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by charonn0 13y ago
The premise may be valid, however the authors only examined a network trace for one game . At best, they've proven only that game's use of TCP is unwieldy and inappropriate. A more appropriate methodology would have been to exami
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by charonn0 13y ago
Can you please explain why hard-drives follow a flying head approach? Why don't they just perpendicularly fix the reader above the disk, rotate the disk and then use a linear actuator to move the reader back and forth - exactly like o
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by charonn0 13y ago
> not all books are valuable or worth keeping around Exhibits A & B: http://i.imgur.com/So8rgje.jpg
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by charonn0 13y ago
I told you so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186806
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by charonn0 13y ago
The NSA sets itself up as the Fourth branch of government but keeps it a secret even from the original three?
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by charonn0 13y ago
> If not, it's not perjury, just ordinary lying. Even so, such a lie when delivered by PotUS might constitute a high crime and/or misdemeanor.
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by charonn0 13y ago
It's like a swanky hotel in a nice neighborhood deciding to start renting rooms by the hour.
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by charonn0 13y ago
Not malware, granted. Let's call it scumware, then.
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by charonn0 13y ago
That's the problem, and that's why these programs should be terminated. An un-auditable spy agency answerable only to the President is manifestly unconstitutional, dangerous, and wrong.
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by charonn0 13y ago
An audit is meaningless when conducted by the very organization being audited.
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by charonn0 13y ago
Still doesn't seem like a very novel idea worthy of a patent.
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by charonn0 13y ago
I wonder if this constitutes the administration's promised response to the Snowden pardon petition[1] [1]: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...
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by charonn0 13y ago
I think the "scary" part is the notation. Any competent programmer, whether schooled or self-taught, is familiar with the concepts if not the notation.
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by charonn0 13y ago
It was 201-217 when the chair called it as there weren't enough uncommitted votes to make up the difference.
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by charonn0 13y ago
The Amash amendment failed by 16 votes (201 to 217). Edit: Final tally is 205-217.
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by charonn0 13y ago
When a multi-billion dollar corporation thumps a 12th grader over the head with its legal department, people are going to call foul.
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by charonn0 13y ago
They should indeed. Courts of law should rule on what the law says; the court of public opinion is the proper venue for determining what what the law ought to say.
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by charonn0 13y ago
For example, the planned US invasion of Canada[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
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by charonn0 13y ago
I'm nothing if not deliberate in my choice of words and phrasing. :) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_(law)
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by charonn0 13y ago
With regard to (1), the FISA court has carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment Power is not given to the courts to make new law. The legal contortions required to twist the intent and letter of the Fourth Amendment so that it agre
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by charonn0 13y ago
The difference being that Facebook, et al ask for the information. NSA is taking it by force and under the color of lawful authority.
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by charonn0 13y ago
Maybe you have a point. Maybe it is possible to install enough internal and external controls for these surveillance programs to bring them back from the outer edges of ethical and moral propriety. Maybe. There's still, however, the pr
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by charonn0 13y ago
Have the fraud and security markets shrunk, or has the advertising market expanded?
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by charonn0 13y ago
Don't forget: Privacy is sedition
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by charonn0 13y ago
I would say that any voluntarily acquired and freely renounceable attribute is a valid and ethical attribute by which to judge the character of, or discriminate against, another person. It may or may not be a good idea to do so, but the o
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by charonn0 13y ago
If they knew, they couldn't tell you (being secret and all.)
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by charonn0 13y ago
I agree. HTTP, like many core internet protocols was designed to work with any client setup, even someone sitting at a telnet terminal sending hand-rolled HTTP requests. FTP is just the same, and SMTP, etc. While very few people these days
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by charonn0 13y ago
I just used ABP Element Hiding Helper.
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by charonn0 13y ago
"potatoes can't kill, because otherwise Ireland would be a superpower" is not the way to argue it. I never made such an argument.
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by charonn0 13y ago
You're all way over-thinking potatoes.

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