Torgo

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by Torgo 13y ago
I am not going to go so far as to say someday you will regret it, but in the end you can't control how other people use your words. A pseudonym is a defensive mechanism.
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by Torgo 13y ago
There are tests that track genetic markers that are associated with the Anglo-European interpretation of race. If such tests were available when the Irish were considered separate from whites, the test would be able to detect the distinctly
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by Torgo 13y ago
Mt. Gox is qualitatively and quantitatively less evil than the US banking system that the US government operates at the behest of.
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by Torgo 13y ago
I want them to take their lobbyists, and go to Washington like they already do, and tell Congress to stop harassing their fucking customers.
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by Torgo 13y ago
Dwolla was basically free and worked quite fast. International bank transfer took a bit longer but every transfer cost me about 50 dollars in fees. Luckily I got my money out before this. I feel sorry for the people way back in the queue. I
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by Torgo 13y ago
I read some articles by a company that helps facilitate this, and their claim was these people tend to be expatriates that over time have had less and less connection to the country of their birth that the citizenship and taxation issues ha
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by Torgo 13y ago
Put tracers in the raw 3d printer material like they do with fertilizer, so that 3D devices can be traced.
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by Torgo 14y ago
What about diversity of extra-curriculars? I don't know how it breaks down, but maybe they felt they had enough Asians (or anybody) who play the piano. Maybe you got in because they didn't have that many people who swam as an extra-curricul
789.
by Torgo 14y ago
From stop and frisk of minority groups, to pervasive police surveillance of Muslims, to police harassment of the Occupy Wall Street protests, it is already clear that Michael Bloomberg has had disagreements with the Constitution.
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by Torgo 14y ago
I have worked directly with one of the bidders, won't say which or in what capacity. As far as I'm concerned, this will result in six billion dollars thrown right into a hole, with no enhancement to "cybersecurity." I don't expect anybody t
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by Torgo 14y ago
Any country that actually believed that would have true allodial title.
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by Torgo 14y ago
At about the same time as mtgox was slammed with a DDOS, Dwolla (which is a common intermediary to get money in and out of mtgox) was too. The timing seems highly suspicious.
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by Torgo 14y ago
I can't speak for anybody else, but all Gawker sites are in my killfile. Does a feminist _tabloid_ count? I don't know.
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by Torgo 14y ago
Yeah, I had done exactly that at 128-134. Then I put the other half in with a sell order if it hit 200, thinking it never would get that high. Imagine my surprise. I already regret it. I still think we're in a giant bubble, we have to be. T
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by Torgo 14y ago
0 - Just cashed out over 200 of them for a big pile of money, will buy again when the bubble pops.
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by Torgo 14y ago
A lot of hackers I know have a pretty bohemian lifestyle. I wonder if the realization that they will soon become direct targets by governments will affect the United States' current cybersecurity "hack for the country" recruiting push. Imag
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by Torgo 14y ago
>Do you seriously believe the female or feminist tech community has the resources to perform DDoS? Another example of the glaring disparities between the sexes in tech.
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by Torgo 14y ago
(I didn't mean you.)
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by Torgo 14y ago
For the last three HN threads I have seen people casting aspersions on the guy who was fired, that maybe there were other factors at play. Now it comes out from someone that knows Richards that she is a bit of a difficult person herself. Ma
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by Torgo 14y ago
Some people posting on here seem to think that what Adria had done represents an evolution of social pressure for change. But in the end they will both have been fired by their employers because they were associated with bad publicity and n
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by Torgo 14y ago
In your theory, how do you make sure that only good shaming and not bad shaming happens? How do you be sure that people don't post hateful provocative lies about people that make them the subject of this social pressure, or at the far end,
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by Torgo 14y ago
The Hollywood Blacklist was completely justified then, because employing (suspected) commies subjected your company to negative publicity. Alternately, firings can represent the witch hunt of the age (except when it is actual witch hunts an
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by Torgo 14y ago
>Public shame is not a problem. Consider that the ramifications of public shaming have changed now that your shaming can go viral and become a subject of debate among millions of people worldwide. This isn't even the world of fifteen ye
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by Torgo 14y ago
It's called Socratic Method.
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by Torgo 14y ago
When you use Facebook, you are always implicitly friends with Mark Zuckerberg and whomever he chooses to share your information with.
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by Torgo 14y ago
Eh, the director of the CIA has a different threat profile than a regular user. I don't have a security clearance (anymore) that I have to maintain that gives anybody direct reason to consider thwarting tracking to be dangerously suspicious
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by Torgo 14y ago
"Candidate accepts donations using payment system associated with online drug and child porn peddlers"
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by Torgo 14y ago
I think the government has a legitimate interest in protecting against computer attacks on public infrastructure that could result in death, and I see a place in there for government involvement. To a lesser degree there is a legitimate int
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by Torgo 14y ago
I absolutely am not saying CISPA is part of a scheme that will increase the powers of "rightsholders." I don't see that in there. I was referring to the "spying" claim of the parent post of my first response. My concern is with limiting of
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by Torgo 14y ago
No they don't. I think it is extremely confusing to talk about theft of data at the same time as talking about someone hacking a nuclear power plant to go into meltdown or something. When people say things like "cyber pearl harbor" at that

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