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by s_q_b 12y ago
Of course it is a legitimate concern, just as tainted food products from China are a legitimate concern, but they are not a big enough concern to warrant the absolutely massive economic risk the new Chinese leaders are taking. Trade wars co
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by s_q_b 12y ago
>They made huge improvements (Huawei, Meizu, Xiaomi, others)... Agreed, and we can only expect more improvement as China moves up the value chain. >and are going to outsell brands like Apple and Samsung In China , sure. I think Xiaom
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by s_q_b 12y ago
More protectionism is not the answer. Restraints on global trade are probably the most harmful thing we do to ourselves as a species. Now I understand that national defense is paramount. Some restrictions for national defense may be necessa
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by s_q_b 12y ago
US Cyber Command, the main elite military cyberwarfare unit, is under the joint leadership of the NSA director. What they're doing now is moving the techniques "down-market" so that ordinary units have cyber capabilities as w
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Those guys exist. But there are a whole host of reasons you'd want a force that could attack an enemy country's infrastructure remotely. As a chief example, it's far less inflammatory than boots on the ground. Can you imagine
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Not any. You're forgetting that people are "geeks" about everything, including the law. Some of them haven't gone to law school for various reasons, usually either another compelling interest or cost. Complex litigation
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Here's the even worse part: Even direct violation of the law during the course of a prosecutor's job is protected by near-absolute judicial immunity. Even if you had absolutely airtight evidence to convict (difficult), an officer
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by s_q_b 12y ago
No worries, mate :) My sister does have a fake "Princeton Law" shirt though. You're also right about the bar. Everyone I know from top-tier law schools down to those at the lowest rung schools spent an extra several months at
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Princeton doesn't have a law school. Maybe you're thinking of Columbia or Harvard?
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Wait, what? Gmail is reading the content of email messages, and giving them to law enforcement? There are a bevy of constitutional issues with this. Now, I will preface this by saying that child molesters are despicable, no one will argue t
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Wait, what? Gmail is reading the content of email messages, and giving them to law enforcement? There are a bevy of constitutional issues with this. Now, I will preface this by saying that child molesters are despicable, no one will argue t
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by s_q_b 12y ago
I looked into doing this a few years back. Apprenticeship, or "reading the law," used to be a very common method of becoming an attorney.[0] However, state bar regulations standardization have removed this option in all but a few
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Not me. That quote is that of a hypothetical law enforcement officer's view. It doesn't represent my personal opinions. It's an attempt to place ourselves in their shoes to understand their thinking.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
If you look to my comment below, you'll see why I used "topia", which just means "place" from the Greek topos. (u)topia = with the negative prefix means "No Place." (Dys)topia = with the prefix δυσ (dus) f
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by s_q_b 12y ago
If so, that's a brilliant pun. This book's been added to my reading list.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Bingo, thought it made a nice contrast with "Ecotopia." The suffix is from the Greek topos (τόπος), meaning "place."
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Very cool idea. Although the recent oil and natural gas booms are fast transforming "The Empty Quarter" into "Extractopia" where oil, gas, logging, and mineral extraction, which are already the main industries, are going
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Exactly. I'm saying pointing out government impotence was the purpose of the protest, the payload message it was meant to transmit. That should be clear from the symbolic choices of removing the flags, etc. So naturally the powers that
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by s_q_b 12y ago
It's highly symbolic from a police perspective. We may see it as some kids who watched too many documentaries playing a harmless prank. But let me rephrase that to put that in the frame of mind of the investigators. "Unknown indiv
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Or really a minimal version of any genome. Build me a fruit fly with the "non-coding" sequences removed, and show me that its phenotypically normal. The genomes are remarkably similar, thus proving the point while not involving po
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by s_q_b 12y ago
This cuts against everything I've heard about genetics and epigenetic developments since the the complete of the HGP. It was my understanding that we were finding that the so-called "junk" DNA actually serves a variety of fun
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Good examples of the futility of such a project are the tsunami stones of Japan. There are hundreds of them dating back centuries, some of which quite literally say "Do not build your homes below this line. Giant waves occasionally des
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Actually, it's the Wiretap Act (See 18 U.S.C.§2511), and the Pen Register and Trap and Trace Act (See 18 U.S.C. §3127) you have to ensure you follow when performing this type of research. Here's an interesting analysis: http:&#x2
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by s_q_b 12y ago
One of several studies on what would occur if a Carrington-level event occurred today. See also the OECD's report: http://www.oecd.org/governance/risk/46891645.pdf The remarkable thing is that it would cost i
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Severe Space Weather Events–Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts (2009)(science.nasa.gov)
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by s_q_b 12y ago
If I had to guess what the blackhat talk was, it probably was more about a systemic vulnerability than a specific hack. I'm guessing it got killed over ECPA legal concerns.
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by s_q_b 12y ago
It's been patched. Here's the Tor Project's take: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/new-tor-denial-service-atta...
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Huh, good catch. Either the author mixed up the description, or the designer confused the standard. I just grabbed the first example at hand, but a quick googling should turn up some more devices.
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Historical German KWF secure analog telephone, with example red "secure" and green "clear" buttons. http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/ant/kwf/ The convention evolved early, when secure co
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by s_q_b 12y ago
Even as the resident apologist for NSA activities, I have to say this bill seems entirely appropriate to me. Information gathered under FISA 702 shouldn't be able to be searched for American data without a proper search warrant, and pr

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