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You can have official legal findings whenever the system says you can have official legal findings. One option would be to close the loop and have the system prosecute itself (plenty of precedent). There are others.

Reinforcing the reliability of the system directly reinforces the legitimacy of the state's monopoly on violence - and that's an exceedingly big deal. Perhaps the cost-benefit analysis doesn't fall out in that direction, but I'm wary of that idea without a lot of evidence to back it up.

True, if primary cause isn't challenged the legal system doesn't consider antecedents as evidence; but the courts only make decisions - they have no input into the consequences of those decisions, other than the making of them.

I suspect Xerox is using this option and their implementation is getting confused (perhaps by the low resolution). Unless I'm greatly mistaken, the patch size for normal compression shouldn't figure here.

I'd bet most systems see different disk controllers more often than they see different BIOS chips. I'd bet (though not at so high odds) that reasonably secure TPM chips are relatively easier to find outside of the high-end server niche. I'd bet that most non-state actors executing this sort of attack wouldn't have equivalent exploits ready for many different types of hardware.

All of those factors shift risk around (again, what little risk there is from this sort of vulnerability). Forgetting about patching a hole here because of an equal-sized hole over there is silly.

This sort of attack is usually going to be more trouble than it's worth to execute, but that doesn't mean it's out of reach for a motivated, educated individual.

Radial forces on the launch platform itself are more of a concern. You have to stop it from tearing itself apart while it overcomes friction/drag and reaches escape velocity.

There is no answer that's not philosophical. Refusing to quantify your philosophy is philosophical.

It amounts to asserting that taking a position is wrong when only people who disagree with the philosophy you implicitly accept are taking a position, so it's also rather hostile.

The dev wiki has what's described as a proposal - is that actually in use, or something for future development?

Providing mesh networking in a user-friendly package would be a very impressive accomplishment.

We can argue about what qualifies as 'standard' - although I don't think any of us have access to much in the way of quantification regarding arguments for and against the TSA. Proof to the contrary would be a pleasant surprise.

I hope it suffices to say that most people who are concerned about the TSA are concerned about rates of detection and perceived effectiveness of techniques versus cost. Even if not everyone would be so wordy.

(I don't see this linked in the repo.)

It would probably harm Microsoft eventually. It would harm whoever gets turned into a legal test case immediately - which is the sort of thing you avoid by not electronically signing randomly selected legal documents.

On my system (running Linux) whenever the game starts playing a new song it keeps playing the previous song too. The longer I play the louder it gets - eventually it's impossible to hear the narrator.

I'm assuming that isn't supposed to happen. Is anyone else seeing similar behavior? Also, is there a bug list (or some other method of reporting issues) anywhere? Looking around, I don't see anything - and I'd like to keep abreast of what's going on with the port.

It's a wonderful game otherwise - reason enough to buy the bundle all by itself, in my opinion.

It's difficult to say one way or the other whether it would have held up in the long run because the government backed out of prosecuting without further comment. There were similar issues with DeCSS, the various 'illegal primes', etc . . .

There's a link to the same content on the main page, but it seems to be broken.

I don't think that's a good reason to be too disruptive towards the freight industry.

That's not the case as far as I'm aware - but I'm not an Amtrak expert. A citation (the Wikipedia article doesn't provide one) would be nice.

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Looking around, it seems that Amtrak does have preference under certain circumstances. Until around 2008-2009 the rules for enforcing that were very lax and the common case was that freight was given priority. See http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/opinion/04hallock.html and http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500395_162-2522531.html for example.

Some legal changes (including the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008) improved conditions, mostly by setting standard rules for allocating usage - but the language of the regulations is still very flexible. There are also some issues around the difficulty of one train passing another on single-tracked rail with limited sidings.

What did happen is that Amtrak was displaced by said freight rail system. It doesn't really own any rail - everything is under contract, with freight getting first priority contractually. Though it also has other issues.

Setting HISTFILE propagates that setting to child shells - unsetting HISFILE does not.

For the same reason (mass), asteroid mining is probably more lucrative than Lunar mining (barring materials similar to Helium-3). The Moon seems to have a less diverse composition, with some useful minerals (which are mostly more massive) buried beyond easy reach.

The truth is that the Moon is more like a planet than like an asteroid. It is easier to reach.

This is a relatively ill-understood discipline and a very fragile machine. 'Take it apart and look inside' won't tell you much about what happens when you turn it on. In that regard it might as well have been built by aliens. (Okay, it's probably not quite that bad.)

Specifically, the server and client agree on a set of defined 'objects' (in this case including text boxes, drop-down menus, and images). The client then displays said objects to the user by following instructions from the server. The claimed innovation seems to be that the server and client talk about the aforementioned objects rather than sending exact descriptions of the client's display back and forth.

Alcatel-Lucent intended to apply the patent very broadly - consider a web server as the 'host' and a web browser as the 'terminal', for example.

I prefer to ask you, how isn't it fair? You are free to believe that 'You either think they're right or they're wrong'. I am equally free to believe that things are more complicated.

In this case I'll go by my own standard (which I apply not only here and now but whenever I have cause to consider such things in my interactions with others) - that of pragmatically holding others to their own principles even when I disagree with them.

If this group embarks on a journey of introspection and decides to profess a different set of principles, I'll gladly alter my opinion to suite. Until then they'll simply have to live with me being disappointed in them on the Internet. Or something.

Now, as to what it meets the hurdle for statistical significance for . . . well, I personally prefer to avoid conspiracy theories when possible. So I'll just be keeping an eye open for more information.

The notably weird thing here is that they released a completely redacted document rather than just declining the request. Is there some minimum amount of text required to be considered a response?

Politics aside, this is certainly one of the strangest things I've seen in a while.

From a pop-cultural perspective the difference between twenty-year-old music and fifty- or hundred-year-old music isn't large. Too, many 'abandoned works' that are effectively available for free with the author's permission are even newer.

People read old books (which is a very good thing!) but most haven't stopped buying new media because of it.

It's also possible that AT&T violated data privacy laws in certain jurisdictions, which might or might not be a criminal matter.

I'm not particularly interested in defending Weev, though I have to say that prosecuting someone for accessing data you published on the Internet with no access control does not a good reputation make.