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CrossWired··on Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
The difference is described here in Orin Kerrs reversal of his opinion earlier today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Basically, having to provide something in your mind, the passcode, is testimony, a finger print, much like a key, is not testimony.

CrossWired··on Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says
He has also revised his opinion on the matter earlier today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

CrossWired··on My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor
Good job dodging these guys.

BTW, I'm an active client of yours and love what you have going.

CrossWired··on The Database Administrator is dead
So basically train them to be DBAs?
CrossWired··on Rakuten Acquires Viki for $200 Million
My wife works for one of their companies here in the US, and yes, they do all meetings in English, which really doesn't affect their US companies,but does make company wide meetings quite odd, painful at points.
CrossWired··on Ask HN: What's the easiest money you've made?
Built a billing system for an employer, they let me go on Friday, hired me as a consultant on Monday for a recurring $1000 a month to maintain said system. Program ran for 27 months. Spent more time on billing (5 mins each month) than I ever did on any maintenance.
CrossWired··on Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications
I'm using it just for the push notifications, already have a back-end and its dead simple to use.
CrossWired··on Plivo - an opensource alternative to Twilio
The biggest answer that Twilio and Tropo answer is running the voice services in the cloud.

If you've ever tried to get any SIP based product to run virtualized you will know that is no easy feat, and not recommended for production: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Amazon_EC2

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