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by mpyne 12y ago
Nah, probably easier to keep pretending that it's super-simple to manage humans at scale just because it's easier to reason about.
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by mpyne 12y ago
As always in the U.S., it depends on the state and city where you live. But I'm pretty positive there are cities where it's actually illegal for a person to be drinking underage. Knowing some of our cities, mere possession of an o
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by mpyne 12y ago
I find it fascinating how so many systemic problems in the U.S. have such simple causes and easy solutions on HN.
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by mpyne 12y ago
"The US" has no nationwide law mandating curfews. The Tenth Amendment allows states and local municipalities to set and enforce curfew laws though, and many do.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Seems like a bad assumption to make. When Germany caught the U.S. spy recently, it was based on that German worker using a personal GMail account to email the Russian consulate. That email was magically intercepted by Germany's BND som
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by mpyne 12y ago
What I would actually need is a way to choose from the many movies worth watching.... but the hard part is doing so without choosing a movie not worth watching.
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by mpyne 12y ago
U.S. submarines do a similar thing. There is a specific doctrine for how interior communications are performed, down to the level of always using "shut" instead of "close" (which can be confused with "blow"), r
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by mpyne 12y ago
If any of the detractors here have better ideas about how to allow companies to work together to avoid falling victim to state-sponsored cyberattacks, I'm sure suggestions would be valuable, even if not sent to the Senate Select Commit
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by mpyne 12y ago
Well, if the government did have the spending that it did post-WWII, maybe some of those things could be done again. But either way, much of that innovation spanned decades, it wasn't as if it all happened between 1945-1949. It'
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's possible, but doesn't really change the point. By bootstrapping a associations of identity-masking technologies with possible identities you allow "normal" law enforcement investigative techniques to unmask the id
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by mpyne 12y ago
> It's 20GB. Many modern games are larger than that. It's large enough that it can't be stored in a single file on many good filesystems without extra fiddling. While "huge" is obviously a subjective measure, thi
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by mpyne 12y ago
A Tor user at Harvard was successfully tracked when he sent a bomb threat, since he was the only user on the Harvard LAN using Tor at the time the threat was issued. That wasn't proof , of course, but it didn't need to be proof,
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Maybe he did rape her, but she only came forward after seeing him in the media. If the idea of an HN user saying that the charges are B.S. because a rape victim didn't file them until she found out he was a public figure doesn&#x2
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Yes, they've asked to arrest - ie, detain - him to question him. They haven't charged him with any crime. He's been properly charged. The fact that this meme refuses to die is my whole point about tribalism, the meme&#x2
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by mpyne 12y ago
IIRC, one of the accusations was having sex with no condom at all even though consent had been conditional on using a condom, but had nothing to do with a broken condom.
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by mpyne 12y ago
You should pay more attention then, since that's the argument used for why NSA in particular is a threat and not allied foreign intelligence agencies like BND. Seriously, I've had someone tell me that BND is no threat because they
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Britain doesn't enter the equation because he's not on British soil. He was on British soil for months while his extradition case dragged on. And whatever "covert" ties Sweden has with NATO (which is not the USA
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by mpyne 12y ago
> This is a textbook example of a large, public extrajudicial process. Rather, it is instead a textbook example of how public figures that are supported by a group suddenly become incapable of fault. Instead of letting the legal system o
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by mpyne 12y ago
Which is a formal part of the Swedish legal process, unless you're trying to imply that English-style common law should be the one and only legal system practiced in any country?
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by mpyne 12y ago
I could have sworn that Aaron had mentioned that this story was a counterpart to his recent "Multi-process architectures rock! :)" post that all of you defending multi-process architectures apparently didn't find. It's w
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by mpyne 12y ago
Did the market for expensive sport cars ever go away completely? Or for that matter, has cheap Samsung Android mobiles destroyed iPhone yet?
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by mpyne 12y ago
It seems to vary though; you can configure Outlook to not obey message recalls, although that might be at the discretion of an admin group policy. Either way, my last DoD network allowed you to avoid deleting emails based on recall requests
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by mpyne 12y ago
Or even for IRS to subpoena such records directly, it's not like NSA is the only agency in the whole USG that can order relevant documents to be turned over for investigations in their bailiwick. Maybe it would need a warrant instead b
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by mpyne 12y ago
Jesus Christ people, learn about the birthday paradox someday, please.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Do all these people writing 'I searched for Glastonbury Tor, now I'm on a terrorist watch-list, stupid NSA, Hah!' really believe that they system works like that? It gets better, they believe NSA is devilishly competent
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by mpyne 12y ago
Creating the tools by which anyone might theoretically spawn abuse is not the same as proactively hosting those engaging in the same. E.g. one might reasonably disrupt a farmer's market known to be selling beef infected with salmonel
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by mpyne 12y ago
In any event, the malware will at least not resolve to a no-ip.com address, since apparently nothing is able to consistently resolve to such addresses anymore...
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by mpyne 12y ago
They could file suit for any number of things. But as far as I can tell the only plausible argument would be breach of duty by the USG to keep their secrets actually secret (i.e. why didn't they stop Snowden earlier), which was one o
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's just it, they shouldn't be. It's possible for a cop to have an off-duty job just as much as it's possible for most other government employees to have a hobby (and possibly get paid for it). But these cops can&#x27
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think the general principle still applies though. And even without the tax analogy, acting as an agent of the government does not get rid of the responsibilities of the government in the behavior of their contractor, which is why the gove

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