Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
Because the whole concept that massive monitoring leads to reduced crime is just one of those seductively simple authoritarian fallacies. At best it is a tool that lets you "rewind" time to look at events that were coincident to a
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by Amadou 13y ago
At least they didn't make you drink your own breast milk. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-08-breast...
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by Amadou 13y ago
You could say that, but it would be an intellectually dishonest framing of the facts. I feel confident that the line of reasoning I've used does not try to obscure anything. I believe it is as straightforward and honest an evaluation
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by Amadou 13y ago
There have been consumer-grade sledless disk "docks" for SATA since practically the day the standard was created. Here's one: http://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=163 I suspect they are prone to vibration issu
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't mind because it at the very least acts as a deterrent. What evidence do you have for that belief? Here's my evidence to the contrary -- if the TSA really were deterring terrorist attacks, the result would be a shift to
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by Amadou 13y ago
They don't build it themselves they have contractors. I don't see how that makes any difference at all. it's a lack of funding That's really a problem of poor management.
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by Amadou 13y ago
What can I do? Don't do it from a place of guilt, find something that you feel passionately about, cut back on the meaningless and lucrative tinkering and start tinkering for your passion. Your most valuable contribution to the worl
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by Amadou 13y ago
You say it like you're blaming them. Do you realize the sheer number of assets they have to protect? The thing is that they have very little control over the hacking attempts. They do have control over what they build themselves. It
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by Amadou 13y ago
That email thread has been public for quite a long time now and the subject of some conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, the rest of that email chain fizzles out, suggesting that it was just an opinionated off-the-cuff remark, not the resul
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by Amadou 13y ago
The Stratfor documents were accessed through the internet. If anything in there is classified someone at Stratfor should be facing a criminal investigation for storing classified documents on an unclassified system.
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Terminal Cornucopia(terminalcornucopia.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is probably the same company behind both the euro and the us implementations. They were called Orbiscom out of Ireland, Mastercard bought them a few years back. http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/new
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by Amadou 13y ago
Combine this with something like BoA's ShopSafe "disposable" credit card numbers and POS credit card fraud could be practically eliminated. Consumer privacy would also be increased because it will become much more difficult
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by Amadou 13y ago
Now, I didn't just "know" to prefetch the PyObject three indices forward in the array. I arrived at this value through experimentation. There is a good chance that 3 is specific to the hardware you tested on. Different sys
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by Amadou 13y ago
So, exactly what part of that qualifies as, "more to add than what the wikipedia article spells out?"
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by Amadou 13y ago
Pjc50 is correct. Practically every browser exploit over the last decade has had javascript as an essential component. Forcing users to enable javascript to use a site is a bad idea because it makes them more vulnerable. Javascript should
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by Amadou 13y ago
That link talks about a search warrant regarding child porn, not Snowden.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Once they served him with a warrant (this was several weeks before Snowden came public with anything) According to the relevant wikipedia entries lavabit was served the first court order the day after snowden revealed his identity. https
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by Amadou 13y ago
All I get is a spinning blue dot. Your site is unfriendly to people who take their security seriously. That's not a good sign.
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by Amadou 13y ago
doesn't mean he can somehow wave his hands and claim "but but but but, I've designed this system such that you will be able to also read other peoples emails whom you've not subpoenaed. That is against my mission statem
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by Amadou 13y ago
Many of us here can afford to do the same. A very close friend and business partner gave a similar amount to help Star Simpson with her situation because he believed very strongly that she was a victim of the War on Dignity. Star Simpson:
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's legal defense, and I'm sure that's expensive. But what if we just want to send him some some money to reward him for making the sacrifice for all of us?
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't wish to give the impression that hacking on the hardware is my goal. I could, but I'd rather not. The reason external dependencies are a problem for me is that they take away my ability to control my system. If I have to
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by Amadou 13y ago
For argument's sake let's say you are right, that it is not maximalist. That would imply there is a more extreme interpretation that would qualify as maximalist. Can you describe what that interpretation might be? What is more e
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't see mention either way of subscription/cloud requirements. If it isn't fully self-contained, then the risks out-weigh the benefits. Edit: Drilling down to the ninja blocks pages I see mention of a "ninja cloud a
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by Amadou 13y ago
Because it is "blogspam" and against the policies of this site. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit
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by Amadou 13y ago
There is no way that any specific licensing source, or even handful of licensing sources, is comprehensive. If you accept that this use does not qualify as fair use then in good conscience you can only display the lyrics for which you have
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by Amadou 13y ago
That is true under a maximalist interpretation of copyright. On the other hand, what is really being sold here is the transcription and search-ability of the lyrics (and in RapGenius's specific case the community-contributed critical
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by Amadou 13y ago
That is an unhelpful response. If you have more to add than what the wikipedia article spells out regarding reporting requirements for under $10K transactions, I would very much like to hear it.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I thought that the refrigerator was more about soundproofing (that way it wouldn't matter if it was listening or not.) I think it depends on the model. I tested a couple of phones, including a blackberry, inside my fridge a few year

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