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PetSquare, more than just a social network for animal lovers(petsquare.co)
1 points by declan 13y ago|0 comments
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by declan 13y ago
> Either way, Newsweek better have a trump card You're right. To emerge looking good, they'll need one. All evidence so far is that they don't. Their story hangs on a misunderstood quote. How long until editors start resi
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by declan 13y ago
Um, remember Newsweek's under different management. See my other post nearby. And it's not "guilty of" libel; it's more like "liable for defamation."
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by declan 13y ago
Newsweek may share the same name as the nearly century-old newsweekly, but it's no longer the same, ah, beast. The WashPostCo owned Newsweek forever, then sold it to Sidney Harman (whose name you might recognize if you're into hig
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by declan 13y ago
This is not unique to Australia. It could happen here in the U.S. Here's a story I wrote in 2010: FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited / "The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites custome
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by declan 13y ago
The other posts by <patio11> and <lutsup> have the right of it. ToSes are written by lawyers to be read by judges who are lawyers in response to often spurious class action lawsuits filed by plaintiffs' lawyers. You don&#x2
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by declan 13y ago
But what if it's true? tptacek can be irascible at times, true, but for folks who can bill a lot by the hour or are in similar management positions, simplicity is more important than saving a few pennies or dimes. Put another way: even
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by declan 13y ago
> Voters aren't rational Huh? Voters are quite rational. If you mean they don't pay attention to everything that's happening in Washington, D.C. or state capitols, that's perfectly rational. (Remember you're more
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by declan 13y ago
Even if you're right about the "massive negative externalities," what makes you think the government's Absolutely Non-Paternalistic Meddling here gets it right? Also, even Absolutely Non-Paternalistic Meddling can lead t
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by declan 13y ago
>Paternalistic meddling with free consumer choices is always fraught with peril. Actually I'd say that governments typically get away with paternalistic medding with free consumer choices. Elon Musk has the right of this argument, a
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by declan 13y ago
This turns on the definition of "datamining." Surely scanning ostensibly private messages to update a database, even one built for innocuous purposes, especially without clear and conspicuous notice to users, is one form of it. Fr
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by declan 13y ago
>I feel it's worth pointing that facebook makes it easier to identify and locate people who end up in prison without trial and so on. Can you identify one person that Facebook has identified who has wound up sentenced to prison with
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by declan 13y ago
Thanks. I'd say that [2] is an unsupported, so far, allegation. But [1] and [4] do qualify as evidence of FB datamining: examining messsages for TOS violations, and scanning private chats to see what URLs are being shared. Yet another
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by declan 13y ago
>back off datamining IM conversations and enable OTR by default. Do you have more info on Facebook "datamining IM conversations?" We learned last year that Microsoft does this: http://www.h-online.com/security&#
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by declan 13y ago
What a great idea! I'm looking at the site right now and I'm planning to sign up.
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by declan 13y ago
First, we're not in a courtroom with the witness under oath. Second, because we're not, we can't cross-examine the witness. Third, even if we could and her recollection is as you say, the balance of evidence would remain heav
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Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder(youtube.com)
4 points by declan 13y ago|0 comments
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by declan 13y ago
You say "good memory," but there's no evidence of it. The post said "recognized him," though there's a bit of priming (A NEWSWEEK COVER STORY!) to encourage that process along: https://news.ycombinat
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by declan 13y ago
An audio recording is evidence. What you quoted back to me is the possibly flawed recollection of a reporter who's in the unenviable position of defending a very high-profile cover story used to relaunch a national magazine. That repor
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by declan 13y ago
Except there's no evidence linking Dorian to that July 2011 crepe. Is there? Someone said "I dunno, he looks kinda familiar?" That's it?
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by declan 13y ago
Yes and no. The town I live in has multiple billionaires living in it, and is adjacent to two with even more. I've visited two houses owned by such folks and their answer is what you'd expect: private security guards. Large, well-
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by declan 13y ago
I've used anonymous sources in many articles. All were published in the Internet era. Not one of my sources was ever involuntarily outed, as far as I know.
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by declan 13y ago
Except there's no evidence he said X in the first place. See the AP's writethru.
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by declan 13y ago
Or the reporter misunderstood, and English wasn't his first language. Which certainly seems to be the case. See the AP's updated story.
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by declan 13y ago
And that (DoD work, or at least NDA-covered work) is exactly what Dorian thought was happening: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...
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by declan 13y ago
Update: writethru is up with important details.
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by declan 13y ago
Take a look at the writethru. That's it. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b...
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by declan 13y ago
AP's writethru with more details is now up: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-man-denies-hes-b... Key excerpt: He also said a key portion of the piece — where he is quoted telling the reporter on his doo
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by declan 13y ago
Yep, that's largely true, though I'd say there's a very very big difference between understanding hash functions and public-key crypto and designing, coding, debugging, and deploying a system like Bitcoin. The number of peo
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by declan 13y ago
Oh, sorry. Wire services often will update their stories multiple times, especially if the news is timely. That gives their subscribers (especially newspapers with early print deadlines) something to work with, and the promise of more later

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