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Comment · 10 years ago
It's useful to reframe this from "the manufacturer's fault". Lawmakers have a clear decision to make:

1). Prevent this business from existing.

2). Allow toy magnets to exist, thereby allowing X children to die from swallowing toy magnets.

I don't think this is ZenMagnet's fault. But I think placing a restriction on toy magnets is probably a net positive.

Comment · 10 years ago
...which is why he used the SYS_ #defines.
Comment · 10 years ago
I used Digital Ocean for a year. No problems, never sent spam. Then my mail started being spamfiltered, apparently because a neighbor was spamming. Seriously don't recommend using cloud hosts if you care about people receiving your email.
Comment · 10 years ago
I used DO for a year without a problem, and then my IP was blacklisted (apparently a neighbor was spamming) and I couldn't do anything about it. Be warned, and frequently check if Google accounts receive mail frequently.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's different because Edge is emphatically not more safe.
Comment · 10 years ago
Can you blame them? Wine and hacking does sound like fun.
Comment · 10 years ago
"Illegal" seems stronger to me than "not strictly conforming", I guess (and so does "well-formed", for that matter). But I think we basically agree.
Comment · 10 years ago
Undefined behavior is not illegal. The compiler can do anything with undefined behavior, including exactly what the author expected.
Comment · 10 years ago
> No. Just No. > Docker has nothing to do with security.

Docker can totally reduce the risk of in-container services being exploited. It has sane defaults, and makes it easy to distribute other restrictions with the application (seccomp profile, apparmor settings, etc).

Comment · 10 years ago
I get anxious about this too sometimes, but in my experience the "long lists of conditions that no one ever told me and assumed I knew" are hardly ever relevant.
Comment · 10 years ago
Black and white horizontal lines or misrendered text for a split second until a white blink rerenders the whole page. Happens somewhat frequently when I have heavy CPU load on a Linux laptop.
Comment · 10 years ago
Got it. Then ICANN (or whoever) controls all websites, and is responsible for their infrastructure. That may or may not be better than what we have.

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