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by slavak 12y ago
In that case it behooves the detective to obtain a proper warrant with or without a gag order, as necessary, before contacting them. Investigative procedure is not a new concept and we have a pretty well working system. There's really
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by slavak 13y ago
tptacek is hardly a web developer straight out of high school.
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by slavak 13y ago
This is a wrong and dangerous interpretation of free speech. The whole point of free speech is that people are allowed to hold differing opinions and the need to respect their right to /voice/ such opinions. It is NOT about respec
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by slavak 13y ago
I imagine the idea is applied to teenager, where it's supposed to teach them hard work and the value of money.
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by slavak 13y ago
You would be right if most regular surveillance cameras were continuously running face-recognition software and had access to a vast database linking faces to identities. And the day this happens might not be that far off. As it stands for
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by slavak 13y ago
The ISPC[1] language has syntax for requesting the compiler perform this transformation for you, giving you the performance benefits for free without requiring manually writing out the code or even paying the price in syntactic clarity (you
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by slavak 13y ago
The costs already come out of your tax dollars. Or did you think the massive anti-drug enforcement efforts and booming prison population are free?
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by slavak 13y ago
A fan doesn't help you _feel_ cooler, it actually helps cool your body by increasing air circulation and thus improving the rate of heat exchange. This device, OTOH, is explicitly intended to trick your body, potentially compromising i
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by slavak 13y ago
Pterodactyl song? :) (And yes, I know Pterodactyls aren't actually birds.)
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by slavak 13y ago
The very existence of this data would imply the U.S. government isn't really bound by the constitution anymore, either.
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by slavak 13y ago
It does happen today - to a point. (The extent this happens depends greatly on your state and government.) And I dislike it when it happens today. What you're advocating is basically taking the instances where the current system fucks
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by slavak 13y ago
That is an outright horrifying idea. What Friedman is suggesting in this article is basically applying the model of inter-state diplomacy to criminal law. That is an inherently unfair and inequality-promoting system. Happen to be a poor m
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by slavak 13y ago
And your country's money happens to be made out of ABS...
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by slavak 13y ago
This is what I was wondering as well. I work on a BigData BI solution, and in my experience IO and not processing time is the final bottleneck. I would expect working on the GPU to be slower, not faster, than working on CPU, because of the
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by slavak 14y ago
No, but it's impossible for me to know where in Africa the diamond is coming from, which means it's impossible to know whether or not it's a conflict diamond. I know that diamond miners in Russia or India have decent working conditions and
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by slavak 14y ago
Is the price of diamonds in the U.S. really that high? I spent quite a chunk of change on an engagement ring for my fiancée, but it was closer to a week's salary. I think if I'd spent three months salary on it the rock would be so big she w
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by slavak 14y ago
> This is why many women will accept, at the rational level, that diamonds are horrible and stupid and even evil (since they fuel all kinds of violence in Africa, where they are mined). But most of them will not be able to bring themsel
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by slavak 14y ago
Fooling fingerprint readers isn't really that hard. YouTube is full of videos explaining how to do it with nothing more than a bottle cap, super glue, some duct tape, and a regular laser printer.
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by slavak 14y ago
Did they really place a stamp of the British Museum on every page of this priceless historical artifact? I'm not being facetious, I was honestly surprised to see that.
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by slavak 14y ago
I think old people and the less tech-savvy users are exactly the people who would notice something like this. The less a person understands about computers, the more they rely on habit to use them. My mother calls me to ask what she should
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by slavak 14y ago
I think he meant that the game is to stand out in a way that doesn't immediately get your CV placed in the shredder...
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by slavak 14y ago
This works great for web-services, not so much for government. A government service needs transparency. 'You get a response after X signatures' is simple, understandable, and transparent. 'You get a response if you're in the top Y' is opaqu
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by slavak 14y ago
If they're allowed to retroactively change how much they taxed you, can you refile your financial statements? Yeah, didn't think so...
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by slavak 14y ago
This is why I have no moral qualms about using AdBlock on most of the internet. I made the mistake of disabling it on one such download site once, and it took me a while to find the actual download link in the mess of DOWNLOAD! ads. Then I
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by slavak 14y ago
What makes this proxy less secure than any other HTTPS proxy?
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by slavak 14y ago
How is this in any way analogous to the Nokia situation? Nokia aren't passing traffic through their proxy because they want access to your data, they're doing it because your device isn't powerful enough to perform the necessary computation
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by slavak 14y ago
Interestingly, the Israeli authorities were at one point reportedly considering installing back-scatter scanners at airports. For catching customs violations. Thankfully the plan seems to have been scrapped, as that instant years ago was th
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by slavak 14y ago
We must do something This is something Therefore, we must do this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
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by slavak 14y ago
What about a hardcover version of LoTR? The point is that this explanation is a retconing of the original reason for this rule, which has nothing to do with free-floating items in the cabin.
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by slavak 14y ago
So the only way to truly stick it to the man is to actually become a terrorist! Show the government your disapproval of their trampling of the constitution. Join Al-Qaeda.

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