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by sandworm 12y ago
On principle, I have no real problem with the NSA having access to phone records (pen register) for purposes of combating actual terrorism. I deem that an acceptable intrusion. Besides, my phone company already has those records and uses
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by sandworm 12y ago
Why would they notice terabytes leaving Sony? It's a motion picture studio. They surely have piles of film-related data flowing constantly in and out of all sorts of places. And it's not like the hackers sent it directly to Pyo
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by sandworm 12y ago
Yes and no. They are tasked with protecting national security assets within the US, most of which rely on commercial systems. When they find a dangerous flaw in those systems, especially one loose in the wild, they are to help fix it. To
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by sandworm 12y ago
I used to think that way, that education would inevitably lead people to more egalitarian belief structures. Then I spent a few years at school in the US. I met many very educated people (ie well beyond undergrad) that scared the heck out
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by sandworm 12y ago
Does anyone not believe they had similar access to Iraqi systems before either of the wars? The problem with good intelligence is that sometimes it doesn't mesh with your political goals. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sandworm 12y ago
Anyone else notice this: "We realized there was another actor [South Korea] that was also going against them [North Korea] and having great success because of a 0 day they wrote. We got the 0 day out of passive and were able to re-purp
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by sandworm 12y ago
I have heard discussion that those in control were worried about dropping a nuke over Germany for fear that, should it not explode, it would wind up in the hands of enemy scientists. Japan was not considered capable of repaiting and turnin
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by sandworm 12y ago
Hasegawa also hesitates to suggest that there were forces within the Japanese elite who were working to end the war. That would be to suggest treason. Imho the use of nukes gave them that opportunity.
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by sandworm 12y ago
Lol. This topic is just about the most sensitive things I can imagine. The concept that America "won" both the pacific and European wars is an integral part of American identity. Shortly after the war, with the rise of the cold
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by sandworm 12y ago
Is this a joke? There have to easier ways than physically dropping a string into a rotor. They are radio controlled. A handful of parts from radioshack, or even just an injection-capable wifi dongle, and they will drop from the sky withou
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by sandworm 12y ago
SpaceX is certainly doing great things, but where was this vid a couple days ago? When I first heard of the hard landing I jumped online to see the vid. But no vid appeared. Then I realized what was happening. A vid of a crashing rocket
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by sandworm 12y ago
Murder always requires mens rea. Crimes that do not require mens rea are called "strict liability crimes" but murder is definitely never one of those. >In some cases, murder does not require mens rea, when the accused shows &q
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by sandworm 12y ago
"Voluntary manslaughter" is a killing that would otherwise be murder, but because of a recognized mitigating factor is punished as something less. It has all the elements of murder (killing with aforethought) but we choose not to
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by sandworm 12y ago
There are no "homicide cases" in court. That might be term used by some cops to indicate a case involving a body, but even then it is ambiguous as cops often don't know whether the body was "killed" or whether they
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by sandworm 12y ago
Lol. When I was at school this tactic, creating doubt by blaming someone else, was called "Plan B" after a plot line from the TV series The Practice.
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by sandworm 12y ago
Condescending to the media coverage. If the climbers do an interview and announce, as CNN did, that they have completed the "First assent of El Capitan" then I will have a very condescending comment for them too. Ego is part of c
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by sandworm 12y ago
I guess then we are at the fact that climbing terms mean different things to different climbers. Around my area, rope-soloing is solo top roping, basically a fixed rope with an ascender on the climber. I've got a great device for thi
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by sandworm 12y ago
High grades create assents. Put up a new 11c and nobody will take notice, it won't get much traffic as any new route today is probably out of the way. But claim a new 5.14 or 5.15 and the elites will appear, if perhaps only to prove
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by sandworm 12y ago
Free soloing doesn't mean no gear per se. Technically, it just means free climbing while solo. There are methods for climbing solo with protection. It's complicated, more of an exercise in equipment management than climbing, bu
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by sandworm 12y ago
Some of these aid routes (the pitons) eventually go clean as the scars get big enough to hold a nut or the new paper-thin cams.
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by sandworm 12y ago
Some landowners ban chalk thinking that it's the chalk that makes routes white. It isn't. In most rock the hardest stuff is the quartz crystals. As all the soft stuff is eroded away by foot traffic (mica and such) the white qua
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by sandworm 12y ago
It depends on the route. Place bolts beside a crack to facilitate sport climbing and you should expect the hangars to be bashed flat (pulling out the actual bolt is often very difficult). I've participated in this myself. And before
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by sandworm 12y ago
As a former wall climber (Squamish, UBC Varsity Outdoors Club) I've been laughing all day at the coverage of this. The reporters cannot get their story strait. This isn't a first assent. This isn't even a free climb by som
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by sandworm 12y ago
"can not understand" is different than harbouring misconceptions. Many doctors harbour misconceptions about various medical issues, medicine is a big field. That doesn't mean they are incapable of understanding the concept
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by sandworm 12y ago
I'm no expert. My opinion on the suit difficulties is based on the recent ars article on the subject of space rescue. http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/the-audacious-rescue-... "Ars consulted
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by sandworm 12y ago
There is an odd-man-out problem. Nobody has ever tried to don a spacesuit without some help from people not in spacesuits. So even if they had enough, which they probably do not, it might not be possible. Getting into a modern suit also
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by sandworm 12y ago
These are references to Dragon the program, the design, not to individual dragon capsules. Given the rate of development in space programs, no two Soyuz are identical, I imagine the answer as to whether a particular dragon would/could
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by sandworm 12y ago
A dead doctor (or lawyer) doesn't mean that his/her practice is dead. That legal entity carries on. The local medical board will have rules regarding the disposition of patient records. In all likelihood the dead doctor's
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by sandworm 12y ago
That article only speaks to the prison population. It doesn't count those in jails, those serving less than one year. For simple possession it is unlikely that anyone would be sent away for more than a year so I'm not surprised t
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by sandworm 12y ago
I should have added that prisons are physically different. Most of the structures recognizable in the OP are prisons, multiple buildings separated by open yards. Jails are more likely to be a single converted building, with the roof open

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