jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Personally, I'd do the same thing as the cops if I were in the situation you describe: do nothing and rake in the moolah, and if anyone has a problem with that, pretend it's someone else's fault.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Because they're not a threat to society, have not been determined to be guilty, and throwing people in jail (only to bond out anyway a couple days later, in most cases - funneling more money to bondsmen) is a great way to (a) spread a
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Some of it does, most doesn't I don't know of anything in crypto which actually works (read: does something better/cheaper than pre-existing technologies). The single value of it is speculation.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Do you really want Microsoft adding tabs to it, though? Because they'll do it the same way they did it in IE. "Your tabs are also windows because we don't understand the difference, enjoy!"
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty No, disrespecting other people's property rights is an infringement on their liberty. You being told not to disrespect other people's rights is NOT an
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
What citation? LOL There wasn't one (just a footnote, and not even on the proper page) but I'm not sure why you think a citation would make a blatant falsehood any more true. This sentence is an ad hominim: I don't think you
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
LOL. No, virtually nothing made 18 years ago is secure. In fact virtually nothing made a day ago is secure, but when something has been sitting around stagnating for 18 years that means the world has had ~6575x as many opportunities to find
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
... can we talk about the fact that it has a copyright year of 2003 ??? Sure, I totally believe there aren't a billion known vulnerabilities in that OOB management chip's code... the damn thing is old enough to vote!
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> it's a distinctly different paradigm from the familiar a-file-is-a-stream-of-bytes convention of Linux/UNIX/NTFS Each of those platforms has an analog to HFS forks.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
coo' coo', go try and scam someone with an NSF, see how it goes my man.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I never said it wasn't subjective, so I'm not sure why you're commenting here. I said IF one insisted on a single definition. i.e. like the person I was replying to did. "That orange cell right next to Raleigh" is
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Where did I say that?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
No. They should be held responsible for their own mistakes. I'm not sure who else but the CEO and board you think have the ability and responsibility to make sure their company is acting appropriately. > We have functional civil cou
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> The culture around ARM mobile phones and tablets heavily emphasized bootloader locking Virtually all of which are user-unlockable. But keep telling me how unopen they are? (BTW, those of us who actually want secure systems very much ap
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I'm afraid we've completely forgotten to separate the means from the end goal. I'm afraid we've completely forgotten "the ends don't justify the means". ;)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's 1% of the whole population, but a much larger percentage of certain political ideologies.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Blockchain is the future of nothing...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Yeah, fuck that. Fuck blockchain. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuck the schmuck. That’s all I have to say about that. I like this guy.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
How else do we incentivize companies to make sure things like this don't happen, if there's no punishment for companies who do them repeatedly?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Uhh, inheritance definitely counts as income, but I'm not sure what income taxes have to do with what we were discussing. The supposed numbers you pointed to don't come from the IRS.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
keep believing that. Hope your car doesn't get stolen.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Which is indisputably a problem with our society.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I wasn't aware that it had to be socketed to be open?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Has absolutely zero to do with either openness or ARM.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
When I hear "complete" replacement for Explorer, I think a replacement Windows shell, not "just" a replacement file manager.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure that running an ad means what you think it does. Businesses market against their competitors all the time.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
ARM is significantly more open than x86.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
You're correct, Raleigh isn't in tornado alley. Raleigh also gets a fraction (somewhere around 1/3rd) of the tornadoes that St Louis does. Whereas St Louis gets as many tornadoes as most of whatever YOU consider "tornado
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Then you clearly weren't reading.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I never claimed otherwise.

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