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by cgshaw 12y ago
(another attorney here) Tweets aren't under oath or anything, but it opens up Carmack to lots of questions and possibly affects his credibility. Often times cases come down to "he said / she said" types of claims and how
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Startup Incubator(nytimes.com)
44 points by cgshaw 13y ago|5 comments
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by cgshaw 13y ago
It doesn't depend on anonymous tips, but encourages them. PJ is basically saying she wants to prevent folks from sending her honest questions about things they have done or are involved from admitting guilt to law enforcement who can r
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by cgshaw 13y ago
I said rooted in officer safety, not solely because, ;-). Even if the search happens AFTER the arrest (assuming it's lawful, without that there is no internal link to a legal search), the court is still going to look at whether the sei
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Sweet. I had to jump off last night, but I did some criminal appointments in both federal and state court to get some courtroom experience while fresh out of law school. Certainly not an expert, but capable of having a fairly deep discussio
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Attorney here. DannyBee is absolutely correct. To my knowledge, data on a computer would be handled like an offender's diary, and that is certainly admissible in court, assuming authentication that the diary was actually written by the
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Sort of, unfortunately. Drugs laws, and the Court's interpretation of handling drug crimes gives officers a lot of latitude. I forget the name of the Court case that allows officers to intuit that ANY drug-related offender can be presu
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Attorney here. The search incident to lawful arrest doctrine is rooted in officer safety. Specifically, the Court says officers should have the ability to look for guns and contraband when someone is pulled over and it's likely they ar
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Greenwald's response... "Reuters is the absolute worst at tearing comments out of context for sensationalizing headlines. The paraphrase: Q: Will the UK's detention of your partner deter your future reporting? A: Absolutely n
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by cgshaw 13y ago
I've been trying to grok the data coming out of the NSA yesterday and could use everyone's thoughts. I am by no means sold on my approach, but I've definitely put thought into it. Feel free to critique / destroy / i
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NSA "touches" 30X all relevant emails and 60X all ingested Facebook data daily.(hackpad.com)
4 points by cgshaw 13y ago|2 comments
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Edited. Nm, I missed a demical point in a different spot. #fml, you are right. 97M.
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Did some quick back of the napkin math. Daily internet traffic (from the NSA white paper) is 1,826 Petabytes. 1.6% (* .016) is 29 Petabytes that the NSA "touches." If the average email or chat is 75kb, then the NSA just admitted i
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by cgshaw 13y ago
This is a game of semantics. They only "monitor" communications that they are "lawfully authorized" to monitor. Every government official has been playing this game for 2 months now. The real questions are: 1. HOW MUCH D
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Bury it on a Friday afternoon. I do a lot of media / pr work, this is intentional. It gives the administration the ability to have it in the headlines that "Obama is curbing NSA fears," without having enough people around to
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Short version... "MLB filed a lawsuit in March against Biogenesis of America, Bosch and others, complaining they interfered with the contracts between MLB and the union. The suit was unusual and may never reach trial, but it did give M
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Facebook and email records from players led to MLB suspensions(espn.go.com)
2 points by cgshaw 13y ago|1 comments
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Attorney here. What's perhaps scarier is that the prosecutor wouldn't even know when / if possible exculpatory evidence exist or whether their evidence is fruit of the poisonous tree (fancy way of saying legitimate evidence t
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Great data, thanks for sharing. I think one of the "problems" is that innovation is actually picking up speed dramatically. So even if the politicians aren't older, they are more likely to be removed from relevant business an
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by cgshaw 13y ago
That's why I used the quotes. I was more or less trying to draw the distinction that in some fields, sports, entertainment, and at least some technology enterprises youth wins out. Recently it was determined that by industry, technolog
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Put another way, people like Zuckerberg, Chesky, Houston, etc. are having an amazing impact in business, but there isn't anyone close in the political world. Sadly, even if "veterans" like Dorsey, Page, Brin were to run for f
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Much of this has to do with the systemic aging of our elected officials. Look at the federal level, where the average age of a Rep is 59 and Sen is 63. These are folks who not only don't empathize with modern technology, they've g
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by cgshaw 13y ago
I completely agree. Maybe it should be more incumbent on politicians and law enforcement to learn more about technology and incorporate more private citizens as opposed to just big corporations in the dialogue. It's frustrating, I thin
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by cgshaw 13y ago
As an attorney and someone moderately interested in politics, it's becoming more and more clear that technical literacy is going to play a huge role in law and policy. We desperately need more politicians, bureaucrats and law enforceme
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Sneak peak of Tech Trek film—using Google Glass in Vegas casinos, bars clubs.(youtube.com)
2 points by cgshaw 13y ago|1 comments
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by cgshaw 13y ago
That is a great visualization. Interesting and yet really just confirms the distribution that I would assume. On the visualization itself, I think the color choices could be optimized a bit. The gold on black is difficult. If you could make
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Obama: "I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker."(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by cgshaw 13y ago|0 comments
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What are the most interesting consumer startups right now?
5 points by cgshaw 13y ago|2 comments
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by cgshaw 13y ago
From the chat - "Anthony De Rosa 17 June 2013 2:18pm 1) Define in as much detail as you can what "direct access" means. 2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?" Answer (Snowden) "1) Mo
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by cgshaw 13y ago
Apologies, I should have linked the print-friendly version. I hate autoplays as well.

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