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by jevoten 3y ago
That's how they should work. Unfortunately, concept patents get granted all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/loading-screen-gam
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by jevoten 3y ago
> No, they just accept the risk and haven’t developed a system that can address it (like electronic voting machines). Want to describe this risk? You mark a ballot, throw it in a box with hundreds of other ballots - how do you risk getti
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by jevoten 3y ago
> That has never happened for article 287 of the penal code, although it may one day. You'd need an actual case to make that claim, though. Ok, so unless article 287 has literally never been used, my fear is valid. > There are no
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by jevoten 3y ago
> The attack you hypothesized, where a hidden radio “flips a bit” to alter votes [..] Software and hardware security aside, randomly selected devices are sent to three major public universities for verification every year. Sorry, I wasn&
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by jevoten 3y ago
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/e1tBD
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by jevoten 3y ago
Sorry, I forgot to emphasize that after that 2018 Ars article was written [1], the security of their machines has improved, I think. The wiki article has more details [2], so one can't say they're neglecting security. Even so, t
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by jevoten 3y ago
You'd think such a subversive, underground, anti-establishment artist wouldn't get much police protection. You'd think vandalizing a traffic sign might even be treated as a crime itself. Yet this low-level theft of a graffiti
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by jevoten 3y ago
> publishing unfounded claims about the elections being manipulated Let me preface everything with a disclaimer that I don't believe the elections were manipulated, and Bolsanaro's attempts to cast doubt on them was nothing b
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by jevoten 3y ago
> No. In the same way you shouldn't be in charge of managing whether your electrical devices can electrocute you. You think electrical devices should have DRM that detects if you opened them, and bricks the device until you bring it
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by jevoten 3y ago
So either article 5 of the constitution trumps article 287 so completely that 287 is legally dead and it would make no difference if it was erased entirely, or you better hope you get a judge sympathetic to your cause. I.e. stay in the good
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by jevoten 3y ago
It's so much worse than I thought: Article 287 - Making publicly, praise or justification of criminal act or crime author: Penalty - detention of three to six months or a fine. So "He was justified in sabotaging logging machines
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by jevoten 3y ago
Do you happen to have the (translated) wording of that law? I understand your description is somewhat speculative since YANAL, but it's still troubling, especially the part about "purpose". E.g. could a true, objective state
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by jevoten 3y ago
"Not actively blocking IPs from an area" is a pretty low bar for "doing business".
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by jevoten 3y ago
Unless it's censorship [1] they don't like, in which case they call it book-burning. And we all know who burned books, don't we? [1] The bar to be called that can be as low or high as needed. Book publishers, online stores, c
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by jevoten 3y ago
Could you elaborate on "He also followed up with attacks on the Superior Electoral Court (TSE)"? What form did these "attacks" take - a machete, or written statements? > My question is, is this censorship or is this a
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by jevoten 3y ago
> For example, racism is a punishable offense in Brazil. You literally cannot say "I hate <insert race>". What if you dress it up a little? E.g. "<insert race> is primarily and disproportionately responsible fo
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by jevoten 3y ago
I would prefer a "This user page censored in Brazil on order of the Brazilian government" for the censored users. Then we could see what they're trying to censor, and Brazilians could still read it with a VPN.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Equity: Opportunities are fair and unbiased > No, that's "equality" A common misunderstanding. When the author writes "unbiased", they don't actually mean "unbiased", they mean "morally g
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by jevoten 5y ago
Is this one of those cases when xenophobia is ok?
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by jevoten 5y ago
> that is the principle element of the law at issue All elements of the law are equally enforceable, so singling out some as 'principal' is not a license to ignore others. > It is also clear under the law that if you hosted
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by jevoten 5y ago
No attack is necessary. Per https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56364... , merely "stirring up hatred", even in the privacy of one's home, is enough.
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by jevoten 5y ago
The bill doesn't use the phrase "inciting violence" - it opts for "stirring up hatred". If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Now with the force of law.
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by jevoten 5y ago
> it turns out bigotry is wildly unpopular and hard to defend, so without a First Amendment, free speech tends to become circumscribed. So is being a jerk. Want to criminalize it? Oh, and I get to define what 'jerk' means, and
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by jevoten 5y ago
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/there-is-no-liberal-west describes it thusly: The act criminalizes utterances deemed to be “aggravated by prejudice” against any protected identity group (including race, religion, o
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Scotland's Hate crime bill: Hate talk in homes ‘must be prosecuted’ (2020)(thetimes.co.uk)
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by jevoten 5y ago
She needed a syringe driver – a pump that allows for small quantities of powerful medicines to be given via a small needle placed just under the skin. This isn’t something that GPs carry, and even if we did, we wouldn’t have the medicines
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by jevoten 5y ago
"analytics [..] customer service [..] marketing" are more than just minimal server logs.
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There is a reason - lobbying: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
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Kristen Nordlund, a spokeswoman for the C.D.C., said the agency has been slow to release the different streams of data “because basically, at the end of the day, it’s not yet ready for prime time.” She said the agency’s “priority when gath
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Less than half of US children under 15 are white, census shows (2019)(brookings.edu)
2 points by jevoten 5y ago|0 comments

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