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I live in the US. I don't hold much hope in gun control changing after recent years. Recent federal and state policy is trending towards less regulation and removal of the previous…

This article is about graduate student stipends. Tuition does not have a cost for these students, so the stipend only needs to cover living costs (which as the article points out, …

> a non-profit organization > should be taken into account when comparing the goals and motivations of organizations developing various other communicators. Business or funding mod…

Isn't "being on life support" nearly the opposite of "set to skyrocket" from a service perspective?

US phone verified facebook accounts cost less than $1 each. There's no need to use twilio, the ecrime marketplace has this covered.

Starting out of school with a BS in computer science or computer engineering was GS 7 or 8, so around $40-50k/year. The salaries are public for each level. Additional degrees do no…

The idea that even spam is does not fall into "content moderation" is very interesting. A fake Rolex email is an interesting advertisement to some people and belongs in the garbage…

What was Slack's role in all of this? They appear to have turned over historical images and chat logs, not just for the person indicted, but even others in the same channel. Did th…

In the US, an ERB is only required for federally funded research or (much more rarely) by specific publication venues.

Probably when Reader is brought back.

There's been public analysis of the right to be forgotten. A few good reads: A summary article from NPR [1] and a research paper with a lot more details [2]. [1] https://www.npr.or…

I'd argue that other questions around how the data is: - handled - available for access by employees - retained, deleted, and stored etc.. are at least as important for your privac…

So it's fine to trust cloudflare "blindly" with the same data? (I agree that for privacy DNS over https is good, but the resolver still sees your dns queries)

The requirements that GDPR imposes on development and data handling are much more broad than the right to be forgotten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula…

As you said, the goal with OP [1] (and in the initial Chrome [2] and MS research [3] work) was really to apply what we had learned with isolation for operating system level securit…

Databricks - https://databricks.com/ - San Francisco, CA - Frontend, backend, site reliability engineers Databricks is building a cloud platform that makes data science simple. We …

Also used the "Enhanced Networking" option on the instances which means single root I/O virtualization underneath.

It's also only a good signal as long as you aren't actioning on it. As soon as it becomes advantageous enough to fit in with the normal user patterns, the attackers will modify the…

U : Unclassified, S : Secret, SI : special intelligence (an SCI control marking), REL : marking that designates release There's a bunch more too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class…