legalbeagle

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by legalbeagle 3y ago
This course of action (taking a small risk of losing everything in exchange for a high probability small reward) is what Nassim Taleb calls "picking up coins in front of a steamroller."
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by legalbeagle 11y ago
This is not about going to jail. No one is going to go to jail. If Apple loses, they will have to comply (assuming it is technically possible to do so). They are going to appeal what is (at this point) an order from a magistrate judge. They
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by legalbeagle 11y ago
Compelling production of Apple's private keys would (for better or worse) be a far easier legal question than what this subpoena seeks to compel. Remember the Lavasoft case? The private keys were ordered produced there. The difference
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by legalbeagle 11y ago
Compelling expert testimony happens all the time. (You might have to pay for it, but the witness has no choice.) The Apple subpoena is different. It is an attempt to compel engineering and coding work.
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by legalbeagle 11y ago
Yes, you can compel expert witness testimony, but this is different. Testimony is answering questions. Here, they are seeking to compel engineering/coding work. I've never seen that compelled by a subpoena.
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
The most interesting alleged fact is that these agents used the credentials of C.G. (a DPR employee) to steal 20,000 BTC from Silk Road. That caused DPR to suspect C.G. of the theft, and DPR then paid one of the agents even more BTC for a c
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
The complaint does accuse the two agents of stealing directly from Silk Road during the "proffer" of DPR's employee, C.G. There is no accusation of stealing from Mt.Gox. They reportedly used Mt.Gox to convert stolen bitcoin t
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
Interestingly, these guys weren't caught because they stole bitcoin. They were caught because they converted the bitcoin into US dollars and then ultimately transferred that cash into accounts subject to investigative jurisdiction in t
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
Two errors in this. First, the 22 oz is before cooking weight. After cooking will be less - maybe 16 oz raw (after you deduct bone and fat) and 12 oz after cooking. The remaining lean meat isn't pure protein. There's other tissues
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
There is no information in the article about where the information on calorie counts came from. Personally, they seem wrong to me, at least on some of the items. I don't think the Cowboy Ribeye from Ruth's Cris, for example, reall
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
This guy, Ben Edelman, focuses a lot of his work on online advertising issues. The question here is that his campaign against the Chinese restaurant, although technically correct (they did charge higher prices than advertised online) is wil
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Harvard Business School Professor Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food(boston.com)
41 points by legalbeagle 12y ago|14 comments
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
It seems to me that what OpenBazaar is trying to do is to use software and the network to create a truly voluntary marketplace that offers many or most of the structural benefits that we get from centralized marketplaces but without the reg
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
DPR and the SR2.0 guy profited from illegal transactions. That wouldn't be the case here. No different in my view from the developers of bittorrent or tor itself.
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
I think the problem for "legal" users of distributed markets is not stigma; it's cost, ease of use, and likelihood of fraud or other problems with transactions. If a distributed market arose that was inexpensive, as easy to u
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
Read the wiki you cited. Before MS, eBay owned Skype and that's the transaction he's referring to.
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by legalbeagle 12y ago
But how could they know what support staff to infiltrate if they hadn't identified the server? The first step was locating the server. The second step was identifying the individuals and getting evidence against them. The undercover op
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
This isn't correct. The Federal Reserve System is composed of the various Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (BOG). The FRBs are hybrid entities considered to be federal instrumental
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
This isn't correct. All federal courts except for the US Supreme Court are created by statute. The FISC judges are Article III judges on the district courts or courts of appeal, appointed for life. It is true they are assigned to th
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
He has effectively announced that he won't enforce the patent and he has apparently not attempted to do so in all these years. The patent means nothing (except that it could serve as prior art to defeat a subsequent patent claim).
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
You still have to use the Metro interface to start and switch apps. It just feels wrong to me to use a very large monitor that way. You can replace the startup screen with a third-party Start menu, of course, but that doesn't make a case
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
It is only a social faux pas for certain people to look at a woman while wearing Glass.
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
There is a difference between Rackspace's right to censor their own blog -- which no one questions -- and the judgments we can make about their moral and ethical worthiness from their having done so.
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
Mostly not American's fault. Sh*t happens.
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by legalbeagle 13y ago
Not accurate for me. I'm 51 and it guessed 32. I'd be interested in what the key factors are.
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by legalbeagle 14y ago
What do you think the issues in contention are going to be in the divorce? That will determine whether you need a lawyer or not. Are you happy with the 20 hours per week you see your son? If so, is your wife agreeable to putting that in