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Publicly funded elections that invalidate capture; follow Larry Lessig.

Not just SSH's library parsing, but every SSH implementation's argument parsing.

pvote.org seems like a decent solution, it's <500 lines of code that needs to be audited.

That doesn't handle auditing the machines themselves, but as the 2016 US presidential election recount found in Wisconsin, the tamper-evident machines showed evidence of tampering, so maybe we're closer to knowing whether the trusted systems we use to count votes are trustworthy.

Of course, the current machines are still Diebold ("Premier Election Solutions"), so who knows. Ken Blackwell will make sure only the right folks vote, anyway, just like he did in 2008.

Does anybody remember this? Why do we assume the adware was the end result and not just a vector for something worse?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/milli...

The War on Giant Asteroids is unwinnable. That's why we should instead fund the War on Giant Asteroids Piloted by Dinosaurs. We kicked their asses 6,000 years ago, we can do it again!

> to get back to pre-bubble level

Do you mean "rebubble," or is there some reason Priceline should be worth $100bn?

They do about $400-500m in profit(?) a quarter, for $1.5-2bn/year. Is it the 22% margin that's so attractive? (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3APCLN&fstype=ii&ei=...)

Such a large margin might suggest they aren't making significant hardware purchases or that their rates could be undercut by a competitor, both of which would make me nervous as an investor for the long haul.

The point of the article is that disruption depends on market. Infotainment in India might be like the "not-getting-beaten-up-for-overbooking" of United.

It seems like GP is calculating 20 years worth of subscription cost.

Seems reasonable, but I'd also stop using most subscriptions before 20 years: 5 years seems more likely. I'd probably cancel a subscription if I stopped using the product after a few years or if the related hardware died.

Nope, it's too wishy-washy for you to judge the potential for violation in a forum post. The 4 criteria have to be interpreted with respect to the situation at hand, and hypotheticals are almost impossible to interpret rationally.

Republishing single sentences has previously been found to be a copyright violation, and copyright has been granted on as few as three notes. On the other hand (to pick a recent example), 50 Shades of Grey, originally written as a Twilight fan-fiction (derivative by definition) was never pursued for copyright violation (AFAIK).

It's more than liability, reducing physical access requirements opens up a much larger attack surface.

I know if someone's opened up my skull. I assume everyone has some sort of multi-band wireless transceiver in their pocket, because that's a cell phone.

No way you can open the nyancat device as read-only. Clearly, it only opens as O_ORLY.

I've just been waiting for someone to send them a bill.

How much money have their tools cost folks in time, money, hardware, and personnel, even in just the last year? How much money have their unpatched exploits cost?

How's that all compare to their (mostly undocumented) annual budget, anyway?

Well, no, it is self-inconsistent in places [0]. However, as you mention, those are probably minor points compared to how it contradicts existing standards, like the Gregorian calendar [1], date representation, and language codes.

0: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070123071154...

1: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070123071154...

The spec isn't actually self-consistent, so it's not clear that it can ever actually be implemented:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080328090328998

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?stor...

Hey, 640K is enough for anyone!

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Keystroke Level Modeling (KLM) or CogTool (github.com/cogtool/cogtool), which divides up UI interactions into discrete actions with specific times. It gives a pretty reasonable estimate overall, and is great for comparing between multiple competing concepts/usage-models.

The only backup I know of is getting another key that you register in the same way as the first key.

Hopefully they don't both break at the same time.

Would filling all the color tanks with black ink before printing make initial detection easier?

NSLs? With them, any action is intimately related to active investigations, because they're completely without oversight.

I'm confused: would the teens accused of sending their own pictures be both the offender and the victim? Could they (or their parents) just choose to drop charges against themselves?

Budget cuts? :)

20% payout to the whistleblower. That's pretty hefty!

I've been encouraging a 5% philosophy for organizations that replace software that had license fees with free software:

Just donate 5% of the previous annual license fee to the project you're now using, each year. You still save 95% on license fees and developers get to eat.

You mean, like Sandstorm did?

https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/70awyqss6jq2gkz7dwzsnvumzr0725...

Didn't some group pull a politician's finger print off his dinner glass and then include it as an insert with all the issues of some magazine?

Can't find the reference right now, but somebody's gotta remember this, it was when the UK was considering using biometric data as IDs.

Now you've just given me new, horrifying, nightmares of the future.

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Hey, sometimes it is "sell your soul:"

https://www.geek.com/games/gamestation-eula-collects-7500-so...

Apparently there's a second, completed, ROM that was never released. It contains features the leaked ROM doesn't, at least according to the folks who worked on SF-Zero, who played it as research.

Interestingly, they got the versions right, if not the feature (AMT vs ME).