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by 394549 8y ago
You misunderstand again. Bob isn't Alice's spouse, he's Alice's employer. Bob legitimately gave Alice access to confidential information in order to do her job. But, unknown to him (unless he intrusively investigated
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Weird. This article about self-censorship seems to be getting censored itself: there are other older articles with fewer votes on the front page, but this one is hovering around the second page. That's unfortunate, it's a rather g
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by 394549 8y ago
> At which point that's just the cycle of karma closing the loop, no? You misunderstand. No one cares about Alice's personal life, karma, or happiness. All they care about is manipulating Alice and what a manipulated Alice mi
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> I wonder if it also contains "concerns" that can indicate weak points for recruiting for a true one-stop shopping? It does. IIRC, it contained security clearance investigation files, so they could probably identify people wh
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> I found it interesting that the espionage is largely aimed at the private sector and not the government It's not that surprising though. One of their main focuses seems to be acquiring technology to catch up and eventually surpas
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> Yeah: the account 'for friends' is called "frinsta" (or something) nowadays. rinsta = real instagram = public, heavily managed to project an image, for acquaintances and others finsta = fake instagram = private, inf
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> Please provide a link to your latest bank statement, your last 5 years of web browsing history, full address, phone number and a link to a gallery of every photo on your phone. ... You want “radical transparency?” Lead the way. > Su
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> I guess my point is what adtech firm is going to be interested in a person who pays for electricity? Everyone does that. I pay for water too, but that's not going to help anyone sell me stuff. If your electricity bill is big, they
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> Whitelisting while keeping every website moderately functional seems impractical for the Mozilla team, which means the burden of choosing what to allow falls on the end user. I've used NoScript for a long time, and the hardest thi
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> But Mozilla trusts Google more than any search engine provider. That would be the only explanation for Google being the default search engine. The real explanation doesn't have anything to do with trust: Google pays Mozilla a lot
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> Russian State aka Kiev’s Russia started in Ukraine, so saying Russia starved Ukraine is like saying USA starved California, if somehow California got independent and the rest of country blocked food stuffs. That's ridiculous, almo
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> His point is obvious, clear, and inarguable. If you can’t grasp it that’s on you. His point is definitely arguable and not at all obvious or clear: it rests on conflating prisons with political re-education camps. The two things obvio
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> Are you suggesting China is on track to commit genocide against an ethnic minority because they established reeducation camps? Genocide doesn't require physical extermination. I believe some definitions consider forced assimilati
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Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/bX0a0
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tl;dr: homebuildling activity is still depressed from its 2008 high.
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> A service to connect with other remote workers in the same city as you would be really helpful. But only part of it. Surrounding yourself with strangers you have no connection to, except that you all work "remotely" somewhere
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> ... at the cost of an additional button you have to press every time you have to visit any website. It's the website operator that's choosing to put that button there, and they could easily remove it by choosing to respect us
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> And the buttons and popups required to browse those websites has doubled. I'd blame those websites for that, since they're the ones who made the decision to track you regardless of how bad it made their UX. Remember: all they
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I recently bought once of the last button-controlled Roombas. Almost all their line is smartphone controlled over wifi, but I fail to see the point. The old controls were perfect for the job and didn't open you up to all this IoT i
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Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/uMq0c
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> If annexation by force is no longer a legitimate means of acquiring land, then it is reasonable to say that it was never legitimate. If it is, then going to war to take territory is still possible. But there really is no fair way to de
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by 394549 8y ago
I think stories like this are a very good argument that the US needs to drastically improve how it issues identification documents and verifies identity.
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Mayo on french fries is perfect.
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by 394549 8y ago
Could that do the voice recognition functions? The Apple-CAT II sounds like a conventional modem. I think the unique thing about this IBM sound cards is that it had a programmable DSP which made it much more flexible.
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> Maybe its worth asking what properties a blockchain would need in order to provide a secure election Here's one: unhackable software at the endpoints. You don't really have a secure election if someone can hack your blockcha
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> The letter is circulating on Google’s internal communication systems and is signed by about 1,000 employees, according to two people familiar with the document, who were not authorized to speak publicly. > ... > The internal deba
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> There was a time when the NSA was in the white hat business; securing networks, identifying vulnerabilities and contributing to net sec projects. SELinux has been their most famous contribution. This all changed with the war on terrori
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It's probably also a mistake to use the set of communication systems for all your agents, even if you trust them. For something as high-risk as this, they should use bespoke systems for each agent or each sub-network. Doing otherwise
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> There is hardly any activism against the invasive surveillance of SV companies Wut? It's obvious that's not true at all , and really easy to prove. Just read this NY Times article from yesterday, about how privacy activist
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Apparently the same is true of their "fully homegrown" 3G cellular network standard. According to this [1] TD-SCDMA, is really an implementation of a failed European standards proposal by Siemens. [1] https://www.samiz

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