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VenTatsu

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    Comment #28854485

    I think this is a misevaluation of the trust involved. NFT's are using the blockchain to whitewash trust, the blockchain contains a smart contract and a URL. It provides no assuran…

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    Comment #28676596

    > Although there might be some edge cases if the murderer was an absolute ruler of the current country. You mean like King Canute of Denmark, England, and Norway? [0] [0] https://w…

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    Comment #28567998

    That is complicated, but also not related to the 5th amendment. Warrants are a part of 4th amendment rights. The 4th amendment is intended to ensure (among other things) that the g…

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    Comment #28560856

    > That is not the same thing. The movie studios don't own the theatre. They did at one time, courts end it, but isn't even relevant to my point. You said "There is literally no bus…

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    Comment #28555515

    > No, it's not. Amazon's App Store application doesn't exist without the Apple ecosystem and Apple's customers. When did I talk about Amazon's App Store? This is about Amazon's App…

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    Comment #28547213

    One of the rules in Apples App Store policy is that developers are not allowed to communicate with customers out side the app, even if they asked for permission in the app. (They w…

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    Comment #28545203

    The opposite question is also important. Should the mobile network my phone is on get a share of all transactions made from my phone? Should my home ISP get a share from purchases …

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    Comment #28544908

    When the Apple App Store first came out there was no in app purchases. Amazon already had a payment infrastructure so when they released the free Kindle app on iOS it used the Amaz…

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    Comment #28532494

    > It's certainly quicker to type, but that's not a good argument enough to make such a drastic change in javascript. I am so glad this argument has not been winning out in the Java…

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    Comment #28473228

    > When did APIs start? > APIs have been around for a while. For instance, the painful Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) used APIs in the early 2000s, but they really started get…

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    Comment #28447576

    If the data is not stored in the git repo itself there is no workable solution. Any offered standard is just a bandaid on the problem. If a project is renamed or relocated from one…

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    Comment #28396009

    Standard Apple cables already have a chip inside, and USB 3.1 cables are also supposed to have chips inside. I would also assume they are not paying enough attention to even notice…

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    Comment #28395940

    These are more general purpose than just those attacks, the author of the firmware has demo videos of cables attached to Android and iOS devices that when the payload runs they ope…

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    Comment #28395761

    The cables have 2km WiFi with a directional antenna (presumably on the other end), you could probably get similar range out of most of your devices if your bases station had a dire…

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    Comment #28395498

    The cable claims that it's a random 3rd party keyboard when it talks to the Mac, the cable claims it's a random non Apple device when it talks to the keyboard, the keyboard falls b…

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    Comment #28395459

    The product pages mention custom payloads, in some of the images it looks like some variant of the DuckyScript used in some of the other hak5 products. It likely depends on if what…

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    Comment #28393317

    Not all market transactions are done to make money on the trade itself, many are done to protect a larger business interest. This is very uncommon on stock markets, but is very com…

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    Comment #28373502

    It's hard to complain to much about a free product that is a side line to the companies main business... Oh wait, we just lost the free version and it's now the companies main mone…

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    Comment #28271734

    Proof of direct copying may not be required, if AT&T can instead prove Access and Substantial Similarity. For access it could be a little tricky, certainly every one that has poste…

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    Comment #28250426

    The term "Regular Expression" is very often misused, it had a very well defined meaning in the field of formal language theory, but like most terms when barrowed by another field s…

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    Comment #28237182

    I thought the same thing at first glance, but it looks like the author is just reusing an existing spec https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/csv-dialect/

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    Comment #28236386

    Excel does a fairly bad job when moving data between two computers that aren't configured the same way, which kind of defeats the purpose of using a data interchange format. Where …

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    Comment #28225470

    Do you use your computer to do anything secure like log in to your bank? How about you give me 1 week with your computer out of your control along with any BIOS/UEFI passwords, the…