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> So I guess if someone can prove AAPL's dominance in "premium" PC, education, or some niche subgroup in PC market, it too can be in trouble.

If Apple used its dominance in some niche subgroup PC market to force buyers to pay a percentage of the total cost of all USB-C devices they buy, including non-Apple devices, to Apple to pay for Apple's patents related to USB-C. And if those buyers were companies like Best Buy that needed to be able to buy Apple devices or else lose access to over half their market. And if Apple refused to sell buyers any devices unless they agreed to those terms. And if Apple promised during standardization of USB-C to offer licenses to said patents on FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms. Then that analogy might hold a little water.
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Yup. Tech faabionabilism is akin to Big4/MBB FUD flavor of the quarter... populism/marketing doesn't a necessity make. Docker, Kubernetes, gulp, Hadoop, mosh, Nix, SmartOS, serverless, cloud, virtualization, [insert tech fashion hype > utility here].

Speaking of Hadoop: my vehicle is parked outside one of the HQ's of another top 10 Hadoop startup. It's
one of the most expensive, nearly empty buildings in the highest rent areas of the Valley. (Money flushing sound here.)

Fun fact: one of the enterprise Hadoop CTOs is a broney.
Every year in the United States, 225,000 people die iatrogenic deaths.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, iatrogenesis is the third largest cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.

Iatrogenic. What is that word? Is it a disease, an accident, or something you get from smoking?

In fact iatrogenic means inadvertent death caused by a doctor or a hospital.

Why don’t they just say that? I guess it isn’t exactly in medicine’s best interests to put it in simple language that anybody can understand.
Then again, REST/RPC are query languages in their own right.

How would one go about securing this thing anyways?

(I agree with the basic sentiment, but find it somewhat unrealistic)
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You can't really compare VM with Docker. Managing containers with Docker + Kubernetes is far easier then managing VMs. Docker might be replaced with something else in future (i.e. rkt), but basic concept IMHO is here to stay.
There was a judge involved, Otto Brixner was his name.
Brixner sent Mollath off to a padded cell in 2006 for being deranged and confirmed/extended that a couple of times. Then five or six years later it turned out that at least some of the deranged ramblings about tax evasion and white-collar crimes were correct. Further, Brixner had spoken to the relevant investigators before he sentenced Mollath, Brixner denied having done that, and when someone leaked paperwork that proved that Brixner's denial was a lie, he refused to talk about what was said.

As I recall, there was also other questions. Wasn't there something about where Mollath's possessions ended up, and Brixner refused to talk about that too?

In such a state, Mollath's possible guilt becomes irrelevant. Only an impartial court can sentence, and the border is between "trusted impartiality" and "not trusted". This is why judges are required to recuse themselves if there is a possibility that they may be thought partial, instead of e.g. if they can be proved to be partial, or if the balance of evidence suggests that they may.
International phone calls aren't free and unrestricted. It's quite feasible to arrange a regime where such inbound spam calls are economically unfeasible, and legally unfeasible within a regulatory regime e.g. apply large financial penalties to the originating phone company, of which there's a limited number, all are licensed, and can be prohibited from obtaining new licenses.
Do anyone here expose real sql querying capabilities to your users?
Bargaining is one of the five stages of grief for something that is lost.
As a user of a different app, I see how many "user reviews" are there for the caller, by the rating (good/neutral/bad). For actual robocallers, the "bad" number is overwhelming, usually with a single "good" review - the spammers would need to flood the review system.
“Coordinated inauthentic behaviour", what a refreshingly honestly dystopian syntagm.
I suppose you expand the usage of spam to also mean the recaptcha mini-games where you tick all the boxes with traffic lights in them. I agree with the sentiment. I'll add that if you don't use anti-fingerprinting or anti-tracking measures, then recaptcha catches on really quickly that you're a person, and it's not much of a bother in that case. The problem with it is that it's made for the ad-peddling web, not for the private web, or whatever the alternative should be called.
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Because you do not know how the trip will impact him. It could be that he self-harms in a way which only makes things permanently worse. It could be that he hurts others during the trip.

There are so many factors which could go badly wrong that it is (in my opinion) unethical to suggest this is a good approach.
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I was justifying my preference for the gene drive compared with the fungus. The fungus has potential to evolve independently to do different things, the gene drive does not. QED.
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I can't see any problem with it. This is just how markets work. There is no way to bend the market forces without crippling the whole economy, so better not try.
In a dark past my company did: because these users were paying CMS users, they would not try to hack things, but rather because of the power of SQL and their lack of knowledge, they broke a lot which required backups to restore. We are talking mid 90s and Perl CGI scripts.
I think the answer is that we just have all sorts of different systems of governance, optimized for different things.

UK underground is ancient, it's part of the fabric of culture, the UK is the birthplace of real rail, maybe they just have a centralized org to pull that off. Maybe they have a historical entente with unions. Maybe for whatever reasons there's less graft. Maybe it's just not politicized. Maybe it's just a lot easier for 'right of way' - or there are ample underground facilities. Maybe they just make things smaller (ie stations) so it's easier.

I find these situations are very enlightening, because it doesn't boil down to a scrum vs. waterfall or static vs. reactive kind of thing ... it's just 'really complicated'.

It's also very frustrating obviously and makes one very cynical of all of the dopes in charge.

I would love to vote for a super competent non-populist city administrator who said 'these are the operational reforms I am going to make', i.e. a leader who's not actually a politician.
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As a user I found geetest [1] to be really friendly and much easier to use than recaptcha.
I have never integrated it myself.

[1] https://www.geetest.com/
It's really frustrating talking to client side developers these days about 508 compliance. It feels like only one in 10 understand the concept of accessibility.
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If this works, GMO seem interesting but fraught with all sorts of unknowns. Why can't a similar effort that cleared malaria from the American South after WW2 be applied again, but on a larger scale (sans horrible insecticides)? https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...
OK. how do you escape from the rule Chinese government? simple: go to another country. how could you escape from google/fb? welcome to China!
Do you know why 99,99% of the extant spiders are harmless to humans?

1) Because many spiders (but not all) are evolved to target insect methabolism instead mammal methabolism

2) Because spiders aren't bees. The majority are solitary and small, have a limited body size and can just inject a single tiny dose of its extra-potent poisons.

3) and their tiny chelicers are too small and weak to pierce the human skin until reaching a layer with circulatory system so the poison is stopped by the stratum corneum of dead cells in epidermis and other upper layers of skin

Now lets suppose that a spider could grow indefinitely and make an unlimited amount of poison, like a fungus

And lets suppose that spider poison could be breathed directly and pass from lungs to blood wessels, and acumulated all day like fungus spores entering in your nose

What could happen? shalalala

Maybe nothing

or maybe any insect of any species would be poisoned eventually in presence of spores. They take air directly. Result: collapse of agriculture by simultaneous decrease of suitable pollinators at all levels

or maybe humans would have a new type of allergy, part allergy part nervous poisoning.

People tired of breathing poison all day after a strong rain? People now allergic to a previously harmless and widespread fungus present everywhere?, in its modified and wild forms?
PWA?
That sounds kind of terrifying.
In an email client? Without any warning of sorts?

Which email client is that?

Also, for many years already, Windows won't let you run an executable that you just downloaded from the internet just by double clicking, without first clicking through a warning dialog.
No one uses Storm anymore. It was Spark that killed Storm, not the other way around.
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Take note! There is a serious problem with Dropbox, if you use Dropbox, make sure you have a second backup. …A warning if you use it, for you too can loose thousand of images…I have been in communication with Dropbox for over two months and I have not had satisfactory response. I need an alternative method to resolve this issue. I have done everything that I could do with Dropbox to no avail. They are not taking this situation seriously. No images recovered, photos that were only stored on Dropbox gone, I had a local drive but it crashed so I have no way to recuperate my images, two years of professional and personal art work for the moment lost. Has any one else had similar problems with Dropbox? Does anyone know how to get Dropbox to react and recuperate lost images
Third world countries have already financed the draining of European swamps. It’s the wealth stolen in Asia, Africa and America that made those public works projects possible in the first place.

The reason former colonies haven’t been able to do the same at home is because their society and economy are permanently crippled by colonization.
I don't think that is true. I am using incognito all the time for web dev to test without cookies.
Fine, I added a "perhaps" - my real point was about spying, not prices.
CERN?
search history is useful. google should provide me "query suggestion" based on my social circle.

without collecting user data, google,/FB etc can't exist, they can't improve their services. As a user, I don't care much on the data they collect, as long as they follow law system in the country they operate. if these huge companies went beyond the control of the governments, then only the real problem starts.
Thanks for responding. I wanted to contest the word "need" - given that the best majority of students aren't taught (in a schooling setting) even 1 of the subjects you mentioned, and we still live in an arguably quite civilized modern society, would you agree that they don't actually "need" to be taught?
If everything is propaganda then the question is why are we selectively choosing which propaganda to show? In that case, the real propaganda is the omission of certain propaganda, or for another choice of words the 'perspective' of another group.

We are being lied to on a regular basis, this has been going on for decades and the rise of right-wing and extreme right-wing parties reflects this.
The author misses the point of these programs. It's already understood that there will be waste and failure and graft and corruption and people who just plain cheat; that's an inevitable result of ANY subsidy program.

The whole point of carbon credits and such (despite the touchy-feely PR speak on the surface) is to increase the number of people economically motivated to preserve trees, even if just for a little while, and less people to pollute, even if just a little bit. Technology changes quickly, but trees grow slowly. The idea is to preserve as many slow growing trees as we can while waiting for the technology to catch up.
Say, "Yes, you're right. It's insane that we're about to add lots of EMR to our immediate daily environment at a huge expense just so Google and Facebook can harvest more of your data faster. Here are some low-tech methods for destroying the device in your neighborhood."
I think that a monopolistic shake down of this nature is always connected to price increases, but you're right that I don't have specific evidence.

And in any case, my comment is not about prices, but about security.
Duopoly is when the two heterogenous companies coöperate to form a monopoly. That was Wintel.

A cartel is when a small number of homogenous companies share the market while ostensibly competing with each other, but coöperate to erect barriers to anyone else getting into the market.

If Apple and Google block other companies from getting into the mobile device business, they would be a cartel.
Users collect $10 from their network operator by filling a claim in an online form. Burden of proof on the network operator to prove it wasn't a spam call (e.g. originated from a known number, lasted more than some number of minutes, metadata indicates that it was a two-way conversation, etc.). Huge fines if users complain to the regulator that any of the above isn't true.
It worked for me just from the site. I've never used the app before, never had it installed.
> and number three – well it’s not even worth staying in business because there’s no money to be made,

I guess tell that to the 10s of companies doing PaaS. Or another 10s doing app monitoring / logging. They're successful companies, far from just "breaking even".
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At first I read "block Fingering with Firefox"
Do you plan on offering services below the HTTPs/QUIC layer? I am thinking raw UDP/TCP. That way apps that are not HTTP protocol driven can piggy back on tunneling, security and possibly short cached CDN.
I've heard that too.. I know it's been attacked successfully at pwn2own a few times, and in the past the sandbox on e.g. Linux wasn't as restricted.

I think things have improved though.
This is simple form of a honeypot but it is really ineffective. Any bot with even minimal sophistication will know to leave the hidden field empty.
I think the gp had different „activities“ in mind.
Yes, the reality has changed. We have to either adapt our notions of privacy etc. to the new reality or pretend that nothing really changed. The latter seems to work, but one day you go to Africa (or India, or China, or just have to deal with someone who can ignore/circumvent the regulation), and - surprise! - the reality is still there.
Packaged and configured are two different things. The fun begins, when you need several applications, which each have different ideas about configuring services, that would be otherwise shared.

Then, as a matter of convenience, you get packages, that either bundle everything preconfigured to their liking (i.e. gitlab omnibus) or packages, that configure shared services how they need it, and running them shared is not supported (i.e. freeipa, which will configure httpd as it needs and forget having anything else served on the same machine).

Docker provides a way to isolate these, so you can still use the same resources you have to run applications, that would not cooperate with each other on a single machine, without having to run separate OS instances in separate VMs.
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You hide it with CSS, not type='hidden'
Interesting, is this a criticism?
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That's a very informative document. Privacy Pass caught my eye: https://privacypass.github.io/ It's an extension that is currently only supported by Cloudflare's CAPTCHA, that pretty much stores tokens after you complete a CAPTCHA, and the next time instead of requiring you to complete a CAPTCHA again, it will use those tokens. The point is that it does it in an anonymity preserving way. You can fork their server for a custom implementation.
> But it does make sense in Go.

No, Go doesn't work that way. You asked, 'How do you fix a file that has errors in it if the standard library of the language you're using won't even let you read it?' In Go, you don't read file as strings, but rather as bytes (proof: https://golang.org/pkg/os/#Open, which returns a File which implements Read: https://golang.org/pkg/os/#File.Read).

You would do the same thing in Python: open the file in binary mode, and the iterate over the bytes it yields.

Now, the one thing that would be annoying in Go is fixing a broken filename. I'd have to think a bit to figure that out.
Shhhh get out of our ivory tower with your statistics about how the real world works.

/s

But yes, there's no reason to think that the distribution of successful, neutral and failure returns for Docker centric startups won't follow the usual distribution.
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As someone who had a Rottweiler called Psycho (named after the nickname of a football player from the local team) as a child the most harm that dog would do to you was sit on you or lick you to death. (I have a vivid memory of lying on the carpet in the living room playing Mario on the NES on a Saturday morning and the dog coming over and falling asleep on me and I was pretty much stuck, but who cared I had Saturday morning Mario to play on the big TV in the living room.)

We used to have a large front garden and a tiny back garden so as kids we would play in the front garden and obv play with the dog. I remember atleast 4 times the authorities of one form or another were sent out to pay us a visit simply because we were playing with such a vicious animal.

As kids we were more of a threat to that dog than it was to us as we sit on the dogs back and get rides up and down the garden.

He was an awesome dog :-)

But in the UK we do have a few banned dog breeds - https://www.gov.uk/control-dog-public/banned-dogs - but personally I believe it’s down to the treatment of the animal from a puppy that matters, a well cared for and socialised pit bull terriers can be a loving family dog. Though I can not say I’ve had any interaction with any of the other dogs on the banned breed list.
Hikitomoris often have low status. They aren't respected in the eyes of their peers, because they lack either a job, skills/education, a spouse, or looks. So when they talk with their peers, they feel inferior, and are often reminded about their position. That's why they rather step aside. Some of them are unwilling to integrate with the ill values the society has, and that paralyzes them, since they don't have where to go. Mental issues are related to this matter, at least partly caused by the system, and maybe childhood experiences, traumas, etc. The longer they stay isolated, the more they fall behind, and the harder it gets for them to go out and compete.
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The BBC is a bit of a laughing stock at the moment because of their wall-to-wall coverage of right wing Brexit types. Unsurprisingly because many of the "journalists" have connections to the Conservative party.

They also suffer from the "two-sides" problem. They'll get a scientist who's spent their life studying climate change, then on the other side someone who says "It's a hoax". That's not investigative journalism.
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Thank you, I was mistaken to call it a Bash-ism. Bash's documentation said it's a Posix-ism:

> The POSIX $() form of command substitution is implemented (see Command Substitution), and preferred to the Bourne shell’s `` (which is also implemented for backwards compatibility).

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Major-Dif...
raganwald.com uses github’s md-to-html thingy, which is jekyl.

But there is nearly zero walled garden downside. I own the domain, I don’t use github.io, so I don’t fear link rot if I move.

Because it’s git, I always have a copy of everything locally, I don’t depend on github for storage.

Because it’s jekyll, I can generate my blog on my own system and upload it somewhere else whenever I want.

I don’t support comments at all, but that’s a personal choice. I’m not in the community business, I outsource comments to Hacker News. Which is also how most of my readers want to discuss my writing.
Yes, but then again warning dialogs don't have much track record in preventing malware outbreaks.

For example, recent versions of Word won't run VBA macros by default without the user clicking through a warning dialog, and yet people fall for it all the time.

Malware authors don't mind either way.
I thought that so called dangerous dogs were almost always safe in the family, but any danger came with encounters with outsiders like your out of state aunty brings her new three year old to visit and the kid pulls its tail.
I have an original copy of this game in my garage! Including the vmu microphone.
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Maybe I'm just naively applying my programmers sense of beauty to legal stuff

I see that happening a lot. Actually, it's more trying to apply tech skills to societal issues, often without really thinking through the consequences or the bigger societal impact. Sidewalk Labs Toronto experiments provides a nice illustration of such issues.[1], [2] & [3]

One of the buzzwords that really gets my blood boiling is "Government V2.0".

Life and society is usally quite messy and attempting to optimize it very often yields rather undesirable consequences, or just outsources the externalities to other parts of society.

A simpler, more elegant solution would have been better in my opinion.

Sure, that would be nice. But I think that's extremely hard to do with crafting legal frameworks.

If tech has tought me anything in the last 20 years is that you will have people, entities and corporations just abusing the sweet bejeezus out of any loophole, which they can identify and get away with.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/08/...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-privacy...

[3] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/cracks-appear-i...