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by ynniv 14y ago
All the guns you can hold aren't going to help when the only potable water is rationed. Historically, poisoning the public water supply was suicide. Now that we can efficiently distribute bottled water for weeks, it's a feasible strategy to
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by ynniv 14y ago
The lack of durable documentation of prior art is a large part of what keeps frivilous software patents valid. It would be difficult to establish the date and authenticity of screenshots, tho. You're usually looking for printed material lik
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by ynniv 14y ago
The sensationalist aspect here is the idea that Antigua might set a far below-market price on intellectual property items What's the price of something that has no incremental cost? We've been trained to think it's ~ $15, but there's no r
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by ynniv 14y ago
Antigua: come for the beaches, leave with a truecrypt image of every book worth reading, every song worth hearing, and every movie worth watching.
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by ynniv 14y ago
That's an excellent breakdown - you have a much better eye for the equipment than I do. Total bill looks around $30,000. Rent is probably $800/mo for the 36 months they took to record, so there's another ~ $30k. The total is expensive for a
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by ynniv 14y ago
And they're using a little mp3 device, or a phone, or their computer. Or they go to clubs, where a poorly mastered track will sound awful. Plus people who really love music can tell, and those are the people who popularize it. A poorly ma
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by ynniv 14y ago
The point is that spotify practically doesn't pay artists.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Headphones go a long way, but according the to artist it was recorded and mixed in a 500 sqft studio they built. Looks like acoustic foam on the walls, a decent mic, monitors, protools, used rack equipment, etc. Probably close to $5k, but n
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by ynniv 14y ago
Probably not when the movie came out in '93 tho. The easiest Linux install was a sad chore until at least '95 or '96.
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by ynniv 14y ago
I'm horrible about remembering specialized commands, so I "ps | grep" all the time. Sometimes grep shows up in the output, sometimes it doesn't, and yet life goes on... :-)
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by ynniv 14y ago
or the color of my tie This kind of response further devolves the discussion. I said nothing so flippant, and suggesting so is disrespectful to me. Neither of those are ways to disagree with someone's words. Hypocrisy shows that someone
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by ynniv 14y ago
You're being incredibly rude and unfair. Rude? Maybe. Unfair? Hardly. The OP completely mischaracterizes what the best groups in our industry do, then laments that people aren't helping his friend, and this lamentation is the extent of hi
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by ynniv 14y ago
The core problem is that 100 more people on Hacker News think that your top comment is valuable, and further that you take this as justification that your viewpoint is supported by the community. As there is no way for folks to only partici
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by ynniv 14y ago
If I leave my door wide open and put up a sign that says "Private Property, Do Not Enter", it is legally the same as a deadbolt Yes, and it's not the same as MAC blocking. You can't answer legal questions with engineering Technology cha
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by ynniv 14y ago
This is quite possible, and will be handled by a jury that probably doesn't understand why anyone would randomize their MAC address any more than they would understand why anyone would habitually walk around wearing a ski mask. I would ho
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by ynniv 14y ago
You're going to all sorts of gyrations to avoid the obvious. The fundamental question is still: do you know that you're not allowed? I agree that I'm darting around, but it's in the interest of truth. Here's the problem: if Aaron was runn
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by ynniv 14y ago
Security based on MAC blocking is not remotely like a deadbolt. A deadbolt denies anyone who doesn't have a key, whereas a block list allows anyone who doesn't look like someone on the list. Security based on a MAC whitelist (where only cer
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by ynniv 14y ago
Note, that doesn't mean I think you should get 30 years in prison for simply walking across my lawn. Agreed, which is one reason it is important in this conversation to separate false identity from trespassing. The relevance of the secur
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by ynniv 14y ago
Are you bypassing a security mechanism by changing your MAC address? This question seriously calls into question your profile description of "security guy". A security mechanism based on MAC is as effective as a security mechanism based o
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by ynniv 14y ago
Well that's a poorly constructed straw-man. Why would you be charged for fraud for wearing a fake mustache? I don't think you have any idea what you're saying.
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by ynniv 14y ago
It is not an actual means of identifying an individual and it is part of ensuring a reasonable amount of privacy for the user. Technically. Yes, I think that anyone who understands the technology agrees with this. The problem is that the
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by ynniv 14y ago
Turning around and claiming that "the gubmint wants to lock up MAC randomizers!", however, is just dumb. That's not what the law in this case says at all. That is exactly what the law says in this case. The government has declared that MA
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by ynniv 14y ago
If you think one pithy remark opens a thoughtful debate, I'm not missing anything. Sorry.
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by ynniv 14y ago
So much of cultural is contextual, and on closer inspection the hero and villan are rarely who you thought they were. I saw your manifesto a long time ago, in a small town far, far away, and it played some part in making a bankers son want
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by ynniv 14y ago
Well, the author (loydb) says otherwise. I appreciate that you ignored everything else I said, tho. To each their own.
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by ynniv 14y ago
Hur, indie programmer humor. People who think that are idiots. We live in a time when you can buy a computer the size of your hand that can do real time image analysis on a couple of AA batteries for $40. A couple decades ago that would be
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by ynniv 14y ago
I think the hacker news community is more focused around node.js Ugh, do you have to remind me? The community here is becoming so risk averse I can't fathom how they expect to hack by any definition. The Manifesto was from an era when the
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by ynniv 14y ago
I haven't looked, but my intuition is that the differences are so pronounced that finding data should not be difficult. I would not want my neighbors regularly renting their apartment while they are out of town. There is already a substanti
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by ynniv 14y ago
I assume that most people glossed over the details of this new article, so here is a link to Adobe's page with the installer and a serial number. No registration, no checkbox saying you already own it, just CS2 for Windows XP. This appears
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by ynniv 14y ago
The Lambo was peanuts compared to the custom Zonda. [ http://www.leftlanenews.com/pagani-zonda-hh.html ]

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