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by sjy 10y ago
> Chromecast – it just works. Feels like the future to use my phone to stream video from the Raspberry Pi to the TV. I wanted this experience, but the Pi was too underpowered to play 1080p or transcode my existing video collection, most
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by sjy 10y ago
> The NYTimes can have all the awards in the world if they publish articles that you can demonstrate beyond doubt to be bullshit or dishonesty. What articles did you have in mind? The NYT's reporting on WMDs in Iraq is often raised
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by sjy 10y ago
This doesn't answer the parent's point. Most cases turn on the facts, even in civil law systems. Defendants still get locked up when judges don't believe them, and judges can still get the facts wrong. Most U.S. federal law
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by sjy 10y ago
> People use Craigslist, for example. If the thing is useful, people will use it. If there's a product being sold, and if it's useful to the potential clientele, they'll buy it. Without regard to the UI. Craigslist achieve
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by sjy 10y ago
This case is about a federal statute that dates back to 1789.
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by sjy 10y ago
Incorrect – the defendant had an iPhone which contained indecent recordings of his niece, and had previously admitted to family members that he had a problem with child pronography, showing them a large collection on the computer that was c
817.
by sjy 10y ago
That's precisely what happened, and the judge didn't believe him, partly because he declined to say on oath that he had forgotten the password.
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by sjy 10y ago
There's a lot more evidence in the government brief, which was linked in the article.
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by sjy 10y ago
By giving credible oral testimony. The defendant chose not to do that, perhaps because it would have exposed him to cross-examination, and perjury charges if his implausible story was rejected (he remembered other passwords and had been cau
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by sjy 10y ago
> Why is the word of the judge alone sufficient to assume otherwise? There seems to be an obvious lack of checks here. Because the judge's finding is based on evidence – see my other comment[1]. The judicial power to make findings o
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by sjy 10y ago
It's actually pretty clear that he did if you look at pages 3–10 of the government brief. The government just doesn't know exactly what's on the encrypted external hard drives, but they suspect it's a lot more child porn
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by sjy 10y ago
There's also no directly observable difference between killing with or without intent, which is why we have murder trials. The ability to decrypt data can be inferred from the surrounding circumstances, which is what happened here[1]:
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by sjy 10y ago
That does not change the parent's point – he is in contempt for refusing to comply, not for being unable to comply. Contempt must be willful: https://www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-753-el...
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by sjy 10y ago
> Syria: Another Pipeline War This article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. deserves some criticism. Kennedy claims that there are 'abundant facts' to support the claim that 'the present crisis [is] just another proxy war over pi
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by sjy 10y ago
> It is entirely within the realm of likely possibilities that our national elections are a complete farce Most ballots are not cast by direct electronic voting: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11&#x2F
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by sjy 10y ago
I'm pretty happy with pandoc markdown, compiled to PDF or HTML using LaTeX or CSS for styling, which achieves both of those design goals. But I also want to compose my first draft in a WYSIWYG editor and send it to non-technical users
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by sjy 10y ago
There shouldn't be any need to build consensus – the behaviour described by the OP is plainly against Wikipedia policy.[1] That's not to say that it didn't happen, but it's important to be clear about what caused the edi
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by sjy 10y ago
According to the Brookings Institution memo on the Emoluments Clause[1]: > if Mr. Trump enters office in what would obviously constitute a knowing and indeed intentional violation of the Emoluments Clause and then declines to cure that v
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by sjy 10y ago
Whether you stole 1M or 10k makes a big difference to the expected utility of a 100k loss, which is obvious if you consider someone who doesn't actually have 100k left to spend on a fine.
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by sjy 10y ago
I think there's a very noticeable difference – but you don't have to take my word for it, because lots of research has been done on this subject. For example, see Vazquez-Landaverde, P., Torres, J. & Qian, M. (2006) Quantifica
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by sjy 10y ago
For example, #6 claims that 'Hillary's campaign' wants an 'unaware and compliant citizenry,' on the basis of an unsolicited email to Podesta using that phrase to describe Trump's campaign strategy!
832.
by sjy 10y ago
Are you saying that Colin Powell should have been imprisoned for using a PDA against the wishes of the NSA/CIA?
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by sjy 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_rem_jurisdiction
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by sjy 10y ago
The U.S. Constitution is far from unambiguous, and U.S. constitutional law can only be understood as a corpus of precedents which explain the meaning of terms which are open to interpretation, like 'due process' or 'freedom o
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by sjy 10y ago
Although McLeod is a law professor, some of his legal claims have already been disputed by Orin Kerr on the Volokh Conspiracy.[1] He has published constitutional law nonsense before, and once accused a federal judge of 'tyranny' f
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by sjy 10y ago
>false. It's a tort They're not mutually exclusive. Criminal negligence exists throughout the common law world.
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by sjy 10y ago
Good polysemous use of the word 'mutations.'
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by sjy 11y ago
South Park's centre-right perspective is so well known there's even a political class named after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican
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by sjy 11y ago
Here are some previous cases involving charges of failing to comply with a s 49 notice, under s 53 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Unfortunately I don't know of any good comprehensive free source for recent English
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by sjy 11y ago
> For example, how to prove random data isn't an encrypted blob? It is for the prosecution to prove that the random data is actually encrypted (or more accurately, to prove that you possess the 'key' to some electronic dat

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