Rod

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by Rod 16y ago
It's so easy to take the moral high ground when one has zero power. That briefly summarizes Clay's self-important diatribe. More to the point: who's Clay Johnson? That's right: nobody knows, and nobody cares.
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by Rod 16y ago
"...because the mainstream media have a tough time taking him seriously." Honestly, I can't think of anyone with less moral authority than the (bulk of the) mainstream media. If WikiLeaks could simply bypass the MSM, we'd all be better of
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by Rod 16y ago
"WikiLeaks lost me when they released selectively edited video, spliced in editorial overlays, registered a domain name "CollateralMurder" and advocated a position." Showing that the U.S. Military makes mistakes helps destroy the dangerou
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by Rod 16y ago
I disagree that the video could have stood for itself. WikiLeaks sent people to Baghdad to meet the children who were in the van that was shot by the Apache. That's investigative journalism, and it's laudable. If the Pentagon shows you foot
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by Rod 16y ago
Assange is aiming at maximum impact. He knows human nature well enough to understand that people love polarization, and he exploits human weaknesses in order to accomplish his goals. Who has ever heard of Cryptome or Steven Aftergood? Very
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by Rod 16y ago
"Because in a perfect world Wikileaks has minimal editorial, no political bias and no agenda." Why? Where's the argumentation? Your opinion is not fact, mister.
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by Rod 16y ago
No one is talking about dating. We're talking about starting a family, which is an entirely different bag of cookies. Wake the f*ck up. Assuming that women and men are the same, have the same goals, and obey the same rules is an immensely s
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by Rod 16y ago
If you want to hear pretty lies, go watch Sex and the City . It's well known that 40 year old women are almost infertile. And their pregnancies tend to be riskier. I didn't make the rules, so don't shoot the messenger. Show me a man starti
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by Rod 16y ago
Why the rush? It's not like you're gonna be impotent at age 40 or something. The pressure to "do or die" in one year only is likely to jeopardize your effort... unless you date single, childless 40 year old women. But what self-respecting m
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Why Arduino is a hit with hardware hackers(wired.com)
63 points by Rod 16y ago|29 comments
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Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power (2009)(news.cnet.com)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Can you shed more light on 'll' vs 'y'? You know, Argentinians also speak Castilian, and the way they pronounce the -ll- is completely different from everyone else. Hence, bringing up Mexico to prove that Spanish pronounce -ll- and -
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In-Q-Tel: a new partnership between the CIA and the private sector (2007)(cia.gov)
2 points by Rod 16y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
I understand the definition Castellano = Spanish , as it simplifies a lot of things. The danger of such definition is that it overshadows the other languages spoken in Spain. The definition British English = English proper is one thing,
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The untold story of the Microsoft antitrust case (2000)(wired.com)
2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Thanks for shedding light on this. Almost all Americans fail to realize that there's no such thing as a "Spanish language". There are many of them, Castilian being the "official" one (it's what it's written in the Spanish Constitution anywa
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by Rod 16y ago
Interestingly, it's also hypothesized that Brazilian Portuguese is closer to Portuguese proper 500 years ago than Portuguese proper today. The fact that the Portuguese spoken in former Portuguese colonies in Africa sounds more Brazilian Por
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Interview with Andy Grove (2001) (wired.com)
2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Paraphrasing Feynman: "I believe that a hacker looking at nonhackerish problems is just as dumb as the next guy." The level of ignorance revealed in most comments on this post so far is somewhat shocking. Michael Nielsen once mentioned that
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by Rod 16y ago
It took some 100 years to get from Kirchhoff's circuit laws to the transistor. Taking into account that biological networks are much more complex than electrical ones, count yourselves lucky that any modularity at all is even attainable. If
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by Rod 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBrick
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The Geopolitics of the iPhone(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
According to FT, you're right: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/06/30/274571/from-roubi... What I love the most about this whole "spy affair" is how utterly incompetent and clueless these Russian spies appear to be. I have a hunch tha
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Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP (2004) [pdf](cypherpunks.ca)
2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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Amarino: Android meets Arduino(amarino-toolkit.net)
22 points by Rod 16y ago|2 comments
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Andy Grove: our electric future (2008)(american.com)
2 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (free ebook)(inventwithpython.com)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
I know a few people who did very well despite the fact that they were college drop-outs. But what may work for programmers does not work for other people. For starters, writing code is a kind of work in which one's productivity and competen
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by Rod 16y ago
If universities only sold knowledge, public libraries would be out of business. Ideally, a diploma would be a rough estimate of one's knowledge. Theoretically, a 4.0 student knows more than a 3.0 student... theoretically! Most people do n
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by Rod 16y ago
"... and most undergraduate students as well." You are seriously out of touch with reality. Well, if you want to be a programmer, you can be a programmer right after high school, and there's no need to spend $30K per year to learn Java an

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