Arnor

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by Arnor 13y ago
> many in Congress insist that they never meant for the law to cover this level of surveillance Too bad they never considered reading the patriot act before signing it ... Also, I think I'll need an XKCD graph to understand just wh
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by Arnor 13y ago
FYI hollywood propaganda films aren't usually the best citations... EDIT: spelling counts...
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by Arnor 13y ago
I beg your pardon, but my "peers" don't talk that way.
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by Arnor 13y ago
I'm not an xbox live user, but I do watch my share of movies. I've yet to see a reference to killing a school full of children and eating their hearts in any movie that has come out of hollywood.
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by Arnor 13y ago
own up oneup to pad the blow :)
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by Arnor 13y ago
Are you implying that no one on xbox live is maladjusted?
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by Arnor 13y ago
Did you even read the comment you replied to? "People shouldn't be prosecuted for speaking in poor taste. The statement was wrong but not criminal." "barring hard evidence of intent to follow through, he should be freed.
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by Arnor 13y ago
This is an interesting case that points to a hole in our society. We have this freedom of speech that is really important. People shouldn't be prosecuted for speaking in poor taste. The statement was wrong but not criminal. The fact th
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by Arnor 13y ago
I'm amazed that Voyager is still sending us data. It had to travel a a bajillion (+/- 100) km and not get blasted by some flying scrap of rock. It's components had to withstand every form of radiation our solar system has to
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by Arnor 13y ago
> However, since we're using go and the datastore, all that work can be done in parallel, so it's not too slow. I thought we couldn't run routines in parellel yet. Per: 'The Go runtime environment for App Engine provi
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by Arnor 13y ago
This sounds like a brilliant solution to a difficult problem, but I fear it only solves a portion of the problem. It deals with the issue of stolen keys, but how does it protect against cryptanalysis? If an organization were able to reveal
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by Arnor 13y ago
Haha, yeah, I recently lost the password to my previous handle. Read for several months before I ventured to comment as QEDTurtles.
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by Arnor 13y ago
You've quoted me egregiously out of context. "silly little game" (not even verbatim) came from this sentence: >I'm saying that this is important and meaningful and needs to be treated as such rather than another oppor
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by Arnor 13y ago
I'm afraid you've misunderstood on several levels. My language was careful, your reading was not. First, my post gives no judgement on Prism or other program positive or negative. I have not "decided what [I will] find at the
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by Arnor 13y ago
It's depressing that this article is so high on HN right now. It's another example of a poor report trivializing an important debate. Meanwhile, many of the comments here are snarky and sardonic which further degrades the dialog.
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by Arnor 13y ago
> They present themselves as harmless and benign, offering re-assurance and smiles But they haven't... They've made it clear that they are a potent force that fights the evil terrorists. No part of the NSA response has been smi
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by Arnor 13y ago
It blows my mind that http://www.adecco.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx is up today...