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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
If you only fire up Tor when you want to do something secret, you're leaking information about yourself that could get you caught. A Harvard student who emailed a bomb threat got tracked down this way. Obviously I don't support on
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
It is always weird reading anything Schmidt writes because it feels like he's using his own definitions of things that he never clarifies. He says he's against censorship, but then says that we need to act quick to remove certain
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
He holds up the mortgage industry in the early 2000's as an example of how "nudging" in private industry can backfire worse than in government. It completely overlooks how the government was using the mortgage industry to do
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Video games specifically. They are next-gen propaganda tools because you can subtly or not so subtly railroad a player into your frame by making them roleplay it for reward. It can adapt to less or more pliant players, it can collect analyt
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
I only was able to stop supporting IE7 this year :-P The only thing that has forced some of our customers to upgrade has been a year of successive SSL exploits that have rendered old browsers/OS insecure.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
XML to the rescue! The alternate future of the web! XML + XSLT (stylesheet)-> XSL:FO (intermediate XML language for formatting) -> FOP (program to convert formatting objects to output) -> rendered format. XML all the way down! (One
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Thanks for the advance warning... :-(
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
I was almost always left alone. I knew a guy who was bugged all the time. The difference between us was that I was quiet on the subway, dressed in a subdued fashion. Basically I was a square. He was not. Japanese cops profile people. I _thi
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
It's funny how pragmatic decisions you keep having to make turn into social norms after a while, and then you don't have to keep making them.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
People noticed that crime happened around certain types of establishments.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
How minimal do you think the North Korea sympathy is, I wouldn't think it was a majority but it seemed to me to be quite a bit.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Who here remembers John Wamsley? Is he still on a crusade to reduce the feral cat population in Australia? I remember this guy from way back, he made a lot of people mad. http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/wams
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
If they have the information, the heads-up could save a life/personal freedom?
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
The minister in talks with Facebook called the content "ideological trash" and "right wing nonsense" so it's pretty clear it's not just limited to incitement of violence.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
You're acting like the networks we use are just neutral conduits through which we engage conversationally exactly how we do in person, and that's just not true. They change how we interact. For one thing, these networks make it so
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/intercepts.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/u-s-grapples-rise-roll... http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/03/us&#
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Having the government do it also prevents blood feuds. If you exact revenge, the family might come back for revenge on you.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
The John Stewart/John Boehner example is particularly apt, because it's not even uncommon for progressives to perpetuate this, even when they're trying to fight it. To wit, it used to be that there were negative gay stereotyp
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
The UN's been pressuring Japan for years to ban child porn comics and cartoons, which it's a leading world producer of. Japan also finally outlawed possession of actual child abuse porn last year, do you consider that fascism?
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Euphemism treadmill, ridiculous proliferation of personal pronouns, victim veto, persistent assault on works like The Mikado or Dante's Inferno. Anchor babies are a thing, Chinese pay 80K for exactly what the term implies, feds shut do
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
http://genome.cshlp.org/content/24/5/831.full "Widespread and frequent horizontal transfers of transposable elements in plants" Observation for example, of horizontal gene transfer between palm tree
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
The extremists are successfully spreading their ideology worldwide, backed by a trillionaire oil state. The moderates are not. The Saudis are eager to inject their ideology into wherever the migrants go, they see this as a great opportunity
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Wasn't the island almost completely deforested? People have mentioned that here before. I wonder if it's connected.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
Well, on second reading, you're right. He does slip in there next to Microsoft Windows that you somehow have to use Google Search because everyone else does, and doesn't explain how that supports the rest of his article. I don&#x2
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
From the article, Reich is saying that Google used its dominant market position to unfairly promote its own products. Antitrust isn't only about lack of alternatives.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
After the OK City bombing my school banned wearing camouflage. They were afraid of school shootings at some point so they banned coats that were "tool long" or "too bulky". A friend of mine got in trouble for wearing a l
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
People don't like being raped even if you've got a socioeconomic explanation for it :-P
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
There's not time to educate the entire population of the United States, nor would only educating the people in the sphere of our democracy be sufficient. The environmental crisis is now.
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
I was shown a pine cone once that snapped open when burned, enabling its seeds to pop out. It was explained to me that fire was a necessary part of the tree's lifecycle, and that this is why logging isn't a suitable substitute for
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by A_COMPUTER 11y ago
His gay marriage example is instructive of the weakness of this type of argument. Marriage is purely a social institution, so what does science have to say on the subject, anyway? Well, he appeals to equality. If we have these laws, they sh

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