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13y ago
Use e instead of pi: http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
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You have talked about who is labeled a brogrammer, but can you clarify who is doing the calling? You seem to be saying it is the geeky types themselves. And where are you geographically, roughly? I am not in Silicon Valley. I spent the firs
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Solution: retroactively legalize the spying, create a legal framework to continue doing so. They need to accept that less privacy is the cost of legislating in a free country. It's called keeping America safe.
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Well yeah, I am just saying that "bankers keys" are like having administrator access. It's built into the system, it's not hacking. But you can still abuse it. "bankers keys" don't have an analogy in bitco
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I worked in the defense industry for a while, and the number of small government conservatives I worked with who were essentially living off the largesse of the bloated defense industry...was really really big.
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The analogy to holding bankers' keys in bitcoin is holding 51% of mining power, and not a percentage less. Just having a lot of bitcoin gives you the ability to affect the price of the currency, but again this is directly proportional
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I went through this while experimenting with cryptocat, it's confusing as hell. the group fingerprint is your fingerprint, in that chatroom, for that session. I peeked at some of the issues on Github and it looks like they're addi
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It's already been said, but again: DON'T TALK TO COPS. THIS is why you don't talk to cops. Remember all those people that said "what if you're not the person they're looking for? What if you see an accident?&qu
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Feminists and friends fling just as much shit as anybody else on Twitter. During the Piers Morgan Twitter flamefest, you should have seen some of the hatred thrown his way. In particular I remember the person who wished him to get "dic
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It could transmit everything collected by your car's event data recorder. This includes information about your car maintenance, current seatbelt usage, derivable information about how much weight your car is carrying, etc. It basically
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In the docs I read a few years ago, there was talk about integrating the system into handheld devices like cellphones and portable GPS gizmos. It would definitely be possible.
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mac address changer, or else you're broadcasting to every other wifi enabled device the machine you're using. I'd say a laptop that has a physical switch to disengage the antenna, but I have no idea if those actually work.
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If you're younger than 13, don't use Tumblr. -Ask your parents for an Xbox or try books. +Ask your parents for a Playstation 4, or try books. Playstation 4 confirmed next-gen console winner by Yahoo. Is that good or bad?
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13y ago
I threw a couple of spare video cards at it and generated about 15K of doge over MLK weekend. Use a GPU.
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That kind of egalitarian viewpoint is alien to these protesters. They are entitled to attack this individual because he is powerful and wrong, and they are powerless and right. You're thinking "no punching" and they're t
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Yelp blocks their entire site from Tor. If you try to visit, you will just get a 403 forbidden. citation: I run a tor exit node.
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A better question for Sebastian is, are harassers more categorizable than feminists? He should consider that "Internet ladies" are not the only people who can abuse the report spam button.
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You have made the fallacy of presuming that technology is neutral.
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I was under the impression that the delayed-choice quantum eraser experiments demonstrated that mechanical detectors do not cause waveform collapse, the output of the detector still had to be observed by a human before that occurred.
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I don't see why DTMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_sign... couldn't have solved this pretty easily without adding too much complexity. I've seen those remotes before and they u
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Congress can fuck up the country far more effectively than terrorism. See: Congress' response to terrorism. The scrutiny on them should be ENORMOUS but instead it is exactly the reverse, they are using a billions-dollar world eavesdrop
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I see your point because the fact he used Tor at all led them to him. But it sounds to me like he cracked under police pressure, otherwise they might not have had anything at all on him.
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/192157170/Eldo-Kim-Complaint It sounds like they determined from the email provider that the message came from a Tor exit node, then from there they looked for who had made a connection o
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I have been the "toxic character." In my experience the term means "allergic to bullshit."
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Is there any equivalent of AppArmor on Windows? You can lock down the capabilities of an app pretty hardcore on Linux.
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At least that one has an excuse, from the copyright it appears it was created in 1996. This was created in 2010: http://www.warrens.net/
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I have heard this criticized on the grounds that it is patronizing and it connotes an expectation to conform to gender norms ("act like a lady.")
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If I am reading this right, the API supports creating encrypted-only peers, they can hold your data without knowing the decryption key. My interest has just been piqued.
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Bitcoin makes it cheaper, too. You can't do what you wrote without quite a bit of money.
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It appears also (as best as I can tell without being able to understand Icelandic) that there is a law on the books that makes it prosecutable to 'publicly ridicule an individual or group on the grounds of their "nationality, skin
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