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by uxp 10y ago
> C is much better, because at least it doesn't pretend to support encodings. So you're forced to use a 3rd party library anyway. C is better because it _doesnt_ provide some kind of interface into encoding. A byte is a byte is
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by uxp 10y ago
Sure. Same way that if you were to drive down for a weekend and not pay taxes on the roads you specifically used across the border. Until thousands of Canadians come down every weekend just so they can use American roads and then go back ho
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by uxp 10y ago
> the Tax Office would look like the bad guy going after what most people consider a brilliant scientist Plenty of famously smart and able people have gone to jail for dodging taxes before. In the US, Wesley Snipes spent 3 years in priso
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by uxp 10y ago
It's not useful for them for any specific investigation, but it certainly can tell them where they might stick their fingers next.
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by uxp 10y ago
If wages remain steady, then they aren't being adjusted for inflation, and then life starts to become more and more unaffordable. Immigrants have about as much correlation with poor people as a cloudy sky has with flooding.
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by uxp 10y ago
The defendant was out on parole, and had an arrest warrant issued for some other violation of his parole, and while sitting in a vehicle in the passenger seat, a weapon was at his feet. That's the entire context of this. A cop happened
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by uxp 10y ago
Thanks for replying with clarifications for this article. I tried to imply that while I know Apple rarely responds to public or press inquiries, the question still remained on how long has elapsed before the author (you) moves forward with
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by uxp 10y ago
> Some of those reporters are contracted to write five or even 10 posts per day. It's not like a NYT or WSJ reporter spending three weeks or three months on one story. Vice doesn't necessarily fall out of that category either.
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by uxp 11y ago
I've just started filling them with randomly generated strings that my password manager helpfully creates for me. Though, apparently my bank uses those answers for phone verification also, which makes answering questions like "Wha
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by uxp 11y ago
I've yet to determine if I can cancel my HBO subscription that I keep around for the show Silicon Valley and just read that account.
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by uxp 11y ago
I agree, but as someone who has to "maintain" one of those pos-ported-from-windows-95 apps, the actual source code is long gone so it's nearly impossible to make any meaningful changes to the application. I'd venture a g
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by uxp 11y ago
I'm not who you asked, but because I like to spend my day debugging my terrible code, not my desktop. Before you ask, yes I do have a Linux laptop (Acer C720P ChromeBook, unlocked with Debian + Gnome), and with all the sudden issues th
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by uxp 11y ago
While I agree with the content of your comment, this one at the bottom of the page seems to be the third of nearly identical comments about this one WebKit bug made by your account on the page. It's approaching my SPAM threshold.
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by uxp 11y ago
To be fair to the post, and anyone viewing the page, all you're seeing is a screenshot of what I am assuming a bot or crawler made when it successfully connected to various IPs over port 5900.
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by uxp 11y ago
Yes. Exactly. Apple and every one else (company or individual) is required, by law, to comply with valid warrants. When one receives a warrant or any kind of legal request that they feel is invalid, the only way to challenge that potentiall
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by uxp 11y ago
Correct. That's what I was trying to deduce, the difference between a valid warrant (eg, a warrant following CALEA for communications data stored on a third party server), and a warrant that is currently being argued as invalid (eg, a
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by uxp 11y ago
What is the alternative available to Apple, or any other technology company, when given a valid warrant for someone's data that isn't blatantly ignoring the law? I'm honestly not sure what you are suggesting. Apple has alread
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by uxp 11y ago
I should have been more specific by stating the difference between a dumb digital thermostat as I was describing, and a truly analog thermostat like the Honeywell T87. A dumb digital thermostat is just a thermocouple and a relay, which you
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by uxp 11y ago
From what I've read, part of the All Writs Act actually does imply that compensation can (should?) be provided for services rendered to comply with the Writ.
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by uxp 11y ago
To be fair, most "dumb" thermostats still require an external power source to continue to operate. Very few actually pull operating current from the 24v C wire if it even exists on the given system. If it doesn't, R (the swit
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by uxp 11y ago
Solitude, Brighton and Snowbird also use the same tech. I know Solitude has had contactless lift ticket swiping in place for well over the past decade.
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by uxp 11y ago
I run a private mail server and swear by ClamAV to help reduce noise and pollution that accumulates and spreads through my server, but I don't think I've ever had any luck with it being a good front line defense against up-and-com
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by uxp 11y ago
These metaphors are hard to follow. Does anyone have a car analogy to phrase this better? Seems like that's all we're missing in this thread.
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by uxp 11y ago
> The guy should 100% get more credit, and if this happened to me I would always be a little hurt about it, but at the same time, would it be a big deal if it had never extended past a thesis somewhere? That's not the argument. He&#
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by uxp 11y ago
I think what Sleaker was trying to imply with this comment: > it was open and free, just not fully considered FOSS is that MAME was open (the source code was published, and updates were continually amended to that publication) and free (
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by uxp 11y ago
Generally, current litigation doesn't reference other current litigation (mostly because current litigation has not established enough of a "fact" to be referenced), but you can read this statement and see that Orenstein allo
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by uxp 11y ago
@mjg59, on Twitter and his blog there, is an amusing, if not depressing, feed to follow. He has poor impulse control for purchasing internet-enabled devices and investigating how terrible they are.
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by uxp 11y ago
Oh, so decades before semantic versioning, where an update was shrink-wrapped in a cardboard box on a shelf at the nearest Computer City and resulted in an entire night of floppy disk swapping instead of working? Those really were the days.
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by uxp 11y ago
It's still a different scenario. Cops, up until a few years ago, used to think they could stick GPS devices on people's cars without a warrant because they were legally allowed to tail and observe people driving in vehicles withou
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by uxp 11y ago
Frederic Jacobs announced he was looking elsewhere some time ago. I don't have any insight into Open Whisper System's internals, but considering they've still been committing code and they're still posting new job openin

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