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by ipsin 13y ago
People who aren't struggling to survive have the luxury to spend time working on other things, like infrastructure. There's no guarantee that will happen, though.
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by ipsin 13y ago
I can't speak to the legal phrasing, but I have filed a FOIA act request to LA County Sheriffs myself, and one code they site is CA 6254(f), which exempts "(f) Records of complaints to, or investigations conducted by, records of i
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by ipsin 13y ago
My favorite plane is the [A-Z]+\-[0-9]+
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by ipsin 13y ago
128GB / (15mm × 11mm × 1mm) ~= 800GB per cubic centimeter. Granted, that doesn't include any volume for the equipment needed to address or power all that memory, but it's pretty an impressive information density. Nothing comp
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by ipsin 13y ago
I live in California and was hoping to lobby my municipal government to bargain for better service when our cable franchise came up for renewal. What I learned was that this bargaining power had been transferred to the state level in 1996.
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by ipsin 13y ago
Might as well wait for something more official than a message on pastebin?
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by ipsin 13y ago
I love that you called your gem "hologram". That's appropriate and... truly outrageous?
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by ipsin 13y ago
My guess is that this program involves officers laundering classified information by lying to other police officers, who then conduct the searches. "We had a confidential informant..." and so forth. That would explain why there&#
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by ipsin 13y ago
Your assumptions ("not many bike lanes", "self-entitled") seem to be somewhat localized, but your anger and willingness to jump to incorrect conclusions about who I am or how I ride isn't. I'm pretty sure I don
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by ipsin 13y ago
I think that you are missing my point, because the bicycle is entirely relevant. I own a car. I drive it. A lot. You didn't need to know that. But in the situation I described, I feel quite vulnerable, because I'm not in a car,
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by ipsin 13y ago
I don't see that much around here, but that's probably because the roads are nuanced enough (read: cracked) to require your attention.
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by ipsin 13y ago
What shocks me, as a bicycle commuter, is the number of people who cradle their smartphones in front of them while they drive. It's selfish and dangerous as hell, and those who do it exhibit the same really obvious symptoms as those on
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by ipsin 13y ago
GTA 5 is technically impressive, but after playing State of Decay, I've come to realize how much I need to fill the negative space inside all those black-box buildings. The world of GTA V feels hollow when 1% of the buildings can be en
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by ipsin 13y ago
See Section 216 of the Patriot Act, which throws in the ability to get "pen register" information (metadata) from Internet communications. http://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/subs/add_myths.htm#s216 Y
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by ipsin 13y ago
Happy thought for the day: toxoplasma gondii can be transmitted via cat feces, and is associated with promiscuity and schizophrenia, among other things. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764421/
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by ipsin 13y ago
It's worth noting that this is a non-binding resolution, in case it wasn't clear from the article's title: "the Commission now has the authority from the Parliament to suspend PNR and TFTP, but it falls at the Commissio
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by ipsin 13y ago
The phrasing is that much more confusing because France is a long scale country, so "one thousand trillion" is the valid way to say 10^21. If 1 byte = 1 metadata element (unlikely), that's a zettabyte. Which is probably not
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by ipsin 13y ago
Interestingly, postmasters can act as mail proxies. A stamp collector who wants a particular cancellation stamp can send a letter to the postmaster containing a letter and a note: "Please postmark and deliver". I have used this in
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by ipsin 13y ago
You claim it's a tautology, but I think it's inevitable. Communication is the act of exposing information , and if any persistent, well-audited system will, used for long enough, allow you to expose yourself. Your online and offl
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by ipsin 13y ago
This seems like a very cool project, but I don't see how it provides real anonymity. What concerns me isn't even "a well-financed adversary", but "someone who is curious about who you are, and has spare time to thi
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by ipsin 13y ago
Abhorrent conduct can also have benefits: News at 11. When the CIA stopped(?) waterboarding suspects, I bet they got fewer terrorism leads, too. There are some lines we never should have crossed.
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by ipsin 13y ago
So why doesn't the Full Faith and Credit clause of the U.S. Constitution come into play here? Section 2 of DOMA expressly released states from the requirement to recognize other states' gay marriages, but if it's struck down,
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by ipsin 13y ago
And a security risk, to boot.
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by ipsin 13y ago
I suspect you meant "being found not guilty is nearly impossible". And federal prosecution is absolutely nothing like a fair coin toss -- the federal conviction rate is 90+%. I think this has something to do with the tactics used
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by ipsin 13y ago
If 110,000 are more closely watched because they signed a petition, problems are much bigger than they currently appear to be. I am confident in at least that much. Sign the petition, use the voice you have. I did.
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by ipsin 13y ago
Thank you for helping me decode the double-speak. I had previously read that "collect" had a specific meaning for the NSA, but I'd assumed that meaning also made sense within the context of the English language.
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by ipsin 13y ago
Clapper: "the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails" Obama: "the NSA can't listen to your calls" The denial I would like to hear: the NSA does not collect your e-mails, phone calls or in
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by ipsin 13y ago
I was surprised by Rand Paul's proposed bill "To stop the [NSA] from spying on citizens of the United States": http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/EAS13699.pdf The effective body is fairly d
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by ipsin 13y ago
My two biggest complaints re: Hulu are 1) "web only" content licenses. Nevermind that they really mean "PC only", it's a confusing user experience to pay for a service and have content selectively unavailable. I think that this is mostly
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by ipsin 13y ago
It's unfortunate that all the updates are Backer-Only, including a recent one titled "Refund Reminder". Could someone on HN who backed this project summarize what the company has said in its Backer-Only communication?

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