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by declan 12y ago
<infogulch> is correct. I wrote about this in 2007: http://news.cnet.com/Will-security-firms-detect-police-spywa... "In theory, government agencies could even seek a court order requiring security companies to de
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by declan 12y ago
> There is no U.S. law that gives the government the right to compel arbitrary third-parties to modify their products to make wiretapping easier This is an interesting claim. It would be more interesting if the U.S. government publicly s
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by declan 12y ago
May I suggest you include committee votes where you can? I've done a bunch of technology voters guides for Wired and CNET by crawling House/Senate records (what a pain) and that's one thing I always thought would be useful. N
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by declan 12y ago
That's right. I once wrote the code for the now-defunct Courtbot.com, which crawled, stored, and indexed the majority of available U.S. court decisions as they were published. This was years before Google Scholar started indexing opini
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by declan 12y ago
I'll repeat my question, which you ignored in favor of quibbling with a tangential point: What makes you think U.S. law treats makers of products any differently, assuming TrueCrypt's creators and maintainers can be identified?
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by declan 12y ago
You're correct to point out the useful distinction that TrueCrypt is a product. But what makes you think U.S. law treats them any differently, assuming TrueCrypt's creators and maintainers can be identified? Here's my article
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by declan 12y ago
Your statement is misleading, and I suspect intentionally so. Google is, reasonably, talking about blacks and Hispanics earning CS degrees. You're changing the subject to broaden the topic to degrees in S&E -- that is, social scien
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by declan 12y ago
#5 is likely the FT independent analysis here, which found math errors, cherry-picking of data (to meet manufactured-in-advance conclusions), etc.: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabd.
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by declan 12y ago
>I do not understand why the Guardien would ever give up the information voluntarily. Because they spent 15 seconds backing up the Snowden files on an anonymous Google Drive account and knew that GCHQ's attempts to destroy the files
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by declan 12y ago
ZenPro's comment is a very British way to look at government power, untethered to the limits that the U.S. Bill of Rights still imposes even in its weakened state. > Two computer engineers arrived and oversaw classified material bei
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by declan 12y ago
Absolutely. That is, you're correct that congresscritters (the preferred politically correct gender-neutral term!) "show a reluctance to reverse already existing laws regulating drugs." But that's adequately explained by
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by declan 12y ago
Ahem! This is really an empirical question with an easy Google search answer. :) If you go to http://www.immediateannuities.com/ and say you're a 50-year old man (the age at which at least in some CA cities a police&#x
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by declan 12y ago
I agree with most of what you say, except for three points. First, in some California cities, police/fire municipal workers can retire at age 50 with a 90% pension. If the average life expectancy in the United States is 79 years, and i
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by declan 12y ago
Forbes is just now reporting on the obvious: $2 million in pension benefits per retiree is becoming increasingly unaffordable for many cities. (Also because municipal workers in some states can switch jobs to a nearby city and get a second
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by declan 12y ago
I don't think the article was trotting out $80K/year as the shock figure. That was supposed to be the $2 million number. (It's also in the headline.)
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by declan 12y ago
Religion can and does drive political agendas in the U.S., true, but the question is whether the WoDPUD (war on some politically unpopular drugs) is being driven primarily by religion. I know of no evidence for that proposition, and can off
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by declan 12y ago
Yes, it is a legitimate policy choice. In general, FedGov has sharply limited constitutional authority to force the states to carry out its wishes in the case of enforcing federal criminal laws. The precedent that comes to mind is Printz v.
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by declan 12y ago
I think <chongil> has it right. In the case of religion, you're confusing a transparent and rarely-invoked justification with the actual reasons for the WoD. In the case of politics, you're confusing the mechanism for prohib
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by declan 12y ago
I also disagree. And I have no dog in this fight -- no affiliation with YC nor Aaron/thinkcomp. It is false and tendentious to claim that "lawsuits are signaling mechanisms for ethical problems" -- the law nowadays is sadly w
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Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman co-hosting Obama fundraiser(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
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Men's Scent May Compromise Biomedical Studies(sciencemag.org)
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by declan 12y ago
It's a well-written essay (I say this as someone who has been a journalist/editor/manager and is now doing quite a bit of programming again for Recent.io). But really you could say the same thing about many other jobs: * Do y
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CISPA Take 3: Another Anti-Privacy Cybersecurity Bill(techdirt.com)
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by declan 12y ago
Ah, but I wasn't talking only about startups. NASA has received something like $800 billion in funding in current dollars. I suspect you would agree that, if that sum had been left in the private sector, some interesting and innovati
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by declan 12y ago
I'm sympathetic to what you're saying -- these articles are great reads -- but remember there's also the opportunity cost of taking money via taxes from entrepreneurs and private-sector innovators who, in aggregate, would sur
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by declan 12y ago
The non-partisan answer is: Of course not. It takes an astonishing degree of naiveté to believe any professional politician's campaign promises. That said, I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame Obama for flip-flopping o
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Why Google switched to numeric captchas(elie.net)
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How Google added a new cipher suite to SSL for Chrome(plus.google.com)
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by declan 12y ago
Same with some of the choicest real estate in the SF bay area, which came under sustained barrage back when Stanford University was a munitions range. That was during WWI, when the U.S. Army was targeting Portola Valley, which is now one of
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by declan 12y ago
Some possible explanations: a) There is zero legal merit. As an outside observer, I don't know one way or another. I presume you don't either. (Remember the law does not always track your intuition.) b) Even if there is some theor

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