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by rpedroso 12y ago
Although Superfish was founded in Israel, they're headquartered in Palo Alto now. The nationality of Lenovo is relevant insofar as it affects the applicability of US law. IANAL so I can't say how relevant that fact is, but I suspe
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Not to mention how reluctant they were to even admit the security issues presented by Superfish installations. They (and Lenovo) repeatedly denied that the injection of a trusted root certificate posed a security threat. Spin your mistakes
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I hope that there will be legal ramifications to discourage this kind of behavior, but ultimately, the vendor that packaged Superfish with the computers is a Chinese company who will probably claim that this kind of thing is permitted by th
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I agree that armchair "expert opinion" is a significant problem at this time (see Harry Collins, "Are we all scientific experts now?"). However, I'm not sure I see how a social emphasis on evidence over authority wo
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This is reasonable -- I admit, I accept as true many results that I don't fully understand precisely because I don't have time to learn everything about every field. But I'm not sure that this kind of leniency with respect to
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I don't think this is correct. Willingness to accept theories based on our limited understanding of the underlying facts and our observations has led to widespread, incorrect belief before. Descartes and Galileo accepted atomism becaus
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by rpedroso 12y ago
The author makes a few references to the idea of "scientific consensus", which I find curious. It's a phrase that I tend to cast aside as politically motivated. Politicians in the climate change debate like to point to &quot
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There is the GATTACA argument that unequal access to genetic modification will foster even greater socioeconomic inequality than we already face today. The film imagined a future in which genetic superiority could be measured by percentile
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Writing a window manager in Rust is interesting precisely because it's written in Rust. I wouldn't be surprised if this homebrewed WM didn't hold up in features or performance to alternatives like xmonad, dwm, Awesome, i3, et
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by rpedroso 12y ago
Can you clarify your claim that Google News "republishes the full text of basically every article", because I'm browsing right now and all I see are headlines with brief snippets and related news. I wouldn't consider mys
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Yes, but there are only 3 Trader Joe's in all of Manhattan. Two of them are down near NYU and the other is on the Upper West side, which makes them difficult to access for people living in midtown, uptown and virtually the entire east
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by rpedroso 12y ago
To clarify, nasal colonization by Staph. Aureus is not equivalent to a "sinus infection". In college I took a class on plagues -- as an experiment, everyone in the class tested themselves for nasal colonization of S. Aureus. Over
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by rpedroso 12y ago
So, I hope this stays, as far as I'm concerned google can shut down the disavow tool and those that lived by the sword should die by the sword. It's like an 'own goal' by the bad element in the SEO community. A c
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I cited the examples of Georgia and Virginia to emphasize that known cases of these Border Patrol operations seem to cluster in areas that are frequently points of disembarkation for international travel. I don't disagree with you that
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That kind of behavior is referred to and might be permitted by the SCOTUS decision 'tptacek cied above. Relevant paragraph: Whatever the permissible scope of intrusiveness of a routine border search might be, searches of this kind may
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I did some research and found this 1973 SCOTUS case that matches your description: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6933260753627774... Here is the key quote, taken from section 273: But the search of the pet
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by rpedroso 13y ago
From the web page: "Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a 'secret contract' with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries. We categorically deny
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Thanks, I totally forgot!
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Moxie's blog post does a better job explaining the problems than I can [1]. Basically, the framework of the contest precludes many avenues of attack to which a given cryptosystem could be vulnerable. The researcher who discovered the v
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by rpedroso 13y ago
Do you have a source for this? How did it work -- the individual ISPs contacted websites they intended to blacklist and gave them the opportunity to appeal? I find this hard to believe since Justin Hancock, who runs BishUK, claims to not ha
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by rpedroso 13y ago
The article itself actually discusses this. All new internet customers are greeted with a prompt asking them whether or not they want parental controls [1]. The design of the choice menu seems to encourage choosing the porn filter. As for e
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by rpedroso 13y ago
The quote technique you're referring to is called a pull-quote, and they have been around for decades. They may have seen a resurgence on the web recently, I couldn't say, but they've been used in magazines as far as I can re
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by rpedroso 13y ago
The remarkable story aside, I really enjoyed the styling of the article. While I wish the text were just a pinch bigger, it was truly a pleasure to read. Some things I noticed in particular: - Subtle highlighting to connect names to pho
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by rpedroso 13y ago
If compounding pharmacies perform so poorly in this area, then it is certainly in the interest of the manufacturer to provide a better product for at least two reasons. 1) If they know ophthalmologists will prescribe the safer product, and
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by rpedroso 13y ago
I tend to agree with you, but there are some differences: A) Most of the "Mac vs PC" ads focused on showcasing ways Apple products were superior to Microsoft ones [1]. This isn't universally true though [2]. Regardless, that
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by rpedroso 13y ago
Or, alternatively, banks would simply stop offering credit to people with bad credit scores because it would always be a losing proposition for them.
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I said explicitly in my post that "I don't think any amount of evidence could justify a cavity search". However, we know for a fact that a judge signed a search warrant for a cavity search. "Clenching buttocks" seem
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Part of me wants to believe that the police had some kind of evidence beyond "clenching his buttocks". I don't think any amount of evidence could justify a cavity search, but I'm willing to wait for the judicial side of
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I think the OP was referring to the chef's work in designing courses and menus more so than the manual labor of cooking. That aspect of restaurants, of course, is a creative endeavor, as is directing a film.
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Looking at this, I'm not quite sure what the thumbs up/down signify. For example, on the cancer Don't list: Offer unsolicited advice. Telling people what to do when they don't ask for help is rarely a good idea, even if

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