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You don't stay in business for 100 years by coasting. I can see they've kept with the times in ways other than the video goes into; from a quick Internet search, they own the domai…

If what you really need is security, then I don't see how (1) and (2) can be overriding concerns. If I were in a situation where my life depended on my messages being confidential,…

I have to disagree. I'm a programmer, but I'm not good at math. I know this. And yet, the Tau Day Manifesto explained the geometry of the circle to me more clearly and understandab…

By this logic, Coinbase basically can't win. If they do what they need to do to allow Bitcoin to become popular -- that is, make it as pleasant to use as a bank with credit and deb…

You can argue that "undocumented immigrant" doesn't capture the actual meaning, but that doesn't make jorgeleo's point any less valid: the action is illegal, not the person.

More detail on the cycle-stealing bit, which caused an alarm during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, which the AGC's priority scheduling allowed it to recover from: http://en.wikipedia…

My understanding, unless I'm wrong, is that a Title II reclassification can be done unilaterally by the FCC without Congressional assent (though it would immediately be sued by all…

Without remarking on the relative rightness of the moral stands in question, the difference between being vegan and switching to a new social network is that the latter affects peo…

We can probably go back and forth for hours on whether I'm being "defeatist" or "realistic". :) I would love to see positive change in this area, but we need to be aware of what's …

Today we have users voting with their feet: eg I use Twitter/I stopped using Twitter after they pissed off the developer community. The fraction of users who actually do this is so…

Not just "ideally"; I would go so far as to say that the situation where the rejected person does not gracefully accept it is the point at which anyone in that situation has first …

Do you mean "arbeit"? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arbeit

There's a difference between an explanation and an excuse; rayiner was giving the former, not the latter. In any case, is it a flaw of our government that our legislators write law…

I love Turntable, and it's sad to see this, but it's not a huge surprise; for their whole history they've offered an amazing service and charged well below the true value of the se…

I still remember using Aardvark, which got shut down shortly after Google acquired it. This seems to be similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)

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How does one make the claim that a response to an action was disproportionate, without implicitly claiming that the action that precipitated it was a lesser evil? Either way, I don…

Whether Aaron's actions were morally wrong is irrelevant to a discussion of the morality of MIT's response to them?

I do not believe MIT was a bully. A bully is someone who harms others because they can; MIT was responding, I believe reasonably, to a person breaking into their network closet and…

In the hypothetical you raise, Weev is at best an unprovoked aggressor, and at worst a bully who harasses people because he can. In contrast, MIT can reasonably claim that Swartz w…

So you automatically assume any allegation leveled against the government to be true until someone in the government spends effort disproving it? Is it really so much to ask that w…

That depends on what your standard of accuracy is. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...