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Re:Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video] on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @03:11PM (#4816089)
Also you should watch 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. And then you'll get it
Re:How I Simplified My Life on Monday October 22, 2012 @08:48PM (#4686292)
You're also just not doing it right. Icebreaker clothing + www.evaser.com. 40L bag + 25L daypack.
Re:Stateless and Proud in the Realtime World on Sunday August 05, 2012 @08:52PM (#4343246)
I searched around but couldn't understand what this means: 'Many applications (and all Flask applications by default) will even used cookies with a MAC to store your session information so that you can pass state between independent workers without requiring a single database operation.' <-- what is MAC and how is it used?
Re:HyperDex: A Searchable Distributed Key-Value Store on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:40PM (#3626376)
PACELC[1] helps distinguish just the kind of CAP sacrifice this makes.

[1] http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2010/04/problems-with-cap-an...

Re:Ask HN: Any book scanners in San Francisco? on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @03:31PM (#3292032)
contact info in profile :)
Set up a trust.
Re:TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court on Friday June 24, 2011 @08:09PM (#2694456)
The fifth amendment defense was overturned in the Boucher case because: "A District Court judge agreed with the government, holding that, given Boucher's initial cooperation in showing some of the content of his computer to border agents, producing the complete contents would not constitute self-incrimination." [1]. Without Boucher having given up the names and titles of his files, it is entirely reasonable to expect that the fifth amendment would hold when testimony is asked without knowing what is inside the encrypted space.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States...

Re:TrueCrypt User Held in Contempt of Court on Friday June 24, 2011 @07:24PM (#2694348)
5th amendment is the right against self-incrimination. The response could provide self-incriminating evidence of an illegal act punishable by fines, penalties or forfeiture. Giving a password to your encrypted database could easily be interpreted as testifying against yourself as defined in the 5th amendment.

Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik#at=950

Re:Readable: A more readable version of "readability" on Monday May 09, 2011 @01:07AM (#2527634)
I put this above, but I'd like to have access to my Apture extension. For some reason it gets disabled.
Re:Readable: A more readable version of "readability" on Monday May 09, 2011 @12:52AM (#2527605)
I'd use it, but my Apture extension doesn't work while using your script.
Re:The Really Smart Phone on Sunday April 24, 2011 @12:08PM (#2479068)
Isaac Asimov's Foundation, anyone?