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ewbuoi··on Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux?
It's just too bad they don't support ZFS or any similar filesystem. Their reasoning makes a lot of sense, but there are a lot of useful features that would be nice to have.
ewbuoi··on FenOS to support all binary formats and hardware
My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not sure why...
ewbuoi··on FenOS to support all binary formats and hardware
Even if it is real, I can't imagine them implementing that many APIs correctly. They also don't mention anything about OS versions, and I don't know why anyone would bother reimplementing some of those ancient APIs.
ewbuoi··on The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone
The complexity of software doesn't preclude standardized "building codes." Obviously the codes would have to be just as complex, but software could be used to check that those codes are met. It wouldn't be perfect, but current building codes for physical buildings also have their flaws (every building [vs design] needs to be physically inspected by a person [much easier to exploit than a machine]).
ewbuoi··on Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
But how much of the core infrastructure is made by the Chinese?
ewbuoi··on Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
Innocent people's lives are ruined by drugs every day. One example off the top of my head is people coerced into being drug mules and end up getting caught by Customs. If (violent) porn is legal, the producers will be under much greater scrutiny than if they were forced in to the black market.
ewbuoi··on Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
Can you find a source that doesn't show the UK having 5-10 times more violent crime than the US, per capita? I couldn't believe the numbers at first, so I tried but couldn't find anything saying otherwise.

I think the UK is a great example that violent crime will happen despite restricting weapons.

ewbuoi··on Why I'm Returning Google Glass
Complaining about it did get his blog to (at least) the top 4 on hacker news.
ewbuoi··on Ask HN: How does one create a fake identity?
People have always used air quotes to show they're quoting someone's exact words, and also when they're being sarcastic and making up a quote. It's just hard to tell when people are being sarcastic in text.
ewbuoi··on SFO Plane Crash In Tweets
Can they really detain people and refuse to let people pick up their luggage? It seems pretty clear that it was the pilot's fault, and most likely an accident.
ewbuoi··on Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits
That doesn't mean that standing up to bullying countries doesn't work. There's always another superpower to run to, and they seem to like undermining each other's bullying.
ewbuoi··on Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits
Apparently this has been common since at least the cold war.
ewbuoi··on The Internet Just Made Microsoft Kill a Car for a Faster Horse
You could mail them the disk, and maybe a small processing fee. They could then destroy the disk and convert the license token to a digital copy. It would cost the customer, but since they could have bought a digital copy in the first place it seems fair.
ewbuoi··on PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
They could get a valid key pair from a CA and MITM the connection. It could be detected if the user knows what the public key should be and compares it with what they received, but that seems pretty unlikely.
ewbuoi··on Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
It's funny how they put 4chan with the 'F's in the list of supporting companies instead of at the beginning where you'd normally find names starting with digits.
ewbuoi··on Rewarding Edward Snowden's Courage
I think Manning had/has some mental health problems. I'm pretty sure he was struggling with depression. This guy sounds like he's in a much better place, mentally, to go up against the US government. Being a contractor (citizen) will probably also make this a lot easier for him than it is for Manning.
ewbuoi··on Rewarding Edward Snowden's Courage
He was making $200k a year, I don't think the best way to support him is to give him another $10k. If he needs money, he needs a LOT more than $10k.
ewbuoi··on Hacker News Coverage of the NSA Stories (IMG)
I think this started when the NSA requested records on every American from Verizon, which then got leaked to a journalist named Greenwald. Greenwald then followed it up with an article on PRISM, the NSA's spying operation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/business/media/anti-survei...

ewbuoi··on Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts
Some even have a diagram of the fuse box in the fuse box.
ewbuoi··on What Neurons Look Like as Drawn by Students, Grad Students, and Professors
Honestly, I'm not surprised at all. Students need to be thorough to show they understand the material, so their drawings are detailed. Professionals just need to put an idea on paper quickly and easily, so they only draw the details that are relevant.
ewbuoi··on Doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online
My doctor works like that and I love it. I've never had to wait in a waiting room or anything, appointments start promptly and last as long as they need to (I've had an appointment last over 2 hours). She charges $220/hr, but after insurance reimburses me it costs less per hour than a doctor at a traditional clinic, which was about $15 for a quick 15 minute appointment.
ewbuoi··on Petition to release Cameron D'Ambrosio
"Kudos to the FBI for taking this seriously and showing people you can't just say crap like this without any consequence. Living in a free society comes with a cost.

...

Also, if you think you aren't living in a free society, try moving to Saudi Arabia, many countries in Africa, Cuba, Bolivia, many S. American countries, many eastern european countries, etc."

I agree that living in a free society comes with a cost, but it's pretty clear that this man's right to free speech is being violated. Also, the fact that there are countries with horrible human rights violations doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the USA is truly a "free society."

ewbuoi··on I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?
I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test:

Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/state.php on line 479

ewbuoi··on Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
My local hackerspace has 3, but I haven't used them yet.
ewbuoi··on Why I am building a product with a tiny market
"In 2011, the US GNP was 15,097,083 million USD."

That should be 15 trillion (definitely not ~15,000,000,000,000 :p )

ewbuoi··on Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]
They could place any restrictions on it they want if they keep both keys secret. They could also just keep all the bitcoins in the same wallet, and keep track of how much each account owns.
ewbuoi··on Connecting an iPad retina LCD to a PC
seeed studio (3 E's in seeed) makes PCBs, starting around $20 for 10. I've ordered a few from them, always good quality but shipping from China is a little slow.
ewbuoi··on Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts
I wish I knew more people (AFK) who thought like this...
ewbuoi··on A New HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
The FBI replaces websites it takes down with a graphic containing their logo, they might use the 451 code if it becomes standardized.
ewbuoi··on Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables
Was this released through official channels or leaked? I'm assuming it makes a difference, but I wouldn't know...
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