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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
I apologize. I thought I was quite clear here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676144 and I was overly brusque in my latest response (due to the language above).
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
jlgreco was quite clear that this would be the authorities noticing, and under his theory this ought to be a prerequisite to an investigation. Noting that the criminal or (now deceased) victim observed the crime is neither useful nor insigh
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
On the contrary I understand your point well, and it appears to be nonsense. You have, however, missed mine.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
You are fabricating straw men. They do not need "an answer that can be implemented in an hour." They have been in business for 4 years, and this particular string of DDoS attacks has been going on for several days now. This is both a a plan
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
The error in your reasoning is that all these things do have external effects, but the connection between an external effect and the source is not always apparent. To specifically use the example of fraud, a great number of business operati
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Github can easily afford to use someone like Prolexic. And they should. When you say things like "And it's all dependent on attackers not getting the IP of your actual servers" this makes me wonder how much you understand the subject matter
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
If a murder happens in my home and no one notices, is it not a crime? If fraud occurs at my business and is undetected, is it not a crime? Politically, I am against drug prohibition. Legalize it all, and demand warrants for non-visible spec
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Your reply reminds me of the post-9/11 "get some priorities" troll: http://everything2.com/user/NotBridgetJones/writeups/slashdo... It's a classic false dichotomy. Specifically, a person can care about both issues simultaniously. The prob
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
"buy APPL and expect AAPL to double in 1 year." Big error. You can predict a stock doubling in value a year in advance? Your numbers are less shocking when you plug in more reasonable expectations, say 6% market index instead of 200% home r
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Funding the expensive regulatory process (which includes clinical trials and all the rest) is very easy to legislate. For example, grant a company some limited exclusive rights for commerce/sale of a drug they have funded through clinical t
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Because human beings generally have selfish interests. If you tell a person they may own and control a thing for profit, many will choose to do so. Unsurprisingly, this is a choice made by a large number of professors
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
It is not circular. Interest and authority are two very different things. For example, the Federal government has the authority to wage war -- this has no bearing on a discussion as to whether they are philosophically correct in doing so. T
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Actually it is a reflection of the law. The US government had the authority to prohibit export of crypto (at the time), but did not have the authority to limit it domestically. If they had been given that authority things may have been diff
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
I can't get it for you because I have a single laptop at my disposal. However, any meagerly funded criminal enterprise which can front a few tens of thousands of dollars could tell you the answer quite easily. It is not reliable cryptograph
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
masklinn was very clear about the difference between an ivory tower example (yours) and the reality of user passwords. It appears you have missed his point.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
It's because I have nothing to say about the database stuff. Why are you so adversarial? I'm not here to cross swords with you; I don't have an opinion on the matter. But I did notice your rudeness, and you're now being rude to me. Totally
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
"On your home page you imply that you can automatically OCR arbitrary handwritten receipts into an analyzable format. No one can do that. That is your problem" Jeez, lay off the confrontational tone. He doesn't say anything about OCR. Maybe
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Frankly, your lack of belief is likely due to a lack of experience with user submitted forms with email addresses. It's VERY common for users to simply type the wrong data into a particular textarea. If you do no validation you will get thi
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Which MTAs do you suspect wouldn't deliver it? I've used internal zones of that form extensively without issue on all the common OSS MTAs (postfix, sendmail, exim). I'm unaware of any common MTA software which wouldn't handle it.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
The issue you refer to is in a poorly formed, ad-hoc serialization format. It has nothing to do with representation of variables at runtime. It has nothing to do with the language. It is a programming error, not an inherent flaw in the lang
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
In any event it does not support your assertion that other languages suffer similar problems.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Because, as the author points out, different users may want different globbing behavior. Globbing is not performed identically between shells. If the author so wished, he might trivially create his own shell and allow * to match dotfiles, w
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
No, that is not at all accurate. Your link above shows an author who claims JSON output, yet the output is clearly non-validating JSON (toplevel is not a [] or {}, improper quoting, etc). It appears that instead of using JSON serialization,
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
An interesting observation is that tablets are becoming the new desktop and in that space linux, through android, is becoming a dominant player. In a way, the linux desktop is finally here and it's winning against both Microsoft and Apple p
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
I put good odds on a jury drawing the line by putting the shopowner in considerable debt if not in jail.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
" you should not be able to just close your credit card account and be able to walk away from a contractual recurring payment agreement into which you entered." Of course you should. What if the other party fails to uphold their side of t
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
That's not something noticeable during basic desktop use. I've used VMWare Fusion a fair amount and I was very impressed. I imagine someone non-technical would not be able to tell the difference.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
I think a reasonable view is: A] Unauthorized copying is rampant. B] This is not a problem; profitable business exists regardless. The most interesting part of the above statistic in my mind is how it shows heavyhanded copy controls have ab
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
No, it isn't limited that way. It's 0% under 250k, and reverts to the regular 2.75% if you process above those limits.
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by nnnnnnnn 14y ago
Not "less than 21k." There is no upper bound on the value. You always save money, provided you process upwards of $10k/mo. A merchant processing 50k/month on square paying 2.75% would save money by switching to the new plan. At least, if I'

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