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akkat··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
I don't know your case, but the term "rape" has been legally expanded a lot from what we might imagine when we hear the word "rape" (forceful sexual act).

Legally it can mean a case where a man met a women in a bar, she was not drunk and wanted to go home with him. She explicitly consented. Later it ends up that she was using a fake ID to get into the bar, she was only 17.9 years old in a state where the age of consent is 18. Or alternatively, the guy recently moved a block over. In his old location the age of consent was less than 18, but now he moved and he committed rape (aka, the opinion that got Richard Stallman to step down).

And no, there is no exception for mistaking the age. https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art...

akkat··on Ask HN: Can I be “put on a list” for contacting foreign researchers?
I don't know it it helps but one of the reasons that the nra was against banning guns from people on the no fly list was that there was no legal process to get in or off the list. Am angry bureaucrat can put anyone (including senators) on the list for whatever reason.

So, based on that I guess that there is a non insignificant change that you will be put on the no fly list

akkat··on Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
And after clicking that small hard to see button, get ready for another popup if you want to watch a gif
akkat··on Reverse Engineering WhatsApp Web
If you want a good alternative try xmpp. It is basically email but for chat. Completely free, open source, distributed. And, you can have as many as you want with no need for a phone number.
akkat··on Ask HN: Suggest features that you would love to see in a new social network
Ability to view my friends information or public stranger's information without them being notified about it.
akkat··on Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It
Except it doesn't. Situation a: Facebook knows what I did last night. Result: I get ads tailored to what I did.

Situation b: Mom and Dad knows what I did last night. Result: I get grounded.

akkat··on What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?
Do you dry yourself before putting your pants on? If so how?
akkat··on Reddit’s Redesign
imgur is another reason to want that feature.
akkat··on That feel when you can't captcha [video]
Wait until you go abroad and instead of saying "find the street signs" it says something in Japanese with no way of changing the language.
akkat··on Missions could see NASA spacecraft heading to Uranus and Neptune
The title of this linked article is "NASA Wants To Probe Uranus In Search Of Gas

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akkat··on Is libreoffice online a viable alternative to gdocs?
FYI they do not support RTL languages yet https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19
akkat··on Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
I don't know what the NRA is doing but it looks like it is working. Here is a graph showing a long term decline in gun deaths in America.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Gu...

akkat··on Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program
I don't know how to say it kindly but there is a difference between "what" type of people the car killed. If the fatality was another rule abiding driver on the road or a pedestrian crossing at a crosswalk that would be really bad. However if it was someone not following the safety rules by j walking, then that person accepted upon themselves a higher probability of being in an accident. When making laws, for the most part, they are for the benefit of law abiding people.
akkat··on Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising
A lot of German sites have two buttons. One with no tracking that pressing it causes the "follow up" script to run, and then the "follow us" script that tracks you.
akkat··on Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising
Can you elaborate how you sandboxed tabs in Firefox? I use incognito when using Google or sites that use Facebook commenting on order to lower the tracking ability, but sandboxing sounds better.
akkat··on Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Uber
You are right, a better analogy would be if a person tried to cross in the middle of a random track segment. The woman didn't cross at a crosswalk so that part of road was not designated to pedestrians at all.

Cars (at lease autonomous ones) signal before changing lanes and slowing down.

I think that flashing lights is too annoying, but forcing cars that drive in the night to have lights sounds like a reasonable (and existent) rule.

akkat··on Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Uber
Train tracks are also shared at train crossings. Yet if a car went there after the warning lights went on, the car would be to blame.
akkat··on Police Say Video Shows Woman Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Uber
I assure you that if you jump in front of a moving train you will be killed. How is this different?
akkat··on New ThinkPad Guts Bring Intel Core I, DDR4, USB 3 to Cult Laptops
I wonder why other competitors don't copy the idea of having a sturdy bulky laptop with hardware switches, lots of keyboard buttons, trackpoint, and but battery. Is the market really that small?
akkat··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple
That other suggestion isn't good either. Let's say there is a train that leaves at a certain time. They will have to provide the exact GPS coordinates for someone to know when they need to be at the train station
akkat··on Top-Secret Security Clearance Is a Ticket to Lots of Job Offers
Is there a way to go to a phycologist on the condition that all of the notes and recommendations are kept secret and after all of the treatment the records are destroyed? There would still be an issue if the agents directly ask the applicant if they were at a phycologist, but it would prevent the agents from seeing everything.
akkat··on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
email is an open protocol and works great. you can add pgp on top of it if you want security
akkat··on American companies are suppressing wages for many workers
Thank you for the information. I don't understand legalese that well (many colloquial things mean something different in legalese) so I will take your word for it. That changes my view on RtW
akkat··on Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free
Maine's law is pretty weak. All one has to do is register more than a day before the election and then they don't need an ID. I don't know how easy it is to register in Maine, but California is laughably easy. Just check the boxes saying that you don't have an ID, SSN, address or phone number, and then you can register with very little information.
akkat··on Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free
Correct, but if Japanese people typically committed crime when in the US, then the US would want to limit the amount of them that enter and evaluate those people before coming.
akkat··on Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free
according to your link > No ID required to vote at ballot box: California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Washington, D.C.
akkat··on Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free
You can see how there are many political battles in the US simply because Russia bought some political ads and other things that are perfectly legal for US citizens to do. Imagine if Russia literally sent several thousand people to states that allow people to vote without IDs.
akkat··on American companies are suppressing wages for many workers
That you for taking the time to explain. If true I can see why RtW laws are criticised. Can you link to a source about point 2?
akkat··on American companies are suppressing wages for many workers
So if I understand correctly all that the right to work laws do is forbid companies from making a contract that requires them to hire exclusively from one union. I was under the impression that a majority of the workers of a company can unionise and then require every other worker in the company to join the union.

If you are correct then I can see why right to work laws are not so good. However, keep in mind that there are many laws preventing people from entering certain contracts. Such as laws forbidding a person to work at a company if the company doesn't want to pay minimum wage, or offering to give someone some money but requiring that they pay back a large amount in a set amount of time.

akkat··on U.S. Income Inequality Hits a New Threshold
I don't think I will ever be as rich as Bill Gates but I would still rather live in a capitalist country as a middle class person than in a communist country as a rich person.
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