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by wnight 14y ago
Yes, or further, by simply reminding you "Using the service may be illegal if ..." and letting you make the decision. If it's done this badly, and this cumbersomely, there must be a law requiring it.
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by wnight 14y ago
It says nothing to people in the know. It takes no longer to write a script to scan an entire range and return all valid results as it does to scan a specific set, and it avoids having to pick known good IDs. You aren't giving anyone licens
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by wnight 14y ago
Who's safe to design crypto for then? We've just seen the US, UK, and Canadian governments participate in the slaughter of innocent people and try to hide the evidence with cryptography. And we've seen the good guys use the same systems to
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by wnight 14y ago
Gotta make it seem scary somehow.
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by wnight 14y ago
In this "attack" the URL was incremented by one. I've written a lot of loops, and incremented a lot of numbers, and none of them have ever become properly escaped XSS exploits, or malformed YAML, etc. If your bar for "hack" is so low that w
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by wnight 14y ago
Why should they be allowed to write onerous contracts? This isn't a freedom issue - they're specifically choosing to bid for handling a limited public resource. Every minute of hassle and every unreasonable fee holds back the rest of societ
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by wnight 14y ago
>>> "Vote with your wallet" >> That gives poor people less of a vote than rich people. > I don't think so. Sure you do, it's not really subjective... 1 < 2, and all that. > Being poor means that you don't get
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by wnight 14y ago
I've re-read your earlier post and I have to say that any view that requires the supreme court to enact laws they find outside the scope of the constitution is just baffling and tautologically wrong. Marbury v. Madison didn't establish a po
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by wnight 14y ago
It's a matter of cost, not a possible vs impossible thing. I think at 30TH/s, you'd need 500 new ASIC miners, and $500/day in power, to hit 50%. But that's just arbitrary - 2% would allow some attacks, 99% would allow more profitable ones.
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by wnight 14y ago
Money, as a theoretical concept, or currency as actually exists? Because currency is made to be inflated. It's universally producible for less than its face value. Saving cash is ridiculous.
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by wnight 14y ago
I too am interested in law, but more with anthropological curiosity. My thinking on governance is akin to the rape model though - all that matters is if they're currently saying "No". It looked like you were just saying that eminent people
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by wnight 14y ago
No, the time being used to establish the right standard was being spent in Plato's day. Now we know that this is a bad way to act, AND a bad way to run a country. You can never let the watcher watch themselves. Any attempts must be punish
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by wnight 14y ago
I know the government isn't a monolithic entity - we rely on it being many departments in many agencies all full of individual people each bringing their own ethics into play or we'd simply have an automated dictatorship - Chinese-Room styl
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by wnight 14y ago
Even soldiers (with guns, while under fire) are expected to act legally, and ethically where those standards differ, and we need to hold everyone - public servant or not, to the same standard. Not only does such a law (making challenging a
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by wnight 14y ago
And (a) explicitly not constitutional in that it attempts to bypass the limits knowingly placed upon government by the people. An order to bypass auditors is never valid, especially from government. That you think this is okay is scary. B
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by wnight 14y ago
He really doesn't seem to get libertarians, I agree. But you're acting like the pain of the truth is his fault. And it's not like he, let alone the world, isn't full of softer messages, but those work on the (few) people who they work for a
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by wnight 14y ago
Which (hiding) would work great for one type of bad guy you apparently see a lot of on TV - the drugged out guys who picked a random house and wants $50. If this guy robs you he'll stop to pick up your shoes (to sell for drugs) so you can d
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by wnight 14y ago
I didn't ask why we found it politically expedient to do this or that, I asked why the original poster thought rights for corporations was a fundamentally good idea. "Because they balance various risks" (as I read your post) may be an accur
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by wnight 14y ago
And ensures that they'll immediately get more chargebacks. Good luck with that.
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by wnight 14y ago
What's the reasoning behind the corporation needing rights? It seems like if taken far enough my photocopier would need rights, whereas I think it would be more straight-forward to deal with the people behind the instrument rather than the
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by wnight 14y ago
You fail to see the importance of anonymity because you're set on proving that anonymity is of little use or harmful. A historical comparison is irrelevant and fallacious - we didn't have modern surgery hundreds of years ago and despite pe
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by wnight 14y ago
Oh, so you aren't okay with charging a single uber-fraudster until all the little guys are safely put away. That's handy. While I agree that the little guys committed crimes too the bankers were ALSO in a position of power AND have a duty t
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by wnight 14y ago
There are many universal standards for a government not serving its people. Literally uncountably many. So yes, you're technically right that there is no one standard. I don't mean to trivialize anything. But government starts with the cons
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by wnight 14y ago
Of course not. Unconstitutional means something more like knowingly done without the authority and against the wishes of those you supposedly represent.
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by wnight 14y ago
No, it was caused almost entirely by fraud. If not for people within 'the banks' knowingly rating these mortgages as a ludicrously good buy, etc, there wouldn't be a banking crisis. There are even further systematic abuses that should see t
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by wnight 14y ago
I think my meaning of unconstitutional carries all the weight it needs. A government not serving its people, especially knowingly, is not a valid government, and isn't making valid laws.
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by wnight 14y ago
The things being done in the name of enforcing copyright and other monopolies are specifically stifling "The progress of Science and useful Arts". This is the problem with copyright and patent law at all. We're not actually helping the crea
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by wnight 14y ago
Right, but in being right you point out the absolute wasteland of our government in that when a citizen cries "unconstitutional" he's ignored because of a technicality. He, and I, don't support this law. Further, we don't support those who
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by wnight 14y ago
Neither are interchangeable, they're just equally bad for global citizens who want to make a better world. The problem with two parties is that they collect votes based on ideology not actions. Technically three isn't enough to avoid this b
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by wnight 14y ago
They might be good people but still be horrible cops. But being horrible cops means they must not be cops. Would you have such an accepting stance on teachers refusing to turn in a rapist teacher? Betraying a trust must mean you lose your p

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