vy8vWJlco

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Canadians should have to 'opt in' to Internet porn, MP says(cbc.ca)
2 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"..., and the pursuit of happiness." If not having choice is scary (your word), which I would say is a synonym for "undesirable", I cannot be said to have the right to pursue happiness without it (choice). > "
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
FWIW, I didn't think I was (I don't identify with libertarianism). I'm just looking at alternatives.
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I'm sorry - I used "accepted" when I should have used "chosen," since self-determination was implicitly my end. With that in mind: eagerness does not mean you had a choice (though perhaps that's unimportant to
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
If we are only interested in punitive measures, Kickstarter is just as able to fund prisons and buy guns and pay for legal offensives as any government program (I don't think most forms of damage need a new law as such). (My point fr
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I have a bigger problem with taxes. Central planning is fine IMHO assuming everyone involved is onboard - otherwise the ship should stay in the dock to the degree people still want off. For what it's worth, I am fond of industry standa
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Not to disagree with the idea, but I would add that any such tax is at the discretion of the taxing body making it susceptible to difficulties like abuse or negligence. (That makes me wary.) I would prefer a mechanism without such a centra
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
> The parent is being Mr. weasel word with "seems like" but I'm guessing that's just sloppy writing. Fixed. Thanks for the input.
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I can't think of any rules that aren't enforced by threat. (The equivalent of patching Starcraft in the real world makes you rich or lands you in jail for tax evasion. The government's patch is only accepted because of the
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
While I think it's somewhat natural for society to talk about "collective ownership," since the ownership model is what we use for individual transactions, the idea of "public goods" implies that they are "owne
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I get your point, but promoting a tax to get the most out of the market is doublespeak. A carrot ("This is better because... and you can use it!") is more "free-market" than a stick ("Don't do that.") -
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
30 days for chalk that washes off the first time it rains? Gum on the street is more disruptive IMHO.
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Takedown from Church of Scientology to GoDaddy, re: cheerupwillsmith.com(chillingeffects.org)
4 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Sued Over ‘Mafia-Like’ Anti-Piracy Raid(torrentfreak.com)
5 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|1 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
This is where saturation flooding of meaningless garbage can play a role in anonymization. In addition to making timing attacks more difficult, bulk garbage data provides a cheap smokescreen for the anonymized traffic and participants, incr
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"if sharing is caring, why don't you share your bank account details?" (Repeating myself) Privacy != copyright. "And going back to tzs' point, pirating Iron Man 3 increases "capacity of thought"? Really
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"nor do I want to have every web site be able to track them by globally routable IPv6 address everywhere I go." So, you would rather use one address for everything, making it easy as pie to track you? You can pretty much pick IP
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
> Copyright is an extension of one's right to be paid for the value provided by their labor. No - labour is the work, effort, and time - and charging twice is fraud. > anything less than a linear relation looks dangerously, to me
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I don't see developer convenience and user experience as mutually exclusive. If an application is simpler and more consistent, that can save time for both users and developers. (I also don't see how a one-process-per-DOM model pre
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I can't accept your complicated worldview. Iframes, for example, don't need to be new processes. One process - one window - one DOM. The only new process should be the rendering canvas/window. An iframe, or any nested resour
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
And there is a simple solution to that (poor multi-core utilization): go back to a one-window, one process model (go back, as in delete a lot of unnecessary code); forget the browser tabs - let the OS handle multitasking and let the window
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Ah, the "if you don't like it - move to Russia" doctrine. Rather than racing to the bottom, why shouldn't the glaring problems simply be addressed? Being grateful for health and freedom is one thing - being so grateful a
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"What's with the widespread fixation against attributing any positive security attributes to Network Address Translation" It probably has something to do with NAT being a huge obstacle later, when needs change. For example,
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
On the contrary, privacy has nothing to do with copyright, or rather: they are at entirely opposite ends of a spectrum. Privacy is an extension of one's right to be secure in one's body, and free in one's thoughts. It is non-
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
How can I reason and speak about something I can't look at but for second hand testimony? Why should anyone limit his or herself to the second-hand testimony of people who could afford to look at the facts when the only obstacles are s
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"Piracy" is pretty anti-sharing language IMHO.
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Hey Hadopi, You’re Breaking The Law.(torrentfreak.com)
31 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|13 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Can you give an example that isn't based on security (since the NAT isn't providing that)? I can only think of short-term (undesirable) transition or load-balancing mechanisms - all of which have better long-term solutions (anycas
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
But that is not a feature of NAT, that is a feature of a firewall (for example, it is possible to route incoming packets via the WAN as well as masquerade outgoing ones from the LAN - most people wouldn't even know their pants are down
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I agree that the probability of Canadian communication getting swept up in the NSA net is high, but I don't think I can agree with your portrayal of the government of Canada's interest in surveillance as low. First, the article sa

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