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by wnight 15y ago
Near-total transparency is inevitable. The tech is already as cheap as candy and getting undetectably small. Total anonymity of speech though, is likewise inevitable. Data is the only thing small enough to slip unseen in a transparent socie
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by wnight 15y ago
> "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is bullshit. No, it's fact. > There are plenty of things you and I don't want anyone to know. What good does that do us
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by wnight 15y ago
Blacklist anyone who stands up for an exploitative policy. If the others wise up soon enough they may never get called on it.
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by wnight 15y ago
But you do track users, and did track users in ways you've quickly stopped, so it's obviously not a moral issue. It's an issue of dodging blame for this or that specific tactic. > you guys can line up to say I'm lying You say that as if
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by wnight 15y ago
I don't recall economists saying it (I didn't listen) but every trivial housing metric said we'd been overpriced since the 90s. I saw people buy condos they couldn't pay for with rent in twenty-five years, if ever - if all went well. The ru
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by wnight 15y ago
> They've got a product that's a joy to use, which is not something Google is known for building outside of their core competency of search. Google is known for getting minimalism which is the most important UI element. > the annoya
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by wnight 15y ago
> There is nothing in the electronic voting debate that won't make you scratch your head wondering why they don't use known-good techniques. Corruption. Large cash payouts to Diebold execs. The literal intent to commit treason and rig t
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by wnight 15y ago
> The team obviously (re)branded themselves Anonymous to take any heat off their own identities [...] That's all I did when I joined various anti-Scientology protests. It's not like anyone is an official member. > Also, being part o
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by wnight 15y ago
I thought the free upgrades forever deal for Minecraft was great. I only rarely get to game and if I had to upgrade every six months to play with everyone else it'd be prohibitive. It's a big obligation that the maker of Textmate and Notch
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by wnight 15y ago
Your example is horrid. Tips are in no way a signal to the chef. In fact, you're "supposed" to tip about the same for a poorly cooked meal as a good one so as to avoid unreasonably short-changing your server who had nothing to do with the q
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by wnight 15y ago
> if Bethesda doesn't defend their claim on the "Elder Scrolls" name, they can lose it. Only if there's a chance of the usage being misleading. Otherwise the usages are supposed to co-exist. Anyways, the scrolls they refer to are actual
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by wnight 15y ago
The entity boss part seems like it's just an array of objects you perform actions on. It's not a description of the goal of the object, it's an internals-level view of how it does it. Maybe there's another more fundamental behavior or datas
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by wnight 15y ago
Flat and unlimited pricing can often be a problem. Flat means EA pays as much to manage all their game-press for all their games as an indie dev does for one. Also, I realize you're keeping it simple now but have you thought about figuring
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by wnight 15y ago
How would anyone know that? If any personally identifying cookies remain you could. And personally, from my corporate experience there's a good chance that you're simply lying to us here and a better chance that you're telling us what you t
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by wnight 15y ago
The deleted user (and good riddance indeed) brings up an interesting point. They ask why someone would be a reverse engineer, likening any sort of using a product/etc without authorization and a manual to hacking, and condemned someone who'
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by wnight 15y ago
What's funny is that you see lying and filing a misleading application to be playing by the rules. Clearly the intent was to sell shoes. What was really helped by the fake paperwork? They were willing to pay for a sales permit anyways so it
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by wnight 15y ago
> I don't think users (even savvy users) care about leaving some cookies behind. In most contexts, that is true. A Slashdot cookie is just a line in a text file until you visit Slashdot. But a Facebook cookie is sent home every time you
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by wnight 15y ago
> This is a matter of self respect and good stewardship of the resources that we all need. It's self-respect to blindly do what others tell you? Remember, if there's any potential reason you'd disobey a rule you aren't really a rule-f
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by wnight 15y ago
It wouldn't be slow on "reasonable" testing datasets. Do you time your app at various loads (including well beyond expectations), graph the performance and look for non-linear increases?
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by wnight 15y ago
This is why I always help people crack their devices, even if they're mainly interested in warez. We need to ability to work around censorship which we'll lose if we let ourselves be locked down.
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by wnight 15y ago
> And even if you could convince me What evidence have you heard that patents actually help? > that patents in field X (say, patents for mining machinery) were (at present) holding back rather than encouraging innovation in that fie
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by wnight 15y ago
PG is right about there being no strong line between software and hardware. What's wrong is assuming that means we need patents at all. Like all government granted monopoly they're harmful to society. Engineers are instructed to avoid looki
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by wnight 15y ago
The good devs would be happy because those rare bugs you found could take them months (literally) to track down from user reports. One company I worked at had both buffer overflow and timing problems and didn't dedicate the time to fixing e
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by wnight 15y ago
He's, allegedly, the one who made the leak public. Yes. But that data was leaking for a long time and we have no way of knowing who else collected it. If I had thought Sony was secure I'd actually be better off now, with my card visibly lea
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by wnight 15y ago
Ugh, physical analogies. That's my point. You're stuck in a world of things. Where things go missing or get broken. This is data. Physical laws apply badly, especially when applied in fear by people who hardly seem to understand the domain.
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by wnight 15y ago
Quit it with this codger pissing his diaper routine. I know blindly following the law is seeming more important as you get old but the "crime" consisted of sending malformed data and it caused games to go offline. Get over it. It's time to
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by wnight 15y ago
That might work for cookie-cutter, by-the-book managers later but it won't work for a founder, or anyone developing anything new. I've hired construction crews before knowing about the area, and again after working in it myself. It's a nigh
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by wnight 15y ago
Detrimental to society at all costs, sure. But beneficial in a moral sense. Blindly following a rule isn't what you should strive for.
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by wnight 15y ago
> within a few minutes I can usually only tell if they think like me or not. The rest of the interview determines if they can code regardless of my biases If they don't ask for relevant details, etc, they won't be coming up with a solut
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by wnight 15y ago
> Anybody that wishes to pretend that the legal line has been blurred will find themselves sooner or later in an excellent position to try to prove that to a very unrelenting judge. The line is blurred, that is tautological considering

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