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by c0ur7n3y 13y ago
#1 - It's really pretty simple. The companies get legal immunity from the government by denying the existence of the program. They already are, no doubt, indemnified. Companies are so risk averse they wouldn't do it without immuni
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by c0ur7n3y 13y ago
"We are deeply sorry if you were uncomfortable with how our application used your phone contacts." That non-apology is corporate communications at its most typical.
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by c0ur7n3y 13y ago
Sigh. The whole supposed purpose of patents is to encourage disclosure of the invention.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
You know what you're right. Thankfully, I'm not on the investigation team.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
It appears to me that the two bebackpacked individuals are together. The second one loses his backpack in the footage. I assume the first has the first bomb in his backpack.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
I think if these types of messages were as jarring as possible instead discreetly displayed in the existing interface it would heighten people's awareness of these issues.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
I've been using spamgourmet.com for years. It's saved me 100,000's of spam emails.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
This was painfully obvious in the fire at The Station nightclub. The band kept playing for 30 seconds after the fire started right behind them and many people didn't start to try and get out before it was too late. Part of it is what's call
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
In most areas, if the power is off for more than a few weeks, the water goes off to because the pumps stop running.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
Yet.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
I think the reason for that is that this site became something these authors could focus their anger and fear towards. Why look into it and risk having to give up that catharsis?
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
Your donation has been recorded citizen, and you have been placed on a special list. Thank you. -NSA
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
All legislation is essentially fund-raising at this point.
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by c0ur7n3y 14y ago
What they're really trying to say is that their's value in scarcity. Unfortunately there is, in reality, very little scarcity thanks to the Internet.
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by c0ur7n3y 15y ago
Unfortunately for society, the middlemen whom that would put out of business are doing everything in their power to make sure that never happens.
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by c0ur7n3y 15y ago
Here's a good patent idea: A mechanism for running a political campaign using a computer.
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by c0ur7n3y 15y ago
I like Ars Technica so much, I bought a premium membership to show my support. I will never buy a premium membership at mpaa.org.
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by c0ur7n3y 15y ago
That's an amazing photo and I appreciate what it took to get that captured. But, here's the problem: Everyone who read this article now has a copy of that photograph in their possession, simply because of the way computers work. Does he exp