Torgo

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by Torgo 13y ago
Maybe he could do the same thing he did to fund NATO attack on Libya, reroute Pentagon discretionary funds. I don't know if that's feasible, but I find it funny that he can find ways to do a double backflip to fund things he reall
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by Torgo 13y ago
When I was a kid, the Soviet Union was declared bad _because_ it did these things. So it's hard for some of us to shift from a mindset that it was bad on its face as proven by the Soviet Union, to that it's only bad if it's d
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by Torgo 13y ago
In my cynical opinion Roberts wrote his finding as a tax to prevent being responsible for the ruling that found you could use interstate commerce to argue the government could compel you to actually _engage in commerce_ so that your activit
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by Torgo 13y ago
I remember circa-1994/1995, our library got a book called something like "World Wide Web Yellow Pages" and it was a printed book of a couple hundred pages of curated web URLs. Even then the irony was not lost on me. Why didn&
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by Torgo 13y ago
I hate this heat-map shit. I run an Tor exit node and a public wifi access point in my neighborhood. I encrypt all my drives. I use PGP. I have four cell phones because I do cellphone development. I bitcoin mine, and made a pile of money in
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by Torgo 13y ago
Ok, thanks for the clarification, I missed the context. As a side note I think functionally they serve that purpose, but were never created to be so; they simply cannot resist the compelling power of the state under which they have been lic
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by Torgo 13y ago
Your definition of "conspiracy theory" is way too low. Many sites block Tor, it is not even remotely out of the possibility that they could have blocked Tor exit nodes, or will in the future. I run a Tor exit node on a static IP a
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by Torgo 13y ago
You're right, I was coming at it presuming they don't want to address this issue. But I think I have a good case for that. These programs pump a lot of money into the defense industry, which they are beholden to. I don't see
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by Torgo 13y ago
The shitty part is that committees, who have the power to decide what Congress even addresses, are basically organized along party lines which severely limits the impact a non-Democrat, non-Republican congressperson can have.
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by Torgo 13y ago
Regardless of the disorganization, there is a set of people at the top that are going to be extremely difficult to dislodge, and they will thwart your every move. I am not a Ron Paul person, but you can look at what the party did to disenfr
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by Torgo 13y ago
Yaroze -> only for other Yaroze owners PS2Linux -> Only for other PS2Linux users PS3 OtherOS -> shall not speak of this atrocity Vita -> I looked into this, it was closer to what it should be but I still found their TOS and appr
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by Torgo 13y ago
I vote for undocumented scholar.
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by Torgo 13y ago
You're supposed to link against GPG-ME. It's specifically for that purpose.
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by Torgo 13y ago
IANAL but it's highly dependent on context, and in many cases it's a matter of simply being extremely precise. For example, if I say "I'm not reading your email" note that I didn't say, for instance, that I'm not _collecting_ your email. Al
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by Torgo 13y ago
Try saying that on any of the "freethought" or skeptic blogs and you will be mocked, banned, comments deleted, in that order as a "tone troll." On the other hand, if you insult (or insult back!) one of them, you are deemed a regular "troll"
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by Torgo 13y ago
Binney has stated that he witnessed a shift in culture at the NSA since 9/11. We either have to take him at his word or not though.
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by Torgo 13y ago
I fully support this addon, I think it's the best way to do blocking, on the client. That said, I am not looking forward to comments that consist of nothing more than "blocked" "added to killfile" "plonk" etc. These are nothing more than im
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by Torgo 13y ago
I am not sure that marriages of royalty are representative, their marriages had entire countries, delicate alliances, and survival of families on the line. That probably drives extreme decision-making.
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by Torgo 13y ago
Incidentally Scoble was one of the people brought up to ask questions during Google I/O 2013, and identified _himself_ as a "glasshole."
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by Torgo 13y ago
decentralized social network program pump.io has a dislike button. But features like this are implemented as apps, and so you can implement these kinds of features however you want. In effect a like or a dislike is an activity post on your
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by Torgo 13y ago
I tend to agree with this. While I believe that a DNA database will be abused immediately, it is not inherently unconstitutional. It is bad law.
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by Torgo 13y ago
Seconding this, NewsBlur has for me been everything good about Google Reader, and more. You can reshare blog posts on your own "blog" to even non-Newsblur users, which is a really cool feature. It's pretty much its own social network based
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by Torgo 13y ago
My experience throughout my entire career is that the many females I have worked with could have done anything with their lives, perhaps law or medicine, but chose software engineering/design. I was in school before the Internet bubble popp
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by Torgo 13y ago
I wrote a long post exploring it but then realized your frame-up statement was more interesting. If I wanted to extralegally grind somebody into the dirt, maybe what I would do is deposit an encrypted drive with a shitty password, some pers
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by Torgo 13y ago
Well, AFAIK they didn't seize MtGox LLC's money per se, they seized the accounts of Mutum Sigillum, which appears to be a subsidiary company in the USA set up to facilitate transfers through Dwolla which only offers services to US entities.
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by Torgo 13y ago
My reference is the case in which an agent saw that there was child pornography on a laptop before the lid was closed and the computer went into suspend; the agent then KNEW the machine contained the offending material, and so they could in
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by Torgo 13y ago
The difference here seems to be that they successfully decrypted one of his drives and were able to prove that there was child pornography and that the drive belonged to him. At that point, as I understand it legally, he can be compelled to
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by Torgo 13y ago
Being right is no defense. "you're a nut, that will never happen." "you're a nut, that's not what's happening." and finally "you're a nut. why does what's happening bother you so much?"
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by Torgo 13y ago
The marker is scientific and important, the arbitrary cluster is socially determined. If you've got the gene defect for tay-sachs are you jewish? or do jews usually have it? What if you're black but you have that gene because of one ancesto
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by Torgo 13y ago
Wave included a bunch of bots to integrate with various services, that did not get open-sourced along with the rest of it.

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