LiamMcCalloway

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by LiamMcCalloway 9y ago
I spent last Sunday's lunch explaining to my girlfriend the revolution that being able to compute your longitude was (I could not help myself). There were prizes offered by the trading companies and governments to whomever would devise
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by LiamMcCalloway 9y ago
Both U.S. navy ships had damage consistent with being hit head-on by merchant vessels. We're talking about the navy ships' hulls and structure resisting forces necessary to slow down the container ship enough that the ships can di
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by LiamMcCalloway 10y ago
As a natural monopoly seems closer to the GP's argument.
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Google security algorithm, I am an adult. Please disable yourself
6 points by LiamMcCalloway 12y ago|3 comments
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by LiamMcCalloway 12y ago
The article is somewhat misleading in portraying Germany as a leader. In fact, these policies find their origin in the 2003 EU Energy Directive. What they describe is true in all the E.U. countries which met their respective renewable energ
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by LiamMcCalloway 12y ago
Newsdiffs.org is useful to track both minor and major changes made to stories. More generally, it's a convenient if limited way into the publishing process. It deserves scrutiny, all the more so for those PR-type articles that essentia
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
You are looking for two things, not one, I think. You are looking for people who are abnormal in a select few categories (intelligence, physical ability), but also normal in all the others, say sociopathy or anxiety. Incidentally, this is m
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Can you confirm it's got LTE _everywhere_? (6 continents)
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
I agree wrt security-through-community and its weaknesses. And indeed turning your guns inwards seems like the wrong move.
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
It's a nice way to alleviate the barrier to monetization that open-source-as-security poses. In short, instead of having lamdba user trusting 'the community' for security audits, now each user has to implement security measur
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
I am surprised this exerpt from Alan Rusbriger's article in the New York Review of Books [1] hasn't made the rounds: > "But I did have an interesting (unattributable, of course) briefing from someone very senior in one We
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
As everyone is pointi ng out, usability is too low. A good target for usability would be TextSecure, the OTR for sms Android app (why I'm sure everyone is using). Essentially, TextSecure works because: 1. It reverts to completely norm
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The top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant(m.guardian.co.uk)
8 points by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago|0 comments
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Don't forget the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty a
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
What matters is that the message suggests that a German MP 'responsible for the supervision of the intelligence apparatus' is not certain whether German intelligence has access to PRISM and other related programs' data.
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
He's retaining a sense of humor: > Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal."
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
I understand "direct access" to be the conflation of 2 different things: the first is the FISA-stamped requests to private companies for their records, and the second is the intercepts of data transmitted over the internet or phon
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Saving you all ddging it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Christian_Str%C3%B6bele
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Oh wow: MP_Stroebele_GER 17 June 2013 3:53pm Mr Snowden, as a deputy at the Bundestag (German Parliament) who is responsible for the supervision of the intelligence apparatus, I am eager to know if you have any knowledge about informat
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
I think most people respond to their mails pretty much as they come in. I'd add that in corporate settings a norm of near immediate response has developed. I've set my timeout at 9999sec -- mutt throws in an error if I add a digit
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Set-up can be daunting, but I always found that entering one's password every time a new mail comes in is unbearable. They should highlight that the pgp password timeout can be changed to something less intrusive.
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
You're welcome. I'd be happy to read more on the same topic, if you stumble upon anything of interest.
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
I didn't check whether the paper was publicly available and not on gated publishers' websites, my apologies.
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by LiamMcCalloway 13y ago
Academic version: http://db.tt/6UA1bXZq DIVIDE AND CONQUER: DISTORTED COMMUNICATION IN NETWORKS, POWER, AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTION Wilson Perez-Oviedo Cornell University and Banco Central del Ecuador Abstract In a society co
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
A good watch before The Gatekeepers, both on its on terms and as on of the inspirations for the The Gatekeepers' director Dror Moreh.
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. What did you think the fact that their maps did not show this island mean?
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
Not sure what you mean about SHOM?
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
The 2003 Directive you quote (2003/30) is for biofuels, whereas 2003/54 deals with renewable electricity. Both refer to 2001/77, which details the condition of access to the grid for renewables. The language is relatiely clear Art. 7 - 1, i
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
Renewable energy bills are paid for by consumers in their eletricity bills, as was made clear in the article.
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by LiamMcCalloway 14y ago
As per the 2003 E.U. directive on renewable energy, renewables have priority access to the rid to offload their production. This is makes sense because it ensures full utilization of the assets and helps reduce their costs. EDIT: grammar

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