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by slapshot 14y ago
That sounds like a problem with the sentences and not with the plea. --> Current world: Defendants have a choice between accepting a certain jail term of Y or risking trial where they'll get in a range from 0-X (where X >> Y). -
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by slapshot 14y ago
A guilty verdict from a jury is not an automatic maximum sentence. The mostly-mandatory Federal Sentencing Guidelines would have called for an actual sentence of 4-10 months in this case. In the federal system, broad classes of crimes ("mu
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by slapshot 14y ago
It's also worth noting that he literally wrote the book on the law of computer crime [1], and served as a pro bono (free) defense attorney _against_ the DOJ in the Lori Drew MySpace case [2], and he was extensively critical of the governmen
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by slapshot 14y ago
Great way to disrupt the postal system! It's a legal gray area, but you would only be against it if you're against innovation and new technology! I'll call it Stampr.
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by slapshot 14y ago
The article seems to suggest that YttP is no longer using one sequence of poses, but will still offer hot yoga: "But Yoga to the People’s founder, Greg Gumucio, said on Monday that he was not getting out of the hot-yoga business: Y
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by slapshot 14y ago
Ford did not receive any "bailout" funds, either as equity or debt. "As the only one of the U.S. Big Three that didn't accept the offer of a federal-government bailout in 2009, Ford [relied] instead on its own huge bet on its future financ
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by slapshot 14y ago
> Conversely, might the appearance of CRE bacteria might sway the evolution debate? No. It seems like an easy political point, but there's a lot more to the story. First, there are far easier and more visible examples of evolution. In
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by slapshot 14y ago
That's a nice commons you've got there. It'd be a tragedy if something happened to it. As has been extensively discussed, there are lots of drawbacks to the App Store model. But if they actually enforced limits on push notifications (or m
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by slapshot 14y ago
Sortof like http://bookshelfporn.com/ , but woodsier.
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by slapshot 14y ago
> I'm not asserting that IP owners currently owe property taxes. Except you did when you called them tax evaders.
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by slapshot 14y ago
An interesting idea, but which Maine tax would apply? I'm not a Maine tax lawyer, but it looks like Maine has plenty of taxes, including a "Blueberry Tax" [1][2], but there doesn't appear to be a general assets tax. Any corporate income fr
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by slapshot 14y ago
Good discussion of the same case here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4706572 There's a lot of FUD ("they might" "a ruling could") in this article. The short version is that this case deals with the fact that the Copyright Act prohi
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by slapshot 14y ago
FYI, the images are substantially larger than the thumbnails on the page. Right click "open image in new tab" or "view image" (or drag it into your address bar, or do whatever other browser-specific thing required to see a full-page image)
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Supporters of WikiLeaks' Julian Assange ordered to pay his bail(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
7 points by slapshot 14y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 14y ago
Except, as GP points out, the vast expansion of the email system was followed by a huge number of users running to GMail and a huge number of domains running to Google Apps and other hosted platforms. My parents don't run mail servers. My
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by slapshot 14y ago
Kudos for breaking the mold and I love the design from a "this is new and fun" perspective, but I completely disagree from a functional perspective. It looks really neat (if a little over-testosteroned), but if I'm visiting the police's we
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Nitty Gritty Advice on Raising Venture Capital(inc.com)
2 points by slapshot 14y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 14y ago
There's a world of difference between saying "I'd use a laser to melt the metal" and actually perfecting the process to the extent that (a) the metal being deposited is adequately fused, (b) the metal underneath is not disturbed every time
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by slapshot 14y ago
This comes up often in communities where there aren't many parents. As a parent, I can tell you that every single doctor in the country uses the "40 weeks" standard for preganancy, which counts from LMP (last menstrual period). Anybody wh
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by slapshot 14y ago
> Armstrong was literally the first. I prefer to think of it as Armstrong being the symbol of a massive team effort. As much as he was the first person to step on the moon, it took thousands of "nerds" (as they proudly admitted at the
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by slapshot 14y ago
An interesting problem is highlighted on that graph: solar seems to be peaking around mid-day, but energy demand peaks at 5 - 7 pm when solar is pretty weak. The curves showing pre- and post-solar have almost identical peaks; solar hasn't
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by slapshot 14y ago
> What else would you use to highlight a timer or a price? A different color font, a larger font, a colorful highlight, arrows, bullets, a speech balloon, quotation marks, an hourglass, a dollar sign, a picture of money... there are man
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by slapshot 14y ago
As has been pointed out a few times in connection with this incident, Knight is largely a market-maker (not an HFT firm): Knight keeps open quotes on both buy and sell sides of transactions at all times and provides liquidity. Their strate
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by slapshot 14y ago
There appears to be a more extensive PDF archive of hearing docs here: http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/polopoly_fs/7.52307!/Hea... On the last page, an IT administrator testified that the application logged on every 15 minutes and che
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Pokerstars settles with U.S. government, buys Full Tilt Poker(forbes.com)
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by slapshot 14y ago
It's here: "Relative visual saliency differences induce sizable bias in consumer choice" Milica Milosavljevica, Vidhya Navalpakkama, Christof Kocha, Antonio Rangela, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740811... It's als
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Square, other payment processors enact ban on medical marijuana dispensaries(sfgate.com)
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by slapshot 14y ago
Things I find odd: - OP runs his own online contest company ( http://www.linkedin.com/in/giancarlomassaro -> http://anyluckyday.com/ ), but did not disclose it. (Edit: the significance of running a contest company is that people may
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by slapshot 14y ago
> how can I get my content added to their content ID system so that people don't re-upload my stuff? There's a signup form here: http://www.youtube.com/content_id_signup
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by slapshot 14y ago
I do not work for Google/Youtube (or BMF), but I have experience with their systems. The short version is that YouTube has an automated tool that scans for duplicates of copyrighted videos that have been uploaded by verified creators. It

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