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jfrunyon
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Comment #29597759
> private residences Huh? You mean empty hotel rooms? Did you read the comment? > It is easy for that to escalate into a violent encounter [citation needed] > and it makes people f…
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Comment #29597733
How are they a threat to society? The threat to society is the scummy speculator hotel owners^W^W "landlords" who have units sitting empty and unattended for months (or years in th…
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Comment #29597630
Personally, I'd do the same thing as the cops if I were in the situation you describe: do nothing and rake in the moolah, and if anyone has a problem with that, pretend it's someon…
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Comment #29597601
Because they're not a threat to society, have not been determined to be guilty, and throwing people in jail (only to bond out anyway a couple days later, in most cases - funneling …
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Comment #29588096
> Some of it does, most doesn't I don't know of anything in crypto which actually works (read: does something better/cheaper than pre-existing technologies). The single value of it…
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Comment #29569953
Do you really want Microsoft adding tabs to it, though? Because they'll do it the same way they did it in IE. "Your tabs are also windows because we don't understand the difference…
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Comment #29569916
> Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty No, disrespecting other people's property rights is an infringement on their liberty. You being told not…
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Comment #29569886
What citation? LOL There wasn't one (just a footnote, and not even on the proper page) but I'm not sure why you think a citation would make a blatant falsehood any more true. This …
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Comment #29569819
LOL. No, virtually nothing made 18 years ago is secure. In fact virtually nothing made a day ago is secure, but when something has been sitting around stagnating for 18 years that …
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Comment #29569736
> I needed to write an authoritative DNS server Why not just... use an authoritative DNS server? > I think I’m doing a pretty bad of following the DNS RFCs Yeah, probably, which ma…
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Comment #29559516
... can we talk about the fact that it has a copyright year of 2003 ??? Sure, I totally believe there aren't a billion known vulnerabilities in that OOB management chip's code... t…
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Comment #29559347
> it's a distinctly different paradigm from the familiar a-file-is-a-stream-of-bytes convention of Linux/UNIX/NTFS Each of those platforms has an analog to HFS forks.
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Comment #29559186
coo' coo', go try and scam someone with an NSF, see how it goes my man.
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Comment #29559154
I never said it wasn't subjective, so I'm not sure why you're commenting here. I said IF one insisted on a single definition. i.e. like the person I was replying to did. "That oran…
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Comment #29558989
Where did I say that?
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Comment #29558963
No. They should be held responsible for their own mistakes. I'm not sure who else but the CEO and board you think have the ability and responsibility to make sure their company is …
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Comment #29558939
> The culture around ARM mobile phones and tablets heavily emphasized bootloader locking Virtually all of which are user-unlockable. But keep telling me how unopen they are? (BTW, …
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Comment #29558915
> I'm afraid we've completely forgotten to separate the means from the end goal. I'm afraid we've completely forgotten "the ends don't justify the means". ;)
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Comment #29558894
It's 1% of the whole population, but a much larger percentage of certain political ideologies.
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Comment #29558874
> At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty LOL okay I literally can't go any further than the first sen…
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Comment #29554828
Blockchain is the future of nothing...
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Comment #29554811
> Yeah, fuck that. Fuck blockchain. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuck the schmuck. That’s all I have to say about that. I like this guy.
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Comment #29545611
How else do we incentivize companies to make sure things like this don't happen, if there's no punishment for companies who do them repeatedly?
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Comment #29545596
Uhh, inheritance definitely counts as income, but I'm not sure what income taxes have to do with what we were discussing. The supposed numbers you pointed to don't come from the IR…