Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
In this case, however, a little-noticed provision in a 2008 law, expanding the definition of “foreign intelligence” to include “weapons of mass destruction,” was used to justify access to the message. The court’s use of that language has a
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by Amadou 13y ago
While true, and quite obvious, I don't understand your point. Are you saying that makes SoCal water importation more sustainable?
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, SoCal imports vastly more water than Vegas does. Practically all the agriculture in SoCal would disappear without the imported water.
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by Amadou 13y ago
All that fakery is the strip - the strip is for tourists, not locals.
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by Amadou 13y ago
My thinking is that a good job with pay appropriate to the area is better in a high-cost area than in a low-cost area. The reason being is that part of your pay goes towards housing which eventually means a mortgage. Once you decide to ret
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by Amadou 13y ago
I would take it one step further and say that the charges against Snowden are not laws of the land, they are simplistic, maybe even mechanistic laws with no real moral authority while the bill of rights is the supreme law of the land with s
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am thinking that the RequestPolicy add-on would practically eliminate cache-based tracking by simply blocking all requests to unnecessary 3rd party sites. I would appreciate hearing your analysis of it. https://www.requestpoli
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by Amadou 13y ago
According to the local paper, the guy the cops were trying to get a "tactical advantage" over had all charges dismissed with prejudice. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/henderson-fam...
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by Amadou 13y ago
It seems like a whole lot of website (and app) design completely ignores this segment of the population. Too many designers have forgotten the principle of "graceful degradation" such that much of the web is completely unusable f
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Americans with Disabilities Act Rulings to Change Website Design(usatoday.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
(1) The SCOTUS ruled in NLRB v Mackay Radio that hiring scabs was legal. To the best of my knowledge there are no additional restrictions specific to public sector unions. You are requested to provide documentation for your claim. (2) It
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by Amadou 13y ago
Normally I don't believe in making these kinds of posts but - I've never heard of the McWrap before. Is it really "summer blockbuster" level of advertising? Have I been able to insulate myself that well from such thing
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There is some other system that uses periods for thousands and commas for decimals - the exact reverse of what you've listed as the english convention. I always thought it was a european convention. It makes more sense than what you&
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by Amadou 13y ago
> I'm also well aware that they get replaced quite frequently. You and I have a significant difference of opinion then.
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Thanks, too late for me to fix it.
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NFC isn't even close to completion, who knows when, if it ever will, get there. What you are missing is the massive infrastructure investment in retail terminals. There are millions of these things out there and they just work. The
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think the better result for us is that the more monolithic the thinking is within the NSA the more they are going to over-step in such a way that even their most ardent supporters outside the agency will have to abandon them. I'd lik
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by Amadou 13y ago
> I imagine the fear of not being able to provide for you or your family I'll buy that argument for people doing menial customer service work. I don't buy it for people with jobs like these - these sorts of people have all kin
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by Amadou 13y ago
Well, I can see why they haven't implemented that - its a huge undertaking to build specialized hardware like that into so much varied equipment. For all intents and purposes rolling out a system like that is impossible.
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by Amadou 13y ago
> just about anything you can do via a VPN you can do by buying a VPS I like my VPN service because my network traffic is mixed in with all the other users. Makes it harder to distinguish between my web browsing and their web-browsing.
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I've basically stopped using my credit cards. I am cash only nowadays except for the occasional online purchase, and I am starting to use prepaid debit cards purchased with cash for those too. The straw that broke the camel's ba
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by Amadou 13y ago
Two steps forward. One step back: http://torrentfreak.com/mastercard-and-visa-start-banning-vp...
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(1) The public can look for replacement labor, they are called scabs. Or they can outright fire the strikers. (2) The public can look for replacement transportation.
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> But I do find the response strangely disproportionate. It may be that the people directly involved are "overly invested" in the situation. Making mountains out of molehills because they don't have enough metaphorical di
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> They are public servants who are holding the public hostage. I have to strongly disagree with that representation, you could just as well say that the "public" is holding their livelihoods hostage. Labor disputes are a chara
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by Amadou 13y ago
Apparently blocking javascript also lets you read the article - in nicely formatted fashion too. I had not even realized FP had made such a change, I would have stopped reading it if I had run into that roadblock too. Tecently there have b
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With the right band it could be very fashionable - kind of art-deco.
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I wish they had used an interchangeable faceplate system. Then I could remove the black face and paint it any color I wanted.
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> Somehow, the US government is spying on every piece of internet traffic for the grad sum of $20M a year. I just don't believe it's technically possible. That's because it is not possible. The $20M/year number is j
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> So basically he was a professional hacker. Which explains why Obama called him a hacker last week. Everybody (well some bodies) thought Obama was using language to trivialize the leaks since none of the leaks involved Snowden doing an

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