jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General
Can you please explain how the RIAA crushed 'individual rights' and 'innovation and personal freedom'? I mean, from what I know they only got it to be illegal to copy movies/music, right? And the DMCA was passed unanimously by the Senate, so it's clearly not just the RIAA that is interested in 'crushing innovation and personal freedom in the United States' as you claim. What am I missing?
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography (1999)
this is gonna sound silly, but is anyone else scared to visit cryptome? same with wikileaks.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: EFF trendwatch: attacks on cryptography
They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. Anyone who follows security and/or web technologies could have said that.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: The Dirty Truth About Web Passwords
Thanks, Jeff. Could you also please lecture us on properly backing up a site?
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: MasterCard under DDOS, can't process SecureCode online payments
compared to the traffic the servers are seeing from the bots, the single requests of curious people is pretty negligible.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why
Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! is also a great listen via audiobook, especially on road trips!
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers
this is the doing of 4chan, right?
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Books that will Substitute for a Computer Science Degree
G.E.B.? Fun book, yes, but to make a list of 10 books to substitute a Bachelor's degree in CS? nonsense.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: The benefits of a college degree in one graph
As pointed out in one of the comments, this doesn't hold for recent college grads. I know a lot of very smart people who graduated in the past 2-3 years and cannot find jobs.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: How to get a Pilot's License in (just about) a week
an amazing gift I received for a birthday one year was a gift certificate for a beginner flight. Something to keep in mind (or to ask for!)
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is an alternative to Google? Really.
What makes it worth paying for?
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: Tell HN: If you like to run, walk, or bike check out my latest weekend hack
right-clicking to remove a marker would be awesome.
having accounts would be nice, too. and being able to upload data from gps watches. but one step at a time. this is really cool, thanks for sharing.
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: What Could Google Do With the Data It's Collected?
Why don't any of these articles put blame on the users, for broadcasting their data without any encryption set up? I guess that's not the exciting news story. They could at least use the opportunity to educate people a bit..
jmg
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15 years ago
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on: BP finally stops oil spewing from Gulf gusher
probably too much paranoia.
