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541.
by lmkg 7y ago
The State has not always been able to do that. The idea that a search can be executed merely for the purpose of collecting evidence is a relatively recent development. Records, papers, etc. used to be protected under the Fourth Amendment.
542.
by lmkg 7y ago
> The CVE was created last September, so it was known about at least that long Mozilla could have reserved CVE numbers in blocks, and still be allocating from that batch.
543.
by lmkg 7y ago
CVE numbers can be reserved in blocks. Don't know if Mozilla does that, but if so, a new vulnerability could get an older-looking number.
544.
by lmkg 7y ago
If you delegate the processing to a service provider, you're still responsible for it. Someone has to do it on your behalf, which is isomorphic to you doing it.
545.
by lmkg 7y ago
Well, kind of. The law technically goes into effect on Jan 1, but the CA Attorney General is not allowed to enforce it until July 1. This was part of a compromise brokered around the fact that it's taken a long while to nail down the f
546.
by lmkg 7y ago
GP may be referencing the Go! programming language, which predates the Go programming language by several years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
547.
by lmkg 7y ago
WASM is angling to break out of the web and become a cross-platform runtime. Its main competition for this space is Java.
548.
by lmkg 7y ago
From the linked documentation: > Note: The defined behavior for equals is known to be inconsistent with virtual hosting in HTTP. So, yes.
549.
by lmkg 7y ago
I mean, I can see host resolution equivalence being a useful piece of functionality. I could even see it being built-in to a std URL library. Just, y'know... not as the default equality operator. And yes, I know that overriding .equals
550.
by lmkg 7y ago
It excludes photographs, but includes certain data derivable from photographs. Storing the photograph is not a violation, but the lawsuit alleges that the facial recognition software that Google runs constitutes a violation.
551.
by lmkg 7y ago
To save y'all a click: The alleged biometrics in question are the use of facial-recognition software on photos uploaded to Google Photos (without informed consent from the user).
552.
by lmkg 7y ago
It depends on what the set of falsey values is for that language. E.g. in Common Lisp, the only falsey value is NIL (the empty list). This is easy to understand, easy to remember, and straightforward in practice because idiomatic Lisp does
553.
by lmkg 7y ago
> Presumably smart TVs are subsidized by the manufacturer selling the data they collect on you. There's no presumption, this is known. https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-adv...
554.
by lmkg 7y ago
Installing the tracking device requires a warrant, meaning it's classified as a "search," not as testimony. It's 4th Amendment territory, not 5th Amendment. If removing the tracking device is pleading the 5th, then putti
555.
by lmkg 7y ago
I hate hate hate the way it looks, but unfortunately it is objectively superior. This is why I prefer more languages go out of their way to make their syntax tolerant of optional trailing commas.
556.
by lmkg 7y ago
> The poor guy probably thought he was at home so he took off all his clothes and laid down. There's actually this weird phenomenon where people suffering from hypothermia will take off their clothes. https://en.wikipedia
557.
by lmkg 7y ago
I agree that Chrome would protect users' security (privacy is a different issue). But that's one browser, not an arbitrary browser. Could you allow Chrome without allowing other browsers with lesser pedigree? Keep in mind that
558.
by lmkg 7y ago
To my knowledge, this is Congress asking questions, not sending a subpeona. Participation at this stage is still voluntary, and mostly consists of political posturing. If Congress wishes to pursue it, they have legal tools where cooperation
559.
by lmkg 7y ago
It's a relevant distinction. You're still allowed to put non-compete clauses into your contracts, even though they don't do anything. Many companies put such clauses in their contracts, either because they have a nation-wide
560.
by lmkg 7y ago
You need two different compilers, and the ground is more fertile the more compilers you have. It would be more applicable to standards-based languages with a robust ecosystem of implementations like Common Lisp or SQL. Less so languages whe
561.
by lmkg 7y ago
Pronunciation question: Does Serde have one syllable or two? Looking at the word out of context, it seems the e at the end ought to be silent. But it's derived as an abbreviation from SERialize/DEserialize. Does the author or comm
562.
by lmkg 7y ago
ICO was not established by GDPR. It has been around since 1984, and was also the agency responsible for enforcing GDPR's predecessors. I agree that a regulatory agency specialized to these issues would increase their importance, but it
563.
by lmkg 7y ago
I think technically yes, because the present tense should be referring to Raku instead.
564.
by lmkg 7y ago
Rudy Giuliani's company is named Fraud Guarantee. This was apparently chosen to push down search results about one of the co-founders' legal issues. https://www.wsj.com/articles/giuliani-associate-left-trail-o
565.
by lmkg 7y ago
Hopefully that's just saying they have the right to shut down YouTube altogether, rather than denying specific individuals. But I'm not fluent enough in Legalese to be sure about that.
566.
by lmkg 7y ago
Thank you for reminding me how strange the universe can be sometimes.
567.
by lmkg 7y ago
It's not just the SAT, either. I took the GRE in order to go back for my Master's. I got a veritable deluge of emails telling me all about wonderful programs all across the country. MBA programs were disproportionately common in t
568.
by lmkg 7y ago
The Constitution uses a convention-over-configuration approach in almost all respects. Quite a lot of the actual effect are dependent on the build environment. Attempting to execute a source-identical Constitution outside of a Common Law co
569.
by lmkg 7y ago
> I think this kind of title is trying to do exactly that, or at least, that's how I took it I took the exact opposite: This article is describing an alternative to RiiR, so that RiiR is avoided when not needed.
570.
by lmkg 7y ago
Well, if you're gonna nitpick... A garbage-collected language wouldn't let you allocate such items on the stack in the first place. GC languages tend not to let you choose where to allocate in the first place, and have obligatory

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