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iy56··on Julian Assange: Edward Snowden is ‘marooned in Russia’
Yes, everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed. That's a real healthy attitude to take.
iy56··on Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities
Solution: anonymous buyers.
iy56··on Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)
It is less bad. The US government doesn't have any obligation to protect the rights of citizens of some other country not living in the US. If your government disagrees, tell them to sign a treaty.
iy56··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
It just means they feel like the other party is forgetting about the cost. For example, if I hear my friend raving about this new phone that only costs 99 dollars, I might remind him that it would require him to upgrade to a data plan that costs 20 dollars more per month. That doesn't mean that the phone isn't still worth buying, just that it's not as cheap as I think he is imagining it to be.
iy56··on The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away
No. I validate the credit card before completing the transaction. Maybe you should check whether the game is terrible before you buy it.
iy56··on What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?
The approaches are not mutually exclusive.
iy56··on How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
That's an incredibly naive expectation. ISPs have been replacing error pages with their own search pages serving ads since the 90s.
iy56··on How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
But you already don't stop your ISP from interfering with your traffic in transit. So why is it a big deal if you continue to not do it? Or is seeing a few ads more important to you than, say, all of your email?
iy56··on How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
Yes, this technique could potentially be misused. You can say the same thing about any technology.
iy56··on How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
If the best argument in favor of HTTPS everywhere is that it will prevent your ISP from showing you ads, the movement is doomed.
iy56··on How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com without Apple’s OK
They are not making it necessary, only convenient. You're not harmed by seeing a few ads.
iy56··on Booth Babes, Street Clothes, and GDC: Thanks But You sort of Made It Worse
Even if you hire a 50/50 split, it doesn't solve the problem because the ratio in conference attendees is far from even. The conditional probabilities still lead to the conclusion the article complains about.
iy56··on Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented
Software is commonly accepted as copyrightable, and no exception is made for quines.
iy56··on Supreme Court sides with student in case over textbooks
Having to support many different textbooks across different students is a recipe for chaos. Especially when the topic is something like calculus which can have such radically different treatments.
iy56··on Security reporter tells about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house
Verification really doesn't matter. Emergency responders aren't going to ignore a report like this where human lives are reported to be at stake just because it comes from an unverified number.
iy56··on Thai character ก็็็็็ (ก) gets rendered in a strange way
With Opera 12.14, I saw the same thing. I had to open the page in Chrome to see the weirdness.
iy56··on Men who spy on women through their webcams
Most likely this will lead to official certification and registration of pen testers like locksmiths and alarm system installers are required to have in some states..
iy56··on EA apologises over 'dumb' SimCity launch
Probably they spent more time playing on the highest game speed, which taxes their servers more. They eventually disabled this speed when it was clear their infrastructure could not handle it.
iy56··on White House Response to “Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal”
Refuse to enforce this clause of the DMCA and pardon anyone imprisoned because of it.
iy56··on The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea
Can anyone repost the text here for those of use whose work filters block tpb?
iy56··on Throwing and catching an inverted pendulum with quadrocopters
How is that sad? If it's not useful for sex, what else is more important than killing people?
iy56··on Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
They have to say things like that, because you need the other side to believe you will use your nukes for them to be an effective deterrent. Nobody actually wants to use them.
iy56··on What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Of course you will feel an emotional response when your code is criticized, and a considerate critic will try to minimize that. But you'd still be the one in the wrong.
iy56··on Windows 8 Pro upgrade to jump from $40 to $200 on Feb. 1
Basing your movie opinions on random youtube videos would be equally foolish. The reviews of professional critics are somewhat different.
iy56··on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
The initial email comes with what it calls a mock example. I think that's what you're referring to.
iy56··on Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years
Those are cherrypicked examples. 15 years ago they still had the custom horse, dragon, stone wall, etc pieces and today they still have sets of just plain pieces.
iy56··on Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
I didn't say that blacks today aren't affected by a history of racism, only that a race-based policy is not necessary to correct this.

If you define anyone who disagrees with you as a racist, I agree, the world will never be rid of racism.

iy56··on Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
The harms and benefits you are talking about are not quantifiable in a commonly-agreed-upon way. I think that's a prerequisite for the kind of analysis you want to do.
iy56··on Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
15% of the animal biomass on earth is ants, but I can look in the ocean and find thousands of fish yet very few ants.

There are women-only universities, historically black universities, universities that focus on arts and universities that focus on music. Why should the employee demographics of a coal mine be the same as the demographics of a hospice?

iy56··on Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
Many people disagree with you about what the goal should be.

You can't turn back time and undo abuse. Trying to do so is just a waste of resources. In the race metaphor, the solution would be to just make sure everyone starts on a even footing in the next heat. In real life, I would say that means making sure all children have equal access to healthcare and education, regardless of their parents' income or circumstances. I don't see why race-based policies are necessary to achieve this.

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