving email client should have copied the conversation view from GMail.""" Some people (for example, anyone on a *-devel list) use email for thing
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
Greetings, I am Expert Programmer Dinesh Singh, of India. Due to certain political disagreements with PayPal, I am unable to receive $1,000,000 payment for much work I have done. If you will assist me to receive this money through your acco
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> But once you know you have good DIMMs, it doesn't look like you need to be quite so paranoid about bit errors. Assuming that only the one-error-per-year cases were due to random bit flips, and all the multiple-errors-per-year cases we
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
But unfortunately, two of those six figures tend to be on the wrong side of the decimal point. :(
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
That's dated December 19, so I'd imagine it's a bit out of date.
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> if we manually have to double-check hundreds of spams each day, what is the point of the filter? It's faster to scan a list of subject lines and senders than to look at the contents of an email, which is faster than actually deleting
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> If this sort of model were ever to win, it would be hard to go back, users don't necessarily understand the argument of "openness". But they do understand "that particular very useful software won't run on this machine". > So unle
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
> Had this model of computing existed before the web browser was invented, we may have never gotten a web browser. Assuming this had at some point become the only common model of computing, what would keep out newcomers from coming out
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
Hm, makes me think of http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2008/06/22/observation... . It sounds... scary. Like it will work well enough at first, and then explode when someone changes their desktop theme (especially icon theme), or want
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
When I started at my current (also first post-college) job, I was a contractor for about 8 months before becoming a regular employee. Two of my coworkers have made the same contractor->FTE transition. When I started it was explicitly a
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
...can I have my 5 minutes back?
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
Um, I suspect that may have been the point.
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by tbrownaw 17y ago
That becomes impractical when your input space is more than a couple dozen bits, and completely impossible by the time you reach several dozen.