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by mckoss 12y ago
It seems to me a Stingray is designed specifically to get around the need for a court order. OTW they would just subpoena the records of a cell carrier to get the information on a target they suspect.
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by mckoss 12y ago
>>> Our government’s copyright enforcement framework treats infringements as civil matters that generally require legal counsel. I wish it did! Most infringement of a commercial work seems to incur criminal penalties (though you c
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by mckoss 12y ago
You can't selectively block content on an SSL connection w/o having a back door to the encryption keys used to secure the connection. A man in the middle attack would be detectable unless the root certificates were compromised.
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by mckoss 12y ago
Looks like techcrunch is running an unwanted article injector :-)
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by mckoss 12y ago
On further thought, you're right. I would not condone any sort of violent response. But a criminal investigation should be made, even if it leads to Chinese authorities. (Just as we should have criminal investigations over US surveil
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by mckoss 12y ago
The WSJ paywall link doesn't work for most HN readers. This one does by following a google search referer.
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US Coding Website GitHub Hit with Cyberattack(google.com)
1 points by mckoss 12y ago|2 comments
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by mckoss 12y ago
If the point of HN is sharing information, and having substantive dialog, then these links are counter-productive. If really think we should ban non-traversable links; if there are alternative links to submit that are the next best availab
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by mckoss 12y ago
"Bully" is rather too weak a label for the perpetrator. This attack is criminal. If carried out by a sovereign nation, perhaps an act of war. We don't allow foreign raiding parties to enter our country to loot private busi
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by mckoss 12y ago
The JavaScript used is very amateurish with many outmoded features, poorly optimized. I couldn't believe they were loading jquery, for example. This looks to be the work of a script kiddie rather then a superpower's cyber warrio
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by mckoss 12y ago
If WSJ does not want to have their content read by non-subscribers, these links are pointless (or spam) on HN. Can HN do something to convert WSJ links to paywall-bypassing links? Like substitute the google search URL for the original arti
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A Video Walkthrough of Swift Fundamentals(firebase.com)
60 points by mckoss 12y ago|18 comments
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by mckoss 12y ago
Section on null seems off to me. > in almost all cases, it can be replaced by undefined. Null has a subtle relationship to Object in that typeof null == 'object' For that reason, null should be used for values that c
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by mckoss 12y ago
How do they manage to keep the different language translations in sync? Seems duanting to send a pull request for anything but typos.
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by mckoss 12y ago
Even if a British judicial review finds GCHQ surveillance legal under British law, it does not mean that the NSA can use GCHQ surveillance as their proxy to circumvent US 4th amendment protections. Its very clear at this point that the NSA
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by mckoss 12y ago
Do you have any reference for an IPCC claim that global warming will cause deeper cooling??? I've not seen it, though I've read all the IPCC summaries. Reference, please.
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by mckoss 12y ago
It looks like you can see the lander, up in the air and casting a shadow on the surface in the 2nd image. If it is, you can get a good estimate of its horizontal velocity from the image timestamp. https://plus.google.com/ap
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by mckoss 12y ago
On my android tablet, I mostly see bunch of black panels with small white paragraphs. Your fancy page layout makes the article unreadable (for me).
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by mckoss 12y ago
It sounds like you're explicitly adding function properties to every object. This is slow and wasteful or memory. In Python, method lookup scans the __class__ of the object to find the method function. Python also automatically bind
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by mckoss 12y ago
Great idea. If the assumption is that only a handful of keys will be needed pet year, it is much less expensive to require the government to brute force a key solution than storing and securing all the keys. Just choose a key strength that
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by mckoss 12y ago
The FAA bowing to protectionist industries. What ever happened to personal liberty? If a pilot and passenger want to share a ride (and expenses), where the passenger understands full well that the pilot is trained and operates under the &
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by mckoss 12y ago
While I understand the desire to learn about Google from the inside, planning to stay there only 6 months isn't very fair to the employer; the OP may have learned a little from the experience, but Google likely got almost nothing (net)
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by mckoss 12y ago
I think HN readers do an excellent job of ferreting out technical inaccuracies in a breaking story, so I rather like seeing this here.
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by mckoss 12y ago
Note that github's dmca process explicitly states that takedown requests include an oath at risk of committing criminal perjury for knowingly false statements about copyright claims. We need to get a prosecutor to start trying these
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by mckoss 12y ago
Also a better format for text to speech.
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by mckoss 12y ago
The galling thing about AA/NA in the US is that judges often mandate attendance as condition for release of a DUI. The problem being, this violates the defendants 1st amendedment rights by the state forcing a religion on him.
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by mckoss 12y ago
I believe it has been reported that the FBI lies about the sources used in investigations so that defendants never find out about the true sources that led to their prosecution. Your legal right to challenge sources of evidence is useless i
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by mckoss 12y ago
The dissenting opinion is based on a theory that Aero did not make a choice in what they were rebroadcasting. I disagree as they carefully selected the geographic region for their antennas based on their belief in the market demand for (co
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by mckoss 12y ago
My biggest problem with the JetBrains IDE is that it scatters file turds through your project; making it a pain for developers to use source control without generating random conflicts. An IDE's files have no reason to be version cont
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by mckoss 12y ago
I just watched this tonight. I'm just mad - at Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Hayden, Obama and the New York Times (for holding the story for a year after they had it). All participated in a huge cover up of illegal and unconstitutional wir

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