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cla.msopentech.com 12y ago

Microsoft Open Technologies Contribution License Agreement Form

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stackoverflow.com 12y ago

Does it make sense to create canvas-based UI components?

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www.dailymail.co.uk 12y ago

Apple iOS 7 bugs leaves email attachments vulnerable

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physics.stackexchange.com 12y ago

Birds sitting on electric wires: potential difference between their feet

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pastebin.com 12y ago

AppFog is dropping their free plan

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torrentfreak.com 12y ago

Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules

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thedaywefightback.org 12y ago

Today is The Day We Fight Back

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jolla.com 12y ago

Ahoy developers Make the Other Half

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offnow.org 12y ago

Turn It Off: NSA's Achilles' Heel

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www.techpowerup.com 12y ago

AMD Debuts New 12- and 16-Core Opteron 6300 Series Processors

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www.gamespot.com 12y ago

This is a test

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relay70.metatron.sh 12y ago

Framing Door Systems

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

Silk Road Competitor Shuts Down After Claimed $6 Million Theft

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www.independent.co.uk 12y ago

Man died after overdosing on caffeine mints

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rt.com 12y ago

What was missing from MI5 chief Andrew Parker's speech

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dune.scs.stanford.edu 12y ago

Dune allows running privileged instructions in userland using VT-x on Linux

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stopwatchingusrally.eventbrite.com 12y ago

Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Spying

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www.dutchnews.nl 12y ago

Dutch media set up their own website for whistleblowers

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www.flickr.com 12y ago

Android KitKat - a set on Flickr

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twitter.com 13y ago

GitHub is "experiencing major service outages"

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rt.com 13y ago

‘1984 not instruction manual’: Thousands protest NSA spying across US

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www.aljazeera.com 13y ago

The chilling effects of surveillance

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www.brisbanetimes.com.au 13y ago

CIA faulted for choosing Amazon cloud over IBM

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

The NSA can store communications of US citizens for up to 5 years, sans warrant

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

Google and privacy: European data regulators round on search giant

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www.theatlantic.com 13y ago

By David Simon's Own Logic, NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Him

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

PRISM update

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online.wsj.com 13y ago

IMF to Admit Mistakes on Greece Bailout

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The really amazing thing here is that they've disentangled IE from the base Windows

Calling bull. MSIE has never been "entangled" with the OS and this has in fact been proven in court ( http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f2600/2613g.pdf pages 283 through 288 are especially noteworthy). The integration was merely a scam to defeat Netscape.

Here's a bunch of standalone versions from 1996 to 2002 (made by MSFT themselves) which can all run side by side: http://browsers.evolt.org/browsers/archive/ie/win32/

On the same site, you can find MSIE for HP-UX and Solaris.

This wouldn't happen if those ISPs didn't have local monopolies. Networks should be opened by selling traffic wholesale to other companies so that they can compete for subscribers on those networks. The network owners would have more than enough money for upgrades and if they don't, downlevel ISPs will sue them.

Why did that fridge even have code that allowed it to send email?

If it has a remote code execution vulnerability, it's trivial to make it send spam (or do all kinds of things) whether a MUA was already present or not.

especially when GitHub lives on top of a tool designed to avoid SPoFs

You're saying it as if it were a bad thing.

GitHub monoculture 12 years ago

If you can mount it (w/ write permissions), you can push to it. Most companies already have a networked storage place.

BitBucket was down 12 years ago

You can at the very least send each other a zip file containing the .git directory. When you extract that directory into a separate directory, you can add it as a remote and fetch/pull from it (because that's the entire repository right there).

What I usually do is I copy the .git to another name before running zip, so it doesn't extract as .git :)

This is also one of the reasons you shouldn't commit binaries, especially large ones.

Colocating equipment at head ends isn't a solution, because 1) not every provider will colocate, so if you can't preference colocated streams over non-colocated streams from other similar services, there's much more impact on other users

I've read this 10 times but I can't follow. In particular, who is this "you" exactly? And what kind of impact?

2) it might not be feasible to offer third-party colocation in every part of your network where there is bandwidth oversubscription.

This is not a concern for net neutrality but rather the individual ISPs. No ISP is obliged to offer any kind of hosting whatsoever.

Terms like "net neutrality" and "reform" are often used to trick an audience into agreeing with the speaker by having the listeners fill-in-the-blank with their own favourable definitions.

That would be a sad state of affairs.

So, when it comes to state action, "net neutrality" will mean whatever the government says it means

I'm no expert, but I don't think this accurately depicts how the legislative branch works.

Your definitions won't matter once the bill is passed and/or the regulatory interpretation is promulgated.

Chillax, you appear to have a very grim view of your nations governance. That's fine and all, but it doesn't change what net neutrality is about so I'm not really sure how this is relevant. TFA opposes the FCC in the interests of net neutrality and more often than not, people have wildly varying ideas about what that means for service providers, content providers, and subscribers.

Yes, there's no one true definition of a free market but to say there's a logical contradiction rather strikes me as a jump to conclusions. What I meant was, impeding the flow of packets to or from competing networks prevents free trade on the Internet. It's easy to get the two mixed up, but the parallels between net neutrality and the rise of free trade in the 18th and 19th century seem realistic imho. I'm no historian though, merely biased by being on the content provider side of the fence.

There may be some misconceptions here, so I'll clarify a few things just in case:

1) Net neutrality doesn't mean everyone gets the exact same speed. ISPs are free to offer a plethora of offerings each with their own price, speed and extras (if any). There are also no new guarantees to subscribers, i.e. if the wiring is crap deal with it.

2) CDNs have nothing to do with net neutrality. A typical large ISP will offer co-location services and content providers may use the service the same as any other customer. There can even be other arrangements as they see fit, but the important thing is that no one messes with the tubes.

3) Again, just in case because this is brought up a lot, ISPs can still offer filtered subscriptions. There's a market demand for filtered subscriptions and catering to that demand is fair game.

4) ISPs are still free to apply filters on traffic in the interests of maintaining their network. This is important for example when dealing with (D)DoS attacks or worm outbreaks.

Net neutrality levels the playing field for content providers, so if you get VoIP from your ISP the service may still be better than that of a given competitor by virtue of having less latency. But what the ISP cannot do is artificially inflate their advantage, as doing so would be in violation of a free market on the Internet.

EDIT: disambiguated things