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by badRNG 6y ago
You're probably right. > In the interview, Mr. Ponton, who was representing the State of Texas in the case, said that he was using his secretary’s computer and that she was “mortified” by the mistake.
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by badRNG 6y ago
This is made really bizarre by the text that also accompanies the video: "Recording of this hearing or live stream is prohibited. Violation may constitute contempt of court and result in a fine of up to $500 and a jail term of up to 18
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by badRNG 6y ago
If I'm a juror, and the evidence presented happens to have a false positive rate of 1%, that certainly meets my understanding of "a reasonable doubt."
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Babyk Ransomware won't hit charities, unless they support LGBT, BLM(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by badRNG 6y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
There are an awful lot of lines in the sand that have to be crossed prior to "oh, we just rig up nukes to this computer that checks for incoming missiles and fires back." Using nuclear weapons is one of the most bureaucratic proce
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by badRNG 6y ago
I don't often upvote memes on this site... but this got an audible laugh out of me
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by badRNG 6y ago
Source? Anecdotally most folks I know have had to burn through their savings after living off of unemployment or going through underemployment this past year.
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by badRNG 6y ago
And, of course, including AMD.
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by badRNG 6y ago
There is a significant difference between refusing business on the basis of race (which is rightfully a protected status) and refusing business with a platform that hosts far-right content. This particular example, comparing the far-right t
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by badRNG 6y ago
As of now, I've only used two Android forks, Cyanogenmod and LineageOS, primarily because they work on so many devices. LineageOS has a whole list of cool custom APIs that I've considered taking advantage of in some future project
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by badRNG 6y ago
I might give the GNU/Linux phone another shot. I do prioritize currency over stability in many instances, but I do want a reasonable level of stability which is admittedly quite subjective. Pop!_OS or other Ubuntu-based distros seem
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by badRNG 6y ago
While I really, really want a GNU/Linux Android-alternative to succeed, at the moment a good solution for those of us who can't go without Termux is LineageOS [1], an Android fork, comes with a terminal emulator WITH root access (
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by badRNG 6y ago
Are there actually any phones for "normal" Linux users? I've used GNU/Linux as my desktop OS for nearly a decade: Fedora for years, then openSUSE, then Pop!_OS for the past couple of years. These distros seem to have pro
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by badRNG 6y ago
>Among those behaviors, a new report finds, is an explicit agreement from Google to work with Facebook not only to divide the online advertising marketplace, but also to fend off antitrust investigations. >The final version of the sui
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Google, Facebook reportedly agreed to work together to fight antitrust probes(arstechnica.com)
11 points by badRNG 6y ago|3 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
> If I must be shown ads, I prefer ads that are relevant to my interests. Excellent, feel free to Opt-In when given the prompt next time you use Facebook on an iOS device. That's a solution that satisfies everyone's interests.
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by badRNG 6y ago
> It has become clear to me that for young men of my generation that this type of video-gaming is very much the equivalent of 'doomscrolling' as mentioned in other comments, and is generally pretty harmful. I'm not sure I
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by badRNG 6y ago
The comparison to airlines is really insightful. I wonder if we could have a comparable article written in the 1960s wondering what the next revolution in transportation technology would be. Trains, cars, planes, next is hover cars? Space c
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by badRNG 6y ago
Harder still, if they retain Pinkerton agents to spy on you even after you clock out [1] [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...
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by badRNG 6y ago
The discussion is about Amazon hiring Pinkerton operatives to spy on employees suspected of organizing even when they are off work. This was an interview with the journalist who broke the story as a continuation. [1] Deflecting criticism wi
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by badRNG 6y ago
You may be right about that. The reason I went looking for the Vice article in the first place was due to what was said in the first paragraph of the article: >According to documents, Amazon reportedly runs a surveillance program to trac
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by badRNG 6y ago
People can care about multiple issues at the same time. This discussion isn't explicitly about the working conditions of Amazon, it is about the highly unethical methods they use to crush dissent and workers organizing, namely the leak
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by badRNG 6y ago
The linked article is an interview with the journalist who leaked the documents discussed in the Vice and Gizmodo articles. I think this story is intended to be a continuation of the discussion on the original story.
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by badRNG 6y ago
"You are unreasonable for calling out a bad thing, since I can conceive of an even worse thing."
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by badRNG 6y ago
Leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movem
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by badRNG 6y ago
>Given human survival often relied upon farmed livestock how can you say this? By using this metric for a species' survival nearly nothing should be allowed to live. When considering an ethical question, typically one must have the
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by badRNG 6y ago
The answers seem sort of trivial: using the same ethical framework that informs your decision-making process on other ethical questions. Regardless of the unique flavor of one's moral tradition, most seek to limit the suffering of sent
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by badRNG 6y ago
>There is no good measure tape available. There's a difference between having moral worth and being a moral agent. Non-human animals (generally) cannot contemplate the ethical character of their actions, so they are not moral agents
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by badRNG 6y ago
I don't see how "structural" batteries can be viable with the technology we have today. I think it's understood that your battery for your EV will not last the life of the vehicle. By making the fame/chassis of the
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by badRNG 6y ago
That article has to be one of the most bewildering things I've ever read. I have not seen the term "SJW" used so many times in proximity to Orwell and 1984 references before; well, at least not outside of a gamergate board

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