TheAmazingIdiot

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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
It I wasn't authorized, why did the webserver comply? The fact the webserver willingly gave the information I requested to me (did not 403 or 531), so I must be authorized.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Tptacek is pretty much a nutjob. He was going on and on against 1st sale doctrine about reimportation, how is it evil and such. He also despises republicans completely, given this thread alone. I'd set equal the anger in Tptacek to the craz
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
This link works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Then justify the distinction of Trespass: up to 30 days in jail and/or 100$ fine !!!COMPUTER!!! trespass: Years and years in jail, hundreds of thousands of dollars fine, Federal felony. Yeah. SOUNDS LEGIT.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
YouTube does automated dispute handling. They aren't even DMCA complaints. So they have no real burden. Hosting with The Pirate Bay would seem like an option. They seem to have 'stop shutdowns' stopped pretty well.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
When people while about getting 'removed from friends list' like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, MSN networks... If it is free, they can do this anytime they like. Your proper answer is to set up your own server and do it yourself. I gues
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
It's yet another sudoku game. No matter how good it is, or looks, you compete with the multitude of free sudoku games out there. Try something more vertical niche, and hunker down. A fill-in-the-blank game is not super-profit worthy. Even R
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
This argument goes towards the DMCA, as well as what is considered under the CFAA.. "Intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain: ....Information from any protected computer." What does 'without authorization' mean,
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Companies really hate it when you use globalization to bolster your side. Whether that be buying DVDs, software, books, watches, or any type of good or service, the big buys will try to make it illegal. Boo fucking hoo.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Yeah. Tell me about how that death star is going to go again? That's why these petitions are an utter joke.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I wonder how many subscribers and advertising clients threatened (or did) pull their funding of The Atlantic? The the time I saw it hit front page here, to now hasn't been that long. Must have hurt their bottom line.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
"So by your judgement, all these folks could be sacked and nothing of value would be lost?" I would argue that value would be gained by sacking these people (and organizations). Most of the money they (and other journals) uses is dependent
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I "break into" computer systems all the time. Since I do not follow the EULA/license agreement for each website, and I send a handshake requesting files over a webserver, I am in violation of federal law for unauthorized computer usage. Tha
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
You're right Kliment. I was too harsh, only due to my anger. It's also a sore point to me and quite a few of my friends. I'm sorry, cmsmith.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
You mean all the work the grad students do when they write the content.... And all the work other grad students do when they typeset it? Sure. Apologist.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
A mail server and website combination is cheap to build. Your only cost is bandwidth. The only real cost is bandwidth. That's when you have the schools host these cheap servers. "instead of 15 million USD, we want to colo. Deal?" And to com
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
And trite sayings don't mean they are correct, either. The social contract in the constitution was to grant people with limited exclusivity for works they created. Patents have roughly stayed within that parameter (with exception to patent
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I'm bisexual.. So the opposite is bisexual? I'm fine with that. Can I have my upvote?
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
The guy's "transformative conversation" is akin to staying up late and going to forums and 'correcting' them. Why? Because somebody is wrong on the Internet! Just substitute internet for real life. There is a time and place for everything.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
An open problem that Google has admitted with their car automation project is a certain problem endemic to the northern part of this country: Snow and Ice. Admittedly, ice is rather difficult in any condition. However, many human drivers dr
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
"The car can also communicate with other vehicles" This topic is interesting in quite a few aspects. Firstly, it's something I thought of long ago, but due to implementation details (ECM is a closed, obfuscated PITA). The biggest ideas revo
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
Too bad Mosh cannot work with X display redirects. That one would have been rather handy.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I'd like to see this used as evidence that the movie viewing may cost 12$ for a ticket, the movies are actually worth negative dollars. Use their own tax cheating against themselves.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
The energy curve sounds like a parabola (f(x)=x^2) curve of "energy", where nothing can actually sit at 0,0 or go through it. The energy translation used to flip a slight positive temp to a negative temp sounds like a reflection to the nega
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I just removed the module from loading. I dont have any firewire stuff anyways, so it's just some useless 4 pin port at the bottom left of my thinkpad. No driver, no workey.
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
For those reading this outside of the USA, this grandparent and parent poster are why this country suffers from backbiting and lack of any sort of progressive reform, like basic health. This view exists from the very bottom to the very top
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
That is an awesome analysis of video and working through the physics. Complete aside: Mind exploded from unit mismatch. Miles per hour then meters? Gah.... Just please dont use gradians for angle measurement :)
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
That's ACTUALLY where Le gran K is still stored. (outside paris) It's the last artifact of a physical object used to measure all others. And that fucker changes weight too, so the kilogram ISNT stable. Its just like all those nasty imperial
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I've always been happy with "The Bread Bible", by Rose Levy Beranbaum. That book contains all recipes in both metric and imperial. When I make short meads, I do it a little more off the cuff.. Then it's what tastes right for the honey water
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by TheAmazingIdiot 14y ago
I well realize that now. Many of us worked with metric in the sciences for our university career, as well as prior high/middle/ele school teachings of metrication. Some of the lesser known units of imperial measure throw us off. I asked him

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