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by hackuser 9y ago
> Not sure Anti-ad-blocking laws are practically enforceable Many doubted that DRM was practical to enforce.
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by hackuser 9y ago
I agree with the EFF's position but what the EFF, I, and others with the same point of view lack is an elevator pitch on the harm of losing privacy (or the benefits of privacy). The EFF and I generally assume know the risk is well-know
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by hackuser 9y ago
Yeah, that's why I said "probably". I wonder if it's a net gain or loss in the game of 'drop a rock on Europa'. At this point, I'm leaning toward 'gain'.
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by hackuser 9y ago
And customers generally have no idea about the boxes' power consumption.
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by hackuser 9y ago
If my cable box loses power then it loses all its channel guide data, and it takes maybe 15 minutes to reload. It really seems unbelievable. Why isn't the data stored on the local disk? How much data could that be and why does it take
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by hackuser 9y ago
A few years ago I measured the power consumption of various devices around my home, using an inline meter of unknown accuracy (e.g., TV plugs into meter, meter plugs into wall outlet). There weren't many surprises, but my cable TV boxe
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by hackuser 9y ago
Europa is an extremely tiny target to hit randomly from Earth, probably made smaller by the fact that, in order to hit Europa, the object has to pass near Jupiter without getting pulled into it. On the other hand, there are billions of year
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by hackuser 9y ago
I agree it's wrong and wish it could be stopped. But why do the employees trust that they will become vested? They can see the risk in their agreements and see what happens to their co-workers.
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by hackuser 9y ago
If you are a professional in the field of typography, what is the/an authoritative source on (mis)recognition of characters - if that is even the correct term and if I am asking the right question? (Maybe typeface only has a tiny effec
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The filibuster was ... It is ... it's still there, just not for confirmations of appointments by the executive branch.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It was 3/5, not 2/3, to break a filibuster It still is. Filibusters have been banned only for confirmations of appointments by the President.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Since the issues they can vote on are restricted by the Constitution, it's not really a big deal. I don't agree. The U.S. Senate is very powerful; those restrictions aren't very broad. > the simple 50% majority is by
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Back when he was first elected in 2004, Erdogan was not the huge asshole that he is today. His party actually conducted a lot of useful reforms that were beneficial for the country. / Over time though he slid into authoritarianism
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by hackuser 9y ago
Consider what happens if an attack is detected after an election: As HN readers know, even if you know your systems have been penetrated it can be very difficult to detect the extent of the damage: Which records have been changed? Deleted
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It takes very little to swing an election if you're strategic, sometimes less than 1% of the vote Good points. I'd add that the potential attackers include national intelligence agencies and other very well-resourced groups,
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by hackuser 9y ago
Fingerprints don't have to be perfect security, they merely have to be sufficient for the application.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> NASA will present new discoveries about the ocean worlds in our solar system Perhaps "in our solar system" should be added to the title. That is a much different story than "ocean worlds" elsewhere.
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Tired: Stealing Data. Wired: Holding a Dam for Ransom(defenseone.com)
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The statement that you quoted does not claim, or imply, that it's all the same. Fair point, and it crossed my mind when I wrote my GP comment. I disagree with your statement but I can't disprove it and any comment's impl
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The left has their own set of "religious" reasoning. I strongly disagree with the argument that it's all the same, both sides are the same, etc. It's like saying that everyone is a liar, therefore they all are equal
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by hackuser 9y ago
SecureDrop received $250,000 of it. Good for Mozilla, I think. Prior reviews of SecureDrop in HN have raised questions. The $250,000 given represents the largest amount we’ve ever provided to an organization since launching the MOSS progra
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How the genomics revolution could finally help Africa(nature.com)
2 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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Japanese scientists call for boycott of military research(nature.com)
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It just continues a long line of anti-science measures by the administration. It's much more widespread and long-term than this administration; it's the Republican Party. A great many other Republican leaders, current and pas
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by hackuser 9y ago
My hypothesis, that has held up (in my mind) for awhile now, is that it's an adherence to ideology over reason and rationality, an approach that unfortunately has been legitimized for a large part of the right wing in the U.S. The deni
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by hackuser 9y ago
I don't think its lifespan indicates its importance. Without it, it seems possible or even very likely that more innocent people will be have their reputations ruined and be imprisoned, with all the follow on effects on their families
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by hackuser 9y ago
> With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn’t matter. It may matter very much to the person who was fired.
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by hackuser 9y ago
I read that many years ago, maybe 10-20, a major U.S. network news anchor was furious that, as he was broadcasting in front of Times Square (or someplace similar), the network used augmented reality (whatever it was called then) to replace
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The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)(blog.mozilla.org)
1 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
Could it be forked? Is there a community that would continue to develop Unity?

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