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by PaulAJ 9y ago
"Money laundering" is illegal by definition, so this is a meaningless question. Try rephrasing it.
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So WWII steel is particularly good for making nuclear devices, and it would require nation state resources to steal an entire sunken ship without anyone noticing. Which nation state can we think of who would want to do that?
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Turkey is not alone. India has a similar problem. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39664906 Trouble is, in the short term this means more crimes get solved, but in the longer term it means everybody automatic
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by PaulAJ 10y ago
The really bonkers thing is, its a Wifi access point rather than a client. So unless the user changes the SID to something innocuous, all the neighbors know when someone is using it, and with a bit of triangulation they can work out who (as
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Thanks. I was just about to ask.
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You might like to read "The Minds I", a collection of philosopy edited by Hofstadter & Dennett. It has a number of pieces that address this issue pretty directly, including "Non Serviam" by Stanislaw Lem. In it the w
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* John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids. One of the minor themes is the relationship between morality and society. I read it as a teenager, and it made me think about the issue in a way I'd never done before. * Adolous Huxley: Brave Ne
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How can this article fail to mention Bitcoin?
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The thing about the cashless surveillance panopticon is that it still can't stop illegal drugs. Every prison is exactly that kind of surveillance society, and in every prison drugs are readily available. HSBC is one of the principle me
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I'm familiar with the idea of coordinate transforms and projections, so I get the idea that you could project our 3D universe onto a 2D surface, and I kind of see how a hologram encodes 3D information, but I don't see how that is
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To the extent you are allowed to talk about it, it would be cool to hear the story.
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I disagree. Of course we need general-purpose, extensible languages. We also need motherhood and apple pie. But multi-paradigm languages are usually mistakes. They aim to give you the best of multiple worlds but frequently wind up giving yo
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I wonder what you would consider a non-toxic type of femininity?
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I think the speaker knows that. The point is that something is still lost. Maybe this is trivial, maybe not; in making that decision you are making assumptions about why recordings are made and how they will be used. Those assumptions may b
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> Is a hammer a 'carefully carved out version of reality? Yes. The construction of a hammer takes a particular view about what is to be done with it. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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Do software developers have a fiduciary duty to users?(paulspontifications.blogspot.com)
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This puts me in mind of Bleak House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House . It sounds like the legal manouvering has entirely consumed the value of the estate.
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I will never describe sluggish software as "running like molasses" again.
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My immediate thought was that they looked like the work of Salvador Dalí
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"Hospitals are required to take care of you, even if you have no insurance in the US." Trouble is, that only applies to emergencies. If you just want to see the doctor about the funny lump you have to pay first. "We need to g
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Got any case studies where that worked?
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Its usually a complicated interaction involving old systems, new systems, unusual circumstances and an obscure bug. Delta Airlines was started in 1924, so its a fair bet they've been using computers since at least the 1970s. Environmen
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One of the design rules mentioned in the article is that they don't rely on the home page. Instead they assume you get there from Google. I just tried "renew uk driving license" in Google and got the right page as the first r
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by PaulAJ 11y ago
More likely the companies will negotiate a settlement without admitting wrongdoing. The US will count it an enforcement success, the guilty parties will escape any punishment, and the loss will be borne by the shareholders, most of whom are
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No problem. These guys just need to get together to launch a class-action suit against whoever is responsible alleging unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. Shouldn't take more than 15 years to wend its way up to the Supreme C
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> " Robin Labs, which makes a voice-assistant for drivers, thinks there might be a market customizing personalities." Shades of Genuine People Personalities http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Genuine_People_
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by PaulAJ 11y ago
While this is a cool idea, it wouldn't balance because the Government knows which license plate is kept by which person, and your putative ANPR network doesn't.
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So the security services can demand information and order the fact kept secret in perpetuity, with no appeal. How very reassuring.
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Because most people have been mercilessly been beaten into obedience, and the belief that they aren't actually able to think by themselves, that they're inferior to the oligarchs in command. I don't agree. I've read qu
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Time to revive the old joke: Q: How do you smuggle a nuke into America? A: Hide it in a bale of mary jane.

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