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by alttag 14y ago
Part of this push by law enforcement is likely due to the increasing recognition of courts regarding the privacy expectations of email. Until recently, for example, U.S. courts have considered a service provider a "third-party", thus certa
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by alttag 14y ago
The point being, if they're strongly correlated, the "why" can already be inferred (assuming adoption of this particular theoretical causal chain). I agree the movement toward testing is likely to continue unabated. The point was the futili
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by alttag 14y ago
I once spent some time chatting with a guy who ran a handful of fire-and-forget IT side-businesses, including wifi/hotspot internet access. His customer service philosophy was very simple: either you use and like the service, or he refunds
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by alttag 14y ago
If the student evaluations correlate strongly with the standardized tests' measures of student progress, then: a) What's the purpose of having both? b) If the evals are preferred over the tests, will "good" teachers continue to teach to a p
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by alttag 14y ago
> It's just that we are incapable of not lying ... You seem to be removing our ability to choose from the equation. Clearly, perceived short-term self-interest has its lure, but please don't frame this as if we must lie, or tha
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by alttag 14y ago
It's not just anecdotal [1] (forgive the article for misspelling "light saber"). Toy companies have known this for some time. It's how they make money. NPR had several interesting discussions regarding the controversy over girl-themed Legos
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by alttag 14y ago
That's consisitent with my experience. I haven't made edits in years, after each time I tried I was faced with someone who effectively stalked the page and reverted anything contrary to their worldview as "NPOV". After similar experiences o
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by alttag 14y ago
Also skips 5 & 6. In a closing paragraph the author mentions the discussed levels were "some of my favourite levels".
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by alttag 14y ago
From the article you linked: > The Dutch police use the information obtained "to put up > speed cameras and speed traps. I'm amused, as the Tomtom I just recently purchased purports to show the location of red light and sp
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by alttag 14y ago
What's the value in protecting one's identity if colleagues are going to release it to the (possibly corrupt) government and media? If he does return, there's no way he can continue with the pseudonym, and in the (unlikely?) event of a safe
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by alttag 14y ago
> * It turns out what most impacts ad effectiveness online > is whether people actually see the ad. ... Highly visible > and likely to evoke accidental clicks are, unfortunately, > highly correlated. A good
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by alttag 14y ago
I'm amused by the irony of the name "Red Herring". Perhaps the idiom isn't familiar to non-native English speakers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
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by alttag 14y ago
Downvoted, as I don't believe adding the link without commentary adds value to the discussion.
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by alttag 14y ago
> There are a few administrative costs. The administrators get paid huge amounts. I'll step over the part about these sentences contradicting each other. A colleague of mine worked as a part-time "managing editor" for the top j
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by alttag 14y ago
I agree with the points in your analysis, but putting your example in a competitive marketplace should cause prices to reduce to the marginal costs. Perhaps some of the local colleges can provide at that price, but we've created a system
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by alttag 14y ago
That's nice. I don't like to scroll. Surely there's someone else in the world like me. From the article you linked: "[P]eople used the scrollbar on 76% of the pages, with 22% being scrolled all the way to the bottom That's a low enoug
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by alttag 14y ago
This mass upgrade will have the negative side-effect of moving all 94,000 employees to the same spot in their three-year upgrade cycle. If this proves true, it's interesting, headline-grabbing, and ultimately short-sighted, as it will resul
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by alttag 14y ago
I didn't even make it that far. [EDIT:Although, wanting to comment, I did go back and read the whole thing.] "make them scroll" ... um, no. The increasing number of pages that are requiring vertical scroll to be useful loses the great usabi
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by alttag 14y ago
Wow. That's neat. I once had a conversation with a state legislator where he argued it wasn't the responsibility of government to provide grant and loan opportunities for higher education, and that by doing so, the federal government was di
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by alttag 14y ago
The "trouble" with such a warning system is that at its base is he presumption of positively identifying the infringer. Sure, and ISP can say "such-and-such activity violates our ToS, and you're responsible for all traffic on your account",
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by alttag 14y ago
I think this a more insightful comment than the author might think. I once had a boss in an IT support organization that believed it was easier to teach technical skills (assuming a basic level of competence) than customer service skills. A
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by alttag 14y ago
It took a moment to puzzle these out (parent and GP's comments). The article would a great deal clearer if the typography made these clearer.
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by alttag 14y ago
Not only do I agree, I'd take it a step further: the jurors should be expected to use their specialized knowledge. Yes, they should rely primarily on what's presented, but the application of knowledge is important. Yes, there may be insta
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by alttag 14y ago
One of my frustrations about the perceived downhill spiral (as a relative newb, having been here just over a year) is all of the proposals for improving HN which keep making it to the front page, and inevitably spawn the same set of suggest
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by alttag 14y ago
Yes, the OP explains that positively voted submissions would be necessary before voting.
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by alttag 14y ago
... And much of the time, I think asking for a comment with a down vote is a good idea. Except, there are obvious trolls. Or someone else has already explained why the comment was inappropriate. It happens enough that the reason for the dow
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by alttag 14y ago
> its against the TOS of Visa/MC/AMEX/etc to charge the buyer before shipment There are some FTC rules about this too, IIRC, that a product must ship within a certain period following payment. I once worked with a company where this was
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FBI Issues Denial About Leaked UDID List(macrumors.com)
1 points by alttag 14y ago|0 comments
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by alttag 14y ago
I've just gone through it page-by-page, and didn't see a table like that. Using the 20th Anniversary Edition, I also looked through the summarized list of claims in each chapter, and the 20-year retrospective, and did not see the table or a
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by alttag 14y ago
According to one report [1], only 1 million of about 12 million stored records were released by AntiSec, so the absence of your record is not conclusive. 1: http://thenextweb.com/2012/09/04/antisec-hackers-leak-100000...

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