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by cbs 13y ago
It seems to take an American or a European to be so paranoid that even this can be cast as a sinister activity. They know their history. The possibility that their governments would do something as underhanded as hide a person with ulter
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by cbs 13y ago
I am starting to sense some elitism and bandwagoning from the design community. Starting to? That's kind of what the cutting edge of design is all about. When a design advances past certain middle of the road thresholds of usability
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by cbs 13y ago
Sure, they're fair questions in and of themselves. That doesn't mean they're not used as part of unreasonable or just nonsense rhetoric. Does the person asking them want to start a real discussion about skill- and merit-base
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by cbs 13y ago
I was surprised on the drive home yesterday when they interviewed his neighbor. He didn't win the local chilli cook-off, dude just revealed multiple gigantic surveillance operations. There's got to be someone more relevant to in
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by cbs 13y ago
I assumed it was the work of the programmer tasked with installing the key for the NSA, not some self-deprecating humor.
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by cbs 13y ago
Why is it that IRS targeting is not important enough to merit a single post, but Verizon et. al giving the NSA access to all our data is? One is a widespread systematic invasion of privacy. The other is a bit of red tape that unequally s
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by cbs 13y ago
From what I understand, modern X applications run remotely are just painting a region of bytes to be shot over the wire anyway. I'll borrow X terminology for a second here, what functional difference is there between these two approac
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by cbs 13y ago
Giving an inch doesn't mean you want to give a mile. Or perhaps more appropriately to facebook, giving a mile doesn't mean that any passerby who wants an inch is entitled to it. Making privacy tradeoff decisions about facebook doesn't mean
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The CFAA Is a Failed Experiment(forbes.com)
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by cbs 13y ago
There are multiple pages to the article. I missed the navigation buttons at first too.
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by cbs 13y ago
Anyone with the legal knowledge to help you probably knows better than to do so. Find a lawyer, this type of thing is why they exist.
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by cbs 13y ago
The government doesn't do anything at market rates. They employ below market rates, and contract external companies above market rates. This is (unfortunately) by design.
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by cbs 13y ago
Normally I have a kneejerk reaction to someone calling someone else jealous. It always strikes me as someone projecting their own jealousy onto someone who very well may have legitimate criticism. That having been said, it is a bit rich fo
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by cbs 13y ago
let's not pretend that he is an innovator C'mon, this can't be the first time you've noticed that "innovation" has been overused to the point of meaninglessness in tech. "Disruption" doubly so. Don't harp on this kid, he is no less inno
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by cbs 14y ago
Isn't Wikia also created by Jimbo Wales? He's pushing the content off of Wikipeida to his for-profit site! Collusion!
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by cbs 14y ago
Do you seriously believe the female or feminist tech community has the resources to perform DDoS? Take a good hard look in the mirror my friend. You're calling "take your head out of your ass" abrasive, but that is downright tame compare
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by cbs 14y ago
TechCrunch reporting on misrepresentation of a quote that TechCrunch originally read too much into? This is my surprised face.
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by cbs 14y ago
Is that what everybody outside the US thinks? Well, considering that whenever the actions of an employer are questioned people on the internet are quick to assert that privacy in the work place does not exist and that employment is at-wil
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by cbs 14y ago
I disagree with what you said. Please tell me where you work so that I may go create a PR nightmare for your employer that is best solved by firing you.
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by cbs 14y ago
Is it fair for people from that 3rd world country to sell the book back to the USA and for you to miss out on your profit? The law should only be concerned with fairness insomuch as it informs "right vs wrong". Nobody is entitled to a bu
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by cbs 14y ago
Conferences are a minefield. Conflicting opinions of if a particular conference should be, is, and what qualifies as, a "professional work environment" run rampant. When you have everyone attending because it's necessary and/or just a brea
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by cbs 14y ago
The concluding 3 paragraphs are like the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense. Yup. This guy did a fantastic job articulating what many others have just given up on trying to. Those of us who voice trepidation are usually marginalized as
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by cbs 14y ago
It's a common bit of firearm carrying wisdom. Not directly equitable to, but in the same vein as, "even when the gun is unloaded, its loaded". Of course its a deterrent, but the only thing that makes it more of a deterrent than a whistle i
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by cbs 14y ago
I'm an embedded systems developer, targeting a realtime operating system and have hard realtime application requirements. Could someone explain to me what these folks mean when they say "real-time"?
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by cbs 14y ago
they should have done a way better job sharing that vision and framing the discussion that way. In a market where some game's design decisions for online focus and/or online passes are driven by an effort to reduce piracy and the second
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by cbs 14y ago
A guy with an axe to grind tricked some websites that either aren't focused on games or are just desperate for page views? That's not going to change my view of Rock Paper Shotgun's editorial chops. Maybe you're right, I'll wait for the Ma
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by cbs 14y ago
What would an ideal question have been, in my mind? How about this: [...] If they wanted to have that kind of discussion, why not use a panel moderator to ask those questions and invoke that conversation in the portion of the event the pa
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by cbs 14y ago
What if you're depressed because you're afraid of death? In that case, you shouldn't take any advice from HN unless that advice is to talk to a professional. It's a lot like legal advice, sure people on the internet can talk about the iss
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by cbs 14y ago
I find attitudes like this fascinating. If they were within their legal right to do this, that explains why the resident deans are complaining instead of suing . When did the fact something is permitted become reason to shut down or mar
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by cbs 14y ago
So what now? How can this work? It doesn't. Our most recent copyright overhaul (which this is a feature of) currently works close-enough to OK to be tolerable to those who would otherwise fix it.

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