hobbyhacker

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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
See 'namecoin'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
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Russia plans unmanned moon mission in 2015(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by hobbyhacker 14y ago|1 comments
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
It's hamsters all the way down. Not blaming any hamsters for wrongdoing is implicitly agreeing with the system.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
happy reading: http://kspaink.home.xs4all.nl/fishman/home.html
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Just one little anecdote for old times' sake. I used a sequential dialer to scan for interesting numbers in the country capital. After hitting one particular number the phone to which the modem was connected rang. This was before the days o
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
This still side-steps the question of the use of discretionary powers in deciding to prosecute this case in the first place.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
> Harvard fellow uses MIT's network surreptitiously to violate the terms of service to download a nonprofit's entire database and then give it away for free, putting them out of business. Do you notice the contradiction in 'non profit'
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
I've read the piece carefully and the thing that stands out for me most is the bit about the data being 'property'. It is argued that since JSTOR claims property rights with a tangential link to another case where someone downloaded a chunk
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
People will respond differently when faced with the same challenges. Just because one guy can spend 14 years in prison and 2 in solitary confinement is no reason to assume that we'd all fare that well. Plenty of people commit suicide in pri
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Nobody called for her imprisonment or hounding her to the point where she's going to hang herself. Just a corrective measure to a system that has clearly spun out of control. A change of career.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Because in todays legal climate most of the things that were 'gray' back then are forbidden explicitly now. Things that as a kid in my days you'd be receiving a stern talking to for will now cause you to go to jail for very long periods in
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
The problem with Guantanamo is that it exists at all as an extra-judiciary area specifically designed to deny inmates certain rights.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Aaron was also a vocal critic of the Obama administration, specifically the 'kill lists'.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
> If others are going to follow in Aaron's footsteps, they will have to make one particular change: be better at remaining unidentified. Either that or be fully aware of the consequences and do it anyway but in such a way that the genie
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
The fact that it was 'perfectly legal' definitely does not make it right.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
It is as relevant, if not more relevant today than when it was written.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
I support them, as long as they do the right thing afterwards and make the owners aware and do not do anything destructive or that violates someone's privacy.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Because if the sellers would have found out about the HN thread it might have negatively impacted their ability to negotiate a good deal, they showed quite clearly how weak their negotiation position was.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Patents definitely foster progress by the looks of it.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Everybody that will be born between now and 67.5 years from now will have exactly that same life expectancy, half of those will die as well.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
That's just a fig leaf. If Apple gets to corner the smartphone market it will make them trillions. When you want to know about a motive for some act the easiest way is to follow the money. Without competition your Computer would cost $10K,
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Listing lego as an example of a company defending themselves against copycats is a pretty dumb move, it is well established that lego originally copied the brick idea from the English company kiddicraft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
Cheaper but otherwise the same is better.
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/tim-cook-memo-line-by-line
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by hobbyhacker 14y ago
As well they should, just having lots of users and no plan for monetization is a bad recipe most of them time.