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by simplicio 12y ago
Most of the case was based on evidence found on the laptop seized when Ulrich was arrested. Even if the Server evidence was thrown out (which itself doesn't seem likely, IMHO) Ulrich still would've faced substantially the same ca
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by simplicio 12y ago
It's not particularly clear they could have had it thrown out in anycase. And even if they did, there was more than enough information just on the laptop to tie him conclusively to Silk Road. So his lawyer threw a Hail Mary and decid
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by simplicio 12y ago
It's possible to get a re-trial on the grounds of incompetent defence, but the bar is really high. And since Ulbricht is still using the same lawyer for his appeals, it doesn't look like he's trying that route. His defense d
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by simplicio 12y ago
which is good, because I keep running out. :)
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by simplicio 12y ago
Ulbricht seems likely to do a lot more time than Mitnick ever did. By the time he gets out, I doubt most people will remember who he was.
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by simplicio 12y ago
Eh, the idea obviously isn't to make it impossible to troll. Just to make it more trouble than its worth for some meaningful fraction of potential trolls.
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by simplicio 12y ago
Because Kernel changes should never break backwards compatibility, so that would mean the major version number would never change, making it worthless. And you'd end up with very large numbers for the minor numbers, which Linus seems t
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by simplicio 12y ago
I always sort of wonder about stories like this, where fairly established game-devs have to rely on Kickstarter, or on their own funds to develop games. Seems like someone like Blow should be able to attract some investors.
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by simplicio 12y ago
The article gives rather short shrift at the end to what seems like a pretty strong argument against this theory, which is that it isn't clear what it would get the FBI. Is there any info they can get from running the site that they c
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by simplicio 12y ago
I don't think its correct to say "Dark Matter is the popular name for a variable in some models of how fast galaxies of different sizes rotate". The properties of Dark Matter are pretty tightly constrained, not just by galact
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by simplicio 12y ago
Seems like kind of a weak attempt at a ' gotcha '. I don't think there's really any expectations that attendees at a conference are only doing work related things 100% of the time. The fact that politician X was readin
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by simplicio 12y ago
Article raises a 21st century grammar question. If a sentence starts with the name of a computer command, and the invocation of the command is all lowercase, do you still capitalize the command name? Apparently the author thinks you don&#
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by simplicio 12y ago
Yea. Reads like Paul may have fired up the computer after having a little too much fun out on the town Friday night. Maybe if I make an app that locks people out of their computers after 9pm on Fridays, I can get Y-Combinator to fund me an