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by wang_li 6y ago
It seems like you're arguing that people should get both the good will of having an open source license and the profits of a closed source license. Which comes across as disingenuous.
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by wang_li 6y ago
At a certain point moderation becomes speech. Literally these words are not my words, they are Meriam-Webster’s. I just chose which ones to include in my comment. In so doing I convey a particular message.
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by wang_li 6y ago
It wasn’t hacked. It was left at a computer repair shop then never picked up or paid for.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Could be two different audiences here. Staff and customer. And the use cases could go beyond pathfinding to event planning and such. Given how fine grained it is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already done work with some casinos.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Different sexes have different civic obligations. E.g. Selective Service, a.k.a the draft, in the US.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Binary Space Partitioning tree.
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by wang_li 6y ago
You could just as easily blame the author of the driver that only works on a prerelease kernel.
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by wang_li 6y ago
It was a court that did this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Fran... .
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by wang_li 6y ago
>then it's completely fair to conclude that you're okay with that. How do you know? Lots of people misconfigure their systems and leave them open to access unintentionally.
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by wang_li 6y ago
That's a poor analogy. The outside colors of the majority of the homes in your neighborhood effectively broadcast that information into the public sphere. A more analogous question is "Is it valid to conduct research about all the
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by wang_li 6y ago
What a machine does in response to a network packet does not prove the intent of the owner of the system. Otherwise RCEs and local privilege escalations would be permission to do as you will to any system which us susceptible to them. Is it
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by wang_li 6y ago
Because it's always invalid to research on someone else's property without their permission. Also what is the hypothesis that is being researched or investigated by knowing how many systems on the internet respond to TCP SYNs on p
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by wang_li 6y ago
Scanning other people's networks without their permission has no valid research purpose.
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by wang_li 6y ago
On a pure intelligence question the justices are likely top 1% or 2% among human populations. They also have disciplined minds that allow them to use their intelligence effectively. It’s more likely the arstechniva writer failed to understa
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by wang_li 6y ago
If you are recruiting at colleges you’re going to have a hard time getting many black candidates, since only 7% of STEM majors are black. Which is an under representation based on their proportion of al college students. https://
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by wang_li 6y ago
There’s plenty of reasons beyond corruption. Repaving a mile of third avenue in Seattle costs a lot more than a mile of downtown Wendell, Idaho which will cost a lot more than chip sealing a mile of dirt road just two miles away from the ce
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by wang_li 6y ago
An awful lot of this list is less than 100 years old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_constitutio...
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by wang_li 6y ago
The last 40-50 years have been pretty stable. But even so I’d guess that 20% of world governments have functionally gone out of business. If you pick the 20th century, then the number of governments that have “failed” is really large as a p
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by wang_li 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C This is what I think of when I see Small C as a proper noun.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Hook it up to your WiFi driver so if your AP every goes away so does the evidence of whatever you’re trying to hide. But plug the computer and AP into the same UPS.
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by wang_li 6y ago
I don’t know why people insist on planting land mines. There is a tool for managing workgroup arrays called foo. Among its many operations it had: $ foo reset array $ foo reset array controller a|b The first one resets to factory defaults
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by wang_li 6y ago
Vaulted or, less often, cathedral.
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by wang_li 6y ago
The glquake binary from id runs on 64 bit Windows 10. Microsoft has done a admirable job of maintaining compatibility.
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by wang_li 6y ago
Once worked with a network guy who always specced out EIGRP as a requirement to ensure he always got Cisco routers.
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by wang_li 6y ago
They’d have to be fully covered bike lanes as sunlight causes cancer.
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by wang_li 6y ago
CBO did an analysis of household income, all federal taxes paid, and transfers and services. On a net basis, the top 40% pay for everything at all levels of government. The bottom 40% pay for only a portion of what it takes to keep themselv
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by wang_li 6y ago
I apologize if my tone was poor.
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by wang_li 6y ago
As a class they did. Some of it was built by billionaires past, but is maintained by the current generation of the well to do. Regardless, the middle income household certainly did not build it.
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by wang_li 6y ago
In the US, according to the CBO[0], the people who are in the top two quintiles of income pay for all services and infrastructure. Saying that these people benefit more from this infrastructure than a middle income household is very odd. It
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by wang_li 6y ago
One could argue that everyone has the same responsibilities to society at large. Thus for every Chuck Feeny and Bill Gates, you, personally you, have an obligation to create many billion dollars of value and give it away. If you don't

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