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by ajarmst 9y ago
Fair enough, but I don't think that the FBI conspires to frame people for crimes all that often, nor that many security researchers believe that they do. Also, the fact that a grand jury handed down an indictment indicates that there
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Arrest is an early step in a process to prove guilt or acquit. The "burglary" did occur, and a grand jury did examine evidence and determine it was sufficient to start that process.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
It's almost like you shouldn't trust people with narcissistic personality disorder with your money or nuclear launch codes.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Addendum: there's also a definition problem with "lecture". Pretty much any educator will tell you that they encourage---actively wish for---questions from and conversations with students during a lecture. Passive lectures w
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This is interesting, but it depends on the proposition that "active learning" is clearly better than more traditional education methods. That's not nearly as plain or uncontroversial as the article implies. One issue is that
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Why? The arrest of a mall cop who was also doing burglaries wouldn't send a chill through the security guard community, except perhaps for those who were moonlighting as burglars.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I've often referred to TeX as the result of the most awesome case of procrastination in the history of humanity.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I think I'll open with a dubious metaphor I just came up with and a demand that the reader immediately and wholeheartedly accept that metaphor as literal truth. That's how you grab an audience!
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by ajarmst 9y ago
No, it could be much worse than that. Law enforcement didn't immediately shut Alphabay down---they let it run compromised for several weeks, gathering evidence. If Hutchins made transactions during that period, he was at signficant ris
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by ajarmst 9y ago
"Rather than using repeated selectors to handle the nesting, PWP used a parenthesis system which is evocative of the indentation systems used by languages like Stylus and SASS which are preferred by some developers to CSS today.."
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by ajarmst 9y ago
You can verify to keybase by posting a hash using the "about" field in your user page on HN. Simply making a comment is insufficient. The details of what to do are available at keybase.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Given that the Alphabay takedown (and law enforcement's control of the servers for at least six weeks) was more than a month ago, Huthchins' blithely travelling to the States for Blackhat seems a level of confidence completely at
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by ajarmst 9y ago
There is no law or procedure that would compel the FBI to report on whom they have in custody to journalists, friends or random bloggers.
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I will note that many a graduate supervisor or lab administrator has been offered (or simply taken) co-authorship for a far more scant contribution than a key conversation.
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I'd argue that the latter purpose---allowing the reader to recover the original sources and arguments to your thinking---is more important than the 'giving credit' one. If a conversation or email exchange with someone was in
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Yeah, two serious hangs and a crash while making an account on Windows. By the behaviour (seems to be associated with checking for username conflicts), I suspect the issue is latency while half the planet hammer their services making accou
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by ajarmst 9y ago
For some values of "never", "sell" and "data".
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Addendum: there is one relevant thing. If Canonical actually agree that they're violating the license(s) and are just doing it anyway, then there's probably some warranted discussion. But even that is more an issue for the commun
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This is not a new argument or discussion. The Conservancy, and GNU (especially Eben Moglen, who tends to get deferred to on interpretations of the GPL, for a variety of good reasons) believe the distribution of the drivers inside a binary m
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Money laundering statutes do not require a discrete 'victim' with standing. They simply require the illegal manipulation of funds. In particular, disguising the origin of funds or assisting someone in doing so.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Yeah. I doubt that their machine can "imagine no possessions", or that it would have much utility even if it could.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Precisely what I wanted to say. The 'imagination' they describe is simply reasoning about the future based on current information (with implied uncertainty). Large chunks of any AI textbook are about analyzing future states from p
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by ajarmst 9y ago
"We found that there were some other structures near here and it's a bit older than we originally thought. Also, some of the rock came from quite far away. We still have a lot of questions." isn't really what comes to m
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by ajarmst 9y ago
There are several different strains, with different lethality. Also, in Africa the disease has been endemic long enough that the population has developed resistance. Malaria is much more dangerous to naive hosts, hence the high mortality ra
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by ajarmst 9y ago
At least one such genetic advantage has already been identified: the gene mutation that causes Sickle Cell Anemia when present as two copies conveys malaria resistance as a singleton. In areas where malaria is endemic, it would be selected
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by ajarmst 9y ago
From 12m, all you'd need to do is hold your breath and surface rapidly to give yourself a potentially fatal lung injury. Note that this is exactly what you would reflexively want to do in nearly any emergency or if you just got claustr
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I'm a qualified advanced recreational diver, and most diving by properly-trained (not 'quick tutorial at the dock' like a lot of tourists get) divers has a very manageable level of risk, even at altitude or under ice. Cave di
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Reminded me of the very sad story of Peter Verhulsel: http://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/11/12/Scuba-diver-lost-in-c...
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I usually do one file per CD. You can usually just cat .mp3 files together, although some apps that expect non-standard metadata can get confused (mp3wrap is a more robust solution). 'cat *.mp3 > disk.mp3' (assuming that ls or
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Agreed, but it's important to include one criterion in the trade-off calculation: I'd much rather be writing automation code than doing most automateable tasks (i.e. repetitive, simple decision tree). Even if I don't save any

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