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by themeek 11y ago
Well... the draconian overreach of the third party doctrine, including the in praxis requirement to backdoor services sold to the public, is and certainly has been controversial, as have tap and trace laws. In fact, the only reason the
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by themeek 11y ago
A host of interviews and discussions in Washington such as the Holder interview on drone use in America and the legislation from the FAA on drones highly suggests that large drone systems (ARGUS) will be permanently placed in America's
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> (A) isn't sufficient motive for hiring someone to murder someone (you have no right to use deadly force to protect mere property)... The charge of entrapment is separate from the severity of the crime someone is entrapped into or
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by themeek 11y ago
Specifically you did not reply to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628225 Is it (A), (B), or (C) that is incorrect? It sounds like you are saying that (C) is incorrect. However you are confusing how this is shown
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by themeek 11y ago
For the very same reasons through the rest of the thread, you continue to argue a straw man. You sound like you're a very insistent and dogged debater. It would be becoming of you to take your passion for argumentation and apply it to
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According to Wikipedia: Blackmail is an act, often a crime, ... Essentially, it is coercion involving threats of ... of criminal prosecution. Similar searches for the legal distinction between extortion and blackmail consider blackmail a fo
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Okay sure. :). Thanks. Unfortunately I can't ask webcomics questions. Looking for answers to questions above.
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So in this case wasn't a crisis situation (there being a defector with SR secrets) fabricated by the police and a third of a million dollars disappeared? Would this sort of thing count as doing something to overcome resistance? It&#x27
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I'm not sure I really follow because the comics didn't describe anything that presumably would be entrapment. Is anyone here a lawyer in this area of law? I don't really trust webcomics.... But let's talk about this alle
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Is it not known as entrapment to present a false situation in order to get a conviction or indictment, even if it's to confirm on behalf of the target a tendency or willingness to participate in the activity were to be real - and illeg
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I would say the difference is one of declaration rather than deliberation. The Embargo Act was a declaration. TTIP is a negotiation. But let's collapse this conversation back to the top, shall we? My response (and the arguments contain
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For those interested in reading something like this in historical treatise form: Howard Zinn's A People's History.
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I agree that the US was a colonialist nation leading up the 1900s. The tribal peoples of Mexico, South America and North America were not recognized as nations of their own. I know that isn't a very satisfying distinction, but you can
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There are a number of ways that climate change threatens the national security of the United States beyond the mere 'existential threat' of habitat destruction. The first of these is that boundaries between nations and regions are
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Hey now. I said political involvement (other countries saying 'yes' or 'no'). Certainly the US has always engaged in trade and self defense. You've argued a straw man. Basic history of the United States is that it w
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They were pretty clear that they didn't want European countries saying saying either 'yes' or saying 'no'. Up until very early 1900 it was the US's lifeblood to not involve itself politically with Europe (or th
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South Korean and United States foreign policy is now reunification with North Korea, a switch from decades of "Sunshine Policy" under which relationships with NK did improve. This is contextualized by a number of current events in
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It all depends on time, though it's unlikely I'll do a dossier on the EFF unless something prompts it. I will say broadly that their coverage of information sharing, surveillance law, and intellectual property is rounded down to t
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Being a board member of the EFF isn't enough for me - I like to understand specifics and don't trust the EFF sheerly on invocation of their name.
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I am able to access some of his syllabi for his law and policy classes from his homepage (for example, here's a syllabus for Digital Surveillance [1]), but can't find very particularly much on his politics. Does anyone know where
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They intend to bridge the gap by forfeiting the assumption that transistors and discrete logic need be the atomic units of computation. They give up discretization and call for exotic modes of computation that can achieve reliable, but non
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Not just satellite mounted cameras but thermal imagers that can see bodies as they move around inside houses.
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"ARGUS" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
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On the flip side of all of this, I think its important to recognize that Twitter has - of most of the large social media platforms - been the best with regard to resistance to censorship and propaganda initiatives. Twitter will take down sp
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This is one of the exotic devices in DARPA's UPSIDE competition for exascale computing. This initiative seeks to find non-state (non-transistor) based approaches to computation: exploitation of nanoscale response properties of discrete
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No, it is lawful. Find me an international law scholar that will call it illegal. Not a single one will. It's true that the Chinese presence in the islands is disputed. US military presence on Japan is disputed. Disputed != Illegality;
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I don't hate the US, so that's a weird accusation... > > to project power lawfully in the Asia Pacific. > This is pro-China bullshit right here. Lawfully by whose standards? International standards. There is nothing wrong
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Lenovo has, for years, been banned from US government use. They even have a patent on recovering TPM keys ( http://www.google.com/patents/US8908867 ). It is well known (via Snowden) that the US installs backdoors into US
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The top voted comment is not about economics in China specifically - it is the only substantive reply that the parent got so that's what the conversation devolved into. The top comment is more broadly about the US being challenged - it
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Can a log on pastebin containing a relative path be resolved to an absolute URL?

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