goodplay

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by goodplay 9y ago
Beginning with a partial solution to this problem is better than doing nothing at all. This sad state of affairs has gone on for far too long.
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by goodplay 9y ago
Wikipedia can be downloaded in its entirety in an easy to use package. For STEM articles, it's better than Britannica (and cheaper too).
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by goodplay 9y ago
Then let owners control whether it's enabled or not (by a hardware switch if necessary). As it currently stands, I can't imagine a benign reason that would drive intel and AMD to lock users out of their machines.
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by goodplay 9y ago
Mozilla can solve this problem the right way by doing what debian does when it wants to collect statistics: Ask users if they want to donate their information to Mozilla on first run or during the installer. Recording users' behavior b
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by goodplay 9y ago
It is, if the one master is less capable than the other.
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by goodplay 9y ago
Why isn't he thrown in jail, or why isn't the fence bulldozed down? Where I currently live (a somewhat well-off area), bulldozers (and self-entitled assholes) are a common occurrence.
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by goodplay 9y ago
I doubt failing to contact a server would circumvent DRM. Blocking their servers would only make their DRM scheme fail and prevent access to said copyright material. Using the DMCA to protect company's defective and flawed DRM scheme d
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by goodplay 9y ago
This has nothing to do with believing that we have right to other people's work without payment. The fundamental issue is that these publishers are allowing public access to their work than expecting to have some control over how it is
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by goodplay 9y ago
>This third party tool is making unauthorized edits to the New York Times' copyrighted material. It's not a third party tool. It's a tool used by the first party (user) to modify information that was sent to him without ef
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by goodplay 9y ago
>1. Can IP be encoded as a way of dodging the DMCA? a: no. This is false if the IP being enforced is trademark (which I'm not even sure is covered by the DMCA).
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by goodplay 9y ago
Agreed with seeking a legal solution instead of just relying on a techincal one, but if the problem is the string of characters, just hash those instead without hashing the whole host: [HASH:1AB543.124A3CC4.1AB543]/ads
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by goodplay 9y ago
What does ad-blocking have to do with copyright circumvention or copyright enforcement? The only think on that list is the domain name. I'm certain that including a name in a list does not fall under copyright (ample precedent that bac
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by goodplay 9y ago
>DEF CON provides conference WiFi with preauthorized certificates (WPA2), so [if you remove all other known open networks] then [you can have secure and sane WiFi at the conference]. Emphasis mine. Merely "removing" networks fr
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by goodplay 9y ago
broadcom disagrees.
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by goodplay 9y ago
If I learned one thing from these government programs, it's that they'll be gamed, badly.
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by goodplay 9y ago
They could. However, they would risk making the currency worthless if detected. I expect the only situation in which 51% attacks would be useful is when a party wants to deliberately destroy a currency.
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by goodplay 9y ago
I disagree. To most normal users, I expect they perceive libreoffice and openpffice.org to be distinct separate projects. Only techies who have been following openoffice.org would know that one is a fork of the other (and even that distinct
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by goodplay 9y ago
>they're very valuable if and only if you cannot use the protection [..] I don't think that's entirely fair. They're also valuable to those who want to transfer money without ridiculous fees, excessive bureaucratic fr
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by goodplay 9y ago
As apposed to casting and cncing one yourself? People can already build guns anonymously if they want (and many do). People can also use current 3D printers to (mostly) print unconventional guns anonymously. Do these printers also concern y
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by goodplay 9y ago
I remember coming across a serious bug in a site that belonged to a top multi-billion company. My brother also found what essentially an unrestricted privacy leak (and possibly editing access) in a top university (leaked data is sensitive p
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by goodplay 9y ago
>Considering the "muslim minorities" went on a wild random stabbing campaign and randomly injected people with some sort of syringes in public places[...] What percentage of those "muslim minorities" actually took par
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by goodplay 9y ago
Same use case here (with aprox. the same amount of tabs). I'd like to add that leaving a project's tabs open also helps me easily remember where I was in implementing a specific project, especially when I need to work on another p
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by goodplay 9y ago
Another reason that I don't see given its fair chance might be politics. The human race has a wide variety of values that are often counteracting. Forcing a specific set of values participants must adhere to in order to interact with t
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by goodplay 9y ago
I always found this peculiar about linux; even when the system is swapping hard and application windows/window managers completely freeze, the cursor always remains responsive and movement rendered without so much as a hitch. I wonder
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by goodplay 9y ago
Can you really blame them? Websites became hostile to users and users reacted. I don't know what your software is, and this certainly isn't directed at you, but if I'm forced to make a choice between using an ad blocker or us
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by goodplay 9y ago
I always disable mixed content so I honestly wouldn't know browsers indicate mixed content. I was under the impression that yellow was used. Apologies for the confusion. My point in my previous comment was that browsers should consider
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by goodplay 9y ago
Hopefully not. Domain name similarity does not fall within the scope of DV certs. For the usability problem you're hinting at, people mistaking DV certs for EV certs, I believe web browsers should consider demoting the color of the pad
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by goodplay 9y ago
This is good news for us who want alternative implementations like gccrs. GCC (and software developers) can target static "epoch"s (c89, c99, c11, ...) rather than a moving target. Hopefully, this will be enough to make developmen
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by goodplay 9y ago
Not gp, but I would personally expect a taxi driver to be better than me seeing the amount of time the diver spends on the road. The driver wouldn't be profitable otherwise. That said, I also mirror gp in that any self-driving car must
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by goodplay 9y ago
As an end-user, I do. Being prevented from fixing my own (expensive) device is not something I would voluntarily subject myself to. For context, here's a comment I posted a while ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

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