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by ds9 12y ago
I didn't see the allegation of libel in this case. The plaintiff's house was sold at auction and he wanted links to the newspaper listing removed from Google. Assuming there is a libel element tho (mentioned above in connection wi
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by ds9 12y ago
From the decision: "... the activity of a search engine consisting in finding information published or placed on the internet by third parties, indexing it automatically, storing it temporarily and, finally, making it available to inte
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by ds9 12y ago
The court is making a distinction that may be hard to define because it is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. It's OK for this auction to be advertised locally, but not further from the area? Does this apply to any aggregation or repo
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by ds9 12y ago
This is one area where techies for public interest can fight back with words. I explain it to friends and family this way: Neutrality means the ISP delivers whatever you request on a best-effort basis (explanation of best-effort here). Non-
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by ds9 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that would be a wasted effort. Basically, you could be nearly NSA-proof only if you use your own cert and are prepared to shut down the whole thing when the Feds demand private keys. But then it wouldn't be useful
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by ds9 12y ago
If they can put someone on the case at all, they can then select out cases where one user makes multiple threats, for example, or some similar criterion, and where the likely perpetrators can be identified. Law enforcement never tries to ca
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by ds9 12y ago
When tweets contain obviously criminal threats, law enforcement ought to be able and willing to get whatever information Twitter has on the senders, at least when the target files a complaint, and prosecutors ought to follow up. How is this
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by ds9 12y ago
This could never succeed here in the US - (a) general opposition to euthanasia and (b) the amusement park industry would lobby against it because it would scare people away from the regular, milder roller coasters. It seems mostly academic,
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by ds9 12y ago
For me the link led to an article titled "Woman With Printer Shows the Digital Ease of Bogus Cash". It mentions anti-counterfeiting features in printers but does not address the topic of the submitted title "Does HP track wha
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by ds9 12y ago
If you like Thompson's writing or ideas, or would like to observe more of the "gonzo" character, then in addition to the writings check out a 1978 BBC mini-documentary "Fear and loathing in gonzo-vision". A journal
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by ds9 12y ago
Any promises of privacy or security are worthless unless it's on an open licence (GPL equivalent) - and in that case how would payment be enforced? Apparently you are asking a "trick question".
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by ds9 12y ago
Silk Road relied on Bitcoin and escrow among other things, and presumably the successor will do as well or better with payment security. So it's not quite as simple as "go where the money flows and arrest anyone selling". Ho
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by ds9 12y ago
Public-utility "last mile", far from being opposed to competition, would facilitate it. The local or state government would own the ROW and maintain the fiber - maybe thru a contractor whose role is restricted to that function. Th
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by ds9 12y ago
With this author and a lot of people, I agree that network neutrality is vital to the social benefits of the internet, and that the "public utility" model is best. The question, however is how to get there. Historically, once big-
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by ds9 12y ago
If you are using a site-signed cert and giving intended visitors a corresponding browser cert (being your own CA), and turn on HSTS, I assume the non-bypassable warning page would not be triggered, and the author's reference to &quot
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Russia Orders Bloggers To 'Register'; Outlaws Anonymous Blogging...(techdirt.com)
1 points by ds9 12y ago|0 comments
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The FCC is about to axe-murder net neutrality. Don't get mad – get even(theguardian.com)
4 points by ds9 12y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 12y ago
Part of the problem may be certain animal contacts, such as eating "bush meat" (mentioned in the article, also discussed in the Laurie Garrett book). Maybe a campaign against those practices could be worthwhile
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by ds9 12y ago
Layperson here, but based on reading I'm a little more pessimistic. The incubation period can be up to 21 days, and the subject can be infectious during that time [1]. Thus there is a plausible worst-case scenario where an undiagnosed
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by ds9 12y ago
Reading 'corporation grief' as 'corporate greed' - To play devil's advocate here for a moment, the drug development and approval processes are crazy expensive, and the pharmacos basically charge what the market will
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by ds9 12y ago
Agreed. It's very positive that the distribution channels are opening up such that more companies are distributing shows like this -- yet as a casual viewer, it's hardly worthwhile for me to subscribe to Amazon Prime and buy some
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by ds9 12y ago
I'm sensitive to this enough to specify 'US' when that's what I mean -- yet, when Europeans (well, N. Europeans in my experience) say "Americans" they're referring to US people. It's probably because
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by ds9 12y ago
When I start to submit a dupe, HN usually is smart enough to forward to the page for the already-submitted link (maybe the url was different enough here). In this case, a thread with the same name on the front page at the same time. [ http
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This project aims to make '404 not found' pages a thing of the past(dailydot.com)
1 points by ds9 12y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 12y ago
The numbers here are actually not alarming, even positive. In every human population there is a small percentage of people with some ideology that makes them inclined to do harm to others. 3700 anti-black incidents, 1100 anti-semitic, in th
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by ds9 12y ago
It is intuitive that exposure to a wider range of ideas than found in one's home area undermines religious faith, but interesting to have this confirmed. Anecdotally I have noticed signs of this worldwide. The phrasing "blame on t
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by ds9 12y ago
I have a pile of notebooks that need to get into my computer somehow - but images won't help. I would pay for OCR, but AFAIK the technology today is not yet good enough for accurate image-to-text from handwriting.
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by ds9 12y ago
It's significant that there is this advice, and it supports the point of the article, but this is really insufficient. If you can't be sure of the water quality at the tap (as parent notes, different from the quality at the plant
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by ds9 12y ago
Personally I would not consider connecting a TV to the internet. Aside from usability factors, it's hard to assess security (therefore the TV-ware has to be assumed a hazard), there's little transparency into what it's doing,
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by ds9 12y ago
It would make no sense to let the provider say "we're monitoring Al Capone", as this would alert Al Capone. But they're not even allowing the provider to say "certain users are subject to wiretapping at government o

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