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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Original release: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4682 "The T3 dataset is still offline as we take further steps to ensure the privacy of students in the dataset. Please check back later at this site for additional updates- a notice wil
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Harvard releases archive of student Facebook profiles: unethical?(chronicle.com)
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Black people broadcast their skin color when in public. In some languages, name is very clear indication of race. Therefore, let's add a drop-down to your profile so you MUST choose from one of the following: White, Black, Other.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
You are exactly right, which is why adults are covered by OPPA (where the C, for Children, is removed): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Privacy_Protection_Act As in contract and rape law, people below an arbitrary cutoff age are presu
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Perhaps we should follow the example set by statutory rape laws: children of age x (where x <13) can only give their personal information to sites run by children whose age is within 24 months of x . (Yes, I am joking.)
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
The cheaper $/oz is for nickel-based pens. I haven't ever encountered a nickel pen in person. Do they work as well as the silver-based?
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
If you give a niece or nephew an account on your mailserver, you may need to get parental permission from your sibling to maintain COPPA compliance. :) P.S. - Verbal authorization won't do! The permission has to be given in the form of a fa
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
The law is meant to cover this specific situation . The FTC, enforcing COPPA, fined the social network Xanga $1,000,000 for allowing children under 13 to sign up without parental consent.[1] The law is specifically intended to prevent ad
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
The article defines "making history" as simply existing. That's why they can conclude that disproportionate chunks of history were formed during more recent time periods: human population growth, like that of any other bacteria, is exponent
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Put an IC socket on top so you can use any DIP8 IC to build GODZILLA CIRCUITS. Though you might have to add active amps in the legs at higher signal frequencies.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Great article. Scientific analysis is solid. Understanding of American capitalism is flawed, however. >> As companies keep discovering , it really helps to run the numbers. As I've written about before, Pepsi discovered ... >&
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
The existing pens are intended only for minor PCB repairs. They are terribly expensive, as in $100/oz, have high resistance, and cannot be drawn with smoothly (like a pen). They are also not intended for the kind of flexing that you see on
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
You're right, I butchered the jargon there. By "hidden volume" I meant the volume that is hidden during normal use , whereas the conventional meaning of that term is the volume that is hidden when you give the false password . Exact oppos
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Did you start it with the intention of profiting? I think the OP is specifically looking for unprofitable-but-awesome ventures. For example, curing AIDS because you want people to not have AIDS is awesome, but curing AIDS because you want t
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Paul Allen single-handedly funded development of the private spacecraft SpaceShipOne.[1][2] He apparently began funding that spaceship, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, around 2001, several YEARS before he told anybody that he wa
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
And if they do put 2 and 2 together, now you have perjured yourself, not just refused to testify. Much worse. > Just jerk off to normal porn like everybody else, problem solved. sigh First they came for those accused of pedophilia, an
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
That would be perjury, though. You are now a Lying Guy, not just a Fifth Amendment Guy, and no amendment will be able to save you if they figure out that you gave a hidden volume password and claimed it as the "real" and only password. I'm
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I don't have access to original Bernstein materials; does anybody know how they define "brand appeal"? Apparently Apple has over 66% of whatever that is (such that their fraction is "more than double" the remainder), and yet only half of th
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I did not think of that angle, and am now appropriately recalcitrant.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Bernstein Research surveyed consumers to ask whether they would prefer a 7" screen or a 10" screen? That does not have anything to do with iPad branding. Would you prefer a 70" TV, or a 100" TV? You say 100"? Well, since Sony manufactures t
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
That is a good idea! Like Google advertising, where the ads are selected based on the textual context -- words in your search string or email or website -- but instead of ads as the output, short video clips. For long text blocks, run the v
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
"Double-edged sword" has never worked for me, as a cliche. Do you often find yourself inadvertently smacking against the dull side of a single-edged sword, such that you stay away from double-edged swords for your own safety? rm is like a d
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
USPTO states that their trademark database is NOT a superset of the state-level registrations and common law marks: http://tess2.uspto.gov/ At the least, you also need to check each of the 50 state-level PTDLs. USPTO has a list by state:
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Domain name: $25 Trademark search: $350 Invariably coming up with a better name six months later: priceless. (I assume that doesn't only happen to me every time.)
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Here are two suggestions that we would have seen, if the underlying assumption was not that {increasing the derivative of user count per day} justifies {poor security}: 1.) Implement bulky external security measures -- like client-side ce
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
> Once you have the users ... then you should start to think about something more secure. Until then, do all you can, within reason, to get users. Worked well for Sony! Seriously, that is an egregious abuse of both ethics and morality,
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
> We will note that it is insecure for users, but they won't care. ... I'd rather have it work than be secure. I would have an easier yet more profitable life if I could manage to adopt that attitude for my projects.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I believe that was originally a technical limitation, and only later did it become evident that there is a business value in offering partially-literate individuals a medium that caters to, while providing plausible deniability for, their s
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
There might not be a formal, publicly-accessible market, but two-party short-selling contracts could already be active. This is what an unregulated and anonymous currency feels like: you have no idea whether I have purchased half of the bit
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
How does the browser know the set of pages to be cached for a particular offline app, though? Do you have to provide a static sitemap at a known URL? But to support multiple apps deliverable from a single subdomain, you would need to specif

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