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by aneth 16y ago
As helium said, my point is not that there is a perfect record. What is not there - a sinister plot to monopolize the world's oil, destroy Muslim society, or assassinate world leaders - is more important. That said, a broader point is in o
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by aneth 16y ago
> Why the hell would they release that Chinese informant info? That's crazy. That's nuts. That's against their own frigging goal of more openness in the world. They want publicity, and don't have a sense of judgment. I agree completely
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by aneth 16y ago
It was an honest mistake and arresting CIA officers for making a mistake in their job, one which they corrected and admitted to, would hardly be without implications.
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by aneth 16y ago
In follow-up, now that these documents are released, it was done in a much more responsible manner than I had expected. The complete documents were not released, and news agencies were allowed to "censor" portions that would seriously thre
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by aneth 16y ago
In addition to erik's comment, I'm also concerned about what people can read. What about email addresses in the user table? Deleted posts and edit history? Privately shared content? Does validation allow the restriction of who can view
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by aneth 16y ago
And the fact that some of our most secret communications support that we are not out to destroy Ahmadinejad could be the most powerful weapon we have to actually undermine him. I expect in the future, there will be calculated "secret leaks"
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by aneth 16y ago
The most interesting thing about reading these cables is how the US comes out well - reasonable, rational, and analytical - not the nefarious evil satan that it is portrayed by our enemies and domestic extremists. This snapshot of the inne
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by aneth 16y ago
Cell-level security would never make sense, which is why you need an application layer to perform queries and return and modify only data that a client has permission for. Am I right that the database would be shared by all clients and that
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by aneth 16y ago
Oh, there is confirmation. I misread.
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by aneth 16y ago
Not sure how I feel about exposing my database directly to a client. This means all security regarding reading and writing any data must be handled in CouchDB. Not knowing about CouchDB, the existence of CouchApp leads me to believe there
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by aneth 16y ago
This is now covered in the NYT, although with no mention of any confirmation from ICE (or lack thereof.) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?...
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm still leaning toward the hoax theory. If I'm wrong, I'm really going to have to reconsider any support of the Obama administration. This is renegade government.
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by aneth 16y ago
Have a thought out product and a way to sell/distribute that product. Pre-sell your product, possibly with wireframes, hundreds of interviews with potential customers/users - prove that there is a market, you understand the market, have
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm sensitive to this viewpoint. However let's say you are running a company. There are a huge number of situations where secrecy is necessary. Negotiations with an aquirer, pending layoffs, legal wrangling, customer pipeline, etc. If so
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by aneth 16y ago
As much as I am in favor of government transparency, diplomatic channels have a very important need for privacy, and from the looks of it, this is really a senseless, destructive act by Assange and WikiLeaks. Diplomacy is incredibly comple
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by aneth 16y ago
"Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn't engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liq
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by aneth 16y ago
If you refuse to cooperate with security in England, Germany, France, Italy, China, Burma, India, or any other place I can imagine, you would not have a policeman calmly understanding of how you were asserting your constitutional rights.
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by aneth 16y ago
If you look at the way this was handled it actually speaks to the professionalism of most of those involved. Regardless of your objection to the policy, which is not the decision of these people, the police and tsa seemed rational and acco
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by aneth 16y ago
It does say "Member since 2003" - I'm not sure anyone would have set up a fake Mark Zuckerberg profile in 2003 - unless it's a repurposed profile for someone else.
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by aneth 16y ago
Zappos sold for 15x the 60M investment, so seems unlikely.
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by aneth 16y ago
From years of consulting I'm always surprised when I feel like I've worked a full day over 8 hours, but am only billing an honest 5-6. Distractions, life responsibilities, break time, etc. all mean 8 hours is not 8 hours. I do think most e
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by aneth 16y ago
I don't mean to say it's ok to pass - just that it seems easy to circumvent: A Web site is in danger of having its domain seized (or having U.S. Internet providers encounter a sudden case of amnesia when their customers try to visit it) if
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by aneth 16y ago
The effect of you dying from terrorism is not the same as the effect of you dying from backscatter radiation. From a utilitarian standpoint, the chance of dying from something is not the most important factor in deciding where to put resour
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by aneth 16y ago
By my reading, a website would just need to be dual purpose to be protected. They could sell pirate bay hats and eye patches.
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by aneth 16y ago
The difference between persistence and quitting being the right choice is often a matter of timing, luck, and other subtle unknowable factors. As often as someone quits one thing to focus on something else, someone else sticks to their gun
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by aneth 16y ago
Google is losing China because the Chinese government will do whatever it takes to make sure domestic companies win in the long run. They will throttle bandwidth, block IPs, subsidize, threaten, deny permits, and use any other levers of po
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by aneth 16y ago
I'm not sure why it is difficult to understand that touching someone for search is not a sexual act simply because it involves touching sexual organs. One must generally intend to commit a crime to be guilty of one. http://en.wikipedia.or
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by aneth 16y ago
Maybe we should look at the number of times the US has been invaded by a foreign army, and conclude a military is not necessary...
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by aneth 16y ago
If it did matter what the victim thought, any patient could accuse their doctor of sexual assault because they had a bad day and felt victimized by their check-up.
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by aneth 16y ago
Saying it's not sexual assault doesn't mean the person's feelings aren't real, or that they weren't victimized, or didn't feel violated. It simply means you can not accuse the person performing the search of sexual assault. Accusing the T

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