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by throwaway64 14y ago
this is also another really terrible argument that is used to rationalize bad behaviour constantly. At least we arn't as bad as THAT guy. If the USA does not have the level of human rights abuses of say china, does that give them a free pas
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by throwaway64 14y ago
every humble bundle game has both been available on steam, and linux.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
encrypting your data doesn't help when it is inside memory and somebody else has root. the attack was a hypervisor intrusion, linode's VM setup was hacked, none of these recommendations would have helped at all in this case.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the idea that violating terms of service constitutes "hacking" is very dangerous in general. Get your pay-pal account suspended? you could now potentially be facing federal felony charges.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
it did, temporarily in the beta, however so much of google's own stuff had this issue (especially adwords), they scrapped the idea.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
if its a non-trivial peice of software, it almost certainly is encumbered, don't forget about idiotic patents like 1 click, there are likely millions.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
I have lurked/read hacker news for a few years before creating an account, and frankly, stories like this have always made the front page, MORE frequently in the past if anything. If you look for an issue, you will surely find one.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
you see a lot of people that find bugs, and even serious exploits that never bother going to the trouble to report them, or crow about them publicly. Just because nobody said anything, doesn't mean that nobody knew.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
there is only one thing a corporation responds to meaningfully, loss or gain of money. Why would they give a flying fuck what you would "love them to be" if you still shovel fistfulls of money at them?
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by throwaway64 14y ago
so you are supposed to rebuy everything you bought on itunes? and this is reasonable?
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by throwaway64 14y ago
hypothetically, if grinding babies was legal, would you also find no fault with those who chose to partake, after all its perfectly legal. Hate the game, not the player, right?
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by throwaway64 14y ago
are you really suggesting that the iPhone in all aspects had no precedent, at all? That is completely absurd, sorry.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
not true, plan9 as of the 4th edition has a OSI/FSF approved license.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
1) yes, in fact more so, because they rely upon no fixed keys 2) there is zero reassurance, there is also zero reassurance gmail isnt sending all your mail to the NSA, etc. TOR helps you ensure you can keep you tormail and your clearnet ide
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by throwaway64 14y ago
your post is full of unproven assertions and rhetoric. >If I spend $1 million to develop something innovative and the guy next to me stole that innovation; he effectively stole $1 million from me. That's a huge disincentive to spending
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Microsoft has mandated that OEMs must provide a way for users to disable secure boot, and a way for them to add their own keys, however we still do not know the exact nature of what "turning it off" entails. The Microsoft requirements are v
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by throwaway64 14y ago
>You seem to toss out the history of computers. I owned my first computer when I was in high school, I soldered it together from a kit (it was based on a Z80). Today I can do the same thing with an ARM chip (in fact I've been playing wi
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by throwaway64 14y ago
I disagree strongly with this type of argument, nobody starts out a "computer professional", we all get there by experimenting on commodity hardware. With this type of proposal you essentially make it impossible for a user of a regular devi
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by throwaway64 14y ago
this is exactly the problem, Microsoft is completely free to change this requirement at any time, also consider the fact they never mandated it previously, until there was a massive outcry. Another problem is early indications are that disa
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by throwaway64 14y ago
coppermine and katmai were architectural steps between the pentium pro and Tualatin, perhaps you meant northwood and prescott, the codenames of p4 chips.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the problem here is rather than worrying about one particular cert getting compromised, you now have to worry about every CA in the world getting compromised, a much more likely possibility. It seems the best course of action would be to tr
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the thing is the route to any "mirror" that sat in a persons home would be through Google's network. This wouldn't save them any money.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
$120 a month for 2 years is $2880 guaranteed, not to mention it is unlikely customers will leave considering the competition comes nowhere even close to that kind of offer. Some of that will be eaten up by fixed costs of providing the servi
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Google already has a massive nationwide network to serve as a CDN for stuff like youtube. They are peered with every ISP of any significant size, and have data centers and points of presence in every major city. Not to mention they have bou
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by throwaway64 14y ago
they don't really save anything on the connectivity, as everything would still be routed through Google, thus it would use exactly the same amount of bandwidth as if the storage was sitting inside a data center. As for electricity, the cost
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by throwaway64 14y ago
what worries me about "will not be associated with the Google Account you use for Fiber, except with your consent" is that the word explicit is not used, i.e. you have already "consented" via the Google Privacy Policy.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the windows appstore is metro only
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by throwaway64 14y ago
if they stated as offical policy, you cannot use wine, or you will be banned, that would be fine. However, they are banning people for using wine with absolutely zero warning, and zero recourse, refund, or appeal. That's absolutely terrible
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by throwaway64 14y ago
what an absurdly wrongheaded statement, do you really think that Google depended on patent protection to stop others from using PageRank, and even if they did, how could it ever be conclusively proven that PageRank was used by somebody else
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by throwaway64 14y ago
do you really think blatent patent trolling of competitors is all just a defensive move?

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