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DO was unduly spooked by an empty legal threat. This was not a DMCA notice, this was a trademark notice. Parodies are protected under trademark law. Bad form taking down even a sin…

That sounds fascinating. Do you happen to have a link to anything he's written or recorded on the subject?

Under this interpretation, wouldn't (say) a collection of Facebook photos with statues, in aggregate, constitute a database and therefore become illegal? At what point does the siz…

Depending on the system you use to view the text, many of the characters are actually printed using non-Roman lookalike characters that still render as the "usual" ones. In OSX / F…

Did anyone else notice the weird GNU/Linux screed on line 803? In particular, the "Additional Comments" content is actually written with a large amount of look-alike Unicode. Playi…

I've done a whole lot of individual research in the last two months, consulted with two dentists and an endo, gotten opinions from friends and family etc... seeing that any procedu…

As someone about to go in for a root canal, I feel a bit better about how far medical science has come. :-)

This calls for a stirring rendition of "Barbie Girl"... oh wait, nevermind.

Assuming for a minute that bottled air is a viable solution to smog, it's only the prestige of "exotic Canadian air" that necessitates the long shipping distance. Bottling filtered…

In particular, this summary graphic is telling: http://img3.auto-motor-und-sport.de/Abgastest-Wertung-fotosh... (blurry, sorry) At the top of the NOx scale we have a VW TDI engine …

Perhaps we have encountered a "clbuttic" filtering error in the HN news feed.

> If you naively extrapolate from the 2013 Pew Poll The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society (which in principle represents nations with a total Muslim population of abo…

"American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-c…

The spice must flow.

Safari on Yosemite also shows power usage per tab which is great for identifying rogue websites. Also... TIL that some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream! This als…

An interesting take on the experience of occupying a transient and impersonal space, but also a reflection of the author's perspective on travel. The two are not the same. Being di…

Right, an autonomous ride-share car service would be ideal in its capacity to reduce the need for personal car ownership. But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circums…

Because you don't own any of those things. If you own your own plane and have a pilot's license, you are more than welcome to fly it yourself and to disengage the autopilot should …

‘In the distant future people may outlaw driver cars. You can’t have a person operating a two-ton death machine!’ I don't care how good the design is, people will always require a …

Here we see the other side of the "responsible disclosure" coin -- if the ethical white-hat security researcher is required to withhold publication of a critical vulnerability for …

Agreed. Defense in depth is key.

>If you can mitm the dns or ip you can still do this even with https. Strictly speaking you'd need a compromised DNS and a compromised CA (possibly with a wildcard certificate). Ce…

Right you are. Fixed the title. The the app does sync the notes themselves over SSL. But this is still a risk, as the link to the app that does the syncing could be blocked to main…