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Comment · 12 years ago
i guess this is the actual section they talk about:

(i) Sell any new motor vehicle directly to a retail customer other than through franchised dealers, unless the retail customer is a nonprofit organization or a federal, state, or local government or agency. This subdivision does not prohibit a manufacturer from providing information to a consumer for the purpose of marketing or facilitating the sale of new motor vehicles or from establishing a program to sell or offer to sell new motor vehicles through franchised new motor vehicle dealers that sell and service new motor vehicles produced by the manufacturer.

Comment · 12 years ago
So i'd wager there'd be quite a few celebrity dick picks available too if hackers wanted them. We know men like to send them unsolicited, and I'm sure those celebrities had received more than a few. But there are none. And why? Because those women were specifically targeted by people with a lot of resources and patience. (it's important that they were targeted specifically for being women).

To all of you idiots blaming the victims out there right now "should have used 2fa, should have used stronger passwords":

1. You don't know if 2FA was in place, you don't know what strength the passwords were.

2. Again: those women were highly targeted. Can you defend yourself if someone takes a week/month long project to break into your phone? (Also this was during heartbleed and other big vulnerabilites)

Come off your bullshit high horse. Don't blame the victims here.

Comment · 12 years ago
if your comment is intented to mean 'foreigners are coming over stealing our jobs', feel free to leave it as it is. Otherwise, you might wanna rephrase what you wrote..
Comment · 13 years ago
Iceland had 0.00021 UNHCR refugees per capita in 2013. same number for sweden was 0.0097 (almost 50x). I think its fair to say that iceland could take a bigger reponsibility internationally. As a small country they cant carry a major reponsibility (and remember that the biggest refugee countries are mostly neighbouring countries of conflicts: pakistan for example) but they could definitely do more.
Comment · 13 years ago
hey there! kudos for the simple explanatory, no-sound, no-parse-style-hollywood production videos! this is one of the examples where autoplay makes a lot of sense, and it's very easy to get a grip of what i can do with your product. Good job!
Comment · 13 years ago
This is some really good UI code. You're storing the state in a very clear way and do the geometry calculations in one place, making it easy to understand what's going on. Nice!
Comment · 13 years ago
I understand where you're going here: pubsub communication can be both a blessing and a curse, it can be hard to ensure a consistent usage, hard to debug when there's long chains than one place -> the other.

I think the sandboxing from aura.js is pretty interesting here, since you can always look up which widgets are allowed to talk, it makes it easier to narrow down the problem.

Comment · 13 years ago
What I think is interesting to see, is that the patterns from Nicholas zakas' "scalable Javascript architecture" spreads into new frameworks.

Enforcing components w/o return values, communicating via pub/sub is also seen in aura.js and backbone marionette. I think this thinking will lead to more stable, easy to change js apps. Exciting!

Comment · 14 years ago
I second "writing a thumbdrive from scratch"! There's much more to it than it sounds like. Travis talks for example about the possiblity of the drive being able to fingerprint the system it's mounted on, recognizing it's 'home' machine. From there he suggest counter measures like recognizing an indexing process by the read patterns and have the drive erase itself, or giving a different checksum every time the content is hashed.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
Very nice! Though the API of Box2d is a little bit hairy, i really appreciate how stable it is. We built a DOM-based game/ad-thingee with Box2d this spring (http://embassy.de/game/) and using a game + physics engine (CAAT was the game engine) and relative measures was also a pretty good way to make it scale across window sizes!
Comment · 14 years ago
While I agree with a lot of your points; in 1962 a lot of people in us/europe went abroad once or twice in their lifetime. Now, many go twice a year.

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