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by declan 13y ago
Um, folks, this is a non-peer reviewed paper written by some Princeton students. It's not, contrary to what at least three news organizations suggested, the considered opinion of the faculty of "Princeton's Department of Mech
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by declan 13y ago
I'm not sure it's that useful to compare a <10 person startup to the world's largest online retailer, with revenue increasing by leaps and bounds every quarter, a quarter-billion active customers, and approaching $100 bill
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by declan 13y ago
Nest thermostats seem to be around $250. If you want thermostats that you can control with Applescript, Perl, mobile apps, etc., check out these Insteon-based ones for $150: http://www.smarthome.com/2441TH/INSTEON-Therm
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by declan 13y ago
It seems very likely that the FCC will be slapped down a third time in court if they try to "rewrite their regulations" a third time. They're 0 for 2 so far before the DC Circuit. "General authority to regulate" is
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by declan 13y ago
>The NSA wouldn't spy on Americans, would it? How about domestic U.S. law enforcement? FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals, etc.? It would be interesting to know what technologies they're using, especially when there's a long-running
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by declan 13y ago
The Al Jazeera English article that sparked this thread was summarizing yesterday's New York Times article, which mentioned Edward Snowden's name five times.
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Different article, but same court opinion!
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Points for honesty, but unless other HN readers share your own particular political preferences, saying "I want it!" isn't exactly a compelling policy argument. I mean, I want ponies. If you're right that the 11th Circui
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by declan 13y ago
You're certainly right that the DC Circuit will get a disproportionate number of regulatory appeals, but we don't know whether that fact actually matters without knowing what percentage of their workload involves complex cases, an
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by declan 13y ago
The DC Circuit may have three vacancies (I'll trust your representation) but it also has the lightest workload per judge in the country: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230393690... "F
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by declan 13y ago
This is a duplicate of another thread started an hour earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057495
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by declan 13y ago
There were some scattered and quickly resolved problems, and Comcast certainly acted foolishly (and arguably dishonestly) in the case of BitTorrent throttling. But there was no evidence of widespread problems, and the Comcast-BitTorrent iss
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by declan 13y ago
Folks, today's ruling should come as no surprise. Congress never gave the FCC the authority to impose Net neutrality regulations on the Internet. That means the FCC's regulations were illegal. The same court already slapped down t
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by declan 13y ago
Good point. Also Canadian lawyers fresh out of law school go through a one year journeyman program -- it's called "articling." http://www.lsuc.on.ca/articling/ If you poke around, I bet that more profess
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by declan 13y ago
If you believe that the FCC clearly unambiguously has the legal authority to advance Net neutrality regulations, then why would Congress have wasted its time drafting (and almost enacting) a law that would have given the FCC the legal autho
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by declan 13y ago
Marvin: No need to guess about my identity! My comment to which you replied said "as I wrote here in 2005" when linking to my CNET article. You did read my comment in full before replying, right? :) Also I have links to my homep
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by declan 13y ago
These are reasonable points. I don't know enough about modern-day black markets to say how much Bitcoin facilitates them. If you're right that Bitcoin is a major factor, then yep, that could be an effective price floor (at least u
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by declan 13y ago
Marvin, the author of the Wired.com opinion piece, is a smart fellow. But what he ignores is that Congress never handed the FCC the authority to impose Net neutrality regulations on the Internet. Such legislation actually came up for a vote
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by declan 13y ago
Gold and silver have industrial uses. Gold and silver are used in jewelry. Gold and silver have proven to be a store of value for thousands of years. Gold and silver are also, to a first approximation, truly anonymous. Not one of those four
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by declan 13y ago
It's not true. First, it's wrong on liability under federal antitrust law. Second, just look at (ick) Demand Media, home to eHow.com and Cracked.com, which operates no search engines.
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by declan 13y ago
"the only bright side is you get stock options" Didn't Google stop giving out stock options something like five years ago? Sounds like "ex-googler1", an account created an hour ago, isn't actually one.
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by declan 13y ago
It is a fair question. And you're right that no app user will ever notice. The problem is that it locks you into Amazon. If another company comes out with a much cheaper offering, or you want to switch to Google Cloud Storage, or (unli
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by declan 13y ago
I'm happy to do so, of course. In cases where the points actually have merit. :)
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When you fear you're a nail, everything looks like a big scary hammer?
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by declan 13y ago
That's not true. Let me give you an example from mobile app development. As many of you know, Amazon's CloudFront lets you make an in-app connection to cdn.example.com, which may be a DNS alias for something like drj6nl5tupx60.clo
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by declan 13y ago
I'm reminded of the case of Dani Bunten, born Dan, who was a video game pioneer and probably would be posting here on HN today if she hadn't died of cancer. Will Wright dedicated the Sims to Dani, Salon notes in her obituary: htt
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by declan 13y ago
Other executives have. Look at what happened to Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio after challenging illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping requests. (Hint: he just got out of federal prison about two months ago.) http://online.wsj.com/n
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by declan 13y ago
Perhaps it's time for a new IETF default: No NSA employee should be chair of an encryption-related working group. If the NSA wishes to change that rule in the future, it can publicly ask Congress to enact a law making it a federal felo
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There is zero evidence in the NYT article that started this discussion that any NSA surveillance directed at EU antitrust bureaucrats would benefit US software companies. The particular EU antitrustocrat was involved in decisions relating t
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Orin's blog post linked to the full text of the opinion ( http://www.volokh.com/2013/12/16/judge-leon-enjoins-nsa-tele... ) and quoted from it. He wasn't merely summarizing news articles. Orin is a sm

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