mpyne

88 ms·

961.
by mpyne 12y ago
Actually it was, in this case , probably at a standoff distance and hijacked remotely by Iran (perhaps by local GPS jamming) which, as a reminder, borders Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf. There's no good reason to send a dr
962.
by mpyne 12y ago
Similar to how the Russians bootstrapped their strategic bomber (by copying, rivet-for-rivet, some interned B-29s).
963.
by mpyne 12y ago
> And often times seeing that distinction where it doesn't actually exist is a pain point. Indeed, one man's "objective fact" is another man's subjective opinion, especially once you introduce competing demands.
964.
by mpyne 12y ago
I didn't get the impression that there was a value judgment attached, as much as an expectation judgment. Seems to me they're just saying that if your title contains flaws, is formulaic, and just kind of decent, that you shouldn&#
965.
by mpyne 12y ago
Well the explanation of an imbalance of charge accumulation causing static electricity is still simple and correct. The hard part I think is giving a simple explanation for why rubbing some materials together causes the charge carriers to
966.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Not being able to tell somebody you need a lawyer is very different from not having court records published until later. It is disingenuous to imply they are the same. Where in any of those gag orders was Levison forbidden from obtaini
967.
by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm sure the NSA is capable of wording their employee contracts in such a way that they would have a legal right to snoop on the communications of those in their employ. If it were that simple then the NSA would simply have provid
968.
by mpyne 12y ago
> After all, if they can't even afford to tap the ingoing and outgoing traffic of a service that offers secure email then either they are not very good in their target selection or their resources are spent on more interesting targe
969.
by mpyne 12y ago
> I am unsure how else he could handle it. He could have complied with the Article III specific warrant issued in accordance with Constitutional guidelines, just as he did for earlier warrants, instead of electing himself President of
970.
by mpyne 12y ago
> courts must not be allowed to consider matters of great importance under the shroud of secrecy That's his opinion, and nothing more. As it turns out there are many great reasons for allowing courts to consider things under a shrou
971.
by mpyne 12y ago
Giving up keys about information otherwise already known to be on the computer is what's declared non-testimonial though. It would be like refusing to open a safe even though the cops have a video recording of every point in time from
972.
by mpyne 12y ago
> > The government argued that, since the "inspection" of the data was to be carried out by a machine, they were exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment. > That's insane. It&#x27
973.
by mpyne 12y ago
> The legal controls could be for example around certification of a product: no source, no certification, no legally selling product. GPL forbids giving away infringing code as well. Does your proposed regulatory regime also encompass fo
974.
by mpyne 12y ago
Calling a turd "transparency regulation" instead of "intellectual property" is just changing the name of the same thing. Under any copyleft type of regime, even if you remove copyright and replace with some other enabl
975.
by mpyne 12y ago
I've always been fascinated by the FSF's interplay with IP law. Mostly because of the 'copyleft' hack, which is the core underpinning of the GPL and, by extension, GNU. If you didn't have IP law at all, what you&#x2
976.
by mpyne 12y ago
The logic seems to be that if Firefox supports EME, that movie producers will be able to switch to using it without business pressure to release completely DRM-free versions of media. It's an argument I'm partial to myself, having
977.
by mpyne 12y ago
Fair enough. Poe's Law and all, it's hard to tell nowadays. :)
978.
by mpyne 12y ago
I can confirm this recommendation. When I bought my Gamecube a decade+ ago I figured it would eventually get donated or sold off as I continued on the console upgrade treadmill. But everything that has come along since has had the glaring p
979.
by mpyne 12y ago
The reason the slippery slope is considered a fallacy is because if you're not careful about the validity of your logic, it would apply equally well to any ill. That would therefore mean that all bad things must be stopped with ful
980.
by mpyne 12y ago
It was a separate innovation, followed soon after by a different innovation to combine a claw tool and a hammer tool into a combined tool. But there are other things you can put on the other end of a hammer besides a claw, none of which mad
981.
by mpyne 12y ago
"Firefox is about empowering users, unless those users should be so bold as to do something that's totally bad for me–I mean, them"
982.
by mpyne 12y ago
> It would be ethical to have it removed from Scribd until Glenn decides to release this to the public. Is this sarcasm? Has Poe's Law struck me again?
983.
by mpyne 12y ago
As long as the set of search engines that do have 99% marketshare are fairly few and reachable through EU courts in this fashion, then it won't matter what the market share of #1 is.
984.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Without the ability to forget our past mistakes, we are forever defined by them. On the other hand, it will never be possible for all such people to cover-up all such information about them. So the real solution (a societal recogniti
985.
by mpyne 12y ago
All that being as it may (because you're right), don't let that detract from the larger point about the tension between using intelligence products (like a tip-off about a bombing raid) and protecting the sources and methods of th
986.
by mpyne 12y ago
As usual, both Greenwald and the Guardian leave out the details which would be important: Namely, whether this is generic tampering with exported kit, or "targeted access operations" of the type explicitly praised by such pro-go
987.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Somehow, even with a long and complex history of involvement in the region, we magically have no responsibility for any of wha is happening, save for being free and not Muslim. I find that absolutely incredible and profoundly myopic. U
988.
by mpyne 12y ago
> no one seems to have ever seriously asked "why do these people want to kill us". Plenty of people have asked that question. That the answer isn't what you expect doesn't mean the question wasn't asked. It turns
989.
by mpyne 12y ago
Seems hard to believe how leading edge the military used to be with computers. The Navy, for instance, adopted all-digital fire control systems in a concerted push to adapt to masses of Soviet planes equipped with anti-ship missiles... in 1
990.
by mpyne 12y ago
Well, you only need money to buy the things you need to survive. Many jobs are already "few doing work to support the rest of society", the only difference is that today we happen to be paying the few to do it. If you had people w

More ›