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Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar(wired.com)
133 points by clicks 13y ago|33 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
> if >1% of people out there wanted to fuck 4 year olds, I'd probably try to nuke the planet from orbit Er, you should be wary in nuking only people who've done the crimes, not just those who 'want' to (even if i
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by clicks 13y ago
I often jokingly tell a specific friend that I'll murder him (he says the same to me)... it wouldn't be clear if you read the e-mail correspondences that we're joking. It would be clear if you saw us in real life joking, la
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by clicks 13y ago
> Manning betrayed his country by releasing everything he could get his hands on. He is truly an enemy of the system itself. What are your thoughts on Snowden referring to Manning as an admirable heroic figure? > Manning betrayed his
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by clicks 13y ago
> I clarified that I mean at CIA No matter if you're CIA, Google, or Facebook, you're still competing against each other to find competent sysadmins from the same pool of limited applicants. When a promising applicant finally l
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by clicks 13y ago
> Hiring dropouts is extremely untypical. It isn't that untypical. Microsoft, Google, and (to a lesser extent) Facebook have famously hired many high school dropouts. > Why was Booz Allen paying him (again, as a dropout) $200k fo
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by clicks 13y ago
He is truly HN's shiniest jewel. I especially like he doesn't give a damn about karma points and sticks to his guns argues in an intellectually honest manner no matter what.
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US government invokes special privilege to stop scrutiny of data mining(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
> Lately, I've come to realize that the September 11 attacks actually destroyed America. I'm not so sure about that. As I learned in another thread, for example, that NSA had been requesting phone records of __ BEFORE __ Sept.
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by clicks 13y ago
Small nitpick: You probably mean to say "I will apologize to your team" not "I would apologize to your team". The word 'would' is used when expressing something in a conditional mood, often times in light o
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by clicks 13y ago
There are subsections within large companies; it's usually unclear to most employees what that subsection really does (that is, if they're even aware of the existence of the subsection to begin with). Companies try to gauge level
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Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying(eff.org)
4 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
> Because there is a huge fucking difference between monitoring information flowing over networks and censoring it or using it to supress political opposition? Monitoring information is arguably a light form of suppression, isn't it
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by clicks 13y ago
> The reason for the lack of a "management team" page is that we don't the org chart typical companies do. Would you say Zoho abides by open allocation for its workers? [1] I'd love to hear more about the organizational structure of t
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by clicks 13y ago
Interesting, I never knew about this. For those who want to read up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying In May 2006, USA Today reported that millions of telephone calling records had been handed over to the United
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by clicks 13y ago
Earlier this year I was talking to a European friend presently living in China, who is pretty passionate about human rights issues, privacy policies, freedom, and so on. He said he wouldn't ever set on American soil, because he couldn't be
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Is Digital Inclusion a Good Thing? How Can We Make Sure It Is? (2009)(gnu.org)
1 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
I fear now we'll be having a lot more inflammatory, useless, space-filling remarks like "I can't see what he just said I have him on ignore". My philosophy is to simply ignore trolls without any extension (since fortunately there aren't man
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by clicks 13y ago
> This kind of behaviour should be discouraged and a fine is entirely appropriate to discourage it. I would actually go so far as to say that the fine should have been much bigger. This is something that annoys me about tickets being a
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by clicks 13y ago
You had the idea at the right time, but did you have the idea at the right place? Zuckerberg had it at Harvard. There was prestige and an aura of exclusivity associated with Facebook in the early days, which was integral to its viral growth
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by clicks 13y ago
It is a curious thing that you object to this. Are you not also being coerced to conform to virtually every other societal norm? Try walking out naked down the street in broad daylight. See if you're not jumped by the police. Try hunting so
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Japan to begin broadcast trials of 8K (7680×4320) UHD in 2016(engadget.com)
5 points by clicks 13y ago|1 comments
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by clicks 13y ago
I have similar thoughts. I've been here for a few years and I haven't observed any specific decline. I'm a little confused by the perceived offense as well: it's not good to tell someone something sucks? I would much rather hear honest th
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by clicks 13y ago
Should I start following up your comments with "How much do you actually know about ${DISCUSSION_TOPIC}, Thomas?" Seriously, can you please stop with the snippy responses? This is a place for discussion not credentialing. When you make cond
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by clicks 13y ago
Particularly interesting is #32, Sun Jifa. He couldn't afford prosthesis arms so he built his own. They were apparently so good that others who'd lost their arms requested him to make them prosthesis arms as well, so he made a business out
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Google Considering 'Wireless Balloons' to Deliver Internet to Countries(pcmag.com)
3 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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Chinese DIY Inventions(theatlantic.com)
3 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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With Gorgeous Dorms But Little Cash, Colleges Must Adapt(npr.org)
9 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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The Fairphone, World’s First Ethically Sourced Smartphone, Opens Pre-Sales(techcrunch.com)
4 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments
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Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They're Not Logging Off(mobile.slate.com)
1 points by clicks 13y ago|0 comments

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