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by fffggg 14y ago
Terminal environment? You're gauging the performance of the kernel by interactive typing performance? I don't know where to start.
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by fffggg 14y ago
That's just to become an acquiring bank, to save on exchange fees. Ultimately VISA determines who gets to participate in the VISA credit exchange network and will fine acquiring banks who participate in things like this. No one can force th
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by fffggg 14y ago
One obvious example would be if you had hired the interviewee in question. If so, it would be awfully difficult to demonstrate discrimination against them! Don't get me wrong, it is a very bad idea to ask these questions. But it is not ille
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by fffggg 14y ago
Can you cite the relevant Texas statute? I don't believe you are correct. It is very common for confused employers to claim it is illegal, but as eli described this is an oversimplification and is not actually true.
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by fffggg 14y ago
Here's one for you: City real estate dips in price. Suburb real estate rises, especially at the fringe of the suburbs. A self-driving car with a LTE wireless hotspot would make a previously absurd commute manageable. Heck, you could sleep
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by fffggg 14y ago
This question is equally applicable to all data sources -- not just filesystems. The question applies to sockets, IPC, databases, everything.
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by fffggg 14y ago
That's incorrect. As was already pointed out this issue has nothing to do with reading data from the filesystem or manipulating variables internal to the program and everything to do with poor choices made when using printf. In other words,
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by fffggg 14y ago
This rant misplaces its frustration. This is not a problem with unix filesystems, this is a problem with Bourne Shell scripts, and with UNIX argument parsing semantics. Bourne shell is notorious for its problematic quoting, both of filesyst
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by fffggg 14y ago
Regarding the expense of clinical trials, it's important to note that the scientific results of a clinical trial are not protected by either patent or copyright. Pure research data cannot be restricted under any form of IP. Factual data wit
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by fffggg 14y ago
It's much, much worse than what you describe. They are seizing domains based on the preference of a private entity. There is no allegation of criminal infringement against dajaz1.com -- not even a little bit. This is not an issue of harassi
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by fffggg 14y ago
Not to mention you can write down the seed itself and simply type it into another phone.
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by fffggg 14y ago
"I just know that is a stolen car" Which is why criminals do not charge half of its used value -- they charge 100% of the used value just like everyone else. You cannot tell a stolen bike on craigslist apart from a non-stolen bike based on
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by fffggg 14y ago
Absolutely. When a civil contract is broken the appropriate response is a trial in a court of law. Businesses are quite familiar with the debt collection process. A judge and possibly a jury are needed to resolve these types of disputes fai
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by fffggg 14y ago
Not designing for an appropriately sized earthquake is itself an engineering failure.
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by fffggg 14y ago
FDIC? In Brazil?
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by fffggg 14y ago
The UK does not, but Sweden has violated said treaties. Here is an article on the subject, where several men were extradited from Sweden at the USA's behest, to Egypt where they were tortured: http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-viol
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by fffggg 14y ago
Your flippant rudeness is inappropriate. Sweden has an established history of extraditing on behalf of the US in various illegal fashions. Here is one example: http://www.hrw.org/news/2006/11/09/sweden-violated-torture-b... Sweden has bee
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by fffggg 14y ago
No. Square's product is all about accepting credit cards. From the press release: "Square will process Starbucks U.S. credit and debit card transactions, which will significantly expand Square’s scale and accelerate the benefits to business
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by fffggg 14y ago
I didn't say anything about banning copyright; I didn't express my own position at all. Frankly I'm at a loss as to your point, or how it is relevant. You seem to be jumping between various argumentative positions as they crumble away. It's
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by fffggg 14y ago
"Regardless of how you get there, not having the app is not having the app." This sentiment is a great example of how you're missing the point. It isn't about having an app. It isn't about getting things. It's about freedom of expression. I
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by fffggg 14y ago
Reading your post I'm lead to believe that you haven't read (or properly understood) his philosophical stance. You say: "he's a nosy noser who can't keep his nose out of what goes on among consenting adults in situations that don't really i
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by fffggg 14y ago
Actually I believe you're suggesting that the paradigm of tagging files may be inappropriately complex for most users. And I would agree. The point is that we've had the ability to apply tags since the dawn of unix. It remains an obscure fe
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by fffggg 14y ago
"This is why directories are getting old - they allow only one tag for a file" Erm, no. A file can be tagged (linked) into as many directory locations as you like. This is what hardlinks do and it is not a new concept.
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by fffggg 14y ago
It's not necessary for them to do so. It's incumbent upon CL to prove the infringement, not the other way around.
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by fffggg 14y ago
Every service I've worked on doesn't look, because they don't want to know -- there's no business reason to know. Having this kind of knowledge about customer content is completely counter to the business goals. An intelligent company will
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by fffggg 14y ago
I've dealt with both RHEL and OEL support contracts over long periods of time, in large scale environments (a few orders of magnitude larger than your example). OEL was free as we had other Oracle licensing in place and the thought was "Why
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by fffggg 14y ago
Nowhere did I suggest the message was cohesive. It is very much an arena of competing propaganda. The mention of a unified conspiratorial message was a strawman introduced by tptacek, not I. As for your complaint about the sinister tone, I
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by fffggg 14y ago
There's no need for a conspiracy or for central organization when incentives align. In this case, the incentives to manipulate are often financial or political. You have misunderstood my meaning of "machine" -- not all social systems involv
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by fffggg 14y ago
The best lies incorporate as much truth as possible. I believe you're suggesting the same thing I am -- that the US propaganda machine is much more subtle, and therefore more credible. A false narrative is a false narrative, regardless of h
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by fffggg 14y ago
My father once said "The difference between American and Russian propaganda is that Russians know that Pravda is propaganda." The problem with American media is certainly not limited to Fox.

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