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by poet 16y ago
At the minimum it is sexual battery [1] and sexual imposition [2] and it could be argued that it was gross sexual imposition [3]. Ohio doesn't even use the phrase "sexual assault" in its laws about sex offenses [4]. The point is, quibbling
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by poet 16y ago
The richest man in Rome once said that you can't consider yourself truly rich unless you can afford your own private army. ;) Even more interesting is the fact that Crassus acquired his wealth by (1) declaring rich people enemies of the sta
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by poet 16y ago
There are a number of people with extensive startup experience on HN who don't think YC is worth it. Thomas and the guys from 37signals come to mind. There's a lot of experience and validation that comes from bootstrapping that YC doesn't p
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by poet 16y ago
Can you write a few sentences about why the principle of taxing income is wrong and what you propose instead? The salary of my first job is largely a function of the fact that I was born in the United States and educated by some of the best
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by poet 16y ago
Arguing with facts, good. Using terminology for the police that an angsty teenager would use, bad. Moreover, the target of your animosity is misguided. Baring obvious ethical problems, I expect our law enforcement to enforce a law to the fu
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by poet 16y ago
These rules have a simple justification. If an attacker would like to breach airport security but is allowed to walk away once he has started the screening process, he simply needs to continue to try over and over again until he finds a vul
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by poet 16y ago
That's not true for police officers in two party notification states; I'm not sure whether this applies to private citizens or not. In Illinois and other two party notification states, you can't record audio of police officers in public pla
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by poet 16y ago
Imagine how difficult it would be if you had to fight for your liberties in the first place. Consider situations like these the cost of maintenance. If you don't have the financial means to bear risk like this man did, there are certainly o
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by poet 16y ago
I'm not sure what rule or law you are referring do, but I'm guessing no. Illinois is a "two party" state as well and you cannot record audio of anyone with their consent, including a public official acting in a public capacity. However (at
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by poet 16y ago
I upvoted you. It's a good story and far more common than most people would like to believe. But I would caution you against generalizing your anecdotal evidence to the profession of teaching as a whole. Some teachers would do exactly what
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by poet 16y ago
Does that mean he went after this information, or more likely one of the computers in the botnet happened to have such information residing on it. It's possible he didn't know of any financial information... No it is not possible. Had you
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by poet 16y ago
I'm familiar with the general arguments you are presenting but they don't hold up in this situation. This case is clearcut. It is not some poor kid being beat down by the system. It is a computer criminal being sentenced to a punishment tha
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by poet 16y ago
Another (frankly more likely) possibility is that people think they deserve more recognition than they actually do. This post is based on the premise that it is the employer's fault and that doesn't necessarily follow.
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by poet 16y ago
According to the charges that were filed [1], the defendant also played a role in the creation of the botnet used in the attack. In addition to the DDoS attack there is the issue of accessing machines he was not authorized to. He pled guilt
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by poet 16y ago
The machines are capable of storing images. Straight from the mouth of Gale Rossides, the Deputy Administrator of the TSA [1]. The functionality is supposed to be disabled after an install, but such safeguards seem tenuous at best. [1] htt
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by poet 16y ago
This entire thread is people taking my analogy and shooting in the face. The point is this: jut because a crime is trivial and likely to happen doesn't mean we shouldn't blame the criminal. Yes, you're an idiot if you leave the keys in the
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by poet 16y ago
It's not surprising that words in a public forum are misappropriated, just like it's not surprising that a Mercedes with the keys in the ignition will be stolen. But that doesn't make either act any less illegal or deplorable. The law is cl
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by poet 16y ago
This is not correct. In the United States you must prove an intent to defame. Sure he can sue for liable, but he wont win unless he can prove intent. Even if the charges against him are not proven. This may seem harsh to you, but read about
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by poet 16y ago
I couldn't imagine a worse way to read literature (although hats off to the creator for the hard work). The beauty of The Waste Land comes from slowly unwrapping the references and allusions yourself. As we know from exploratory programmi
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by poet 16y ago
I'd fire him in a second with sufficient corroboration of the story. There's a non-negligible chance that such poor decision making isn't confined to just women.
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by poet 16y ago
They're outliers? There are physical realities that happen to your brain that make it more difficult to learn as you get older. Now, I certainly recognize that many aspects of the current education system are overblown. But you're going to
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by poet 16y ago
So then why isn't Facebook as notable as laying the first landlines across the US? Sure it's not the first time people have been communicating in this way, but by your argument Facebook is implementing the way that the current generation co
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by poet 16y ago
Bad example. Without toilets our cities would be disease ridden, awful places. You're obviously trolling, but I just thought I'd point that out. :)
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by poet 16y ago
I know the criticism is unfair, which is why I tried to couch it. :)
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by poet 16y ago
Messing up incorporation is something that is very annoying and time consuming to undo. Talk to a lawyer. I guarantee you the extra money you spend isn't going to make or break your business.
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by poet 16y ago
The idea is excellent, but the execution could have been better. I don't want a financial company I use to have a plan revolving around running away from a security guard. Had they done some social engineering or even obtained some sort of
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by poet 16y ago
Oh what a poor state the world would be in if everyone believed that. :) Side note: I have no problem with the OP's website.
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by poet 16y ago
Even assuming a secure implementation of this system (unlikely), what's to stop a man in the middle attack? When you're browsing at the coffee shop, I just lie to you about the server's public key. Now sure, you could access the server one
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by poet 16y ago
It seems like you misunderstand my comment. The idea I'm getting at is that it's usually something else besides the programming that is the bottleneck, not that bottlenecks don't exist. You're going to hit architectural and database issues
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by poet 16y ago
It's most certainly not the approach I take to learning. It is, however, the approach I take towards the conical "I disagree with Paul Graham" blog posts. Why? Because everyone's a critic. If the critic in question doesn't demonstrate a g

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