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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Was there an explicit or implicit covenant by Mozilla and those users? I believe Mozilla's clear stance on DRM in the past (and its clear differentiation against other browser vendors in this respect) is near to such an implicit c
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Firefox was forced by Chrome, and Chrome in turn was probably forced by trying to remain a viable platform instead of Netflix et al. simply providing their own desktop apps. The kind of users who are not opposed against DRM already hav
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That analogy doesn't work because the people doing the waterboarding have the power to choose not to use torture in the first place. The Hollywood studios also have the power not to enforce having to use DRM on their licensees.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Google has bought a whole "camp" which is badmouthing MPEG for monetary reasons. Nothing has been over-hyped as much as AV1. Who is really evil? In the end it will all be about SSIM in non-geologic time scale. I will always s
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> EME is the better option if you believe DRM is going to happen one way or the other Waterboarding is the better option if you believe that torture is going to happen one way or the other.
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How One Line of Ancient Code Haunted a Major MMO for Six Months(waypoint.vice.com)
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Play a puzzle game to help research(twitter.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
But it is deeply central for designing any secure system that one can really argue that it is a disregard of due diligence when not followed.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> If Bank A makes my PIN number automatically the last 4 of my SSN, and Company B discloses that information By Kerckhoffs's principle > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kerckhoffs%27s_pr... a cryp
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> There's a reason why DOS stands for Disk Operating System. :) This is a retronym. Before purchased by Microsoft, DOS was developed by Seattle Computer Products under the name QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). This was chang
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Conveniently all of your users have 90s era supercomputers in their pants. Shame we're wasting that compute on nonsense. Supercomputers were designed and built to be used to capacity (otherwise they would be a waste of money). Mod
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Kaczynski's Dissertation Would Leave Your Head Spinning(articles.latimes.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> A Microcontroller with real process isolation would be really nice, though. It could be used to safely contain whole classes of nasty bugs in the application software. If this becomes a reality, programmers will become a lot less caref
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It seems like a regional thing though. In many European and Asian countries there may be animosity between some cyclists and some drivers of cars, but not the extreme polarisation seen in American (perhaps Australian and a few other co
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Do you have children? So you have decided into what to invest the 15-20 hours. I can find more interesting hobbies for my time.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Right. The application process appears to openly prioritize marketing skills, which puts it in serious conflict with the stated goal. Exactly. To quote [1]: "The world is full of extraordinarily creative people that are struggling
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People finally got to try Magic Leap – and the results aren't very positive(businessinsider.de)
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A conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores(businessinsider.de)
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The original Aerosmith tour van was found in Western Mass(boston.com)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> 1) As has been shown time and time again, the rewards of productivity gains accrue to the owners of capital far more than to the workers who are more productive. This looks much more like the real problem to me. The solution: Make it m
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I am not completely sure, but I can imagine XBox One.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I'm pretty sure companies would be happy to brick your computer for trying to access unlicensed copy of "their" data, if it wasn't for legal consequences that would follow. FTDI actually attempted to brick counterfe
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> So, maybe Indiana Jones was just fighting against arcane DRMs? Weren't the Grail trials in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a kind of DRM to prevent people people who no license from accessing the Grail? And isn't the scene
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Ah yes danger to the profit motive. I see no problem in a profit motive. I see the problem that countries enforce censorship via violence (I am talking about copyright laws).
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> How much human progress has been lost to academic profiteering? More general: How much human progress has been lost to copyright laws?
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Doctorate of philosophy. > The Ph in PhD actually means something. It's not some kitschy decoration. In Germany, the doctor's degrees are quite different. Typical ones for the HN audience are (for a long list cf. https:&#
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> And funny enough their updated main logo on the top left with the extra accents looks exactly like stylized football/soccerball. Perhaps I studied too much mathematics that I cannot see a truncated icosahedron > https:/&#
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by wolfgke 8y ago
While from my cultural bias, I cannot see any "Y pants" in the dodecahedron, the logo of Magento BI (next to "Magento" at the upper left corner of > https://rjmetrics.com/ and also the logo shown in t
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Rome fell. But not because it built roads.
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Bluetooth Hacking: Cheating in Elliptic Curve Billiards(hackernoon.com)
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