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edison_carter
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Comment #10252824
> I don't really understand why other manufacturers can't make a MBA... Lenovo's Carbon X1 is that machine for me. I carried an Air (running Debian) for a couple of years. I've sin…
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Comment #9977028
Exactly. I work for defense attorneys, and they deal with a huge amount of private, protected, highly-confidential data. I honestly don't know how we can keep implementing Microsof…
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Comment #9937734
Crunchbang++ is a solid community effort to continue the late, lamented Crunchbang https://crunchbangplusplus.org/
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Comment #9852179
You might be surprised. I'd say that child pornography is often punished more harshly than child rape. The justice system weights the crime of consuming child pornography by the nu…
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Hiring a development team to build a new FOSS app
I've just about secured funding to underwrite the development of a new application to be released under the GPLv3. I have no idea who to talk to about doing the actual development …
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Comment #9252386
You're right; there is tremendous pressure from both district attorneys and judges to cop a plea. Trials piss everyone off because they are "such a waste of time." Criminal defense…
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Comment #9107794
But.. what about parallel construction? We know that the NSA is feeding tips to, among others, the DEA and ATFE -- they're just pretending to find out about criminal activity in ot…
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Comment #8562026
Not quite. The role of the defense is much as you describe; to advance every conceivable argument, etc. The role of the prosecutor is intended to be a seeker of truth, however, whi…