Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
We know that people behave better when they're accountable for what they do and say, and worse when they're not. For some definition of "better" that's probably true. We also know that feeling like they have no pr
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by Amadou 13y ago
Do you use cash in real life to avoid telling companies what you spend, where you spent and what you spent it on? If your answer is no, then you probably won't find much value in doing the same online with bitcoins.
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Even if the incident with screwing over the chinese dissidents is the entire reason they fought the NSA in court that does not subtract one iota from the good karma they deserve for fighting the NSA in court. People who learn from their mis
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've been thinking about developing a browser plugin that would spoof fingerprints. Based on the URL in the address bar it would keep a discreet cookie-store and fuzzed version of the variables that fingerprinting looks at. For exampl
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by Amadou 13y ago
Question authority and authority will question you.
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But while consumers seem to have no problem with cookies, profiles and other online tools that let e-commerce sites know who they are and how they shop, some bristle at the physical version That is a profoundly ignorant statement to make
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by Amadou 13y ago
If it weren't for the rhetoric, guys like Snowden would never have been indoctrinated with the ideas of freedom and democracy, the very ideas that caused him to act. So no, I do not want to drop the rhetoric.
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Since, for all intents and purposes, there are no terrorists in the USA. I don't think we would. We are already over-arresting people for terrorism such that we're basically putting away people for sitting around talking crap whi
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by Amadou 13y ago
Is it weird that when I saw the headline I thought this was going to be article about how calling a guy creepy is the same thing as slut-shaming but for males? And that this guy was going to offer up a sort of fix to the problem of inappro
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by Amadou 13y ago
The FBI did the same thing in Southern California. The mosque actually reported the guy to the FBI. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/fbi-informant
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It is all about word choice. It would be just as true to say asylum seeking exiled whistle-blower. Both descriptions are totally accurate, neither description is neutral.
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by Amadou 13y ago
30 year old person stuck in a Russian airport who has appointed himself the ultimate arbiter of what is leakworthy and what is not, what programs are legal and good and which are illegal and evil. Snowden didn't do that, the USG appo
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you aren't archiving every newly linked document, I'd like to suggest you do so. You never know when a site like that is going to publish something that they later retract, maybe even within minutes. Its good to have a copy f
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by Amadou 13y ago
Reports are that lag time on the seiki is pretty small because it has the most bare-bones of image processing. Crummy video processing (especially the primitive upscaling from 1080p to 4K) is a problem for a TV but actually a benefit for a
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by Amadou 13y ago
> You will notice the significantly greater fluidity Its the law of diminishing returns. When I had 30Hz and 60Hz monitor on the same desktop (as in I could drag windows from one monitor to the other) it was barely noticeable and not a
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by Amadou 13y ago
That thing is waaaay overpriced. Seiki (a big cheapo chinese manufacturer) has a 4k 50" "tv" that is currently selling for under $1,000 on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BXF7I9M/ O
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This is the problem with "detecting" piracy - it is super-easy to get it wrong and start punishing legit customers. Any developer who makes the decision to punish pirates risks losing paying customers. How many lost paying cust
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I agree. There will always be someone who comes along and says that the people who have actively done something to make the world a better place don't count because the doers don't live up to some arbitrary standard of that criti
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by Amadou 13y ago
In case anyone else is wonder WTF an "LI interface" is -- it is a "Lawful Interception Interface." A way for a 3rd party, nominally a law enforcement agency, to make direct copies of certain specific data that passes thr
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think that is an acceptable price to pay for the benefit of requiring our representative to at least understand the issue enough to restate it in their own words. That's the rule I have for my kids, if they claim they understand what
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If anything "don't be a dick" is misandrist.
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The bias goes like this: If a man is married with kids - then he's got more commitment to work because he's got the responsibility of a family depending on his income. If a woman is married with kids - the she's got less comm
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by Amadou 13y ago
Men can get away with making sexist jokes (or even not-jokes) around other men. You don't have to think so hard about how what you say might be perceived. Taking the overhead of that mental filter out of the loop lets men feel more a
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"Our data abuses are better than Google's!" Innovation at work.
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The international "no man's land" is more than just an airport terminal. You can take a bus to a hotel and still technically not be on russian soil. Here is an article by a CNN reporter who checked it all out personally: ht
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I think that is to confuse the form of something with the meaning of something. Anonymous sources for reports that are at odds with the powerful are anonymous for fear of retaliation if found out. Anonymous sources for reports that validat
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yes, in the US, the current state of the law is that anything done in public is fair game for anyone - there is no expectation of privacy when in public. However, this point of law was determined back in the late 60's or early 70'
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by Amadou 13y ago
Repo men. There is at least one company that works with repo men - they put ANPR cameras on the repo men's dashboards, it records every plate that comes into view and uploads it in near real-time to a central databases along with gps i
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Not quite charged, but held for two weeks and only released when someone without an alibi of being on the other side of the planet was found to also have matching prints... http://articles.latimes.com/2004/may/21&#
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You emphatically denied that morality is defined by people, but have provided exactly zero support for that idea. Backed into the corner of your own illogic you are now accusing me of being unthinking. Which is odd since all I've d

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