moutarde

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by moutarde 13y ago
> Why is that horseshit? Because historically (and also legally) the bounds between what is private and public have been defined by what was plausible at the time, not by what was hypothetically possible. We know live in a world were
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by moutarde 13y ago
It's not just four stacks (or more, because the article also mentions Apple Macs and BSD) that you have to "mess up". You also have to mess them up in such a way that you can exploit them without a disk even being mounted.
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by moutarde 13y ago
They were not "killing babies" they were "monetizing the vast network of uniformed African's who were potential baby killers". If they were technically doing anything wrong then Google wouldn't have partnered
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by moutarde 13y ago
If this malware is actually real then exploiting a large variety of different USB stacks (whether it's done via the the BIOS or OS stack) seems implausible. Maybe the flashed usb stick either: 1) Hides a bootloader on the devive that
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by moutarde 13y ago
Just run the code through a linter that recognises "use asm" as part of the build/test process.
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by moutarde 13y ago
3. Amazon gives preferential treatment to merchants using their auxiliary services. They already give preferential treatment to merchants using Amazon Fulfilment by writing off (at least some of) the bad merchant feedback caused by fulfilm
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by moutarde 13y ago
The NSA shouldn't just be an attacker it should also provide defence. If one of their many contractors can leak details to the press for idealogical ends it's pretty safe to assume that much worse secrets have already been leaked
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by moutarde 13y ago
This won't work. Most video cards now have an HDMI output and their are numerous ways to bypass HDCP.
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by moutarde 13y ago
This is only tangentially related to the article but where I live there is a lot a wildlife, including many different species of birds. Some of these birds now sing songs that mimic common mobile phone ringtones. This is obviously not as
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by moutarde 13y ago
> Hipster hate isn't about being different, it's about a perception of dishonest attention-seeking. Isn't this the same justification that's used to shame the "pseudo" geek girls?
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by moutarde 13y ago
> Deconstructionism itself has some interesting ideas [...] like those pointing out that a work of art can mean two opposing things simultaneously. The problem, however, is that its sillier adherents—who are all over universities—take a
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by moutarde 13y ago
I think the most troubling aspect of this case is that the FBI modified the computers systems before Ireland seized them as evidence. It seems absurd that law enforcement can effectively tamper with evidence before it is secured, then use
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by moutarde 13y ago
> I wonder what crime they believe that Miranda might have committed? Breach of The Official Secrets Act[1]. Although I think the investigation is probably focused more on Greenwald (and The Guardian) than Miranda. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by moutarde 13y ago
I think it's like a teacher checking your bag (under the pretence of "finding drugs") in order to confiscate your camera that contains incriminating pictures of them.
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by moutarde 13y ago
> Yes. The API is an HTML5 iframe YouTube also offers a Flash based API to show videos with adverts. If HTML5 wasn't feasible for Microsoft they could have paid Adobe for a licence to use the Flash runtime in their YouTube app.
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by moutarde 13y ago
Amazon is actually relevant here, because their Kindle Fire browser is partly cloud based. Microsoft may say that HTML5 on the Win Phone isn't feasible, but they own a giant cloud based server farm (Azure) just like Amazon. So if Ama
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by moutarde 13y ago
Google has obligations (both legal and moral) to both the content providers of YouTube and to the organisations who buy adverts on it. In order to 'not be evil' they have to take actions that respect these obligations. Microsoft&
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by moutarde 13y ago
> Their average may be comparable, but frequency * intensity produce wildly differing results. I think this is largely an academic discussion. Some people drink a glass a wine every day, some people binge drink once/two times a wee
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by moutarde 13y ago
The same server(s) also control the JavaScript code run by the client/browser. They could serve special code (to any one the government wanted to spy on) that returned their password to the server.
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by moutarde 13y ago
For anyone curious enough there is a blog [1] that tracks deleted MetaFilter posts. [1] http://mefideleted.blogspot.co.uk/
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by moutarde 13y ago
> Anyway, I think aggressive moderation is a big part of Metafilter's secret sauce. It's definitely part of the secret sauce, but I wouldn't call the moderation aggressive - it'd call it targeted to preserve culture
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by moutarde 13y ago
MetaFilter has successfully used the "pay $5 for an account" model as a means to balance access against exclusivity. It may not be a tech site but considering it's still basically just an open access group blog (with a few
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by moutarde 13y ago
Flash and Java applets do have access to the DOM.
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by moutarde 13y ago
I think that Zynga's major problem is a about changing markets: Zynga grew rich making clones of other games and cleverly using web-based-social-promotion via Facebook to advertise them cheaply. But now they face the same problem th
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by moutarde 13y ago
Skype supports call forwarding which by necessity negates the end to end encryption. It could be that to tap a Skype users calls they modify the users on-line address book to make it appears to their client that all of their contacts have