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First paragraph of TFA says Windows Server supports BGP. But hey, I guess you don’t let facts get in the way of some anti-Windows snarky shitposting.

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> 2008 happened because clearly the banks do have that incentive. The only thing that stops them are the regulations. It’s truly absurd to argue that banks have no incentive to lim…

> Now a German tech forum it's easy to identify with one country Sounds like you’d be disrespecting Austrians, and Austrian and German diaspora all over the world by u/michpoch’s l…

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Money creation by fractional reserve banking has been Econ 101 for longer than anyone currently alive.

This pro-piracy nonsense is a point of faith for many nerds. They will twist themselves into pretzels to avoid the conclusion that piracy is costly and that enforcement of the law …

Calculus doesn’t solve this. Creating a way to solve sums of infinite series does not itself prove anything about the mechanism of the physical world. Yes, obviously motion is poss…

UAC offers almost no additional security for single user systems. You’re trying to protect your data and passwords and stuff, not the ability to install device drivers.

> I am not going to make the trojan writers job easier. The Trojan writer now targets systems with UAC, since it’s the default and the vast majority of systems, so you’re not gaini…

Take them outside and shoot them.

Almost all the bad things you’re worried about don’t require an elevated token. I’m much more worried about someone stealing my data, installing a trojan, etc. (none of which requi…

> Compromising an user account is a necessary step to get there, often enough. But whether you have an elevated token or not won’t make a difference in almost all cases.

First, a bit of pedantry: UAC is not a security feature. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160816-00/?p=94... . It just works to encourage developers to make their softw…

> Both my Range Rovers are converted to run on propane What is the downside to this? Obviously availability and ease of filling is part of it, but any other downsides?

I bet half the organists at Catholic churches are gay.

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No need to worry about statute of limitations. He sold them a license to use it in the game, in exchange for $20,000.

Please name one platform where this is the case.

I'm skeptical there's a single C compiler out there that makes the first two behave as expected but not the third. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the real oversight is that th…

The Fourth Amendment only prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures. And it does not require warrants in all cases. There have always been exceptions to the requirement.

> civil asset forfeiture and absolutely no protection against unlawful seizure. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Even putting the specifics here aside, that's not how civil asset forfeiture wo…