Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
There is still a problem with opt-in in that most people are not cognizant of the risks and so are unable to make an informed choice.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I tracked down the yottabyte claim to, what I think is, its origin and it seems to refer to raw uncompressed data. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/nov/05/whos-in...
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by Amadou 13y ago
I saw that same show and I was similarly disappointed with it. However, my impression was that all of the guests and Maher himself were under-informed. Possibly even misinformed because there were echoes of talking points "Snowden is
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by Amadou 13y ago
Both of those things were long gone before Real ID. You might have been able to get away with multiple licenses because they didn't check with the other states but it was still illegal.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I never understood why "conservatives" weren't up in arms over E-Verify. This is effectively a system that gives the executive branch the ability to stop anyone in the country from getting a job. Even with all the passive NS
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by Amadou 13y ago
When I was a teenager I was much more convinced of the truth. As the song goes -- I was older then, I'm younger than that now.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I know the article touches on this point, but I thought it worth saying directly. The fact that this journalist had long been publicly singled out for extra scrutiny under the current programs is a damning indictment of them. Whether she
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by Amadou 13y ago
I suspect that it was much like the "too big to fail" scandal. President Obama was new to the game and let the people who said they knew what they were doing run the show. On one hand he's got the feel-good speeches he made
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by Amadou 13y ago
Last I read, storage capacity per dollar has been increasing faster than Moore's Law over the last decade or so. I tracked down what appears to be the origin of these yottabyte claims: http://www.nybooks.com/articles&#x
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by Amadou 13y ago
Clearly they do not yet have a yottabyte worth of data. It would be silly to build a warehousing site like that and have it be full-up with data the day it first opens for business. I expect these sizing claims (which presumably come from
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by Amadou 13y ago
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in -- and the West in general -- into an unbearable hell and a choking life." - Osama bin Laden, October 2001 http:&
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by Amadou 13y ago
You'd think Star would be a little bit gunshy about wearable electronics. I kid, Star if you are reading this, I'm kidding!
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by Amadou 13y ago
No. What I believe is that if the NSA are already monitoring someone for whatever reason and see evidence of law-breaking that they would call up an appropriately cleared contact in the relevant agency and say, hey you should look into this
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by Amadou 13y ago
My time working classified projects agrees with both of you - ability to clear is more important than talent, it is essentially the first prereq - everything else is secondary. And there are a handful of highly talented security people wit
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by Amadou 13y ago
That only flies if there is no other possible way for another agency to have acquired the information. An administrative subpoena would be one way to do it -- I expect there is a term for that sort of thing, although the obvious "warr
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by Amadou 13y ago
> 100. NSA data that requires TS/SAP + full-scope poly to access. You may be over-estimating the classification level here. The government classification isn't about protecting the secrets of private citizens, only government
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by Amadou 13y ago
I doubt they would even need a warrant, I expect facebook will roll over for even an administrative subpoena (which are signed by clerks of the court rather than judges and are essentially pro forma).
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by Amadou 13y ago
I expect we will learn that the NSA turned their eye of sauron on occupy protestors, if not within the US then certainly on protestors outside of the US. If this young woman had any involvement with the protests she could well have ended u
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by Amadou 13y ago
There are all kinds of intellectual arguments against the "I have nothing to hide" excuse, but the argument itself is emotional - "I am a good person, bad things do not happen to good people." We need examples, emotional
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by Amadou 13y ago
I use the Cert Patrol plugin ( http://patrol.psyced.org/ ) and I've noticed periods of a few days to a week where SSL certs on major sites like google have changed rapidly. Usually they were all from the same authorit
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by Amadou 13y ago
When I read that I see Sam Harris attributing things like "honor killings" to the doctrine of Islam as if Islam is a monolithic entity. He's equating the extremists with the mainstream and that is exactly what the islamaphob
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by Amadou 13y ago
I disagree. It is objectively correct that these programs need significantly more public accountability. The fact that their existence has been an official state secret is about as contradictory to American principles of government by the
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm sure the smearing of Snowden will start soon enough. All the things we know about Manning took months to come out. Manning didn't even get to publicly respond to the smearing until, what, years of solitary confinement? And
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm inclined to wonder if wearing a pointy metal crown would be better given the operating theory for lighting rods.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've been thinking about such a thing for a while now. Imagine a tool that uses DHT (distributed hash tables) for indexing and search plus a set of plugins that speak the protocol for each individual datastor be it dropbox, regular http, f
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think waving off the deal is the only reasonable response - it is also reasonable to change your own expectations. Don't plan for a future, simply get everything you can up front. Anything else more long term than that, you should
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by Amadou 13y ago
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/the-power-of... Sorry, I don't have time to watch an entire video. Is there a transcript?
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sure there are exceptions, but as a rule, he's right. I'm slightly taller than average, but even I have noticed this phenomenon. It is ridiculous how many single women say they exclusively want a tall man, they want to "look up" to a man.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sorry, I don't have a link for you, but I've recently read that one of the problems that many parents who live in poverty have is that they simply do not know what is necessary to be a good parent. The specific example was with respect to t
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think there is anything more to it. I think it is a matter of personality or perhaps something along the lines of "neural wiring." I feel pretty much the same as you do - for stuff like this the juice just isn't worth the squeeze.

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