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by nokcha 11y ago
>With format and % functions, you will be able to spot the variable in the argument list, which is part of the code itself. That is not always true, e.g.: >>> x = 2 >>> print("x = {x}".format(**vars(
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by nokcha 11y ago
That would work great for people like me. I often forget that the "new" page even exists. Having the "new" stories in their own box separated from the rest of the front page would be helpful in considering these storie
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by nokcha 11y ago
> We need a principle that allows for nuanced collection In fact, that's exactly what the Fourth Amendment demands. If the government has probable cause to suspect someone of wrongdoing, they can a search warrant particularized to
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by nokcha 11y ago
>...given SSL.... Only the URL's would be visible... Unless I'm mistaken, TLS/SSL encrypts the URL. Only the domain name and IP address of the server would be visible to a snooper.
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by nokcha 12y ago
Right, the AOSP browser is not Chrome. The AOSP browser is deprecated and is not installed by default on recent versions of Android.
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by nokcha 12y ago
>You aren't even sure that will target the right people Indeed. The FCC tried to promulgate a rule requiring net neutrality, but a Federal Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC lacked statutory authority to do so [1]. So the FCC is
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by nokcha 12y ago
> it goes right off the end of my screen. It's caused by the non-breaking spaces (Unicode character U+00A0) in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685599 A CSS workaround to read this page: .comm
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by nokcha 12y ago
In Kantian ethics, there is a concept known as universalizability : "Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law." If one subscribes to such a principle, and one
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by nokcha 13y ago
Treating folding as a downvote-like signal is interesting, but I would like the ability to collapse without it being treated similar to a downvote. Collapsing a branch would be useful in long threads even for branches about which I could n
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by nokcha 13y ago
It's written in Arc. Regarding the square bracket syntax: [... _ ...] is an abbreviation for (fn (_) (... _ ...)) http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_%28pr
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by nokcha 13y ago
It gives some level of protection against buggy server-side code leaking the plain-text password. I remember a case where a site logged all request information (including the plain-text password) directly to a log file. Oops!
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by nokcha 13y ago
>But why couldn't it? It would likely violate the First Amendment. See, e.g., Wooley v. Maynard , 430 U.S. 705 (1977), holding that a state cannot compel an individual to display the state motto on his vehicle's license plate
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by nokcha 13y ago
A defendent in any US court can move for summary dismissal on grounds that the alleged law that he broke is unconstitutional. According to the US Supreme Court, "An unconstitutional act is not a law; ... it is in legal contemplation a
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by nokcha 13y ago
> Does this mean his US citizenship has been revoked No. Under the 14th Amendment, the government cannot forcibly revoke the US citizenship of anyone born in the US. See Afroyim v. Rusk , 387 U.S. 253 (1967): "Congress has no pow
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by nokcha 14y ago
>I wouldn't be surprised if at some point soon you won't be able to register a domain name ... without taking a licensing exam. Who would impose such a requirement of licensure? Certainly not the government --- that would be a prior r
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by nokcha 15y ago
> Without the legal threat, why would an offending company give this a second thought? Facebook didn't say that it won't sue in the future; the Facebook spokesman merely said "we do not have any immediate plans to take legal action agai
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by nokcha 15y ago
>If the password was voluntarily revealed ... I don't see how you can call it "unauthorized access". Because Facebook (the owner of the computer system) did not authorize the access. In fact, Facebook prohibits such access in its TOS.
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by nokcha 15y ago
Facebook may sue under 18 USC § 1030(g) ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030#g ) for unauthorized access to its computer systems if the employer obtains an applicant's password and then accesses the applicant's account using thi
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by nokcha 15y ago
Facebook may sue under 18 USC § 1030(g) for unauthorized access to its computer systems if the employer obtains another person's password and then accesses that person's account using said password. It may also sue under state law for torti
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by nokcha 15y ago
>I'd have always thought that the terms of service (that I haven't signed (checking a check box doesn't count)) couldn't just make something, that wasn't already, illegal. A United States District Court considered whether the Computer F
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by nokcha 15y ago
An employer or college who obtains an applicant's Facebook password and uses that password to access the applicant's Facebook account may be committing a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. 1030 (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, prohibiting access
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by nokcha 15y ago
>Now try filing a complaint about the police, but you have to go through the police to do it - good luck with that. If city police officers intentionally violated one's rights, one can sue the offending officers (and the municipality [1
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by nokcha 15y ago
Those analogies miss a key point. Only the testimonial aspects (e.g., implicitly acknowledging that the files actually exist and are under one's control) are protected. Furthermore, under the “foregone conclusion” doctrine, even the testi
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by nokcha 15y ago
The argument advanced by plaintiff isn't merely that the work lacks artistic value but that the work is "obscene" under Miller v. California , 413 U.S. 15 (1973), which means that it is illegal to distribute said work for sale in or affect
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by nokcha 15y ago
>without exclusion based on whether such work is "useful" The term "useful Arts" has a specific meaning (see, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_arts ); likewise, the term "Science", as used in the Copyright Clause, refers not
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by nokcha 15y ago
>any new law has to be compatible with signed international treatis If that is so, then how would Poland withdraw from a treaty that it has entered? In the U.S., the government can withdraw from a treaty simply by passing a law doing s
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by nokcha 15y ago
> After all, you can't shout fire in a crowded theatre because it would harm the public good. That's not true; there's no general "harming the public good" exception to the First Amendment. There are exceptions for lying (i.e., mak
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by nokcha 15y ago
>Provided that companies exist as legal persons Nothing I've said relies on the legal fiction of corporate personhood. I was careful to speak only of the rights of natural persons. >Clamping down on corporate political speech would
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by nokcha 15y ago
There isn't a ban on independent expenditures by corporations because such a ban would unconstitutionally abridge of the right of freedom of speech and of the press. It would abridge the rights of (1) the individuals who jointly own the co
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by nokcha 15y ago
They have Constitutional immunity for anything they say in either house of Congress: "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place" (Art. I, Section 6).

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