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Beginning with a partial solution to this problem is better than doing nothing at all. This sad state of affairs has gone on for far too long.

Wikipedia can be downloaded in its entirety in an easy to use package. For STEM articles, it's better than Britannica (and cheaper too).

Then let owners control whether it's enabled or not (by a hardware switch if necessary). As it currently stands, I can't imagine a benign reason that would drive intel and AMD to l…

Mozilla can solve this problem the right way by doing what debian does when it wants to collect statistics: Ask users if they want to donate their information to Mozilla on first r…

It is, if the one master is less capable than the other.

Why isn't he thrown in jail, or why isn't the fence bulldozed down? Where I currently live (a somewhat well-off area), bulldozers (and self-entitled assholes) are a common occurren…

I doubt failing to contact a server would circumvent DRM. Blocking their servers would only make their DRM scheme fail and prevent access to said copyright material. Using the DMCA…

This has nothing to do with believing that we have right to other people's work without payment. The fundamental issue is that these publishers are allowing public access to their …

>This third party tool is making unauthorized edits to the New York Times' copyrighted material. It's not a third party tool. It's a tool used by the first party (user) to modify i…

>1. Can IP be encoded as a way of dodging the DMCA? a: no. This is false if the IP being enforced is trademark (which I'm not even sure is covered by the DMCA).

Agreed with seeking a legal solution instead of just relying on a techincal one, but if the problem is the string of characters, just hash those instead without hashing the whole h…

What does ad-blocking have to do with copyright circumvention or copyright enforcement? The only think on that list is the domain name. I'm certain that including a name in a list …

>DEF CON provides conference WiFi with preauthorized certificates (WPA2), so [if you remove all other known open networks] then [you can have secure and sane WiFi at the conference…

broadcom disagrees.

If I learned one thing from these government programs, it's that they'll be gamed, badly.

They could. However, they would risk making the currency worthless if detected. I expect the only situation in which 51% attacks would be useful is when a party wants to deliberate…

I disagree. To most normal users, I expect they perceive libreoffice and openpffice.org to be distinct separate projects. Only techies who have been following openoffice.org would …

>they're very valuable if and only if you cannot use the protection [..] I don't think that's entirely fair. They're also valuable to those who want to transfer money without ridic…

As apposed to casting and cncing one yourself? People can already build guns anonymously if they want (and many do). People can also use current 3D printers to (mostly) print uncon…

I remember coming across a serious bug in a site that belonged to a top multi-billion company. My brother also found what essentially an unrestricted privacy leak (and possibly edi…

>Considering the "muslim minorities" went on a wild random stabbing campaign and randomly injected people with some sort of syringes in public places[...] What percentage of those …

Same use case here (with aprox. the same amount of tabs). I'd like to add that leaving a project's tabs open also helps me easily remember where I was in implementing a specific pr…

Another reason that I don't see given its fair chance might be politics. The human race has a wide variety of values that are often counteracting. Forcing a specific set of values …

I always found this peculiar about linux; even when the system is swapping hard and application windows/window managers completely freeze, the cursor always remains responsive and …

Can you really blame them? Websites became hostile to users and users reacted. I don't know what your software is, and this certainly isn't directed at you, but if I'm forced to ma…