brown9-2

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811.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Spying on your own citizens codenamed as civil war. How nice. Nowhere in the article does it state that these methods can be used against US persons separate from other protections against surveillance on US persons, nor does it give the
812.
by brown9-2 13y ago
This is disingenuous. The critique is not so much over the inconvenience of having to recharge, but how his statement glosses over that inconvenience.
813.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Oh wow, that is bad. I was assuming that guarantee of row isolation was valid.
814.
by brown9-2 13y ago
I think what is always left out of these snippets in articles is what job roles they are referring to when they talk about the interviews. Sounds like these teasers have never been used in software engineer interviews but have been used for
815.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Isn't having a strong corporate attachment to any color the weird part about all of this?
816.
by brown9-2 13y ago
In Cassandra the second update agreed upon by the cluster would "win", so either (X1,Y1) or (X2,Y2). Since there is no clock mechanism there is no way for the cluster to see that the data has changed since the requester decided it
817.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Doesn't this assume that both writers want their value for the column to win, instead of one of them possibly deciding that it shouldn't write it's value if one already exists for the field?
818.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Note thought that the existing program for the players doesn't involve just calling any random yellow-car cab company - they have a special number and service set up.
819.
by brown9-2 13y ago
It is if you tar up the directory and hand that to them.
820.
by brown9-2 13y ago
What incentive does a TSA inspector have to make him or her want to do a private pat down on a traveler like in this story? What does the TSA agent get out of needlessly fucking with some random person?
821.
The United States Intelligence Community now has a Tumblr(icontherecord.tumblr.com)
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822.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Isn't a large part of punishments for committing crimes deterrence? I fail to see how that is irrelevant here.
823.
by brown9-2 13y ago
So there are no actual "perks" for the $1 and $8 contribution levels listed under the "Select a Perk" table? $1 Binary E-mail User: You're part of the revolution, baby! - the revolution that started in the 1960&#x2
824.
by brown9-2 13y ago
The point I am confused about is why a legal analysis blog is worried about government surveillance, so I am wondering if my perception of what Groklaw actually does is incorrect.
825.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Can anyone explain for the uninformed how anything like surveillance affects Groklaw? I was under the (probably wrong) impression that most of what Groklaw did was explain the law and court cases in simple terms.
826.
by brown9-2 13y ago
"Off the record" is not an actual legal thing.
827.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Take a look at Typesafe Activator - www.typesafe.com/activator - it's a pretty slick way to get up and started without all the IDE setup costs by simply running an IDE for you in your browser.
828.
by brown9-2 13y ago
I believe that Twitter tends to define their services as Thrift interfaces, which forms it's own documentation for the application rather than having to crawl through code to find which REST URL endpoints are being listened to. I could
829.
by brown9-2 13y ago
That doesn't mean you can't learn from it though.
830.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Some of these things might be deceptions, but they also might just be caused by the fact that human language is imperfect and ambiguous and thus it is necessary to have really precise definitions for certain actions, especially when it come
831.
by brown9-2 13y ago
By sending email to gmail.com you have implicitly accepted that the email will need to travel through Gmail's systems, whatever that might mean - advertising analysis, data retention, etc.
832.
by brown9-2 13y ago
It sounds like the minimization procedures allow you to search for any US person's name, not necessarily to find the intercepted communications between a foreign person and that specific US person. For example, to find communications w
833.
by brown9-2 13y ago
There is likely a lawyerly distinction here between "target" and "use person's name as a query".
834.
by brown9-2 13y ago
I'm a bit confused on what the actual "backdoor" here is: "While the FAA 702 minimization procedures approved on 3 October 2011 now allow for use of certain United States person names and identifiers as query terms when
835.
by brown9-2 13y ago
It's even more ironic when you consider that Greenwald has criticized others in the media for focusing more on Snowden and his day-to-day actions or location instead of the NSA revelations.
836.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Yes, those are good options - I was just attempting to explain it from the perspective of others.
837.
by brown9-2 13y ago
Please don't invent motivations for the statements people make when you don't like what they've stated so far. If you don't want people browsing your passwords, you can't ever give them access to your user account o
838.
by brown9-2 13y ago
This is an interesting way to get people who use non-official Twitter mobile clients to install the official client again. On a serious note, it sounds like they are seriously engineering this so that even someone who has gained access to T
839.
by brown9-2 13y ago
The blog post makes no mention of it. Since it's not HOTP or TOTP, I don't think it's possible. https://blog.twitter.com/2013/login-verification-on-twitter-...
840.
by brown9-2 13y ago
The idea is so appealing to some because it means any host serving that web application can handle your request, rather than being forced to use "sticky sessions". Otherwise you have to move the session data into the database, whi

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