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I apologize. I thought I was quite clear here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676144 and I was overly brusque in my latest response (due to the language above).

jlgreco was quite clear that this would be the authorities noticing, and under his theory this ought to be a prerequisite to an investigation. Noting that the criminal or (now dece…

On the contrary I understand your point well, and it appears to be nonsense. You have, however, missed mine.

You are fabricating straw men. They do not need "an answer that can be implemented in an hour." They have been in business for 4 years, and this particular string of DDoS attacks h…

The error in your reasoning is that all these things do have external effects, but the connection between an external effect and the source is not always apparent. To specifically …

Github can easily afford to use someone like Prolexic. And they should. When you say things like "And it's all dependent on attackers not getting the IP of your actual servers" thi…

If a murder happens in my home and no one notices, is it not a crime? If fraud occurs at my business and is undetected, is it not a crime? Politically, I am against drug prohibitio…

Your reply reminds me of the post-9/11 "get some priorities" troll: http://everything2.com/user/NotBridgetJones/writeups/slashdo... It's a classic false dichotomy. Specifically, a …

"buy APPL and expect AAPL to double in 1 year." Big error. You can predict a stock doubling in value a year in advance? Your numbers are less shocking when you plug in more reasona…

Funding the expensive regulatory process (which includes clinical trials and all the rest) is very easy to legislate. For example, grant a company some limited exclusive rights for…

Because human beings generally have selfish interests. If you tell a person they may own and control a thing for profit, many will choose to do so. Unsurprisingly, this is a choice…

It is not circular. Interest and authority are two very different things. For example, the Federal government has the authority to wage war -- this has no bearing on a discussion a…

Actually it is a reflection of the law. The US government had the authority to prohibit export of crypto (at the time), but did not have the authority to limit it domestically. If …

I can't get it for you because I have a single laptop at my disposal. However, any meagerly funded criminal enterprise which can front a few tens of thousands of dollars could tell…

masklinn was very clear about the difference between an ivory tower example (yours) and the reality of user passwords. It appears you have missed his point.

It's because I have nothing to say about the database stuff. Why are you so adversarial? I'm not here to cross swords with you; I don't have an opinion on the matter. But I did not…

"On your home page you imply that you can automatically OCR arbitrary handwritten receipts into an analyzable format. No one can do that. That is your problem" Jeez, lay off the co…

Frankly, your lack of belief is likely due to a lack of experience with user submitted forms with email addresses. It's VERY common for users to simply type the wrong data into a p…

Which MTAs do you suspect wouldn't deliver it? I've used internal zones of that form extensively without issue on all the common OSS MTAs (postfix, sendmail, exim). I'm unaware of …

The issue you refer to is in a poorly formed, ad-hoc serialization format. It has nothing to do with representation of variables at runtime. It has nothing to do with the language.…

In any event it does not support your assertion that other languages suffer similar problems.

Because, as the author points out, different users may want different globbing behavior. Globbing is not performed identically between shells. If the author so wished, he might tri…

No, that is not at all accurate. Your link above shows an author who claims JSON output, yet the output is clearly non-validating JSON (toplevel is not a [] or {}, improper quoting…

An interesting observation is that tablets are becoming the new desktop and in that space linux, through android, is becoming a dominant player. In a way, the linux desktop is fina…

I put good odds on a jury drawing the line by putting the shopowner in considerable debt if not in jail.