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by kgo 16y ago
Uh, I'm aware of other political views. But unfortunately the Supreme Court doesn't subscribe to them, and won't in the foreseeable future. We can argue all we want about what the Ninth Amendment means, but things like the FDA aren't goin
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by kgo 16y ago
You don't think the LSA would violate the first ammendment?
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by kgo 16y ago
I'm not a supporter of the TSA by any means, but if you're going to enforce the ninth amendment completely literally, you can just come up with more and more ridiculous examples of things that we're doing now that are completely unconstitut
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by kgo 16y ago
But once again, that presupposes flying in an airplane a fundamental human right. And if it is, is flying on a commercial airliner a human right? You can avoid the search by volunteering to pay more to fly on a private jet. And if flying i
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by kgo 16y ago
Right on. I was just going to link to wikipedia, but you beat me to it. Wealth has a very specific, easily quantifiable definition. For an individual or household, it's essentially your net worth. And you can actually have 'low wealth' (
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by kgo 16y ago
It's not really an entertainment industry thing. Someone who's paid his dues by getting a PHD from CMU is more likely to get a job at Google than some guy who just read books on his own. Sure the guy who read books might create some startu
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by kgo 16y ago
There were 70,000 new scripts registered with the WGA last year. 70 spec script sold. (Specs are scripts that writers just write on their own, without getting hired by a studio first.) Of those, one in ten will get made into a movie. Th
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by kgo 16y ago
And if you sell chalk, it might get used on the chalkboards for the Manhattan Project... I don't think it's a problem at all that you can't enforce morality. I'd be much more offended by licenses that tried to enforce some sort of morality
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US Spy Spending tops 80 Billion(cnn.com)
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by kgo 16y ago
Back-of-the-envelope math: 50 characters x 8 bits = 400 bits of entropy Even if you account for not having backspaces and linfeeds in the password, he could still easily have 256 bits of entropy. Even with Moore's law, a strong algo like AE
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by kgo 16y ago
Already in there... I think they call them shadow volumes...
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by kgo 16y ago
If you, the non-programmer, can learn it, then surely I, the bad programmer, can learn it.
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by kgo 16y ago
Part of the full quote: "If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines - including Google - do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States
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by kgo 16y ago
I briefly thought about learning real shorthand because I couldn't write fast enough. Never really followed through on it. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd probably stick with a standardized version instead of yours. I imagine most other people
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by kgo 16y ago
OSX: Only one global menubar really sucks for multi-monitor setups.
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by kgo 16y ago
Interesting, but if a wrong-endian book is in a bookshelf or a pile, can't you just correct the problem by inserting it upside-down? The only case where I'd notice a difference is the top book in a stack.
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by kgo 16y ago
Scala's... weird... Scala would fall under the typed functional family. It has it's own version of ADT's and it has pattern matching. But in a lot of ways it's a hybrid OO/Functional language. A lot of the decisions in the language's des
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by kgo 16y ago
You can break functional languages down into two basic categories: Typed and Untyped. The typed ones derive from ML, and the untyped ones derive from Lisp. Many of the 'killer features' of untyped functional languages have migrated their
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by kgo 16y ago
If you're talking pseudo-code, I'd agree. And I think all these various sketches you're talking about are comparable to psuedo-code. Those sketches aren't going to tell you exactly what PSI some escape valve needs to blow at, or what temp
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by kgo 16y ago
http://www.privacyfoundation.de/crypto_stick/crypto_stick_en... Basically they offload your private keys to a dedicated device, completely in hardware, that's isolated from the machine's memory, so they can't be compromised via a software
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by kgo 16y ago
I just started using gpg-agent to do my ssh authentication via my crypto-stick (An OpenPGP smartcard with the reader built in.) I'm totally sold on it. It's got a hardware lockout so it can't be brute forced. The actual private key never
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by kgo 16y ago
I personally find long-term use of X annoying and clunky, so the Mac interface wins out there. (Please don't try to convince me I'm wrong about X. If you don't have a problem with it, that's cool.) If you're just doing basic run-of-the-mi
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by kgo 16y ago
You might be right. The wikipedia page said "the laptop was powered-up", which is a little ambiguous ("was [already?] powered-up"). But I think the principal is the same in either case. He already volunteered the information once.
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by kgo 16y ago
I apologized man... What more do you want?
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by kgo 16y ago
That case was goofy because he initially typed in his password in front of law enforcement and provided them access, which nullified any claims of self incrimination. It'd be similar to confessing to murder, telling the cops where the body
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by kgo 16y ago
Apologies... If you had replied to a question, I wouldn't have felt compelled to post that. But in the UK, it's illegal to refuse to give up your password.
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by kgo 16y ago
bbc.co.UK
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by kgo 16y ago
Come on, man. That second quote is out of context. And I even added an end note saying that I don't think the majority of bikers are the crazy ones.
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by kgo 16y ago
It's in the Mythical Man Month, not that Brooks uses the term 'rock star' Good developers are 10x more productive than average developers. There are no comparable studies for accountants.
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by kgo 16y ago
You know, I've heard that bike lanes are more dangerous for years, and many of the arguments are convincing. But the trouble is, 98% of drivers won't realize there's a method to your madness. Riding in the main lane when there's a perfect

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