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by woodman 11y ago
That still leaves five words to debate about, to quote a very sly fellow "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." I'm pretty sure we could distill the argument to the point where we find ourselves deba
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by woodman 11y ago
Safety as a negation would be an xor operation, which leads to the wacky logic. Both of you are right though, I was probably far too generous in treating @minikites's use of the word "is" as a logical implication instead of
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by woodman 11y ago
@pmalynin, you forgot the safety variable. p | q | p ∧ q → ¬q --+---+----------- T | T | F You can't be safe and own a gun. T | F | T You can be safe and not own a gun. F | T | T You can be unsafe an
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by woodman 11y ago
Are you confusing the concepts of practicality and legality? Making your own gun is easy btw.
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by woodman 11y ago
14th Amendment, states can't screw with the Bill of Rights. See McDonald v. Chicago.
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by woodman 11y ago
Does that apply to the rest of the Bill of Rights, or just the right to bear arms?
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...the chance of an accident... Private firearm ownership should be illegal. For their own good, right? The prisons are already full of people who violated laws enacted under that guise. Anti-2A people don't seem to be aware of th
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by woodman 11y ago
> C11 has memset_s Annex K, so unfortunately that isn't widely available and unlikely to ever be. Also, there is a performance hit for where it is available [0]. [0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14&
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm pretty sure his meaning was that an "indicator led" is not the same thing as an "on" light. A usb webcam is on as long as the host is providing power, the led is on the honor system - completely implementation
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by woodman 11y ago
> I don't read anything in the bill to require companies to keep a history of the communications. That isn't what I said or what I addressed. You said "...keep around copies of information they don't already keep.&qu
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by woodman 11y ago
> I didn't see anything that implies that companies will have to keep keys. That is the intent and the logical consequence, obviously they can't say "backdoor". If plain text goes into your device, software or servic
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...to the extent the service provider offers the feature that makes information unintelligible... Hardware manufacturers as well. Say goodbye to bios passwords, hard drive smart locks, SSD encryption that permits instant formats and t
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by woodman 11y ago
> I don't think anything in the bill requires a provider to keep around copies of information they don't already keep. Password hashes, if this were to become law then you'd have to store them in clear text or encrypt them
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by woodman 11y ago
http://www.exfiltrated.com/queryport.php?Port=4070 All those IPs are on networks behind doors.
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by woodman 11y ago
> None of this information is particularly secret or sensitive. You are intentionally being obtuse if you don't see how a fingerprint database is "sensitive". The argument doesn't take practicality into consideration
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by woodman 11y ago
> 1) Fingerprints are left everywhere anyway. You aren't going to be able to hide these. Most people don't leave their name/address/uid along side those prints. Imagine this scenario: you are hanging out at your frie
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by woodman 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I wish I could be as unconcerned, but I remember what IE did to web developers.
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by woodman 11y ago
Does anybody know if this interface is Linux kernel functions + whatever POSIX is required to run Ubuntu stuff? I haven't seen that addressed, which strikes me as strange because it could have some pretty serious implications. Am I w
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...I'd have done == for assignment... It makes much more sense if you consider it from a logic perspective. '=' is material implication (→), and '==' is material biconditional (↔) - which is logically equivalen
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by woodman 11y ago
Pasting. 4chan did not have a hard time convincing a lot of people to spread toothpaste on their nipples.
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by woodman 11y ago
Razors in Halloween candy.
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by woodman 11y ago
It places the lotion in the basket. Yup, uncomfortable.
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by woodman 11y ago
I wonder where that rug ever ended up.
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by woodman 11y ago
Those who find this interesting might also be interested in exploring the additional dimensions offered: state and year. Without using any machine learning, you anchor a fact (name, sex, state, birth year range) and get the probability for
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by woodman 11y ago
Native english ears reporting in, sorry to disappoint you but the name and logo do not strike me as sinister in the least - it looks like the name and logo of a company that would make ink blotters.
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by woodman 11y ago
You repeat the same process. svn update your src and the rebuild your world and kernel. That is the price for custom kernel configs, no more kernel binary distribution (unless you setup your own build server, which you really don't w
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by woodman 11y ago
I'd be surprised if the method employed for Snowden's leak is ever topped - several of the first reveals were responded to by the USG, and then the following day the next reveal would demonstrate the response to be a lie. I don&#
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by woodman 11y ago
> decidedly public If that were true then the concept of registered agents wouldn't be tolerated, but in reality they're commonly used - even by the lowly working class setting up their LLCs. In any case, an appeal to the tyra
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by woodman 11y ago
You wouldn't describe your position on cryptography and privacy in general as "moderate" by any chance?
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by woodman 11y ago
The uncertainty already inherent to the existing process is high enough in my opinion, either the software or the hand counter would equally meet the real objective here: providing a point to audit for reportable metrics. While a dungeon ma

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