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ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them

> You think booking revenue at a later date restricts them from spending the cash they receive now?

I did not know what to think, as I have never dealt with this before. Thank you for explaining it.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them

Can someone clarify this for me? I thought that businesses generally were not able to book gift card revenue until after the gift card was redeemed. If that is the case, then I don't see how this really helps them. It's not like they can use that money to pay bills.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Detroit’s Indigent Defense System Fails Poor Defendants

When you work with the assumption that police usually only arrest a person when they have strong evidence that person actually committed the crime, it's not that surprising.

Whether that is a good working assumption to begin with is another debate.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says

You probably cannot be compelled to say what your password is,but you can be compelled to place your finger on the fingerprint scanner, provide retna scans, and provide other biometric data to unlock encryption. The difference being that you cannot be compelled to reveal information you have in your own mind. The rest of your body, however, is fair game.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln

That makes sense. There really is no reason the FBI would ever need backdoor access to EOUSA, let alone compromise open source VPN software in order to get it. There are much easier ways for them to get what they want.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: A Chapter from the FBI's History with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH Vuln

Nitpicking here, but the parent agency of the FBI is the Department of Justice. The EOUSA is the Executive Office of United States Attorneys, and is basically the back office support for the 93 US Attorney offices. It's parent organization is also the Department of Justice.

Basically, he is saying the DOJ planted a back door so that it could spy on its own internal network.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Dead Simple VPN

That wasn't just any server, it was The Silk Road. The Icelandic authorities went through their own court process, though, getting whatever their equivalent to a search warrant is first, then turning over a complete image of the server to the FBI.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Everything I Know – 1975 Lectures by Buckminster Fuller

I used his ventilated prose method to parse out and simplify complex statutes. One example was the definition of a slot machine, which consisted of two paragraphs with two sentences each, that took up an entire page of text. It had some deeply nested clauses and an ungodly amount of commas and semi colons. I started with one sentence per line, then broke to one clause per line. From there, I used indentation to sort out exactly which clauses were dependent on what. It made explaining the law to others a lot easier.

ProCicero | 6 years ago | on: Detecting Chrome headless, the game goes on

I'm very curious to know how you are able to get precise and accurate enough identification information from public websites to be able to credibly run a "background check" on someone. I used to work in the criminal justice system, and had unlimited access to every single criminal case initiated in my state going back for almost 40 years. It's difficult enough for a trained person to do it by hand, let alone automating it. How do you provide any guarantee of accuracy?

ProCicero | 7 years ago | on: I Merged My One-Person Software Company with a Bigger Player (2018)

There is very little liability protection for a single-member company. You are usually going to be personally liable for your actions, and can get sued individually along with the company. Incorporation / LLC does not protect you from acts where you are also personally liable, and it does not shield your personal assets in that case either.

Edit: in the US, that is.