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by timsally 13y ago
Ouch. To make things even worse, the executable 'kaspersky_tcpip_fix.exe' to fix the problem is (1) not delivered over HTTPS and (2) not signed by Kaspersky (it is unsigned). So not only are you unable to receive an authenticated
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I agree that Scalia's comments during oral arguments with respect to the Voting Rights Act were hypocritical and shameful.
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There are a few things in this post that are widely off the mark, so much so that is actually unhinges the debate. The first is that Alito is actually far better than Roberts on privacy rights [1]. Specifically, Alito supports a mosaic theo
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> It's not a good thing. Only a handful of nations are capable of producing weaponized drones A nation spends money on defense for precisely this reason, to produce an asymmetry in that's nation's capabilities compared t
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You're the professional, but to my understanding your characterization that the amount of information yielded by a search is a 4th amendment analysis "out of thin air" isn't accurate. Alito wrote in his concurrence in Jo
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> I would only point that 25 tons of force, isn't really a lot - I mean, the small jack that you use to lift your car can be a 5 or 6 ton device. Floor jacks easily punch through most points on modern cars. In fact, the only place t
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Seems like a simplistic analysis. If the programs are of equal difficulty and MIT admits more a more qualified class, MIT will have a higher graduation rate.
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OCaml sees a lot of use in the applied program analysis community, which has applications to automated reverse engineering and formal verification. A company in this area recently started by CMU assistant professor David Brumley is: http:&
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Tailing someone on a public road is a very old principle as well, but that didn't matter Alito and the other three justices who joined with him in the Jones concurrence. He found that 24/7 monitoring for 28 days on public roads on
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There's a slight misunderstanding here. It's not that we need to forbid the government from using drones when they are super cheap. Checks and balances are already at work here and are likely to arrive at a reasonable solution. Ba
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I suspect we are on the same page in regards to the constitutional issues and the problem(s) with this article. I personally find the massive suspension of common sense in our community about these types of issues quite irritating. I just w
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Is your point here that past techniques are far more expensive and therefore the use of drones is an improvement? I'm a little unclear here, but that's what I'm getting. Applying Alito's interpretation of the Fourth Amen
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This is Jeff Erickson's free textbook (really a set of detailed lecture notes) on Algorithms, a course that Jeff teaches at UIUC and routinely wins teaching awards for. Definitely worth your time. Jeff is working on a similar set of no
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by timsally 13y ago
This is why checking the fees of the products you buy when you invest is so important. I'm lucky enough to have index fund options at 0.04% and bond fund options at 0.07% in my 401k. That doesn't matter if you don't use them though! I work
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by timsally 14y ago
The record contradicts what you are saying here; what you've written is almost a perfect inversion of historical fact. All the commercial networks being developed or deployed when the Internet was being invented were circuit switched, cent
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by timsally 14y ago
I've read all your comments on the various threads and a central theme seems to be the following question: how does sexism fit into all of this, isn't this just harassment/stalking? It's a fair question. Recall that sexism is discrimination
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Whenever an instance of blatant sexism comes up, an attempt is invariably made to rationalize away the fact that a sexist act has actually occurred. We have had two such attempts made here so far and I expect more. One commentator is attemp
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> I have ATTAPL and couldn't get through it. Now I know why. I didn't realize there was a more introductory book in the series. Thanks! This brings out a point not explicitly mentioned in your original post. A key thing you get in colle
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I'm finding the definition of a symbol using a parsing expression grammar for C. I haven't yet decided upon the particular algorithm for finding the first commit, but I plan on using libgit2 to work directly with the repository. In the simp
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by timsally 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I know I'll find the commit using libgit2, but I hadn't yet gotten to thinking about the algorithm to do so. git log -S seems like a good starting point.
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Ah I see. I'm not aware of an instance of an appellate judge moving to another circuit. I suppose technically the President could nominate him. I actually dislike that the Federal Circuit gets all patent cases. The end result in no circuit
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Posner has been a Judge on the Court of Appeals since 1981, on the 7th circuit. SCOTUS was never in the cards for him. He's an intellectual giant, but he's been on record for a long time in favor of the legalization of marijuana and hard dr
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If you're not familiar with Judge Posner, you should be. He's been a judge in the Court of Appeals (a set of courts right below the Supreme Court) since 1981. In addition to being a judge, he is the most cited legal scholar of the 20th cent
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I recently did exactly what you describe. My first contribution to the Linux kernel actually shipped with this release. If I recall correctly it took me about 80 hours to go from no knowledge to first patch. Assuming no knowledge, it is a t
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I think some expansion of this statement is in order. As far as settled SCOTUS cases go, the only reason why police need a warrant to attach a GPS to your car is because they must "sieze" the car (for however brief a time) in order to att
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Thank God this costs $5 dollars. I might have even gone as high as $10. To all those that think 5 bucks is too much: for you to actually get any value out of this app you have to use it over a non-significant portion of your life. We're tal
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> Edit: Contrary to what I said here, José Valim is not stepping down from Rails core, he is merely on sabbatical. My bad. And then later in the article... > Jose Valim, (now former) Rails core member, When you have to issue a r
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Yup. I don't have much sympathy for him, considering he took out $160,000 in debt with only a 50/50 shot to pay it back (that's your chance to get a high enough salary coming out of a top law school to service that debt, outside of Harvard
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The company brings in several millions dollars a year [1]. They have one of the nicest offices in Chicago [2]. One of the partners had a super car commissioned a few years ago which on a technical level is more sophisticated than the machin
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> But it's not OK to let people abuse you. Yes of course. But what specifically in this story do you think constitutes abuse? The situation could at worst be described as a lack of tact by some of the interviewers. If your bar for abu

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