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nulbyte
7y ago
It's one of those technical things that makes sense when it's said, but doesn't really hold any merit. Here is what the law requires. > If a person or entity making a call for telemarketing purposes (or on whose behalf suc
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nulbyte
7y ago
> In the document, Domino’s lays out its argument, claiming the cost of accessibility requirements may run into the millions, and the rules around what is accessible and what is not have yet to be decided. This is a dense argument. There
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7y ago
The numerals are a mere convenience. A bank is required to honor the spelled out amount, because that is what is legally binding. But to the parent's point, presumably you owed a certain amount before paying, so if you overpaid, you ha
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nulbyte
7y ago
Fair enough, but that doesn't negate their refusal to sell them for that purpose. They refuse to sell them for that purpose because they know the state will pay far less than they would otherwise lose from public scrutiny. I'm oka
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nulbyte
7y ago
This is not normal, and you shouldn't be giving any organization where that happens. The board pays the executive. The executive should never write their own check.
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7y ago
Yes. For example, mortgage lenders in the US are required to obtain and report this.[1] If applying in person the applicant chooses not to furnish the information, the lender is required to guess based on observation. [1]: http://
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nulbyte
7y ago
Humans had plenty of algorithms to substantiate racial discrimination using nonobvious indicators. We can, inadvertantly or otherwise, easily program machines to do the same.
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7y ago
Lots of old equipment a system administrator might work with also uses VGA.
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nulbyte
7y ago
Actually, merchants, acquirers, and issuers can do this. It happens sometimes. When it happens, other limits come into play downstream, such as terminal configuration. There are separate offline limits, and it is unlikely they would set it
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7y ago
> “Square’s negligent approach to medical billing…failed to adequately secure the privacy of patients’ medical information,” Mr. Ruark’s attorneys wrote in a complaint. I hope the judge throws this case out. Ruark's lawyer should kn
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7y ago
> People are smart enough to write down their address. Not usually. In this scenario, given its use for display on a user page, it may make sense. For most other cases, this doesn't pan out. Here in the US, for example, the general
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7y ago
> * A daemon that pulls new mail from my IMAP servers to my local maildir as soon as it arrives. You can do this with fetchmail and procmail.[1] [1] http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetc..
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nulbyte
7y ago
It may not be cost effective for you, but your proposal doesn't seem cost effective for Stripe, either.
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7y ago
Speaking of legal responsibility, there is also a legal responsibility to not discriminate (even if inadvertantly) against the disabled. This seems like a pot of gold style quick fix, which is why I have strong reservations about its viabil
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7y ago
>> Enter the last password you remember using with this Google Account > Which of course the attacker knows because they changed your password. The site asks for the last password you remember using, not the last password that w
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nulbyte
7y ago
No, but prepaid wireless services may charge you for incoming calls.
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nulbyte
7y ago
> I had to Google... This is how I do it too, except replace Google with DuckDuckGo.
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nulbyte
8y ago
Google isn't bringing the internet to Louisville. So yes, nice roads are better than the internet that Google isn't providing us.
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8y ago
To my mind, they found out pretty late. If they didn't take our climate into account during the design process, they failed before they began. It's not like these were unusual weather occurrences. Further, they lobbied metro counc
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nulbyte
8y ago
Google certainly did some damage, but road construction has become a norm here outside of Google.
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nulbyte
8y ago
This is a market exit, wherein Google is making Louisville Metro whole for damage done to our roads while rolling out a service to a tiny fraction of the metro only to give up and walk out.
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8y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. This is a public-facing government website. It ought to degrade gracefully in order to reach the broadest possible audience. Or, write a decent site to start with, and you wouldn't have to worry about degradi
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nulbyte
8y ago
GP did say "absolutely everything." Surely the intent was that "all things for all individuals are available."
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nulbyte
8y ago
You could literally replace that emoji with the well known phrase "wink, wink." It is well understood and avoids the ambiguity of emoji.
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8y ago
In many states in the US, you only need one party's consent. In the cases where you need dual party consent, they must explicitly ask you. Of course, that works both ways in each case. If you only need one party's consent, you can
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nulbyte
8y ago
> ...if you can't inspect it you can't reasonably trust it. That is the point the article is making, and that's what it sounds like the Keybase client is doing--not trusting the server by relying on client-side encryption
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nulbyte
8y ago
Is there an issue with that IRC server? I can't connect to it for it me reason. Just times out.
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8y ago
That's not the only edge case, and the blog points that out.
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8y ago
You don't need Facebook for any of this.
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8y ago
Can I just say how much I hate those? It's not like someone is going to verify it, and I have no idea what happens with that data, either, so I always put the wrong date. If, that is, I even bother to do that. Most of them are easily b
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