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by s_q_b 13y ago
It's amazing how light the penalties are for white collar crimes. The penalties assessed were: 1. Fines 2. Several non-custodial sentences 3. One six month sentence 4. Two deferred prosecution agreements And this is for crimes that aff
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by s_q_b 13y ago
What killed the Blackberry? Blackberry made a tremendously successful high featured phone. Then Steve Jobs and Apple released a full-fledged minicomputer that fit in the palm, with a usable interface, that happened to also function as a p
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Sun-tracking monoliths in general. We should really get around to building one of these near the seed vault at some point.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There's also the CIA Officer in Residence program, which I actually think is great because you get to meet people with IC experience who can point you in the direction of all sorts of cool unclassified tech. And of course the quickly r
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The actual words I wanted to use wouldn't be appropriate in daily conversation. The most accurate substitutes would be incensed, enraged, livid. "Feeling betrayed" implies skulking about with a sad expression. In reality, f
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by s_q_b 13y ago
SMS-based maybe? Pretty much everybody's got a cell phone.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
“I know from firsthand communications that a number of people at N.I.S.T. feel betrayed by their colleagues at the N.S.A.,” Mr. Green said in an interview Tuesday. That's the understatement of the century. NIST is pissed off. Many
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yep, that's about right. Especially the memorizing the phone numbers part. One of my mother's former law partners used to help get Martin Sheen out of jail whenever he arrested protesting. He actually has a quick cameo in the firs
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yeah, I'd be more in the "what the hell, let's buy one of these boxes because it's interesting tech" camp than the "falsify student loans" interest category.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Since you have experience in this field, in your general opinion is there any financial opportunity in buying ASIC devices right now, or just in selling Levis to the prospectors by reselling the devices?
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Make that into an app, and I'll be your first customer. It's the convenience factor that bothers me. How do you differentiate a good housekeeper from someone who's going to steal my nutella? (I don't keep much of value i
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Haha, in retrospect it does read that way, but its not a put down at all. My company works on lots of innovative projects, but my bread and butter is an IT hardware service solution that lowers vendor maintenance costs. Doesn't get muc
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Very cool space to be in. So what's the projected ROI on your units? Which of the units are shipping? (Caveat that you've got a vested stake understood.)
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Are there any reliable Bitcoin ASIC providers at the moment? Butterfly Labs is shipping units now, but it's all in a trickle. Also, the difficulty rate is going to go way up once those machines come online. Seems like if you bought the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I'm not suggesting that activists here could actually use them, as that would lead to very bad consequences. I see it more as a statement. For example, in high school I used to carry around a bootable USB stick on my keychain with a li
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by s_q_b 13y ago
This is useful as a novelty for the modern activist, but nothing more. In practical terms it would make most arrest situations far worse. This tool only makes sense for hardcore criminals, with little to lose by running from the police, may
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That's too bad. Best of luck as you move forward as a cleaning company. The biggest issue I see with most on-demand cleaning services is that they don't do the type of cleaning I actually need done. I don't need my surfaces d
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Looks like you nailed it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/middleeast/kerry-say...
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by s_q_b 13y ago
"Potential adversary" means anyone that may not acquiesce to the requests of our government, and/or form military partnerships with rival major powers. Every nation thinks about defense in the same semi-paranoid (or "neo
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by s_q_b 13y ago
In international relations, on some level every nation is considered a threat. Unfortunately, that's the reality of the world in which we live.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Brazil's a rising regional power, so the United States inherent interest is to reduce its influence. Brazil's not so much an antagonist, but the ruling party under Lula da Silva is traditionally associated with workers parties in
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by s_q_b 13y ago
You're probably right. Dinner to me falls into the same category. Just as there's nothing wrong with a beer or a glass of wine with dinner, there's nothing wrong with a cold glass of Coke by the pool. It's the failure to
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There's no need for aggression, especially when you're spectacularly wrong. There's nothing more dangerous than a confident yet totally inaccurate fact-checker. The right to trial by jury is not fully incorporated against the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
It's funny to hear that perspective from a Canadian. In comparative constitutionality, the prevailing scholarly opinion is that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a modern update to the US Bill of Rights. The United States
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I'm wondering if we should be redesigning all software around formally proven shims. I've been thinking a lot about what a system would look like if we re-designed it from the ground up. Nothing as extreme as throwing out von Neum
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Hell, I love nothing more than celebrating the end of a hard days work with a beer. No disagreement from me. I would simply suggest that people think the same way about a Coke. There's nothing wrong with celebrating the end of a day
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by s_q_b 13y ago
We need a social-shift that treats sugary drinks more like we treat alcohol. I'm not saying let's only sell Coca-Cola to 21-year-olds, but rather that the social stigma should be different. A sugary beverage should be a celebrator
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There are similar concepts in American law. Some crimes, (it used to be almost all crimes, now it's very few) require a particular state of mind, or mens rea. Mens rea, or "guilty mind", is a classic precept that goes all the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Once in a while it would be worth a fortune to be young enough again, not used to thinking in terms of projects, roi, timelines and goals... I keep promising myself that when this project is finished, or when we hit this sales target, or
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Ah, this is great. I first learned assembly programming to modify one of my favorite video games, Earthbound. To my surprise, the game was a cult classic, and extensive efforts had been made to develop tools to modify every aspect of the ga

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