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by codex 13y ago
Let me play devil's advocate: as a citizen of the USA, who assumes the NSA has good intent to protect me and my fellow citizens, why should I make the NSA's work harder for it? Shouldn't I be helping it? If not, should I al
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by codex 13y ago
That ruling did not consider whether a warrant is required, only that the attachment of the device constituted a "search" because the government was trespassing when they installed it ( http://lippmannwouldroll.com/
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by codex 13y ago
Your location in a public place is not a secret. It is not legally protected. This is well established by multiple precedents. Heck, FBI agents can legally place a tracking device on your car, without a warrant if they do so while your
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by codex 13y ago
The financial crisis was one big fuck-up, but that fuck-up was accidental and not on purpose. Generally, there is no criminal liability for an accident, because it was an accident. There is criminal neglect, but that doesn't come int
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by codex 13y ago
The prism by which this editorial should be viewed is the age old question: what does Putin stand to gain here? And Obama?
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by codex 13y ago
Likely the school has a code of conduct which includes a prohibition on bullying. That's a bit different from censorship.
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by codex 13y ago
This makes sense. If they had the technical capability to filter out inadvertent collection of data on US citizens, they would already have filtered it. Therefore, any data shared with Israel may contain data they were unable to filter ou
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by codex 13y ago
"Free software empowers users to replace any software hostile to their interests." I suppose so, but there's a much powerful mechanism: consumer choice. If a user feels a phone is hostile to them, they will buy one which is
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by codex 13y ago
Does Greenwald have a history of drug abuse? Did he wreck a car while drunk in his teens? Is is family actively trying to get him into detox? http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77098131/
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by codex 13y ago
Would terrorists really abstain from forging this out of fear of penalty for purjury? And why would I give up all my anonymity on the Internet just to prevent the NSA from accidentally capturing my traffic?
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by codex 13y ago
I wonder if RHEL and Ubuntu distros have NSA/FBI root kit backdoors in their kernel binaries and/or subscription services.
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by codex 13y ago
You're an entry level worker with few skills and little experience, living just above the poverty line. You're unemployed and thinking of eating your cat. Along comes unconditional basic income, and suddenly you're netting
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by codex 13y ago
Do you hire a mechanic who knows how the car works in intimate detail over a mechanic which knows how to fix cars? Depends. But usually if they know how the car works chances are they are also great at fixing them. In tech it is the same
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by codex 13y ago
Having large amounts of collected data on citizens doesn't create a tyrannical government. Nor is it required for a tyrannical government: the Nazis did horrible things with very primitive technology. In the same vein, the U.S. gover
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by codex 13y ago
Tesla offers something these other luxury manufacturers can't: access to California's HOV lanes without meeting the occupancy requirement.
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by codex 13y ago
Police with guns kill innocent civilians all the time, even with tremendous oversight, and witnesses--and yet we still have police and give them guns. People with power will occasionally behave badly. How is this any different?
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by codex 13y ago
This would be more useful if it didn't omit certain key developments in order to further the EFF agenda: for example, missing is the October 2011 ruling in which the FISA court declared some aspects of the NSA's programs unconstit
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by codex 13y ago
And assembly language even more control than C, with even fewer gotchas. However, C++ occupies a sweet spot whereby it allows a lot of control, but also a lot of abstraction and structure--much more so than C, in my opinion. Or, put anoth
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by codex 13y ago
The thesis here is that some men who are confident but not competent become leaders. But, while there are incompetent people who are confident, isn't confidence always a requirement for good leadership?
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by codex 13y ago
This is alarming. If the issue really was that simple, it strongly indicates that Linux kernel developers don't put a lot of effort into investigating problems whenever a convenient scapegoat--faulty hardware--is available. For shame
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by codex 13y ago
"Quote" the search term. That's the replacement for +.
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by codex 13y ago
I've observed that there is at least a 10x, possibly greater, difference in the caliber and culture of various organizations. So if you failed interviews at organizations A, B, and C, but are doing OK in your job at D, it doesn't
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by codex 13y ago
Agreed; the headline has been intentionally worded to be more inflammatory than is warranted. What use is a free press, I wonder, when all they print is propaganda, and when the populace swallows it hook, line and sinker?
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by codex 13y ago
Yes, all of the FISA rulings are secret by default, but redacting a ruling to remove classified information is not the same as fighting a FOIA request.
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by codex 13y ago
Oh, come now. The definition of the verb is "use (something) to bad effect or for a bad purpose; misuse". That implies willfulness. Accidents and bugs are not abuse; were they, we wouldn't have separate words for them. Or,
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by codex 13y ago
Wrong. This isn't abuse. The audit found only unintentional spying--in other words, mistakes. No organization is perfect; bugs do exist, especially in software. It's pretty amazing to see the detail at which these incidents we
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by codex 13y ago
Wrong. Overreaction. The DoJ plans to make the ruling available, but wants to redact it to remove classified information: https://www.eff.org/document/doj-status-report-re-releasing-... Don't let my facts interr
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When the New York City Subway Ran Without Rails(nytimes.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|0 comments
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Could the Hyperloop Really Cost $6 Billion? Critics Say No(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by codex 13y ago|1 comments
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by codex 13y ago
Likely it's a compensation mechanism to protect the ego. I've been both rich and poor, and while extreme wealth is also unnatural, there is little that poverty has to recommend it.

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