Estragon

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by Estragon 12y ago
Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . .: A Calculus Supplement, 3rd Edition http://www.amazon.com/Misteaks-find-before-teacher-does/dp/1...
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by Estragon 12y ago
What were the two good ones?
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by Estragon 12y ago
It looks like it is there to stay. The reporter claims they were ripped out hours after he asked the USPS LE arm about them.
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by Estragon 12y ago
In the US it varies by state.[1] In "one-party consent" states, you can record any conversation you yourself participate in. California is an "all-party consent" state, though, so this approach wouldn't work for m
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by Estragon 12y ago
Do you expect women to wear wires whenever they're sexually harassed? Since the twitter response is predictable by now, and sexual harassment tends to occur over repeated interactions, it's surprising that woman haven&#x27
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by Estragon 12y ago
I have no idea what a linked list is. Really? I knew what they were the moment I read the term, from the name alone, as a teenager.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Federated twitter blocking where people can choose to outsource the blocking to people they trust would be pretty cool. Kind of like AdBlockPlus lists.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Victim blaming is a legitimate complaint when discussion of the victim's choices distracts from the way they have been victimized. E.g., "Well, what the hell was she doing in a dark alley at 3 a.m., anyway?" You have to jud
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by Estragon 12y ago
The fundamental issue isn't their culture or organizational structure, it's their unethical missions, which breed cultures of secrecy and opaque, unaccountable and defensive institutions. I don't see how you can set up a spy
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by Estragon 12y ago
If MS hadn't explicitly said things like "We're going to cut off their air supply" in reference to the bundling, they might even have gotten away with it.
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by Estragon 12y ago
I haven't tried Yik Yak as it seems like a black hole of drama and ignorance. However, I think it is being used in interesting ways. Students were able to use it to severely disrupt a frivolous and disruptive class requirement. It&#
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by Estragon 12y ago
I'm curious, have there been bugs in VLC which would allow arbitrary code execution on linux? What about the video player in google chrome?
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by Estragon 12y ago
Where is the original discussion? Googling the text just gives me similar gists.
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by Estragon 12y ago
There's a discussion of this over in the other thread. The general consensus there is that this capability is not that remarkable, and individual hackers have done similar things on a smaller scale.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Given Snowden's stated values, it's highly unlikely that he would report such a breakthrough.
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> intelligence agencies need actionable intelligence For the most part that hasn't really been how it's worked so far. Generally intelligence agencies have used the information they've gathered so far to try to ma
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by Estragon 12y ago
Yes, who's going to plug removeable media from the US into their machine after reading this story about the conference CDs?
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China’s Internet Censors Now Have Their Own Theme Song, and It Is Glorious(blogs.wsj.com)
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by Estragon 12y ago
I guess he's given up. Whining in public like that seems like a really bad idea, if he's serious about landing a permanent position.
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by Estragon 12y ago
> Supply and demand is always political. "Economics is politics by other means."
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by Estragon 12y ago
> Larry Bossidy's "Execution: the discipline of getting things done" The "Most helpful review" for this is quite acerbic. Just shows there's no accounting for taste. http://www.amazon.com
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by Estragon 12y ago
Do you have any idea what be involved in that replacement?
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by Estragon 12y ago
> More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the > "critical path" of 50% of Google's business? Anywhere they're using a debian-based linux distribution, they're using gpg in the package ma
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by Estragon 12y ago
Tumbling and trading through other blockchains seems like it should be pretty robust.
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by Estragon 12y ago
> Enough with the ignorant pop-econ articles laced with > subtle political pandering. Can you please point out the ignorant pandering parts? Are you just referring to the "income inequality" headline? Because th
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by Estragon 12y ago
Chattel slavery was done much the same way everywhere, but doesn't make it any less of a scandal. I'm not equating this with slavery, just pointing out that your argument is bogus.
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by Estragon 12y ago
> I just noticed these are government and not private > analysts making the claims, so my comment is now a bit > cynical for my own taste... Not for mine... casting these issues as a threat to national sovereignty is a
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by Estragon 12y ago
> they'd say stuff like "Oh, that horrible cancer you have? > Yeah, we're not paying for it because it was a 'pre- > existing condition' that you got during that weekend you > had between two
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by Estragon 12y ago
The EFF is correct that this is a travesty, but the real scandal is the undemocratic way the TPP is being negotiated in the first place.
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by Estragon 12y ago
Whether he's been cheated or not depends on your values. Many people cheerfully give up revenue maximization in order to perform some service they perceive to be of great value. You can't really have a meaningful political movem

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