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I'm not sure that it's a settled matter that HIPAA doesn't apply in this case. PHI includes demographic information which would seem to apply here just based on what we already kno…

In modern usage of the term they don't. The term originated in underground circles where anonymity by all participants was assumed, and where there were probably legal or criminal …

A modern clone of the PCB has been done: http://www.willegal.net/appleii/apple1.htm Sourcing all the required components is likely to be difficult.

My understanding is that he objects to the non-free status of the firmware present on other devices.

Look at the "Try Turnkey on Amazon..." banner at the top of the turnkeylinux.org home page and tell me the artifacts don't look like hammered ass. I'll stick to lossless for anythi…

To your point one, I agree. I also fail to see how universal binaries help. The problem isn't with supporting multiple architectures, it's with supporting multiple distributions. R…

It really is just a bad idea. Or at least one that is working against ideas central to the way Linux is currently used. Universal/fat binaries made sense on the Macintosh because t…

>So please think hard on this, before you dismiss this as stupid or untenable. I have. This is stupid and untenable. Problem one: Right now if I encountered a login form that didn'…

That was Informix, not Oracle.

I suspect the grandparent is referring to a "cross site request forgery" (XSRF) style attack.

I wonder if he's using UUCP?