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The judge can rule that freedom of speech is not at issue. There are many well-settled instances in American case law where one's right to freedom of speech may be constrained (usually because it conflicts with the rights of others).

E.g. in this case the accusation is that Olson vandalized BoA for 6 months, causing the bank to have to continually pay to have the chalk cleaned off and risking further property damage.

Olson has a free speech right to protest, but that does not mean that he can unilaterally choose means that infringe on the rights of others.

You are right that foreclosing the issue may make great grounds for an appeal though, it's possible an appeal court could rule that the First Amendment is relevant and cause the case to be re-tried.
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Thanks for your advice. could you please show me the details of this no-go theory?
You mean google.com will be 1# of alexa for ever?
13 years wouldn't be reasonable if he wrote it in someone else's blood.
Yes.

Let me reiterate the following though. It's important for people to understand that a free market doesn't exist where government serves to protect the "laws" of artificial trade entities (corporations).

Unfortunately, given the corporatism that currently exists in government, people are unable to make voluntary choices on a more concrete level. The most people can do is abstain from certain purchases and boycott certain industries that aren't tied to federal funding and mandates: an increasingly dim prospect at that. Outside of conscientious consumerism, a lot of natural, peaceful behavior tends to disobey the policies of corporations and, consequently, government. Voluntary actions and natural, nonviolent behavior become "criminal" conduct. The guaranteed funding of violent forms of power will make certain their growth, consolidation, and ability to crush dissent.

Voluntary actions are wonderful. Voluntaryist-based frameworks that serve to uphold free choice, speech, and markets do, indeed, stand as a separate entity from government. As you aptly point out: unlike the State, entities that engage in voluntary association should be unable to use physical force and massive economic constraints to intimidate and sustain their own authority.
I was under the assumption that college is free for students in many European countries, assuming the student passed certain tests. If those tests aren't passed, no college. Is that not correct?
That's actually brilliant. I've been waiting for someone to come out with a UI like this.
Thank you for that interjection of sanity.
Replace "foreigner" with "hole in the ground"
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I'm convinced nothing can stop genetic engineering in humans in the long run. The question is what goal the genetic engineering will have, what ideal will take the place of natural selection? This article suggests we will engineer away negative, selfish and competitive traits, but my guess is it will go the opposite direction. There will be an arms race where people improve themselves and their children to learn faster, excel in school and at work, be competitive and selfish. Parents already do whatever they can to give their kids a competitive advantage, pay tens of thousands of dollars for private school (even kindergarten), pay for expensive tutors so they excel at all the standardized tests etc. Globalization has created an environment where winner takes all, so few parents with a choice would deny their kids the advantages that some of their peers get.

Unless we're all in on it, we can't engineer towards happiness because there will always be some group of people that will take advantage of the situation.
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OpenSSL itself does not deal with tickets, afaik. The application code does.
That, and the fact that no one took pictures of you chalking public (not private?) property and no one reported you to the cops? I think there's a big difference between vandalizing private property for 6 months, and occasionally putting chalk on public sidewalks.
I keep hearing this from non-Americans. And while I respect it, I always wonder what country they come from that apparently makes no legal distinction between its own citizens and anyone else, and which apparently has no intelligence service at all...

This isn't really something that's unique to America, this 'us vs them' attitude is something that's fundamental to the way nations operate, I think.
i think i just haven't had anything that hasn't worked yet, and by this i mean, i wrote my codebase for various projects in .net in vs2012, copying them over to linux and just fsharpc, and it just works (although i confess i have not touched linq\sql things), my advice, git clone and try. edit:spell
Mythbusters busted that myth. Water is preferable to concrete they determined...
Is it possible for Americans to file a class action suit over a top secret government surveillance program? I feel like we all have standing at least.
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Clearly, this is going to vary from one University to the next, but top-level administrator salaries have gone through the roof in almost every industry, including education, while most staff (and faculty, in the case of education) salaries have remained flat or even dropped.

The primary factor driving tuition rates up is reduced funding from State governments for State Universities and Colleges. Private Universities, of course, keep increasing their tuition rates to keep them at the same level relative to the State schools. Even the state schools (at least those trying to do something besides cut the quality of education and pass the costs on to the students) are getting a significant amount of their budget through private fund-raising.

Of course, when it comes to private funds, it's easy to get someone to pay for a building or renovations if you're willing to put their name on it. You may even get some scholarships for students, some equipment, extra funds for high-profile faculty (or high-profile administrators, in some cases), and many people are willing to donate their time to speak to students as guest lecturers. Good luck getting someone to pay for faculty & staff wages and benefits, though.
True enough. But high-stakes testing and the value we place on them does act as a biased filter. I'm pretty sure it would have been very hard for me to personally thrive in such an environment.
The courts would rightly reject it as a political matter.
Maybe goto http://wikileaks.org/

There is more than US only leaks... Guess that wouldn't fit your narrative though, so maybe don't go.
As is repeatedly mentioned every single time a legal case hits the HN airwaves, the maximum sentence one might compose by sequentially stacking maximum penalties for all charges is not the sentence that is anywhere close to possibly being handed down for real.

From one of anigbrowl's comments on here:
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The maximum penalty for vandalism in California (which is what this case is about) is 3 years. It isn't possible to get a 13 year sentence for vandalism in California. In fact, since the defendant has no previous convictions for vandalism that I'm aware of I'm pretty sure the maximum penalty that can be imposed under CA law (CA PC 640.5/6) is community service and a $1000 fine.
"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5956128
This is the only answer in this thread that is accurate.

Despite its best efforts, economic law is the only one that the government can't find a way to violate.
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Movies are a much different story.
Good luck -- don't sell yourself short looking for anything you can get, even if it's for a short period of time do something that is engaging or interesting to you.

side note: the link to your Twitter profile on your site http://www.brwr.org/about is broken.
College is an interesting situation. It might be argued that collectively we all have an interest in seeing a more educated society, regardless of the earning power. It might also be argued that collectively we need to focus more on not "going to college" but instead focusing on things like "learning a sustainable trade".

And, for an individual looking to maximize earnings & employment, a bachelor's in STEM/business is still a really good buy, supposing you didn't go to $$$ SLAC/Ivy League. Whereas subjects that are less fiscally shiny lead their students into a dark hole of debt.

One solution is to simply collectivize the cost: everyone gets free college. That's really expensive and without good cost controls, well, is susceptible to being taken advantage of.

Another solution is to go at colleges with the dieting plan. That's the current one. IMHO, that's exactly the wrong way to go about it.

Another solution is to aggressively force state schools to cut overhead; i.e. cut the administrator staff. Well, asking people to fire themselves is sort of utopian, doncha think? :)

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I don't really buy any of the solutions that I currently know about in the US. My thought is that there are far too many colleges in the US. Too many states trying to stretch too few dollars over too many campuses. I instead think that federal funding should go to a select few - perhaps three or four - in the US. These colleges would be fully free and fully funded by the feds. Professors would be encouraged to congregate there and focus on having huge departments where all sorts of research could go on. The overhead per college is so high; it's considerably more scalable to focus on having a few large campuses than the small ones everywhere. Each campus requires a mini admin to be set up. Worse, the larger a department is, the more interesting collisions can happen: small departments work against this by not having that interesting person to run into(they are in the other state).

Anyway, that's my undercooked idea to help college education.

Education in the US is, I think, a wreck, and it has a variety of causes. Among them, the historic anti-intellectualism of Americans, the loss of historic mission, the rank foolishness of levelling egalitarians, the shrinking dollars for defense research, etc. More causes could be added.
Only because it bit him in the ass, after profiting him greatly. These are not the words of truth and enlightenment he may be representing them as.
Does that mean games built in Java?
Yeah. I added a big button.
I can't think of a single secular concern regarding human enhancement that isn't prudential at best.
nice video, that was a good watch.
Let's get together and turn some talk into action: http://www.meetup.com/Hack-Government-Bay-Area
This is more like closing the neighbor's barn door. Like the Guardian's main website has a "upload leaked document form"?! This is them either too scared to think straight, or they are being told to do it by someone who is.
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I don't know what kind of communism the OP refers to, but some kinds of communism defend the idea of personal property but are against private property.

Although I agree: How does joining a Communist or Anarchist group help? We need a broader movement. This isn't even a leftist thing (or only leftist).
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When I hear endless defeatist propaganda I can't help but wonder if it's state sponsored. This should be great news! The truth is finally seeing it's day.
Android is Java and the SDK is but the NDK (native) allows C/C++ since Android 2.3. Most games are built using that now with Java wrappers where needed for UI if any needed. Most are straight C/C++ using OpenGL ES. Also tools like Unity convert to C/C++/Java for Android and C/C++/Objective-C for Apple/iOS.

But yes you can do a game in Java since is will be Android and the SDK supports it. Most games though are C/C++ for porting reasons, that can get you desktop and all mobile platforms. Windows Phone 8 also recently allows native finally (they really messed up not allowing this in Windows Phone 7 and lost lots of market share due to difficult ports).
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Are you implying that not everyone sufficiently motivated cannot pass the necessary tests?

A question for a question ;)
The juxtaposition of Zittrain and Schneier caught my eye because I once saw them on opposite sides of a cybersecurity debate. Zittrain sat with former NSA head Mike McConnell and argued that the threat of cyberwar had not been exaggerated. Schneier and another privacy expert argued that it had been exaggerated.

The subtext of the argument was the degree to which the national security apparatus should take the lead on U.S. cybersecurity, vs. domestic agencies like DHS or law enforcement like the FBI. Schneier argued that the "threat" of cyberwar was being pumped up by the defense agencies and industries to help justify greater power and contracts.
I think you should go look at ec2 pricing. Linux/BSD instances are cheaper to run per hour than there windows counter parts.

Scroll down a page or so to view the pricing charts.

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
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Most people on HN are not lawyers. If you see a mistake you can point it out without the snark, especially when you're just being pedantic. How does the decision being made by a judge change the problem that outrageous maximums frame the expected range for the decision maker and cause excessive penalties to seem reasonable when compared with extraordinarily excessive penalties?
Not sure how true the UI concern is. I finally got around to setting up emacs to fetch rss stuff through gwene.org. I suppose I'll miss the social aspect of reader, but I'm not sure.

Now... what I do like is having something that is very very easy to control with a keyboard. Even better, it plays well with muscle memory that I've already been building up. So... if that is included in the UI department, I guess I'm ultimately agreeing.
The Times puts plenty of opinion on the front page. It just does so obliquely. I can't forget their headline for the IRS scandal: "I.R.S. Scandal Gives G.O.P. Issue to Seize On", as if the politicization of the government's taxing power were only regretful to the extent that it might slow down the Democratic Party's policy agenda.
"...The two programs violate both the letter and the spirit of federal law."

"We may never know all the details of the mass surveillance programs, but we know this: The administration has justified them through abuse of language, intentional evasion of statutory protections, secret, unreviewable investigative procedures and constitutional arguments that make a mockery of the government’s professed concern with protecting Americans’ privacy. It’s time to call the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs what they are: criminal."

Fatal bug throughout the whole `stack'?

Are these lawyered authors actually telling us the rudder is gone and the entire hull rotten?
Read the first paragraph here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_instructions#United_State...

Summarized:

Under the American judicial system, juries are often the trier of fact when they serve in a trial. In other words, it is their job to sort through disputed accounts presented in evidence. The judge decides questions of law, meaning he or she decides how the law applies to a given set of facts.

The jury instructions provide something of a flow chart on what verdict jurors should deliver based on what they determine to be true.

Often they are much more complex, although certain elements frequently recur. For instance, if a criminal defendant chooses not to testify, the jury will be often be instructed not to draw any negative conclusions from that decision.
Uhh, this is Earth, and we are all organisms competing for resources.

You can't legislate or contract away nature, once you zoom out to the scale of "species" or "planet".
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Agree with you. There are around 12 IITs while Harvard is a single institute(?). The article omitted JEE mains phase. 12.5 lakh students appear for mains, in 2013. 75,000 qualified for JEE advanced.
Which blows my mind, since I live in Texas where you can drive 10 hours in the same direction on the same road at freeway speeds, and still be an hour or two from reaching another state.
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Is encryption working for all servers? Are certs verifiable?
I have wondered for a long time now where all the college tuition money goes.

Consider that: (1) the cost of tuition has grown FAR faster than inflation, and is now sky high, (2) A huge percentage of students need and get student loans, (3) student loans are one of the few types of liabilities that bankruptcy can't wipe out.

So "everyone" (speaking loosely) goes to college, and "everyone" gets a loan. The college gets its money up front, and bears no risk of having that money taken away. This represents a huge flow of money into universities. Where does it go from there?

How does college tuition revenue yearly compare to Apple's revenue from iphones yearly? In the case of Apple, I can see where the money goes ... Apple employs a huge number of people working on expensive ongoing operations.

What are colleges doing with all this money? Surely all of it is not being soaked up by overpaid administrators?? A money stream that large ought to have a big, obvious wake behind it, but I don't know where that money goes. Can anyone enlighten me?
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When having these discussions (and the inevitable anthropomorphisms of nature and evolution), it's important to view Past Evolution and Present Evolution as distinct.

Past Evolution is a billion-year-old algorithm from which emerged deep and subtle intelligence through trillions of trillions of iterations of trial and error. Though far from perfect, its legacy is the Terran Ecosystem, aka Mother Nature + Humans, a force to be reckoned with.

Present Evolution, however, is lazy, cruel and sloppy. On the scale of mere decades, it does effectively nothing to advance the interests of human life.

(Future Evolution is of course significant, though not on a timescale relevant to our lifetimes, at least if we're referring to the "untampered" variety.)

I view genetic augmentation as inevitable, leading to an accelerated evolutionary process; however, I can see valid cases for either throwing on the brakes and going as slowly as possible, or putting on the gas to maximize progress, with all its benefits and costs.
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It's funny... I think there might actually be a good reason for this.

In so much of my experience, it often seems like version 1.0 (or sometimes 2.0 or 3.0) is the best version of something. All the original creators are still on board, the interface is straightforward, the functionality is clear, the product is good.

But then, by the time you get to 4.0+, the original creators have moved on, a new team comes in looking to make their mark, and suddenly a graphic overhaul is introduced, they start focusing on "content" or "exposing features" or whatnot, the interface loses organization and coherence, and bad decisions start being made.

I don't know of a name for this phenomenon, but it almost seems to be the rule rather than the exception. But it may explain why people seem to be so anti-change -- because, so many times, the change actually is just pointless or bad.
I guess there are only so many FLAs to go around.
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Skype did just fine with it.
It may be standard procedure, but that doesn't mean there's "nothing to see here."

Comments like this are not useful to constructive discussion of the topic at hand.
cool, this can sit next to the Nexus Q from I/O.
Hi folks so I am Jordan CEO of Internet Archive FCU. Just wanted to know I hear ya. Will put up interest rates by Monday but honestly because they are so low does that really make the difference for you? We are more about offering things like free accounts to those that can't afford and helping the community both local and on the Net. As I said in my blog do you really want to put your money in the same banks that brought the whole system down in the first place? So if not us find any Credit Union near you. But please please keep the comments coming! Its weird to be called "sketchy" so really want to know what we can do to be more real to all of you. Best...Jordan
There is an android native interface.
http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

Games could be written in Java. Just intelligently schedule garbage collection and in return you get to use a very fast safe, well-optimized JITed virtual machine.

They won't be, of course, they'll be written in NDK because the culture of the game industry is a powerful one, and one that takes pride in their ways. It would be like telling a race car enthusiast that continually-variable transmission is better for racing because even though it's less efficiant it allows the driver to focus on driving and is always in the exact gear needed. The driver would never except this because in their mind they are an amazing driver and manual makes them faster because it is more efficient and makes them feel cool.
Are we going to pick random genes and insert them? I'd like the chimp form of myosin, please. I'd love to be that strong. (I hope it has no negative consequences.)
The user has access to the machine code for IE.

However, you are onto the right track. One proposed solution to DRM (that I believe was impleneted with DVD and/or blueray) is to establish a chain of trust in the hardware. The idea would be that you send an encrypted signal to the monitor, and the monitor has a tamper resistant decryption chip with its own key.

Obviously, this only gets you so far, as once someone cracks the chip (or acquires the master key through other means, as happened with DVD), then the entire scheme is broken.

Ultimatly the problem is that you need to provide the user with enough information for them to be able to view the decrypted content, while at the same time not let them know the decrypted content. The real question is how difficult/expansive can you make it to bypass. Unfourtantly, in every system I am aware of, once one person figures it out, it become cheap and easy for every else; and coming up with a new crypto-system is a great way to get the academic community to try and break it.
But doesn't client-side encryption already function at the OS level? For instance, the keys for FairPlay and the App Store have not been cracked, as far as I know.
"Let’s turn to Prism: the streamlined, electronic seizure of communications from Internet companies." OK, good so far, PRISM does indeed streamline and automate the process...

"... Prism is further proof that the agency is collecting vast amounts of e-mails and other messages — including communications to, from and between Americans."

??? PRISM was the one thing I stopped being worried about as soon as I figured out what it was. The government has always been able to subpoena a third-party for records pursuant to an actual investigation, and even Google seemed to be satisfied with the idea that specific PRISM requests have been legal (even if they forced NSA to get a real warrant first).

Other things may indicate NSA is hoovering emails like a Mob boss hoovering blow but PRISM isn't one of them. PRISM has to be turned on to acquire data, unlike other NSA SIGINT this one's not actually magic.

I'm kind of disappointed by the opinion piece because if they only took efforts to be factual they would probably be able to make a much more persuasive case (e.g. by bringing up Carnivore or 641A-style data interception instead of a system that queries specific individual users one-at-a-time).