Yardlink

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by Yardlink 12y ago
It's still two factors. If someone has only your phone but not your password, they still can't log in. The problem here is that the phone number was also used as a password recovery option, which effectively means you only need th
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by Yardlink 12y ago
To those who don't like the use of this law, I think this is OK. Here's why: You live in a democracy where the popular opinion decides who's in power. You agree that's a good idea because you aren't moving to an aut
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Pedophile behavior in online communities doesn't harm anyone, and doesn't need professional help any more than homosexual behavior needs professional help. It's the illegal production of the product that causes the harm.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Blaming the customers is what we do with pedophiles. It seems to work even though it's immoral.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
I wonder if these suspended states they talk about later in the article would actually extend your life for the duration of the suspended state. I presume the aging processes also slow down or stop. Perhaps this is a more realistic option f
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Users don't fix bugs in open source software. For evidence, look at OpenOffice and LibreOffice, both riddled with some horrifying bugs that have been repeatedly documented for years. There's even a guy complaining about one well-k
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by Yardlink 12y ago
It struck me as odd that they avoided floating point numbers because of impreciseness, then used some other type of number without evaluating how precise it was. They're certainly not using typical integers with values like 10^9000. I
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Great news. I guess efficiency is following a similar rapid growth to power.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
He makes some dubious efficiency claims. It's true the colored LEDs have always been pretty efficient, but that's no use lighting your home. White LEDs have surpassed incandescent bulbs but still have a way to go to reach flouresc
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by Yardlink 12y ago
I think expert witnesses serve that purpose. There have been complicated technical details in jury trials before the internet and this seems to be an adequate way to solve the problem.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Ronald Pelton was an NSA spy who's been in prison longer for participating in war. Except he's being held in the US and is still locked up today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Pelton
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by Yardlink 12y ago
It is a China-bashing lens. The article also complains about: "the location of a person’s “hukou,” or residency permit" Employers in every country do this and we don't call it "just wrong" (though it is). They use t
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by Yardlink 12y ago
There's an obvious bias here. The piece ends with "localisation may keep small languages alive". Isn't that adding to the problem? We don't try to keep small programming languages alive (except a few diehards). Many
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Is there are reason this language exists? They're solving a problem that's been solved many times over for at least 2 decades in the form of managed languages.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
It's debatable that H.264 and MP3 patents are bad. These were non-trivial to invent and are worlds apart from slide to unlock or hold-the-shutter-button-to-record-video. They don't patent the general process of compressing video a
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Cooking too? Food safety has bigger risks if you're making 10000 donuts than 1. Restricting everyone equally would put an unreasonable burden on everyday life. Scale is a big reason why there's a difference. Unrestricted commercia
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by Yardlink 12y ago
I don't think titles are important legally. It's hard to believe his lawyer misunderstood that when it was apparently true according to the appeal judges. I know for instance, in copyright law, being an "employee" is imp
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Nobody seems to care about these laws until some high-profile company starts breaking them. 10 years ago where was the outrage that GM wasn't allowed to sell SUVs directly to customers? Where was the outrage that ordinary people (ie cr
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Filtering doesn't work well enough at all. The fact that you can't be sure if your email was received is a problem. Many companies have over-aggressive spam filters and the recipients sometimes never even see the emails in their s
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Not just TOR but in China you have to use a VPN to access about half the internet, and many sites restrict your access because you're connecting to them from the VPN. Paypal threatened to ban me if I ever forgot to turn off the VPN or
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by Yardlink 12y ago
It opens doors for some people who wouldn't have been able to otherwise. But more importantly, I hope this type of cheating leads universities to change their selection processes so applicants don't have to play this second-guessi
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by Yardlink 12y ago
I used to work for a company writing application essays for Chinese students. I didn't write them myself but I have no moral objection. The requirements are bizarre - effectively "tell us what you know will make us like you but hi
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Don't confuse Fukishima with a nuclear disaster. Yes there was environmental contamination, but 10's of thousands of people were killed by a tsunami. Nuclear accidents aren't nearly that bad. What we need is more sea walls, n
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by Yardlink 12y ago
He waited a day or two to be frozen after he died. Doesn't that mean his brain will have already suffered massive damage from oxygen deprivation and be unrecoverable? I thought you would have to freeze yourself before your brain begins
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by Yardlink 12y ago
With a resolution that high you must be used to small fixed pixel width sites. Pity they can't all just be doubled or quadrupled in size.
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Whenever there are ambitious plans for a poor country, people think of all kinds of reasons not to - the environment! the culture! the local economy! people's family homes! But they forget "these people are already screwed!".
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Is there actually any evidence that keeping a language alive does any good to anyone? I know people say "it gives us different ways of thinking" and "expressing different concepts" but I've yet to see an example of
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by Yardlink 12y ago
This could enable some very low development cost cloudwashing of legacy desktop software!
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by Yardlink 12y ago
One of the major advantages of trucks over trains is precisely that - they're not trains. Making them trains would take away all the flexibility they currently have. If you're taking coal from the mine to the power station then yo
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by Yardlink 12y ago
Researchers always think of ambitious applications for their work. Somehow the presentation didn't show how it's easier for the legitimate manufacturer to do than for the counterfeiter. If it's nothing more than an expensive

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