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rcw4256

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    Comment #23935758

    If the data exists within US jurisdiction, the US government feels (and, in practice, is) entitled to it. Plan accordingly.

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    Comment #23020479

    The actual report that the Bloomberg article keeps referring to but never links: https://www.bea.gov/news/2020/gross-domestic-product-1st-qua...

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    Comment #22998331

    That answer should be unsatisfactory to the court, since it wasn't licensed under the GPL. The rules, in this case, say no use in war.

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    Comment #22997440

    Yes, but you need to be prepared to take it to court when someone uses your software in war.

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    Comment #22564468

    FOIA has no real penalties for noncompliance. In Washington State, our public records law has penalties (legal fees + $100 per day of noncompliance), and as a result, state agencie…

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    Comment #22094676

    > Use it in a manner that SpaceX disagrees with and you can expect lawyers. This is probably true, but it's hard to be certain that they'd prevail. Has this actually been tested in…

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    Comment #21132008

    We now have explicit, written authorization from the head of WhatsApp to reverse engineer ("tear through") the binaries. The ToS only prohibits unauthorized reverse engineering. I …

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    Comment #21103815

    Please implement a warrant canary while you still can, before you are legally compelled not to.

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    Comment #21103353

    > especially career twitter archaeologists who dig up old tweets and put them out of context Richard Stallman doesn't tweet. What are you talking about?

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    Comment #20906807

    Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20861948

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    Comment #20863347

    Apparently you need to fail verification a few times before it'll present the option. I kept giving it bogus phone numbers and eventually a "skip" button appeared.

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    Comment #20721097

    The Draeger breathalyzer fiasco in Washington State was mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Draeger has consistently resisted attempts to make its source code public. Will you comm…

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    Comment #20562171

    The complaint doesn't make it clear what happened in this specific case, but Slack's general policy is here: https://slack.com/user-data-request-policy

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    Comment #20137750

    > It’s no different to software providing both free and premium versions in the same binary. What are you paying for? Not the number of bytes.. the R&D hours behind it. I think the…

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    Comment #20137094

    It's artificially capped in software.

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    Comment #20136992

    What good is an iPhone without access to the App Store?