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He's less capable and more easily thwarted and has awakened the fourth estate.
Awakened the 4th estate to violent irrelevant screeching...which will go right back to sleep(Or rather, into their hypnotic state) as soon as a D enters the white house.
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I'm curious about that. I can see why it would be idiotic for me to do it, by I'm not Ken White. Why shouldn't he send them a few polite questions?
The article by Ken White referenced in the sibling comment by likpok does a good job explaining it: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea... . > Here's how it works. The feds identify some fact that they can prove. It need not be inherently incriminating; it might be whether you were at a particular meeting, or whether you talked to someone about the existence of the investigation. They determi…
How is this not a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15552170 ?
There's a lot of randomness in which submission of an article happens to get noticed. It sucks if you got there sooner and someone else wins the lottery, but if you repeatedly submit good stories, it evens out in the long run.
When we put stories in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there), we always try to privilege the original submitter.
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> Fast forward to March of this year, to an entirely different story: the FBI arresting John Rivello for "assaulting" journalist Kurt Eichenwald with a tweet. TechDirt phrases this as if to make light of the charge, but Rivello intentionally triggered Eichenwald's epilepsy by sending him a flashing GIF that read "YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS". He followed this up with messages such as "I hope this sends him i…
I wonder how long it will be before someone develops a program that defends people from such content automatically? I know there's been some research in the area, but I don't see much in the way of practical programs or screen filters: https://phys.org/news/2009-07-software-tool-web-seizure-caus...
Might still be worth putting together as a library, though. I can see an easy win for sites like Twitter, which could apply it to user-submitted content before showing it to anyone.
How is this not a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15552170 ?
We don't count articles as dupes when they haven't had significant attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . If we did, many of the best articles would never get attention. There's a lot of randomness in which submission of an article happens to get noticed. It sucks if you got there sooner and someone else wins the lottery, but if you repeatedly submit good stories, it evens out in the long run. Whe…
Here is the techdirt article: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-s... That also includes this gem: "* As an aside, look closely at that criminal complaint against Shafer. I have no idea why but it appears that the FBI/DOJ is so clueless that rather than submitting the final complaint, they actually submitted the copy showing the "comments" on the Word doc they were using to prepare the complai…
> Fast forward to March of this year, to an entirely different story: the FBI arresting John Rivello for "assaulting" journalist Kurt Eichenwald with a tweet. TechDirt phrases this as if to make light of the charge, but Rivello intentionally triggered Eichenwald's epilepsy by sending him a flashing GIF that read "YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS". He followed this up with messages such as "I hope this sends him i…
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The article by Ken White referenced in the sibling comment by likpok does a good job explaining it: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea... . > Here's how it works. The feds identify some fact that they can prove. It need not be inherently incriminating; it might be whether you were at a particular meeting, or whether you talked to someone about the existence of the investigation. They determi…
Law Enforcement 101: "When you're low on crime, just make more people criminals."
I know, you probably think I'm wrong. Hear me out.
Imagine if Trump just announced he was laying off 75% of the judicial branch ans executive branch tomorrow. Effective immediately.
We pretty much gotta keep them all busy. The people would revolt, otherwise.
Here is the techdirt article: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171023/18275838465/doj-s... That also includes this gem: "* As an aside, look closely at that criminal complaint against Shafer. I have no idea why but it appears that the FBI/DOJ is so clueless that rather than submitting the final complaint, they actually submitted the copy showing the "comments" on the Word doc they were using to prepare the complai…
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Yep. It's a pity Firefox doesn't let you select and copy the address for a link.
I am confused, that doesn't seem to be true. In FireFox for Android, I can select and copy both the address of the page that I'm on[0] and any particular link on the page[1], both by doing a long tap on the link/URL I wish to copy. [0] - http://i.xwl.me/2017-10-26%2010.57.48.png [1] - http://i.xwl.me/2017-10-26%2011.01.24.png