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by wnight 14y ago
The author called him naive, not a monster. Also, Bill might be rich but under his command Microsoft faked evidence in federal court, etc, to get and keep it. If the law worked the same for him as for everyone else he wouldn't have so much
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by wnight 14y ago
Code or GTFO. I ask trivial coding questions (fizz buzz level) but take them further. First write that, then change it a bit, then more, then make it customizable, etc. I also like the idea of saying 'mention (some shibboleth) in your cover
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by wnight 14y ago
But not lock-picking. Why are you trying so hard to label this hacking? Earlier you argued by fear, that a badly configured server could send private data, and therefore editing URLs is hacking. Hell, I've seen servers with private data in
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by wnight 14y ago
Playing with those URLs is not hacking, even if it was illegal. Trying a key in a door isn't lock-picking, trying an obvious URL isn't hacking.
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by wnight 14y ago
I was addressing your ideas, not you. But everything you say comes with an aura of wizard and that's why I'm taking issue to you saying things that would merely be opinion from someone else. The idea that incrementing a URL is hacking goes
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by wnight 14y ago
Guessing URLs isn't hacking. You of all people should know that. Some hacking can involve that, but it's as unrelated as noting that hackers eat. Visiting a URL is like asking an employee to photocopy a document for you. As long as you don'
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by wnight 14y ago
Personally I find it gauche when people judge the worthiness of someone else, merely because other people have had an even rougher time. This case is absolutely like Aaron's, an over-zealous prosecutor doing absolutely nothing useful for so
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by wnight 14y ago
No. But what if I was the consultant who wrote that file and I picked it particularly because it shared the hash of one of a family of malicious auto-generated files I had already created? That'd still be hard but much more likely. This has
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by wnight 14y ago
If any harm could come to AT&T's customers over this, then their stock price should fall. Also, as facts those email addresses aren't copyrightable. Taking them and selling them for profit is what all direct mail companies legally do wi
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by wnight 14y ago
Typical. You blame the person who discovered the hole instead of the incompetent developers and negligent company that made millions from cutting corners. Actually, if anyone needs to go to jail over it, it's the management team that didn't
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by wnight 14y ago
Why does everyone jump out of the woodwork to say this? Even if this was an accident, which I doubt, it's still gross incompetency. This wasn't caught inside the institution. Who knows what other complete lies they'll publish next? This is
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by wnight 14y ago
No honest person would call this the theft of millions of documents. This is akin to jumping the gate at a theme park and riding for free, a bunch of times. Nobody stole a rollercoaster. Harm was done but there's no need to reach for emotio
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by wnight 14y ago
I too agree that diffusion of responsibility means we must all drop the issue.
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by wnight 14y ago
The GPL is enforceable in that it doesn't try to prevent anything. Using it merely means you share title in your derived work. This (having GPLed code laying around) is a 'found book' scenario. You've got a copy that you didn't violate copy
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by wnight 14y ago
What if the potential shooter was a parent on their way to rescue a child from a kidnapper? What if the shooter was a police officer and had merely lost their uniform in a comic mishap while chasing a vicious killer? If you try to stop some
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by wnight 14y ago
If there isn't much piracy then there aren't many purchases (often none) so there's no justification for an extension. But earnings themselves aren't a justification, it's the public good that comes from the further works you create while s
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by wnight 14y ago
No, that's not what obsolete copyright. But copyright is intended as a give and take and if I can't watch Resident Evil on my terms they've broken their end of it. I see no need to be the patsy in every situation, either prevented from usin
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by wnight 14y ago
How would the EULA be enforceable on software a user reasonably found? That's like a contact in a book you find on the bus. Without a sale the UCC won't apply... Copyright is called that because its about creating new copies, not reading an
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by wnight 14y ago
No, the people who use 'stealing' hoping for an easy emotional victory should stop trying to manipulate everyone endlessly. Stop using tainted words and simply make an argument. Quit naming, start describing.
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by wnight 14y ago
Right, an IP isn't identifying. But these people want us to think it is when it's convenient for them so we MUST treat them like they treat others. Huge fine, life/company running big, and punishments involving never touching anything that
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by wnight 14y ago
The american law wouldn't be imposed on the seller. They'd merely have to accept the limitations of their county's law on the buyer, with regard to their inability to prevent resale. Which isn't as much forcing our law on them as not lettin
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by wnight 14y ago
Did you read my post? Even the basic text it sends is enough to be a concern for some. Are you saying you doubt it does this?
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by wnight 14y ago
Who covers the difference between the $7/h gas station attendants currently make, and the new $100/h? How do they do this without raising prices? Where does the farmer buy gas so as not to have to raise the price of food to match?
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by wnight 14y ago
You're making a mistake by confusing effort and difficulty with value. There are uncountably many human-requiring tasks that don't improve the world at all. For instance, "count all 'pretty' things and divide the number by two". While silly
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by wnight 14y ago
I think it's pretty obvious what it sends - or rather, the obvious stuff is enough to bother some people when the feature defaults to on. They're saying they'd search for "Joe Random - Resignation Letter - FooCorp.doc" trying to find the la
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by wnight 14y ago
How can auditing one copy of a program prove what Amazon chooses to record with another copy? >RMS says things, that's what he does. I see. And probably without a license... Tisk, tisk.
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by wnight 14y ago
Event terms and conditions would become nicer if they didn't list the (already illegal) things that will get you expelled from the event but just said "Any criminal act, and especially the removal by police for these acts, will result in i
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by wnight 14y ago
If you don't want your data used by others, don't send it to them. You explicitly give them permission to have it by going out of your way to install a program on a common port, with a common API, and giving it a directory full of documents
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by wnight 14y ago
Yes, that would be good. But the issue is that they CAN exert control - the government that is, at the behest of the lobbyists of the day, even if you legalize this specific thing. We need to move to a Freenet model where it's nearly imposs
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by wnight 14y ago
If you continue all drug-funding efforts via your insurance company, etc, the way things are done will never change. If instead we pooled the money we would spend and payed the companies to do the research directly they wouldn't deserve own

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