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by trotsky 14y ago
I'm not disputing that what he's charged with (nothing that whitehats and journos don't do all the time) doesn't suck, or that potential maximum sentences in computer crime aren't oddly out of whack at times. But lets cut the crap - Barret
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by trotsky 14y ago
It never really grabbed me though i'm no way a critic, but watching from early on I think the phenomenon owes a lot to factors beyond the gameplay itself. Sentiment against big budget games with poor gameplay had risen dramatically which wa
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Ecomom Lays Off Workers After CEO's Death(8newsnow.com)
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by trotsky 14y ago
I think you're right that the huge inroads free software has made contributes to a declining feeling of urgency in the community at large. I'm a huge fan of his but admit to the same general feeling most of the time. The depth of his impact
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by trotsky 14y ago
Tim has never really been a free software guy really (not against it, just not his issue) and here he was at linuxconf.au where pretty much the whole audience will be FOSS diehards and probably at his talk just to check out that guy who sta
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by trotsky 14y ago
Obviously its been done in universities for some time, but for example the link in question discusses a chair that was permanently endowed via property upon his death. A bit different than covering 2-3 years of a borderline lobbyist for you
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by trotsky 14y ago
Or, you know, completely public treaties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Prote...
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by trotsky 14y ago
I guess it's the times we live in, but the EFF has usually managed to seem a little more subdued than folks who would be fine with pushing a brand in return for a donation. After all it was never "Lotus 123 presents the hacker defense fund"
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by trotsky 14y ago
How many MS products sell well in their first edition? Besides Kinect? I remember when Honeycomb was first out and all anyone could talk about was channel stuffing and how there wasn't a tablet market, there was an iPad market. A bit lower
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by trotsky 14y ago
That became a common practice before typical modems were able to identify call progress elements like dialtone, ring, busy, etc. Long after that changed, interoperability problems with the ad-hoc in band signaling conventions meant they wer
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by trotsky 14y ago
This blog seems to be rather senselessly hyperbolic and misleading. For example, it attributes an anecdote in which HIV patients are "dropping like flies" due to lactose intolerance to the research paper it cites. According to other sources
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by trotsky 14y ago
A quote from the press release about the paper the OP cites: But, according to the paper's author, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, this standard has a
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by trotsky 14y ago
They may be worthless to Justin as the hiring manager but Stanford, Harvard, MIT etc. credentials are brutally helpful in funding and running your own startup.
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by trotsky 14y ago
So basically marco assumes a standard that punishes bundling? A windows 8 tablet that comes bundled with a full office suite needs to advertise itself as 5-10GB smaller than the identically configured but less functional tablet without the
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by trotsky 14y ago
If you don't list your pricing most TC "leads" are just going to be people interested in what your pricing model is for a variety of reasons, not actual leads. One qualified lead in your segment probably represents much higher CLV than all
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by trotsky 14y ago
It's really depressing to see 100+ media outlets go along for the ride on this story without doing a shred of independent thinking. This is smack inside LTE band 41, and part of the publicly announced clearwire shift from Wimax to TD-LTE. S
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by trotsky 14y ago
This is super misleading. This spectrum is part of the sprint roll out of TD-LTE on clearwire's 2.5ghz. They expect to light the first portions in summer 2013 and have said handsets will be available that can use the spectrum in 3Q13. The e
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by trotsky 14y ago
I hate to sound like a grumpy neckbeard but what's the world coming to when a clearly pretty clueful guy dismisses android as lot linux without a footnote but then goes on to call busybox and a handful of classic userspace command line tool
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by trotsky 14y ago
Isn't this missing the entire point? The only purpose of the encryption is to give Mega a strong basis for being able to deny any knowledge of what the content stored on their servers represent. It isn't like people are going to be using it
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by trotsky 14y ago
Is that an officially endorsed dev platform by Mozilla? It sure seems to imply it, but I can't see anything on the website that directly says so. I have no doubt it'll run the builds, but when you're buying a pre-launch dev platform it make
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by trotsky 14y ago
Anachronistically, The US still enforces a broad based embargo on trade with Cuba, leaving it with the dubious honor of the tightest controlled destination, beating out even Iran and North Korea. We also have it on the list of states that s
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by trotsky 14y ago
Very roughly, you strip the casing and then bend the fiber until a small amount of light begins escaping through the small gaps created by the bending. Most of the light continues to travel through the cable unharmed aside from a tiny decre
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by trotsky 14y ago
This sounds like a counter-surveillance technique. If you're an island nation with one cable for all your traffic you are very susceptible to a variety of state actor attacks: traffic analysis, mitm, protocol downgrades etc. If your traffic
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by trotsky 14y ago
I think building a tier 1 (or even tier 2) from scratch has gotten a well deserved reputation for being borderline impossible. Just consider how many great efforts have crashed in the last 20 years: AmigaOS, GemOS (Atari), OS/2, BeOS, MacOS
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by trotsky 14y ago
You make a good case that this fits within the bounds of an enemy target as far as the classic drug war goes. I think we'd agree though that sans rundown hotel the drugs still would have been made, the people would have died, the cops would
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by trotsky 14y ago
I usually don't go in for commenting about the drug war because it's dumb and i'm over preaching to the converted. But I couldn't resist sidestepping the obvious revenue issue here and note that on any number of occasions I've stayed at per
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by trotsky 14y ago
I am going to ignore most of this because it's just more of the same (even if a fair amount is true) - it's fashionable to dog on ms right now. But declaring that using Windows RT (and by extension the full NT kernel) as a basis for their t
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by trotsky 14y ago
Exactly which major software vendor are you thinking of that has ever done something like that?
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by trotsky 14y ago
zero day means it was first seen in the wild (ie, they just found out about it very recently as well). It takes more than a day or two for even some of the most efficient organizations to find, fix, test and deploy even a critical vulnerabi
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by trotsky 14y ago
I've never once heard the spectre of anti-trust enforcement cited as a strike against proposed M&A activity at any startup I've worked at. In fact such worries would be directly laughed at - I've never seen regulator interest in anythin

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