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by D9u 13y ago
I don't know about presently, but in the past the GPS transmitters had an introduced error known as "Selective Availability," the purpose of which was to deny pin-point accuracy to unauthorized devices. For a price, one could
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by D9u 13y ago
"...we're going to protect their civil rights and liberties," By denying them...
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by D9u 13y ago
On what evidentiary basis have you decided one source is more reliable than the other? When one of those sources is caught in multiple lies, the prudent will tend to discount that source as untrustworthy.
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by D9u 13y ago
We absolutely must be relentless with our complaints to our elected representatives, as is our right, lest we lose them all.
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by D9u 13y ago
(from the article) US government should have turned surveillance into a huge, privatised business, offering data-mining contracts to private contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton and, in the process, high-level security clearance to thou
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by D9u 13y ago
There are still US special operations troops in Iraq. http://www.thenation.com/article/170158/us-special-forces-de... https://www.nytexaminer.com/2012/09/us-special-forces-deploy... htt
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by D9u 13y ago
Very interesting! URL manipulation also resulted in more goodies. http://homakov.github.io/
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by D9u 13y ago
How about zero tolerance for police misconduct? How about zero tolerance for appointed government servant's lying to Congress? After all, these individuals should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us if they want to impose
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by D9u 13y ago
The bit about "...not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process" illustrates the hypocrisy inherent to the ruling class. They rarely hold themselves to the same standards which they set forth for the proletariat.
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by D9u 13y ago
75 slides to convey an impression which could have been spelled out in a paragraph or two... Anyone with a slow connection knows what I'm upset about. Needless to say, I quit when I was about 24 slides into the presentation.
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by D9u 13y ago
Windows "Paintbrush" was the application that piqued my interest in computers back in 1991. My artistic skills are definitely less than acceptable, and my inability to color within the lines in my grand-children's coloring bo
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by D9u 13y ago
One would expect better from a nation whose president was a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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by D9u 13y ago
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by D9u 13y ago
It worked well on my 5 year old netbook. FreeBSD. Xombrero.
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by D9u 13y ago
This reminds me of the book "Danziger's Travels." http://www.nickdanziger.com/index/books/danzigers-travels/
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by D9u 13y ago
All of the spying didn't stop the Boston bombings, so I find the excuse of "terrorism" to be flimsy, at best, and the citation of the "3rd party doctrine" fails to consider that when we, as Americans, post letters
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by D9u 13y ago
*Verizon did not specify why its SIMs were not vulnerable* I was under the impression that Verizon phones don't use SIM cards because their network is CDMA instead of GSM.
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by D9u 13y ago
>breaking into systems or other illegal stuffs can also be hacktivism I'd refer to anyone who breaks into systms as a "cracker," regardless of their motivations.
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by D9u 13y ago
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
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by D9u 13y ago
> the scary console login after you've messed up your GUI settings That's where I stopped reading... BASH isn't that mysterious. man bash
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by D9u 13y ago
Thanks for speaking of your experiences with the rogue spy apparatchik which has recently reared its ugly head and I'd also like to thank you for running a Tor node. Together we stand, for freedom. For America.
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by D9u 13y ago
I googled my name and found 57 others with the same name... None of those 57 names were mine though.
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by D9u 13y ago
I've been a Fastmail user for about seven years now, but my reasons for choosing Fastmail had nothing to do with security, it has to do with mobile accessibility. From the first time I tried Fastmail I noticed that the site was compati
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by D9u 13y ago
Interestingly, my state Department of Transportation is the agency responsible for operating the ALPR systems, and according to my county Police Chief his department doesn't use ALPR technology, so I wonder how readily the various enfo
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by D9u 13y ago
Perhaps his children, like mine, are now adults with children of their own?
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by D9u 13y ago
I agree, especially after reading about the NSA basically "Hoovering" all electronic communications since before I was born. (mid 1960's)
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by D9u 13y ago
It's not about "terrorism," it's about control.
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by D9u 13y ago
Yes. Dryer sheets are a cheap low-tech mosquito mitigation technique. We used to put them in our pockets when we were in the field. (non-issue items are not allowed outside one's uniform)
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by D9u 13y ago
Maybe take an average of the difference between the nearest point and the farthest then settle for the middle?
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by D9u 13y ago
My personal rule of thumb is do not say something written that I wouldn't say in person, especially if I am using a profanity language. Obviously not Linus' rule... Anyone who's ever followed the kernel dev mailing

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