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by otterley 3mo ago
I'll bite. His statements in this very forum could he used against him as evidence of intent to violate the law, should he be prosecuted someday. There's a reason why lawyers generally advise their clients to remain silent.
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by otterley 3mo ago
There was no "PGP decision." You're making that up.
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by otterley 3mo ago
You first!
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by otterley 3mo ago
It was never really all that settled, IMO. Roe v. Wade (which is now dead) was built on a pretty shaky foundation that was inspired by emanations of privacy rights like the Fifth Amendment, in the absence of clear Constitutional languag
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by otterley 3mo ago
That argument has been going on for decades, and has had few victories in the court system. The DMCA, which prohibits trafficking in anticircumvention devices, even though there's a lot of code in them, is still alive and well.
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by otterley 3mo ago
The concern here is probably with the shipping of the product (i.e. the binary artifacts), not the code itself. I can imagine a situation in which you could continue to make the code available, but could not produce a shippable artifact fro
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by otterley 3mo ago
> constitutionally protected rights Wait, which constitutionally protected right is that? I'm an attorney and constitutional scholar and am particularly interested in what right you believe is being violated here.
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by otterley 3mo ago
There are a lot of remedies available to a court with respect to a recalcitrant party, ranging from an injunction to remove your product from the market to fines and imprisonment. Again, speak with your attorney. Do not try to "hack th
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by otterley 3mo ago
> It's constitutional case law that there's an implicit right to privacy in the constitution. Constitutional scholar here! I mean, yes, that's true in a very general sense, but no court has held that age verification to
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by otterley 3mo ago
If you're in the USA or plan to visit someday, I would recommend you speak with your attorney before making such commitments.
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by otterley 3mo ago
They're probably doing it 1/to people who are on their property (the Museum can permit certain activities on its property while prohibiting others), and 2/for security purposes, e.g., to help slow the identification of buildi
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by otterley 3mo ago
> There's a museum with a very distinct building that is infamous for sending security staff out to tell photographers they cannot image the building Which one is that?
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by otterley 3mo ago
> Many buildings are copyrighted. If you take a picture of a building, which you are free to do, you cannot make money from that image just because you took it while being in the open public. In which country? Certainly not the USA. Ther
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by otterley 3mo ago
On that same page: > we’re updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed
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by otterley 3mo ago
This has been tried before, and Google Glass did not pass. As others have said across multiple threads here, there is a difference between passive recordings from fixed vantage points made by a property owner (or which are required, as with
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by otterley 3mo ago
Apparently they already have a blinking white light to indicate that recording is in progress. https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-ques...
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by otterley 3mo ago
The 1% in this case would be those with vision impairment.
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by otterley 3mo ago
The problem is that 99% of people who have them make the rest look bad.
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by otterley 3mo ago
I’m not wrong. They do use feature flags, but not as a substitute for rolling back failed or buggy deployments. They (and Google too) use feature flags in the ways according to the best practices discussed in the article. Google also cover
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by otterley 3mo ago
What does it mean to do “stateful things on a connection”? Feel free to point me to literature if you’d be repeating something already written or well known.
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by otterley 3mo ago
Some things that initially seem like benefits at a small scale become less so at large scale. Owning one cat can be lots of fun. Owning 50 cats, not so much. Everyone intends to collect the garbage. Few actually do.
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by otterley 3mo ago
Both Google and Amazon do rollbacks instead of feature flag switches. I’m pretty sure they have some experience maintaining user-facing software.
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by otterley 3mo ago
Out of curiosity, why can’t you change the behavior that prevents you from doing rollbacks? This design seems rather brittle. What happens if a node spontaneously fails, or you need to move to another AZ? (Assuming you’re in the cloud.)
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by otterley 3mo ago
You’ve gone fully off the rails and are making things personal. I’m done with this thread.
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by otterley 3mo ago
Is your brother actually a full tenured professor? Does he bring in grants and endowments and is well known in the research community? Is he being threatened with serious punitive action for not giving into individual student demands? There
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by otterley 3mo ago
I am very well aware, having close relationships with multiple faculty professors in my family to this day. Practically none of it has anything to do with student ratings. Which university did you attend? I asked you once already; put up or
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by otterley 3mo ago
It really depends on the university. Mine wasn't particularly helpful in this regard. They sent me a form-letter warning by mail once, when my GPA sank too low one quarter (this was before email was ubiquitous). And they did have some
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by otterley 3mo ago
Sued for giving out hard work assignments? That doesn't sound plausible. Under what theory would a student have a case?
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by otterley 3mo ago
I don’t think you understand how universities work. Which US university did you attend?
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by otterley 3mo ago
That happens when American students first join US universities too. It takes a few weeks for freshmen to get acquainted with the new reality of being completely responsible for handling their affairs and ensuring their success. It’s nothing

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