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by phkn1 10y ago
DO was unduly spooked by an empty legal threat. This was not a DMCA notice, this was a trademark notice. Parodies are protected under trademark law. Bad form taking down even a single page, and terrible form taking down an entire service
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by phkn1 10y ago
That sounds fascinating. Do you happen to have a link to anything he's written or recorded on the subject?
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by phkn1 10y ago
Under this interpretation, wouldn't (say) a collection of Facebook photos with statues, in aggregate, constitute a database and therefore become illegal? At what point does the size and structure of a collection become sufficient to c
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by phkn1 10y ago
Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usual" ones. In OSX / Firefox I see the usual text in the web view,
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by phkn1 11y ago
Did anyone else notice the weird GNU/Linux screed on line 803? In particular, the "Additional Comments" content is actually written with a large amount of look-alike Unicode. Playing around with this data in Excel somehow b
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by phkn1 11y ago
I've done a whole lot of individual research in the last two months, consulted with two dentists and an endo, gotten opinions from friends and family etc... seeing that any procedure is irreversible, it seems prudent to take the least
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by phkn1 11y ago
As someone about to go in for a root canal, I feel a bit better about how far medical science has come. :-)
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by phkn1 11y ago
This calls for a stirring rendition of "Barbie Girl"... oh wait, nevermind.
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by phkn1 11y ago
Assuming for a minute that bottled air is a viable solution to smog, it's only the prestige of "exotic Canadian air" that necessitates the long shipping distance. Bottling filtered air from a relatively local source might wo
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by phkn1 11y ago
In particular, this summary graphic is telling: http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de/Abgastest-Wertung-fotosh... (blurry, sorry) At the top of the NOx scale we have a VW TDI engine (albeit in an Audi Quatro application). Nea
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by phkn1 11y ago
Perhaps we have encountered a "clbuttic" filtering error in the HN news feed.
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by phkn1 11y ago
> If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of about 1 billion), 40% of these think you should be killed fo
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by phkn1 11y ago
"American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.&quot
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by phkn1 11y ago
The spice must flow.
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by phkn1 11y ago
Safari on Yosemite also shows power usage per tab which is great for identifying rogue websites. Also... TIL that some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream! This also of reinforces the argument for installing an ad blocker --
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by phkn1 11y ago
An interesting take on the experience of occupying a transient and impersonal space, but also a reflection of the author's perspective on travel. The two are not the same. Being disconnected from friends and family, being too narrowly
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3-D Mapping the World’s Corals to Track Their Health(wired.com)
2 points by phkn1 11y ago|0 comments
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by phkn1 12y ago
Right, an autonomous ride-share car service would be ideal in its capacity to reduce the need for personal car ownership. But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circumstances, and human intervention will always be needed as a r
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by phkn1 12y ago
Because you don't own any of those things. If you own your own plane and have a pilot's license, you are more than welcome to fly it yourself and to disengage the autopilot should the situation demand it. I wouldn't mind an
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by phkn1 12y ago
‘In the distant future people may outlaw driver cars. You can’t have a person operating a two-ton death machine!’ I don't care how good the design is, people will always require a way to take control when they wish. The trick will pro
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by phkn1 12y ago
Here we see the other side of the "responsible disclosure" coin -- if the ethical white-hat security researcher is required to withhold publication of a critical vulnerability for a set amount of time, is there a corresponding dea
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by phkn1 12y ago
Agreed. Defense in depth is key.
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by phkn1 12y ago
>If you can mitm the dns or ip you can still do this even with https. Strictly speaking you'd need a compromised DNS and a compromised CA (possibly with a wildcard certificate). Certificates provide assurance of identity as well
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by phkn1 12y ago
Right you are. Fixed the title. The the app does sync the notes themselves over SSL. But this is still a risk, as the link to the app that does the syncing could be blocked to maintain a vulnerability, downgraded to a vulnerable version,
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Evernote app upgrades are unencrypted over HTTP(httpshaming.tumblr.com)
3 points by phkn1 12y ago|7 comments
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by phkn1 12y ago
I'm fairly certain that this would be a clear application of Double Jeopardy clause of the 5th Amendment for at least the majority of charges; in short, this is true because whether or not the case had merit, the prosecution definitely
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by phkn1 13y ago
Glad to see she has belatedly grown a sense of moral indignation about overreach by intelligence agencies. Once can only hope that this debacle will add credence to the idea that the US clandestine apparatus is in dire need of meaningful r
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by phkn1 13y ago
Why go to all that trouble? There's always "emacs -nw" to get pretty minimal in an xterm...
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by phkn1 13y ago
Likewise, though my specific concerns were around a suspiciously large volume of inbound traffic that appeared to be maliciously probing for open services, and in particular a lack of any sort of upstream mitigation (to paraphrase their res
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by phkn1 13y ago
Source: CS major with 10 years experience in enterprise development, support and systems architecture consulting. While it's always possible to be a development autodidact, and in fact to be quite productive this way, there's a r

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