jancona

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Kindle Touch 3G can't touch most of Internet without WiFi(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
More likely he'll wake up to find that Twitter has given away his handle.
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Bitcasa beta sign-up leaves nasty taste(plus.google.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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The Bombshell That Wasn’t: FOSS Patents’ Android Scoop Misses The Mark(techcrunch.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
I'll change my mind if the plaintiffs and the plaintiffs' lawyers donate the proceeds to charity.
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by jancona 15y ago
Presumably the press release was issued after the write was pointed out to them. They warned Treasury in advance about the downgrade.
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by jancona 15y ago
My reading of the Treasury release is that this all has to do with"baselines". Compared to current spending the deal didn't make cuts at all--spending will continue to increase over the next 10 years. The "cuts" are compared to a projection
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by jancona 15y ago
The US did not come within one day of defaulting. It came within a day of hitting the debt ceiling, which is a very different thing. Despite the way it was portrayed, the government could have limped along for days our weeks without default
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Neuroscientist uses fMRI to study the "uncanny valley"(ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
1 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says(wired.com)
119 points by jancona 15y ago|90 comments
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Formal complaint concerning the use of the name "System Settings"(lists.kde.org)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Oracle ordered to lower damages in Google Java lawsuit(news.techworld.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Big Content's latest antipiracy weapon: extradition(arstechnica.com)
5 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Hands off the Internet: presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Universal Music accused of using fraudulent DMCA notices as a negotiating tactic(torrentfreak.com)
76 points by jancona 15y ago|9 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
So it should only be illegal if a hacker wouldn't think it's lame? Got it.
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by jancona 15y ago
How is this not "unauthorized access" "in any meaningful sense"? They blocked his IP, they blocked his MAC, and he hid a machine in a wiring closet to get on MIT's network. What would he have to do to make it "meaningful"?
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by jancona 15y ago
Do you have any basis for claiming that "an open door could likely be construed as implied consent"? I would not advise that you try that in many parts of the US. You'll be risking getting shot, and the homeowner would not have committed a
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Piracy and Business Models(tbray.org)
3 points by jancona 15y ago|1 comments
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Apple Patents Portrait-Landscape Flipping: the patent system is broken(gettys.wordpress.com)
28 points by jancona 15y ago|12 comments
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Beware the Password Limitation That is Not Validated(thenubbyadmin.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Arduino delivers Android and Ethernet toys for all the good little DIYers(engadget.com)
3 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Why You Should Ditch PayPal and Use These Other Services to Send People Money(lifehacker.com)
3 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
Why do you think a "properly implemented" OpenID site should allow the user to use any authentication provider? The relying party site is trusting the OpenID provider to authenticate its users. Wouldn't sites with real security requirements
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Netflix Adjusts Pricing, Renting Those Plastic Discs Just Got More Expensive(techcrunch.com)
3 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
And you are failing to understand the legal questions at issue... The Fifth Amendment, as currently interpreted, doesn't provide the protection you describe. It protects against giving self-incriminating testimony and essentially the questi
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US: LightSquared 4G would have "severe operational impact" on GPS(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Bin Laden Killing Team May Have Used Night Vision Contact Lenses(gizmodo.com)
2 points by jancona 15y ago|0 comments
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Will software ever be engineering?(esr.ibiblio.org)
6 points by jancona 15y ago|2 comments
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by jancona 15y ago
It's not true that "you may not own the copyright to changes you make ... because the court may rule it a derivative work." You may not be able to distribute those changes without violating someone else's copyright, but that doesn't affec

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