MWil

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by MWil 13y ago
I'll keep a watch on that. I'm not a skilled developer yet myself plus I use firefox not chrome so hopefully the stars align at some point.
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by MWil 13y ago
Except the federal govt's job would be complete if it allowed intrastate commerce. It's circular. Marijuana isn't a scheduled drug b/c it needs to be kept out of interstate commerce. It's part of interstate comme
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by MWil 13y ago
The laws that explicitly mention out-of-area residents might make people think otherwise.
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Ask HN: Is there a browser extension for tagging HN users?
5 points by MWil 13y ago|2 comments
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by MWil 13y ago
Well it's a little different than guns. (Old man voice) "They don't grow on trees, you know!" If it's couched in terms of black/white:pass/fail for keeping it out of other states then it's doomed to
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by MWil 13y ago
What an odd comment. Where do you draw the line on what to believe on the internet, random stranger?
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by MWil 13y ago
My IP law professor once stopped class and shouted at someone wearing a polo with the disney logo, "Sir, are you trying to antagonize me?!"
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by MWil 13y ago
His app actually played the media though and not for personal use. The copyright holders have exclusive rights to determine how their content gets played/broadcast.
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by MWil 13y ago
who are these NSA people that aren't also random people?
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by MWil 13y ago
Standing is not a legal barrier, it's a functional (unilaterally created) one. It's main purpose being to prevent taxpayer suits and therefore a level of suits that might be unmaintainable by the justice system (weak). So I may
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by MWil 13y ago
Except that one of the arguments, if not chiefly, should be that the actual actions (collection, spying, what have you) were unconstitutional - not that any legislative or executive action were passed which Congress has not authorized recou
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by MWil 13y ago
Does anyone know of something similar to Mach Desktop for Linux? I'd love to be able to set the wallpaper to a live website.
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by MWil 13y ago
I went to law school thinking I would come out a lawyer. Makes sense, right? Quickly, I found that I was having to use tools and websites that seemed to be designed to actively make the job of legal research harder than it needed to be. No
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by MWil 13y ago
I see a red bar near the footer but nothing else looks different
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by MWil 13y ago
Favorite part so far: "Under this standard, from a source surely more authoritative than Wikipedia, ICC-IDs are not passwords." Meow!
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Amended Brief for US v. Auernheimer(volokh.com)
1 points by MWil 13y ago|1 comments
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by MWil 13y ago
The only answer you need is that the Constitution is simultaneously built on trust/mistrust of government. Otherwise, why bother with checks and balances.
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by MWil 13y ago
I don't want to say too much b/c I have competitors here (looking at you, Casetext! jk Jake is a very nice guy) but this is pretty much my 5-10 year plan for my company. Of course, we have to do some other things and build some o
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by MWil 13y ago
Not only is your statement sillier but it misunderstands the point he was trying to make. When you go up against the govt, you're going up against govt players as arbitrator, as opponents, in the govt's house, with rules the govt
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by MWil 13y ago
I'm confused by your statement. They're not entitled to the contents of the communications b/c Congress hasn't/may no be able to authorize it.
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by MWil 13y ago
see my edit above, I did more than just skim, I did a pretty thorough initial reading as you can see from my comments here
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by MWil 13y ago
As far as the law goes, there should always be disclaimers that metaphors and analogies are sometimes useful but only get you so far. Especially when it comes to technology, they almost never hold water and look silly years down the line w
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by MWil 13y ago
pg. 115 - Levison's lawyer has trouble arguing his points with the Judge He is trying to make it clear that this is not about a system that was designed to make it hard to get snowden's data in the sense that Levison is actually e
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by MWil 13y ago
The govts request was akin to asking for your hidden phone number in a phone book full of hidden phone numbers. On its face it was specific but it could not actually be carried out without generally applying to 400k people.
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by MWil 13y ago
The problem with describing that as a problem is that there's no mandated way to operate a business (other than lawfully) Levison didn't design it to make it harder for the govt specifically, he designed it that way to make it str
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by MWil 13y ago
pg. 113 - The Court questions the design of Lavabit itself - as in, why should the govt be punished b/c they promised their users would have privacy
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by MWil 13y ago
pg. 98 - Govt says "just go buy a new $100 SSL cert from GoDaddy when we're done!" LOL
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by MWil 13y ago
pg. 94 - it seems somewhat dishonest of the govt to insist that Levison has not come up with a solution to reveal the information authorized considering Levison offered to build it and requested IMO reasonable compensation to his system to
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by MWil 13y ago
pg. 92 - confirmation that the encryption at least partially foiled the govt attempts to trap/trace at the ISP level (the ISP of Lavabit)
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by MWil 13y ago
What is the "it" you are referring to? The requests/subpoena? Those can't be illegal, although they can result in illegal actions being taken.

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