Author: Karu

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On Sources

Fortunately in this year 2015 we have a thing called hyperlinks via which evidence for assertions can be easily provided. If you treat op-eds from ‘unreliable’ sources as unreliable, fine. If you refuse to even check well-cited articles from ‘unreliable’ sources, you’re probably more interested in ideological correctness than truth.

The Certificate Authority Racket

That’s an awful nice website you have there, would be a shame if something were to happen to it.

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On Mozilla & CEOs

While Eich is free to contribute to any political cause he sees as valid, the rest of the wold is also free to critically evaluate his actions and act accordingly.

Hypocrisy, thy name is tonymacx86

Now, as an example of how utterly ineffective this kind of “DRM” is (like most kinds of DRM actually), here’s how you fix the bug and get Unibeast to work regardless of the source of your Mountain Lion installer.

The math of piracy

Piracy loses a potential sale, and theft loses a potential sale and access to a physical product. Therefore, given the following equation:

China’s Epic Anti-Antiware War

Thanks to guest author Vrantheo of Lost Signal network for this insightful article! This month we shall witness a whole bunch of ongoing epic Chinese Internet drama, during which almost all the “major” software companies...