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by nkw 9y ago
This is a very insightful comment. In my opinion one of the largest shortcomings of our system of minting new lawyers is a lack of practical training. While doctors generally must both go to medical school and complete an internship and&#x2
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by nkw 9y ago
> Accessing PACER from a courthouse is free. ... other than the half day you had to take off work, transportation to the courthouse and fees for printing out an electronic document -- and that is if you are local. What if I want to get a
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by nkw 9y ago
> The misleading thing about the “free law” angle is that PACER does not record “the law.” This is pretty much wrong. There are a variety of things on PACER that would be considered "the law" from opinions (although a lot of th
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by nkw 9y ago
> had to be completed in a hurry "We reported this issue to Intel, AMD and ARM on 2017-06-01" https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privi...
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by nkw 9y ago
Well for me the title. The premise of the article appears to be "author unconvinced bitcoin is stable store of value". The title appears to be nothing but click bait.
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by nkw 9y ago
It is an enormously broad statute. Many would say too much so. This article[1] advocates that it is too broad, but provides some useful examples of how it has been interpreted and applied. Whether or not it was intended to cover something l
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by nkw 9y ago
Off the top of my head I don't know. Is the existence of a prior prosecution based on identical or substantially similar facts a condition precedent for a statute to be violated?
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by nkw 9y ago
Unless you were asking for the state law which would be http://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-190-25.html
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by nkw 9y ago
18 U.S.C. § 1001 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001
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by nkw 9y ago
1) Yes. I would say "no". 2) Not very. 3) Yes, but they are not likely to be effective or easy to enforce. If they want to look at it badly enough they can buy it.
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by nkw 9y ago
> 1Password X was designed for our hosted 1Password service and connects directly to your account. Agilebits/1Passwords continued shoving of their 'hosted' services down their customer's throats amazes me. I'm no
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by nkw 9y ago
1) Why Google? Because media attention and it plays well with the current Missouri AG's base. e.g. pseudo-libertarian, anti-big brother, technology, coast-elites, etc. There are no statutes in Missouri that regulate in any meaningful w
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by nkw 9y ago
Some parts of the law are easier to appreciate if one considers vagueness and ambiguity can be features instead of bugs.
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by nkw 9y ago
"Whoever [...] knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer [...] shall be punished as provid
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by nkw 9y ago
This reads like an Enron financial statement. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is the unintelligible gobbledygook that IBM actually uses to sell their stuff. Between stuff like this and "Watson curing cancer", I continu
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by nkw 9y ago
This is great. I had a feeling something like this was coming given most firebase people were pretty open about what the shortcomings of the Realtime DB were and AngularFire received some much needed attention to its database API last week.
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by nkw 9y ago
>Media companies couldn't give any less fucks about the web. They can go 100 years without publishing on the web, since they have other revenue paths that they're perfectly happy with. LOL. With what? Their paper? Their DVDs? T
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by nkw 9y ago
> But members break the tools all the time and don't take responsibility for it. Even though there are cameras and people have to swipe their card at the door it still happens. >I think one reason sharing is not as common is beca
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by nkw 9y ago
18 USC 1343, 18 USC 1001, and/or 15 USC 78j(b)?
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by nkw 9y ago
> A Pro machine with external monitors can't force an upgrade the same way as an all-in-one machine. Trashcan MacPro user here. I would have happily purchased a new one with Thunderbolt 3 and an semi-up-to-date Nvidia card (OR exter
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by nkw 9y ago
This is getting to the point that honestly I would rather just pay Apple for a license to OS X and buy the hardware I want. I'm sure I am in the minority, but I would shell out $600+ to legally use OS X on a Hackintosh with worrying ab
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by nkw 9y ago
>"For example, HIPAA regulations require PHI to be encrypted in transit and at rest" Really? What about all those records faxed back and forth between health care providers. >"Lastly, how exactly is patient data a virtu
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Judge certifies class of those charged fees for access to federal court records(ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov)
3 points by nkw 10y ago|0 comments
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by nkw 10y ago
Interesting. I have never been able to put my finger on if the resistance to opening pacer comes from the judiciary itself (judges fearing public scrutiny of the entire corpus of court filings) vs the Admin Office / IT wanting to maint
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by nkw 10y ago
> pushing to open Pacer (meeting with the federal judiciary and offering to just pay the revenue they make) Wait what? You offered to pay the ~$145M/year they bring in for access fees in return for an open access PACER system? Was t
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by nkw 10y ago
I'm a fan of 1Password and use it on desktop (mac/win) and mobile (ios/Android), mandate it for some of our employees, and recommend it to family and friends. I am however not a fan of their push into to 1Password for clouds&
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by nkw 10y ago
> But his premise of a DNS for phone numbers is ridiculous. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/enum/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping
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by nkw 10y ago
RE: a class action suit See: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreement.html "You and eBay each agree that any and all disputes or claims that have arisen, or may arise, between you and eBay relating
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by nkw 10y ago
Probably a wide band or at least mid-band codec. One thing I learned working with VOIP is people perceive quality based on what they have been using recently, which for most people is the absolutely horribly stepped on audio of skype, cheap
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by nkw 10y ago
Here is a recent article discussing the DEA doing this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/30/... $600k to a particular airline employee, $1 million for a single parcel wo

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