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by ipsin 10y ago
Smart replies seem disingenuous. I mean, they're creepy if you know they're suggestions ("a machine told me to tell you..."), and creepy if you don't ("is that my friend or my friend's agent?"). I pr
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by ipsin 10y ago
To me, C is like PHP (ignoring for a moment that PHP was written in C). You can document its shortcomings, its dangers and all the headache-inducing choices. But while you're doing that, people all over the world are building wonderfu
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by ipsin 10y ago
More than once, archive.org has hosted something I though was not possible under the current copyright regime. MAME ROMs, old time radio shows, and, well, this. So for someone who's not paying attention, does anyone have an explanation
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by ipsin 10y ago
It's also a little irritating that a couple of commenters focus on minority/diversity hiring as a way to commit sabotage. In my experience, people who might be called "minority" or "diversity" hires tend to kic
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by ipsin 10y ago
I'm disappointed that this list seems to be made with the intent of describing current practices, rather than how you can actually disrupt the workplace as a saboteur. The idea of promoting incompetent people still works. That's
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by ipsin 10y ago
See the linked PDFs on this story: http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyers_say_feds_bugg...
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by ipsin 10y ago
"the application date on $3 million of those loans had been altered to make them comply" I'm curious whether the initial discovery of this problem came from API users noticing the discrepancy, or from a more traditional rou
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by ipsin 10y ago
This doesn't seem like a case of tunnel vision. The evidence and circumstances of the theory do seem to point towards the husband. Of course, the trial may reveal Jace's innocence, but there seems to be enough evidence that I do
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by ipsin 10y ago
If you X-rayed the cube with the card on top or bottom, I wonder if the card would be distinguishable? I imagine that, if the cube was on one of the sides, it'd be practically impossible to see.
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by ipsin 10y ago
For me, the thing is that you're buying one beer for $7 one time, not "beer in perpetuity, or until you remember to change your mind".
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by ipsin 10y ago
Was it "worth it" because they dodged the potential for setting a precedent that limited the FBI's power? It doesn't seem like it was "worth it" because they found useful evidence on the phone.
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by ipsin 10y ago
It also starts with "Madrid-" then says the attack is in Barcelona A location in the beginning of a newspaper story is taken to mean the location of the reporter, not the event.
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by ipsin 10y ago
This is a case where footnotes would be tremendously useful. I could not tell when the author was writing something from Zephyr Teachout and when the author was citing another source.
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by ipsin 10y ago
Any odds-makers want to speculate on the odds of this going all the way? It seems like this could be an anchoring tactic -- now that we've seen the intelligence and law-enforcement wish-list, we should supposedly be happy with any othe
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by ipsin 10y ago
The plain-spoken language of the bill is irritating, because it hides how much assistance it provides to the existing surveillance machinery. For example, it doesn't exempt the FISA court, as far as I can tell, and seems to embrace tha
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by ipsin 11y ago
If this happens to anyone else, just quote Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. https://www.facebook.com/terms 4. You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let a
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by ipsin 11y ago
The point of California v. Ciraolo was that surveillence with the naked eye was lawful, and did not require a warrant. "cameras/eyeballs"... you understand that those are two different things, right? Large area digital data c
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by ipsin 11y ago
FBI secrecy makes it hard to challenge these tactics, because it's not clear what "these tactics" are, and whose information is actually being gathered. The last aerial surveillance case I can recall is California v. Ciraolo,
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by ipsin 11y ago
If someone is motivated enough, they can take offense with every little thing you say. You seem to understand that you're actually hurting people's feelings, but the problem is supposedly other people who are "motivated&quo
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by ipsin 11y ago
Yeah, if you can actually pass an entire course as a non-comprehending algorithm , it's not much of a "certification".
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by ipsin 11y ago
Could someone help decode this? "covered entities must provide responsive, intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to a goverment pursuant to a court order." I assume that this includes secret FISA or
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by ipsin 11y ago
At this point, Netflix is almost like the streaming company that acquired a plastic disc company, and hasn't quite gotten around to killing it yet. Search also feels biased towards streaming, to the point where it will suggest several
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by ipsin 11y ago
I'm probably misreading it, but "the integrity of the agency's personnel" makes it sound like "the in-house developers wrote terrible code and people will criticize them for it".
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by ipsin 11y ago
Yeah, if, with age and greater maturity we look back on all the CIA projects that have been declassified, it's not a flattering picture.
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by ipsin 11y ago
If Le Roux was arrested in 2012, what was the mechanism of the May 2014 discontinuation of TrueCrypt? In other words, who actually did that?
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by ipsin 11y ago
Now that he's posted a confession, I'm sure prosecutors will be firing up their printers in the next few days. I'm not sure what it'll be: malicious mischief (for the paper), some kind of misappropriation of resources c
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by ipsin 11y ago
Even if you trust the company, you also have to trust that they have no logs that can be subpoenaed and that they cannot be compelled or hacked to wiretap you.
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by ipsin 11y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm not familiar with the laws around providing a fake name or address, but it's good to know that's an option. (My concern is that, if there's any kind of issue on the payment processor's end,
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by ipsin 11y ago
Are you sure? I've looked at these, and every single one that I investigated involved some kind of activation process that meant giving up identifying information (or lying, which I'm not willing to do).
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by ipsin 11y ago
I think it's just a sign of the appetite for real financial privacy, which is not possible in the U.S. because of money laundering and "know your customer" laws. There's no such thing as a "prepaid, anonymous credit

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