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by mpyne 12y ago
It's not a guarantee, but on the other hand it does give you stronger Fourth Amendment rights (if the NSA is what you're worried about as opposed to Russia or China, at least).
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by mpyne 12y ago
What I'm saying is that you cannot have your cake here and eat it too. Strong laws? Great, you'll have an Aaron Swartz every 5 years at least, especially as long as those laws continue to make common-sense computer crimes like bre
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by mpyne 12y ago
Please re-read the actual linked article.
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by mpyne 12y ago
None of these individual companies would have known about the NSA end of the webservice NSA calls PRISM. Does the Zuck have a TOP SECRET clearance with read-ins to all the special access programs that would be needed to know about PRISM?
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by mpyne 12y ago
It was the proper stance too. These companies wouldn't have known about "PRISM", they would have known about their own individual subsystems used to tie into some NSA warrant system. All these companies knew that NSA could
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by mpyne 12y ago
At the same time, you don't generally get a choice about what laws are in effect in the land you live in, but you do get to choose whether to buy Google or Apple products and partake of their app stores, or whether to go F/OSS and
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by mpyne 12y ago
I really hope "spy novels" is not what you'd consider actual evidence. As you say, it's not exactly a secret that the U.S. and Pakistan have been working together (since the 1970s at least, natch). What is not widely kno
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by mpyne 12y ago
By all means. Then the government agent will just walk out the building, put on his "private citizen" ball cap, and resume spying using all the authorities any random citizen would have. That's why I pointed out the state oft
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by mpyne 12y ago
When did ~600 become the majority of the world's population?
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by mpyne 12y ago
If there was no evidence to convict then Aaron had nothing to worry about, ham sandwich or not.
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's fine. That would need to be one of the "bona fide occupational qualifications" contained in the job description for the job you're trying to hire for. For those jobs where the nature of the disability itself preve
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The commonality with NSA and with Swartz is that you have heavy-handed authority figures flagrantly abusing their power with impunity. Read csandreasen's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205642 Whate
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by mpyne 12y ago
When I was a cashier way back in the day (around the turn of the century) we checked $20s and higher with the marker pen thingy.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Certainly not a room full of monkeys, but I'm having great difficulty trying to disprove the hypothesis that this wasn't just a Markov chain generator left to generate a few paragraphs.
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by mpyne 12y ago
How disturbing and/or illegal should it be? I mean, I'm game to make it illegal if it's not already, and it probably already is illegal in the countries where that would be going on. But when I advocated the viewpoint that un
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by mpyne 12y ago
I don't think that's quite the right analogy. The way I explain it to people regarding my son is that you have the brain, the brain's modules are all there, but all the interconnecting stuff that helps the different parts of
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by mpyne 12y ago
Aspie only ever applied to a subset of autistics though. It does roll off the tongue better, I'll admit.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> On the other hand, I feel like it'd be harder to convince higher-ups that hiring Autistics in other roles is at all worthwhile if they can't get through a neurotypical (unaccommodating) hiring process. May not matter what hig
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by mpyne 12y ago
I don't think it's that far-fetched. If you accept the proposition that it's possible for a microbe to secrete a protein or something into the bloodstream that causes you to prefer a certain type of food (and keep in mind t
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by mpyne 12y ago
"Mapping the domain" is one thing all military agencies try to do, just like if you were a hacker who gained access to an unfamiliar subnet you'd likely try to figure out the lay of the land. I'm more surprised that NSA
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by mpyne 12y ago
Unless you're a DC staffer (and more specifically, a "typical DC staffer"), your showing off about your expensive suit didn't actually contradict anything in the comment you replied to, which is why I think your comment
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by mpyne 12y ago
And either way, if the "software engineering dress code" becomes shorts and sandals and you'd be looked down on for wearing a shirt and tie, well, you're still a conformist. You're just selling out to a different ru
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by mpyne 12y ago
That wasn't the case in my CS undergrad.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Instead of shooting bullets, you're shooting portals. Seems pretty non-phallic to me. What's phallic about bullets? Are women not allowed to be interested in small arms? The Soviet Union deployed women as snipers to great eff
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Speed limits in North America were lowered to save fuel during the oil shortages in the latter half of the 20th century and subsequently were never raised. I can't speak to Canada, but they were certainly raised afterwards in much
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Can you point me to any projects that manipulate UTF-8 encoded in-memory strings and actually use a different type for it them? Glib seems to. https://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.37/glib-Strings.html Though in
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by mpyne 12y ago
> What the fuck was a US soldier doing in Iraq to start with? Was there a draft? I don't recall there being one. A draft has nothing at all to do with whether the invasion in 2003 was a legal use of armed force or not, under U.S. do
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by mpyne 12y ago
Military bases have places to go to, yes. But they certainly do not seclude or sequester themselves from civilian life. Indeed, if military servicemembers actually could be relied on to stay on base many senior officers would be inordin
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by mpyne 12y ago
The U.S. Army doesn't simply use drones to blast away protestors though, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. There have been many soldiers who have died because in their race to follow proper "Escalation of For
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Why do I even need to know about them when all I want is walk through the collection? Because there are algorithms where you may not want to walk through the whole collection. STL wasn't meant to be a container library alone, it a

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