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by declan 12y ago
> People should be able to install whatever software on their computers they want Yep, agreed. But unless I'm missing something, Google is not preventing you from installing whatever apps you want on your handheld computer. <ta
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Feds step up encryption export enforcement with $750K fine against Intel(goodwinprocter.com)
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by declan 12y ago
Without taking a position on Readability, there's more to the calculation than client side vs. server side. For more see my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455648
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by declan 12y ago
>line is drawn with things like online RSS readers For starters, I'd look at the Supreme Court's opinion in Grokster. Here it is in HN-suitable pseudocode. :) IF $distributing_product_used_by_others_to_infringe == FALSE THE
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by declan 12y ago
> The only difference is he is doing it server side Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
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by declan 12y ago
Millbrae, Colma, Daly City, etc. -- and their respective BART stops -- are all in San Mateo County.
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by declan 12y ago
Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of what the FBI was asking for (Val Caproni is no longer there, FYI) four years ago. My reporting before I founded recent.io was the first to disclose some elements of the bureau's demands and stra
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by declan 12y ago
>NSA currently requires companies (like Microsoft, Apple) to provide encryption keys corresponding to devices Link, please?
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by declan 12y ago
One possibility is that the CDC should spend more of its (rather ample) budget on responses to infectious diseases and less on "playground safety and occupational hazards." http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinio
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by declan 12y ago
> All large corporations weaken encryption for the government This is simply false. It is untrue to claim that all U.S. companies have somehow "weakened" encryption or inserted backdoors in their products for the Feds. I normal
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by declan 12y ago
I was there as well this morning, and this is correct. Ron C. added: "People in their 20s are the good pickers," and said he wants his investment team at SV Angel to recruit younger folks to join them by the time they hit 30 years
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by declan 12y ago
Actually the original URL would have been http://zdnet.com/etc . when this (rather silly) article was published in 1999. CNET Networks, which owned com.com, tv.com, radio.com, search.com, and news.com, bought ZDNET a year la
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by declan 12y ago
There's an excellent article written by some journalist (now ex-journalist, I suppose) on that point: http://www.cnet.com/news/from-wargames-to-aaron-swartz-how-u... the CFAA's punishments, drafted during a
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by declan 12y ago
Yes, the NSA has boasted of having a surveillance "partnership" with U.S. companies, but those would be telecommunications carriers -- AT&T, Verizon, etc., not Silicon Valley firms: http://www.cnet.com/news&#
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by declan 12y ago
The New York Times' public editor Dan Okrent addressed this a decade ago; the question has been asked and answered and may not be really worth debating again, I suspect. Some excerpts from that self-critique: "Is The New York Tim
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by declan 12y ago
And Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye also has a fictional treatment of gamma ray bursts, if I recall properly: http://www.amazon.com/The-Devils-Alex-Benedict-Novel/dp/0441...
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by declan 12y ago
Well put. If Right X is a fundamental constitutional right, as the Second Amendment is according to the U.S. Supreme Court, then laws designed to restrict your ability to acquire the materials required to exercise Right X should be subjecte
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by declan 12y ago
>Except that the mutation to go from a fluid to airborne...is not what we see happening in general I've written a bit about infectious diseases but defer to virologists or other folks who are better informed. I do remember reading t
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by declan 12y ago
Yep, sorry, you're naive. :) The law != common sense. If a law is on the books, it may be applied broadly, even to Timmy and Mark. That's why it's important to ensure the laws are sensible before they're enacted. Here&
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by declan 12y ago
I was living in DC during the first Crypto Wars of the late 1990s and covering them as a reporter (I've since shifted to working on recent.io, of course). It sure looks like this will be Crypto Wars II: the Feds Strike Back. From my ex
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by declan 12y ago
>Who uses 50 gallons per person per day? People with a swimming pool? Swimming pools actually use less water per square foot than an irrigated lawn. About half, in fact. So lawns might be one answer to your question.
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by declan 12y ago
> I don't think many people are going to die of thirst Remember 80% of California's water goes to agriculture. More water is used to grow almonds than for all of residential irrigation. There are far more non-farmers than farme
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by declan 12y ago
These are shocking and worrisome allegations, but I do want to hear Uber's response. Perhaps they asked certain well-known users if they wanted their locations to be revealed and there was a miscommunication? It seems unlikely, I admit
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CA gov on why he vetoed bill curbing warrantless drone use by police [pdf](gov.ca.gov)
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by declan 12y ago
Without expressing a position on Marc A's views on Snowden, I look at it a bit like Hollywood celebrities' views on politics. I may (arguably) care what a celeb says about a topic where he/she has demonstrated expertise, such
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by declan 12y ago
Any company that did this would be risking crippling judgements. And it doesn't look like the technology ( starter disabling) permits it. Cars die. I once had an old car, a Saab 900 SPG (160 hp!), which completely died when I was goin
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U.S. Forest Service Wants to Fine You $1,000 for Taking Pictures in the Forest(esquire.com)
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by declan 12y ago
Chris, the ACLU staffer quoted in the article, is not an attorney. Chris has likened selling 0-days to being an arms merchant -- not a bad comparison -- but I'm not aware of an ACLU policy calling for a ban on selling 0-day exploits. T
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Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup [video](startupclass.samaltman.com)
520 points by declan 12y ago|185 comments
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To inject a bit of realpolitik from this morning's news: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/techs-surveillance-hop... "The Senate fled Washington last week without taking action on a bill to rein

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