Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
As soon as you provide financial incentive, then things get skewed. I would go so far as to say that what is required is something that discourages financial gain. Money perverts social relationships. Long before the internet people w
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by Amadou 13y ago
Where is the disintermediation? All this talk of "products" seems to miss the root problem with these social networks - they aren't networks. They are centralized databases that are designed that way not for the benefit of t
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by Amadou 13y ago
The tsunami thing would be less amazing if you lived there rather than being just a visitor. Tsunamis are a big deal in Hawaii. Growing up there, we had monthly tests of the tsunami warning system - sort of like air-raid sirens. They tea
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sounds like this may be the inevitable devolvement of "The Suit is Back!" type of press hits. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by Amadou 13y ago
Elanco, sells a liquid phage product called Finalyse that is sprayed on the hides of cattle before they’re slaughtered. I'm thinking that name is just a little too on the button.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You do have to wonder if they aren't over-stating the specificity. The older I get, the more I come to expect the unstated "but..." on claims like that. As the saying goes, "When it's too good to be true, it proba
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by Amadou 13y ago
Image is nearly 9MB and 6,000 pixels wide. Its also exactly what you would expect.
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Kim Dotcom Links €20,000 Wikileaks Donation to Megaupload Raid(torrentfreak.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
As long as they're not an asshole, having someone listen to you and prompt you with questions is incredibly therapeutic. That makes therapy sound like renting a friend. I don't mean that in a snarky way at all, maybe that'
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by Amadou 13y ago
Serious question: do you (or anyone else) think it's immoral to go to church as an atheist just to meet people? My opinion, as an atheist who finds personal religiosity quite boring, but finds the cultural phenomena of religion rathe
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by Amadou 13y ago
The problem isn't the IRS, it is everybody else who wants to know. Especially in the case of bitcoin where all transactions are public record. Come up with a way for the IRS to investigate (not just get it handed to them on a platter,
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by Amadou 13y ago
"...many Fusion Centers have gradually shifted to a broader mission of providing general criminal intelligence and all-crimes, all-hazards analysis support for constituent agencies." Inevitable given that terrorism is effectivel
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by Amadou 13y ago
How did you get from the NYT inline widget to the PDF file? I didn't see any links from the NYT page to documentcloud itself -- the only reason I even knew it was documentcloud was because I had to whitelist it in RequestPolicy.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is a paraphrasing by the article's authors. It is their take on the document. Fortunately the article includes a link to a copy of the document. Published on documentcloud with a crappy user-interface it is a PITA to read it and I
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you want to regulate as a utility connecting homes to the nearest internet exchange point, for some definitions of nearest and internet exchange point, that's probably the limit of coherent regulation. Regulating the guys with the
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, it is legal to record wireless transmissions like cellphone calls. It is illegal to pass copies of those recordings on to other people. At least in the USA.
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by Amadou 13y ago
asking everyone for their ID just because they are on the street. That's illegal by the way, even for the police. That is not illegal at all. Anyone can ask for ID, including the police. Doesn't mean you have to give it to t
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IRS left taxpayer data vulnerable to attack(washingtonpost.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
Did you use the same camera design as the speed & red-light cams do? Also, the plate readers, they don't even use flashes. They are essentially video cameras.
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by Amadou 13y ago
TOR Bridge Nodes (relays).
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by Amadou 13y ago
It never hurts to revisit this article: The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
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by Amadou 13y ago
A couple of years ago Verizon essentially halted all new fiber roll-outs -- nationwide . http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230341040... They are still wrapping up the details on a couple of long-
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by Amadou 13y ago
You can spray your plate with hair spray or clear gloss paint too - the camera flash reflects and the photo is not usable. It doesn't work. Mythbusters tried it. http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013&
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by Amadou 13y ago
They are explicitly designed to be as public as possible, as they should be. They were designed in an age in which pervasive video-cameras and back-end databases that never forget were pure science fiction at best. In effect, the terms of
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by Amadou 13y ago
I didn't realize they were storing every single license plate recorded into a giant database. That is more concerning. The police aren't the only ones doing it. Data brokers have hooked up with repomen who put scanners on their
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by Amadou 13y ago
You would still need a DC/DC converter, and if you do that you might as well just go from AC. You are thinking wall-wart type applications. I'm more along the lines of infrastructure, lights and other permanently installed devi
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How Antisec Died: Jeremy Hammond, Sabu, and the Intelligence-Industrial Complex(medium.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
"The old model was 'everybody has to have service,' which is where cable and telephone came from," Smith said. "This is a model that says, 'we can be patient while demand builds.' We'd like to see so
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by Amadou 13y ago
Seems like Power over Ethernet would be a pretty good standard to go with. Right now it's good for 25.5 watts at 44 volts. Wikipedia says some vendors have tweaked the standard to use more lines and get it up to 51 watts. To over-si
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by Amadou 13y ago
You seem to be correct, for others reading along here is a reference to the law you quoted - starts at the bottom of page 5: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/cfr/regulations.gov.docket.0... However, while that

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