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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
One issue with the subscriptions, at least with the NYT, is that their pricing is a little crazy. The phone version is $15, the tablet version is $20, and both together are $30. It seems... excessive. WSJ at least (used to?) offer a sing
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
Unlikely; the article notes that the laptop was shipped 150 miles and the actual search took place far from the border, after any immediate risk had passed, not that the search itself was unjustified or unwarranted.
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
Yes; Verizon has an offering designed explicitly for rural areas[1], but it's expensive. The linked article is from 2012, and prices have since declined, but the general gist of the service is the same: a big antenna you bolt to your
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
HBO ran a documentary on it and tort reform in general a few years ago; it wasn't just that she had been badly burned, but that there was a string of McDonald's coffee burn cases with smaller rewards and the jury felt that the com
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
Dropbox offers 1TB of storage for $10/mo (or $100/yr), and their "Carousel" app isn't terrible. And you get direct access to the damn files on all your devices (regardless of platform). It's a much better ser
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
If it was legal when the actions occurred, you cannot be tried. Similarly, if you committed a crime before the law was changed to allow it, then you have still broken the law.
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
At least in the US, 'ex post facto' laws are specifically forbidden by the Constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
The kernel is GPLv2 -- they can rewrite big portions of it to fit their needs and push as little code back out to the community as possible. That said, this "new" MS is focusing more on cloud than anything else, so a MSLinux is pr
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by ascagnel_ 11y ago
If your IT organization is transitioning to or running web apps, Chrome OS just became a lot more interesting compared to the new MS browser, especially when you consider that ActiveX is finally being put out to pasture.
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by ascagnel_ 12y ago
I disagree with the phrasing -- it shouldn't be about what you want to hide, it should be about what you want to show. I always go back to the same argument: if you're OK with the government recording absolutely everything, does