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Kristine1975on A leak wounded LabMD. Fighting the Feds finished it off

Daugherty believed signing a consent decree would give doctors the impression that LabMD had been lax in protecting patient data and kill his business.

Well duh. LabMD violated patient privacy after all:

The manager of the billing department had been using LimeWire file-sharing software to download music. Without knowing it, she’d left her documents folder, which contained the insurance report now in Tiversa’s possession, open for sharing with other users of the peer-to-peer network.

Kristine1975on World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland

Comparison with other tunnels: http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/imgs...

And a German article about the nine people who died: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/die-toten-arbei...

Kristine1975on World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland

At least the workers had air conditioning: http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/

Security of the workers was strictly controlled. Working temperature for example was not allowed to exceed 28°C, which was achieved through cooling installations.

Kristine1975on Elon Musk announces plan to revolutionize factories

That was lackluster: Nothing specific, just generalities.

Kristine1975on You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C

Video about using clang/LLVM for the Mill here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI

Kristine1975on You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C

> That did happen in practice as programmers used the highest bits to stuff metadata and relied on the automatic masking

The old Mac OS did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management#32-bi...

Kristine1975on C++ for Games: Performance, Allocations and Data Locality

But since the copy won't be used, the compiler should omit it even for class types, since it can assume the copy constructor has no side-effects (if the copy constructor is not trivial in the first place).

Kristine1975on [dead]

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11737232

Kristine1975on HDD Resurrection Using Freezer

Why freezing can work sometimes but generally won't: http://www.datarecoverygroup.com/articles/freezing-your-hard...

Kristine1975on An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

>What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?

Way ahead of you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights_and_the_Holocaus...

Several writers, including Jewish Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, and animal rights groups have drawn a comparison between the treatment of animals and the Holocaust

Kristine1975on Peter Thiel's dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy

FWIW I would never have considered Thiel's actions to be philanthropy. Which is why I was so confused when reading the headline "Peter Thiel's dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy."

Kristine1975on Peter Thiel's dangerous blueprint for perverting philanthropy

>Gawker is a fast-moving site; it can’t (and doesn’t) carefully lawyer every single thing it publishes.

Maybe it should move slower then. And report, you know, responsibly.

Kristine1975on Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

"We Kill People Based on Metadata" -- former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden

Bruce Schneier's take on the distinction between "data" and "metadata": https://www.wired.com/2015/03/data-and-goliath-nsa-metadata-...

Kristine1975on Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

"Hi, I'm F. Beeye. Please give us all your passwords, or you will be imprisoned until you do."

Kristine1975on Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records

Technically speaking, they are part of the mail header along with metadata such as date, recipient, priority etc.

Kristine1975on Person carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort found in U.S.

>"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is a well known saying.

It's from Friedrich Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols": "What does not kill me, makes me stronger."

Kristine1975on Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been rising since the 1960s. Why?

These are words of wisdom, let it be! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1PtyYCrZQ

Kristine1975on Google will begin testing password-free login to Android apps

>Google suggests the Trust API could use are some obvious biometric indicators, such as your face shape and voice pattern, as well as some less obvious ones: how you move, how you type

So when I'm nervous I can't log in?

Kristine1975on Comparison of British, American and French Systems of Justice

>If you buy into the logic that repeat offences constitute a more severe crime, it's sensible to take prior offences into account even if they were persecuted under a different jurisdiction.

But Nazi Germany wasn't a state under the rule of law, so it's questionable whether someone convicted by one of its courts was really guilty of the crime they were accused of. I.e. the different jurisdiction wasn't trustworthy, so its verdict should have been ignored.

Kristine1975on Show HN: DuckGoBang – The Best Bangs for the Duck

All bangs are listed here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

Kristine1975on Comparison of British, American and French Systems of Justice

>Germany (the Nazis)

IIRC this actually happened, albeit on an individual basis: When prosecuting communists in the 50s and 60s in Western Germany, some judges considered the defendant to be a repeat-offender if they had been convicted of being a communist in the Third Reich.

Yes, the judges were former Nazis.

Edit: Source (German, I'm afraid): http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/14/14361/1.html

Kristine1975on What the hell is going on?

>a feminized culture allergic to most forms of violence

Since when is Hillary Clinton allergic to most forms of violence? She supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for example. Angela Merkel in Germany leads a party that wants the German military to wage more wars overseas. And the leaders of the right-wing parties AfD (Germany) and Front National (France) are Frauke Petry and Marine LePen, respectively. Two women.

>no one talks about the “Bernie sisters,”

Which doesn't mean they don't exist.

>What percentage of men are brutes anyway? Let’s hope we don’t find out.

I disagree. I want to find out, because facts are always better than prejudices.

Also what's with the gender essentialism ("feminized culture")?

Kristine1975on Comparing Arrays of Structures and Structures of Arrays (2013) [pdf]

C++ supports it if you're willing to use more or less complicated templates:

http://bannalia.blogspot.de/2015/09/c-encapsulation-for-data...

https://blog.molecular-matters.com/2013/10/22/implementing-a...

Kristine1975on China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

>Even Churchill's promise to fight until all Europe was free was only half kept, for half of Europe fell behind an iron curtain

And in the other half minorities such as homosexuals were persecuted. Including Alan Turing, who in WW2 helped break the ciphers of the German military.

>All we have to do is stand fast with our freedoms

Yes, our freedoms (see above)...

Kristine1975on Our “No Asshole” Rule (2014)

>If you have any mental instability whatsoever, I strongly urge you to avoid editing Wikipedia like the plague

Case in point: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-editor-says-sites...

Kristine1975on TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office

>But at the same time, maybe people would act more civil if everyone around them is packing

I think it's more likely someone would start shooting the passenger next to them for "taking too much space."

Kristine1975on China’s scary lesson to the world: Censoring the Internet works

>After all, our parents were the ones that witnessed it, and they should have a better understanding of what really happened.

Why? Were they everywhere? Did they witness everything? Do they remember perfectly?

Edit: Typo

Kristine1975on VRB – Virtual Ring Buffer

More detailed explanation plus more in the comments: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/the-magic-ring-buff...

Kristine1975on The Oracle-Google Case Will Decide the Future of Software

Re title: Only in the US. The rest of the world will be fine.

Until there's a trade agreement that exports the verdict to other countries...