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by jbapple 11y ago
> I'm not sure that the quotes you've put here portray a bias one way or another so much as a legal opinion (erroneous or otherwise) John Yoo's legal opinions were used by the Bush administration to justify a system of tor
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by jbapple 11y ago
The author of the memo, John Yoo, was also famously pro-torture, including the most shocking answer on the treatment of suspected terrorists that I've heard from any part of the political establishment (so I'm excluding the large
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I read it that the husband threatened the would-be adulterer, not that the police officer did: You are right; I was wrong.
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by jbapple 11y ago
The buried lede: one of the officers used the information to drive to the victim's house and threaten him, yet received only a written reprimand. If the situation had been reversed, and that man had driven to a police officer's ho
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by jbapple 11y ago
> No security company that allowed its employees to pepper-spray nonviolent people on public walkways --- or, really, anywhere --- could long remain in business. What evidence leads you to this conclusion? Can you recall an instance in t
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by jbapple 11y ago
See also http://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/ , in which hand-tuned assembly popcnt is 3x faster than using the compiler intrinsic.
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by jbapple 11y ago
> their proposed fix is more expensive than a HighwayTreeHash round. For longish-strings, most of the cycles are in the preliminary rounds, so appending whatever you want onto the end should add negligible cost. This includes bitmixing (
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by jbapple 11y ago
> This is all too trivial and doesn't need a "secure" hash function, which is not secure at all and can be precomputed. It's plain security theatre by rookies. The "security" may come from the collision reso
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by jbapple 11y ago
> First, from any hash only a few bits are use for a hash table lookup, typically between 5-8. This is not my experience. Frequently, hash tables will have a size that is a power of 2, and the address into the table will be all of the lo
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by jbapple 11y ago
Where can I read what they mean by "Strong" hashing for HighwayHash? Also, is there a peer-reviewed paper on SipTreeHash? I am not a cryptographer, so I wouldn't trust my own instincts in terms of evaluating its strength comp
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by jbapple 11y ago
Sorry, meant to say "ought", not "is". I'm mostly interested in what you think is appropriate, not what the justice system would do, today, with the laws and courts as they are.
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by jbapple 11y ago
> You keep switching between legal and normative requirements. If I did so, it was a mistake. My reference to the 4th Amendment, for instance, should have said "how the 4th Amendment ought to protect us". I did not mean to impl
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by jbapple 11y ago
There is something I forgot to say in my other reply, and I didn't want to edit it and provide a moving target. > Sorry for all the questions There is no need to be sorry. They are useful for me to understand your POV and to have a
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Given that the answer to CAN they is a solid no, and that random searches of homes is in no way related to searching devices used in a conspiracy to commit murder, what is the point of this? In one instance, someone has clearly committ
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Wrong. If Alice announces that she's looking for people to attack then of course we go looking so see why she's doing that and if other are others involved. What, in your opinion, are the limits of that investigation. So 1. A
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by jbapple 11y ago
In response to your (first?) edit: > The woman in the couple declared it right before the shooting[0]. I'm not questioning that she declared allegiance. I'm asking if she was in private contact with anyone. If you were respondi
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I'm having a hard time believing that you're commenting in good faith here. You can feel free to disengage from this conversation if you find it troubling. If you are incredulous that someone might be concerned with the priva
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by jbapple 11y ago
> reading your communications has a pretty high likelihood of turning up something useful in preventing future incidents Would you agree that "high likelihood" is too low a bar for justifying searching the phones of people who
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Well, it is. I didn't say it isn't; I said it shouldn't be.
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by jbapple 11y ago
> They may have collaborated with people who were never apprehended on the attack that actually happened. Right, but we don't go searching everyone's papers just in case they are conspirators. If Alice punches Bob in the face,
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by jbapple 11y ago
> they may have talked to other people planning attacks. I'm not particularly concerned with crimes that we believe "may have" occurred. Of course, they may have. Anything may have happened -- I'm asking for more than
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by jbapple 11y ago
> There is an authentic need to get at the data on that phone What is the authentic need? The shooters are dead. Do we have reason to believe that there is evidence of any pending crimes or any old unsolved crimes on the phone?
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I first heard it when a law student asked him whether she should bother applying for a clerkship given she hadn't gone to harvard. In that instance the sows ear was the asking law student. That's a very mean thing to have sa
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Specifically, he said of lawyers like me (the not-harvard crowd) "You cannot make a purse out of a sow's ear". According to the NYT source, he actually said, "you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse", re
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Did you know him personally, or know someone who knew him personally, or is there some other reason beyond "you profoundly disagreed with him" that would lead you to calling him a "terrible person"? Is there anyone
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I would like to say however that I am on the side that believes that some illegal acts move democracy forward, I just don't believe that the Manning dump did that, primarily on the basis of not having revealed illegal behavior. As
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Name an illegal US activity that was unmasked via the Manning dump. I replied separately that this was not the point of my post, but I will reply here in a separate reply (so as no to conflate things) about illegal activities exposed
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Name an illegal US activity that was unmasked via the Manning dump. That was not the point of my post. I did not say or imply that that illegal activities were unmasked by the Manning dump. I am saying that your prediction that people
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by jbapple 11y ago
> You basically have to believe that all US foreign activity or all secrecy is inherently bad to say that that the Manning dump moved us forward as a democracy. I think this hyperbole is no more helpful to the conversation than your orig
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by jbapple 11y ago
> All of that came from governments, though. I'm not sure what the actual people think. I think it is important not to say "Most of Europe would not be ok with that" when what one means is "European governments would

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