sunchild

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by sunchild 15y ago
To keep me from advocating an unpopular, but entirely rational, position – all while other people freely misrepresent the First Amendment in response to my comments.
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by sunchild 15y ago
IAAL, and I think you should make up your own mind about what the agreement means. Personally, I think you're over-thinking it, but you shouldn't take my advice, because I don't represent you in this instance. It's a shame that something
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by sunchild 15y ago
@cooldeal: Nope, I'm dead serious. There's no fundamental human right that entitles you to tell Apple (or any other device maker) what it can and can't sell you.
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by sunchild 15y ago
@recoiledsnake: (for whatever reason, I'm not allowed to reply directly to you) You're comparing Apple's ecosystem to Earth's. Apple is a private company that makes products that are sold on the commercial markets. The Earth is something e
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by sunchild 15y ago
Yes, and never mind that just about everything you take for granted about personal computers was "given" by Apple, too. I find this notion that users are entitled to complete device freedom really annoying. If you find it so objectionable,
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by sunchild 15y ago
Right, because I can't think of any reason why Apple wouldn't support Flash on a mobile device...
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by sunchild 15y ago
Not to mention that once you've seen one 60 Minutes episode, you've seen them all. It's a legendary formula, but tired as hell.
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by sunchild 15y ago
And the "security" that they desired lost them tablet users on the dominant tablet platform...brilliant!
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by sunchild 15y ago
Are you taking the position that only auto-generated passwords can be secure? I'm trying to understand what conclusion to draw from your comment. My point was that imposing length validations on passwords is not hard. Complexity validatio
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by sunchild 15y ago
Probably a draw, as you say, since someone could get ahold of an authenticated link in your email, too.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Only if you (admin user) ask it to. Still a bad practice. Also, the premise is that Google trusts itself as an email provider.
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by sunchild 15y ago
"email isn't that easy to intercept and properly nobody is hacking your users physical (or wireless) network". If you actually believe this, then we will never be in agreement.
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by sunchild 15y ago
A. They don't need to remember any password. They're creating it for the first time. B. Minimum password length/complexity. It's not hard to do. I can't believe you're actually arguing that creating a new password is less secure than
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by sunchild 15y ago
And what percentage would – like me – delete their account as soon as you send them a plaintext temp password? You're living in the past if you think this is an acceptable practice. I don't care how trivial your web service is, if you're t
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by sunchild 15y ago
I wish more apps would get out of their own way and employ standard UIKit. I'm all for experimenting with UI on a new-ish platform like iOS, but the amount of parallel energy expended on checklist UIs is just depressing to me – esp. when t
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by sunchild 15y ago
It's better, in that you now at least know who to contact – someone who showed enough interest to provide an email address.
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by sunchild 15y ago
"... tell them their password is waiting for them in their inbox." Nope. That email should contain a link to password creation .
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by sunchild 15y ago
Actually, it has nothing to do with ruby. The problem here is that some people use minification tools that rely on semicolons. If that weren't the case, this would be a total non-issue.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Am I the only person who considers use of the word "smart" as a leading indicator of the absence of intelligence? The term is so vague as to be utterly meaningless, and is usually a signal that we're really talking about someone's insecuri
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by sunchild 15y ago
True, but in some cases, data integrity concerns outweigh the desire for total obfuscation.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Section 506 says distribution means: "...by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public..." Oddly enough, that would seem to capture broadcasting a stream, even though they probably were thinking of file sh
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by sunchild 15y ago
For the record, I think criminal penalties for copyright infringement is bad policy. Whatever public interest there was in copyright protection has long since been overwhelmed by private interests that belong in civil courts.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Sounds like an issue for the judge/jury. That's what trials are for. The standard is willful infringement, and that would need to be proved for any criminal defendants. There are also tests for whether the distribution rises to the crimi
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by sunchild 15y ago
There is a whole bunch of legal jurisprudence in just about every country that deals with intentional infringement of copyrights. In the US: Operation Gridlock, Operation D-Elite, etc., etc. Look it up.
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by sunchild 15y ago
First, you determine the rule. Then you determine whether it ought to be enforced. While you might be right that the authorities won't take on the criminal case, you and your friend are wrong about the question of whether this is a crimina
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by sunchild 15y ago
IAAL, too. Does that mean you'll just assume I know what I'm talking about? I've been practicing technology law for a decade and a half in New York. You'll have to excuse me if I find your attitude a little insulting... Section 506 doesn
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by sunchild 15y ago
What are you basing this on? It doesn't jibe with the laws, as I understand them.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Intentional infringement = criminal penalties. Sorry, but that's the rule of law, i.e., the very bed they made for themselves. Everyone knows the Superbowl is proprietary. The NFL says so during the broadcast.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I have a hard time seeing how it doesn't fail all the fair use tests. Calling it a "textbook" case is huge overstatement, IMO. 1. The purpose and character of your use. Verbatim republication, including original layout, etc. in a commer
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by sunchild 15y ago
To be anything close to useful, this system will need to accept input from reviewers, and build a library of white-listed exceptions to whatever the final formulation of these rules are. Those exceptions need to be weighted, too, since man

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