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by walid 13y ago
I think he was displaying his skill to facebook while giving them a hint as to what to do about it ;)
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by walid 13y ago
Just because everyone on the web corrects everyone else, English is not the most spoken language in the world. It is the third most while Arabic is the fifth to my surprise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language
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by walid 13y ago
Also he did mention on whose wall he posted and that they are not friends so this should have been a red flag on its own.
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by walid 13y ago
WOW WOW you say "abused"... strong language there. He was trying to show the bug to them. This guy looks like he never read the TOS in the first place so he wasn't going after abusing. He didn't communicate properly is t
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by walid 13y ago
Hardly anyone files a bug for fun. I can't imagine that the masses would file bugs since they don't know what they are in the first place. So when anyone files a bug and attach their name with it, they should be taken seriously. W
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by walid 13y ago
The thing is you are taking the learning metaphor a step further every sentence. You do need to learn the basics of maintaining a car if you own one. You might need to know about changing tires and also making sure the radiator has enough w
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by walid 13y ago
Totally agree. Programming should be in the school curriculum just like any other subject. Not everyone is going to be a coder, doctor, engineer or lawyer but we all need to know some (not extensively though) basics of each profession.
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by walid 13y ago
Trust me, I don't cook competently, but I live alone and can get food done when needed. We don't all have to be professionals at something but we need to understand it especially when our lives depend on it. Take medicine for exam
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by walid 13y ago
Well the prosecution was lying to the judge: "The Drake case collapsed in spectacular fashion when the judge found that the information Drake possessed was completely unclassified, and had only been marked otherwise after it was seized
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by walid 13y ago
> Obama is a vain, stupid man who believes that he is the president of the United States. I will intentionally ignore this line above because what you later said would apply to every elected person in any country, not limited to the USA:
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by walid 13y ago
I see what you mean regarding namespace collision, but if we always set a standard based on the lowest common denominator we'll end up being stuck with practices that were followed because there was no reason not to. As for the univers
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by walid 13y ago
I don't find it necessary for security. One way of safeguarding security across the board is to use reserved words like "intranet" for the intranet (duh) and "localhost" for the same machine. THE END
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by walid 13y ago
WTF! So "ai" is a sub domain of nothing!?
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by walid 13y ago
Although the design is beautiful, I'm still waiting for something ergonomic that uses a matrix keyboard layout instead of a staggered one.
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by walid 13y ago
Two successful approaches would have been freemium with a paid tier or multiple micro payments through an app just like today's in-app purchases. However no good mechanism was used and news outlets used the web as an advertising venue
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by walid 13y ago
Quantum cryptography requires quantum correlation as far as I know. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance" and there is no mention of it here. I think this is not exactly a scoop, to say the least.
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by walid 13y ago
Can you imagine a new logo with Googley colours?
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by walid 13y ago
@untog Hmm! Didn't notice that, interesting.
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by walid 13y ago
He is the only loser if he sinks the WaPo. So in that light, Bezos has the incentive to at least maintain the paper's standing.
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by walid 13y ago
Bradley Manning!
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by walid 13y ago
> The man can do what he wants but the public probably shouldn't applaud this. I kinda disagree with you on this one. Not only will something like the Kindle and Kindle apps benefit, but this is a huge win since the old style of med
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by walid 13y ago
Actually I did see the Milky Way and some nebula but I don't remember which one. This was a long time ago. The reason I could see them is that my eyes do adapt to the night really well. I can still see around me when it is really dark
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by walid 13y ago
Breathtaking! Although I only got to see the milky way in the sky because of a power outage, it was worth it.
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by walid 13y ago
Well then since you do have an opinion about software patents, define software patents. The problem is not the list that you mentioned above. In fact I can refute every one of them. The problem is that there hasn't been a concerted eff
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by walid 13y ago
Software patents are not "so clearly harmful" just because you say so. The reason many patents, not all and not necessarily the majority, are harmful is because there is no clear definition of what a patent is allowed to be. The d
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by walid 13y ago
Sorry for your distorted reality. You're saying that everyone who accesses unsecured information on a badly secured server gets reprimanded. You're placing the onus of security on the user which makes your point pure BS.
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by walid 13y ago
sneak said: "Breaking in" suggests that there is access control (locks, doors, walls, etc) in place. ceol said: No, it doesn't. I say: Yes it does. Your house has walls and probably a picket fence too. Either one is a boundar
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by walid 13y ago
+1
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Senator Wyden: the US could become an irreversible surveillance state(theverge.com)
5 points by walid 13y ago|0 comments
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Security Researchers tell court: We do what Andrew Auernheimer did(groklaw.net)
162 points by walid 13y ago|110 comments

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