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by rarw 13y ago
A privacy pledge, how cute! The problem with stuff like this is not knowing the third, fouth, and fifth party uses. Granted most user's don't read these disclosure and even more don't have the technical aspects of how this wo
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by rarw 13y ago
Which is why I said "articles like this" and not "this article." Your quote is correct. My comment was on the general scope of anti-surveillance writing.
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by rarw 13y ago
Articles like this pop up all the time. The problem is that they never address (1) the legitimate need for surveillance; (2) dangers of an internet (or other communications networks) which law enforcement or government cannot access at all;
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by rarw 13y ago
#1 bugs me the most. False urgency is the name of the game everywhere I've ever worked. From my experience it's a problem of how the company is structured. When everyone thinks what they are working on or assigning is top priority
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by rarw 13y ago
You're right. The comment that you should buy stock with legal income and pay back a mortgage with the illegal income misses the point completely. Buying stock was just one example of how transfering illegaly acquired funds into someth
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by rarw 13y ago
I think the seizure of Silk Road absolutly had an impact on the value of BitCoins. The benefit of using BitCoins is that they provide a way to operate outside of traditional currency structures. Once BitCoins becomes something that can be s
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by rarw 13y ago
The more interesting question regarding this seizure is whether the FBI can compell the creators of BitCoin to assist in decrypting what they have just seized. For example, there are a number of statutes that require those operating communi
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by rarw 13y ago
The current valuation is irrelivant. Federal seizure laws allow the government to seize any property, money or bitcoins included, that were used in or generated from some illegal activity. If my illegal activity generates 1 bitcoin which, 2
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by rarw 13y ago
Turning one's passion into a job almost always has this result. Work is never as exciting as doing something for the sake of doing it because work always has a finite list of things that must be done even if you don't want to. It
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by rarw 13y ago
You could almost certainly find a away to pierce the corporate veil in this case so that's not really a concern.
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by rarw 13y ago
Good luck finding a cheap patent attorney. All those admitted to the patent bar must have a technical background. That only raises the price.
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by rarw 13y ago
Just wanted to note that there are frivolous litigation rules that allow for sanctions against the party bringing a bogus suit and allow the target of the suit to recover attorneys fees. It would be standard practice to include within the m
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by rarw 13y ago
Sure in some cases. Don't forget that patents cover a diverse array of innovations. What exactly is being infringed upon is not always that obvious.
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by rarw 13y ago
Sure, there are always risks with litigation but in general it is not as unpredictable as outsiders think.
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by rarw 13y ago
That's not really how things work. Not only is that sanctionable but extremely unethical and would result in diciplinary action if reported.
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by rarw 13y ago
It actually happens all the time. The heightened pleading standard comes from two cases - Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937, 1953 (2009). As the Twombly court described it - T
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by rarw 13y ago
Probably not. Enforcing a patent is expensive (as most litigation is). If this law penalized trolls who filed worthless claims but rewarded those who were legitimately being infringed on then if anything it would make it less risky.
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by rarw 13y ago
As a lawyer I'm always concerned about changes designed to make it harder to sue someone. You almost always end up with unintended consequences. Take for example the heightened pleading standard. This standard has been used with other
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by rarw 13y ago
I think the point of the article is more that it's a problem when something that contains these drugs lables itself as a "natural supplement" when in fact it is not. The issue is not so much const control as it is deceptive m
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by rarw 13y ago
I applaud the writer for his approach to making his own hub for his team. However, this is not a real 1-1 swap. In terms of pure functionality this may be an even exchange; his own platform might meet his needs just as well as GitHub. Yet
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by rarw 13y ago
Aside from fighting over whether Android is closed or not this is an interesting solution to dealing with the inconsistencies present in the Android universe. The freedom everyone wants to love that comes with a fully open source Android pl
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by rarw 13y ago
Poor guy. I wonder how many light bulbs he had to screw in before people learned his name.
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by rarw 13y ago
Reverse Polish Notation - sounds like the punch line to a really bad math joke
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by rarw 13y ago
That's gotta be the hackiest hack ever - write it on the outside. Genius.
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by rarw 13y ago
Yea that or just some dude selling K2 out of his basement would have been fine by me
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by rarw 13y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the authors argument that you don't need to use computers to be a computer scientist. Computer science, to be a bit recursive, is the science of solving problems with a computer. Much in the way a hammer
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by rarw 13y ago
I don't even know how that argument makes any sense.
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by rarw 13y ago
I love a good old does-the-4th-Amendment-cover-cell-phone-data debate. However, there's a lot of misinformation going on about the current state of ECPA (the Electronic Communications Privacy Act), what it covers and what it does not.
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by rarw 13y ago
Am I the only one who was really excited until it turned out he was selling coffee?
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by rarw 13y ago
I'm surprised Icahn is allowed to have a twitter. Regulators used to limit access to certain information sharing outlets for those in positions of influence, e.g. certain high level bank official could not have BBM (I know right) activ

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