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by declan 12y ago
>Should SONY's response been DMCA takedown notices? This lawyer letter goes beyond what DMCA Sec. 512 allows. 512 authorizes requests for "removal of material" that is believed to be infringing; in this case, Sony is deman
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Warning: Do Not use my mirrors/services until I have reviewed the situation(lists.torproject.org)
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There are two obvious issues, as I see it. #1 is whether someone's liable for poking around inside the Kayak app in the way the author of the post did. #2 is whether it's legal to "open-source" the API by disclosing this
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Update: Someone at the Tor project kind-of-answered my question about the expiration of the consensus interval a moment ago here: "If four out of the 9 dir auths were compromised and taken offline, then the remaining 5 will continuing
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This is a very big deal if it happens. Roger's linked post on the Tor site talks about "seizure" of directory authority servers; only government authorities would have that power. In the U.S. that would typically happens only
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I'm not sure if the above comment is downvoted because of the Patriot Act claim, but that claim happens to be correct. I wrote about this for CNET here: http://www.cnet.com/news/how-bin-laden-and-911-attacks-shape.
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>Do Google Express customers have to provide their loyalty cards? No. I order stuff from Target via Google Shopping Express multiple times a week without a loyalty card. I didn't even know Target had loyalty cards, in fact! Also if
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In terms of the operating system and included apps, it's remarkably similar after over 26 years. NeXTMail evolved into Apple Mail. Preview and Terminal retained their functions and their names. Digital Librarian (indexing specified fil
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The article hangs a key portion of its "violating rules of the air" argument on the claim that using a GoPro or similar WiFi-enabled camera is necessarily unlawful. That claim seems shaky: it's possible to disable WiFi on new
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I worked full-time as a journalist for a bunch of different news organizations before leaving to found the forthcoming http://recent.io/ . My suspicion is that neither I nor other journalists I know would use this newsclip.s
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This is a serious drought, but remember 80% of California's water goes to agriculture. More water is used to grow almonds than for all of residential irrigation. There are more non-farmers than farmers in the state; if the drought cont
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This bill is flawed but worth your support anyway. It's flawed for at least three reasons: * It doesn’t stop NSA from weakening security standards, bribing crypto vendors, or hacking into systems to insert backdoors. Even if a future l
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Google and Facebook offer platforms to advertisers. For instance, Facebook lets advertisers show ads to users of age X, working at company Y, in location Z, etc. (without disclosing their identities). This is completely different from sel
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FBI nervous about Fourth Amendment, obtained warrant for cell phone location [pdf](gpo.gov)
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Yep, Yahoo has said they will honor user choices and allow folks to opt-out by changing CC licenses. The November 20 announcement says: "Flickr members who don't want their CC-BY or CC-BY-SA photos to be eligible for sale as part
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For CC BY, CC BY-SA, and CC BY-ND, Creative Commons itself explicitly mentions the word "commercial" in its summaries: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Of course, if your description is correct, Yahoo&#x
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Yahoo's actual announcement on November 20 says they're using "a subset of Creative Commons images ('safe' photos with license type CC-BY and CC-BY-SA)." See: https://www.flickr.com/help/fo
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It's important to read Creative Commons licenses carefully: some grant other people the right to make money off of your original work in ways you never envisioned, without any compensation to you. Photographer Thomas Hawk wrote, correc
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I'm not sure the criticism in the linked post is justified. Here's what Uber says about its Android permissions -- the page isn't that difficult to find: https://m.uber.com/android-permissions Uber says the c
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QuikClot is very nice. I had the opportunity to use the 2013 formulation for the first time last weekend when someone in my kitchen was cleaning a blender with their finger. The blender was not unplugged and, well, turned on. Their finger h
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Handcrafted Fraud and Extortion: Manual Account Hijacking in the Wild [pdf](services.google.com)
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> You're always making trade-offs between power vs. common, new vs. existing users. Well put. Google is a data-driven company with the ability to test designs over millions of users (although Jakob Nielsen's work has shown that
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>notorious webspam/blogspam regurgitation sites like "recode.net" Actually recode.net does a lot of original reporting in addition to regurgitation. Disclosure: some of my former CNET/CBS colleagues are reporters ther
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I loved this writeup, but was sorry to see the Sunnect digital deadbolt missing from the lineup ( http://www.sunnectlock.com/products.html ). I've had mine for 4+ years and have found it very reliable. It's keyless
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California drought hits San Mateo County coast particularly hard(sfgate.com)
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That's why I said "one reason."
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> corporate capture of politics If you look at which companies can actually make things happen in DC[1], it's the ones that are regulated (the reasons for this should be obvious with some thought). Those are not Silicon Valley compa
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This is the rule: Party X will defend unconstitutional electronic surveillance when the president is Party X. And it will attack unconstitutional electronic surveillance when the president is NOT(Party X). The above rule holds true for bo
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There are two ways in which the "USA Freedom Act" could cover flying dirtboxes: regulation and reporting. I've been working on http://recent.io/ rather than following this closely but I'm not aware of an
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Here are some excerpts from the WSJ paywalled article: Cellphones are programmed to connect automatically to the strongest cell tower signal. The device being used by the U.S. Marshals Service identifies itself as having the closest, stron

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