jonathanpierre

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by jonathanpierre 6y ago
People using it colloquially is exactly the thing that leads to trademark erosion. Most eroded trade marks were previously owned and registered. It's not the registration that gives trademark protection. Trademark protection exists to
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by jonathanpierre 6y ago
The regulations are not "weird". Before telcos were required to route all calls without discrimination, they didn't. And as soon as telcos are no longer required to route their competitors' calls, they stop. A recent exa
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by jonathanpierre 6y ago
I don't think this was an attempt in good faith to participate in the discussion about the utility or futility of codes of conducts. This seems to be, depending on your inclination to give the authors the benefit of the doubt, either a
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
That's just a shortcut mechanism though, nothing more.
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
I think it might be true on the grounds that credit cards are only king in the US and Latin America, whereas they represent less than 10% of cashless payments in the large markets, namely Asia. Developed countries have more accessible and c
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
Again: why do you use such belittling words like "conspiracy theory"? We know that the services interfere. We know that they interfered with vendors of cryptography products. And we know that National Security Letters exist, as do
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
Since not all information in the database is public, yes, you'd need to duplicate the work. You'd also need to put a lot of work into securing the now open service against attack and denial of service. It would still be just as ea
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
Is that just a rant or do you have an actual reason to call TrueCrypt crappy? It was at least somewhat solid and it definitely had a great mindshare at the time. It wasn't niche. Also, describing small-scale intervention in cryptograph
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
Yes, in a strictly semantic sense, it is a limitation. However, in general such access would be not only a bad idea due to the loss of abstraction and additional work to implement (duplicate) access controls, it would also not be very usefu
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by jonathanpierre 7y ago
It does work well though. As a user, I can't remember significant Wikipedia or Wikidata outages. And I'm really not sure if whatever blockchain solution that person on twitter wants Wikimedia to use is even able to get to that sca