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by deepnet 10y ago
No one was compromised, the leak was an accident. Wikileaks encrypted the data and were going through it with other journalists to redact info such as agent details. They requested the White House also vet each article before publication as
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The 90% figure is Monsanto's figure not independently tested. The Roundup corn was grown in the neighbouring field. The Schmeisers had to sue Monsanto in the small claims court for $640, because Monsanto refused to remove the corn, nor
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by deepnet 10y ago
Incorrect. Your source [1]monsanto.com is their PR. The Schmeisers did not use Roundup and so owed Monsanto no money - ruled the Canadian Supreme Court in 2004. (Schmeiser vs Monsanto) - but their unpatented seeds did belong to Monsanto. It
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by deepnet 10y ago
collateral intrusion is a wonderful neologism.
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Red tape, costly, lengthy & opaque approvals process - exactly what the UK tech industry needs to flourish. /s The chilling effect could be that compliant companies are fast tracked, while those who insist on due process get quagmi
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by deepnet 10y ago
The accusation of harm is not borne out by the facts. Its falsehood is dealt with here https://theintercept.com/a-conversation-about-privacy/
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A free press and whistleblowers are essential to democracy. Without a free press & whistleblowers democracy cannot function. It is clear from the last five years of leaks that elected governements around the world feel they must act in
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by deepnet 10y ago
I cannot read with animation & distracting colours next to text - so, for me, adverts are equivalent to blocking a site. Non distracting ads are fine, reddit ads for instance. Bad ads are not acceptable. Executives who punish fans seem
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UK surveillance bill will force tech firms to disclose products before launch(zdnet.com)
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NASA estimates that Cometary Resources could support a population if 10 quadrillion people and a single 2km Near Earth Object would be the equivalent of 30,000 total Earth GDPs to launch* It is a new frontier, vast on a scale that dwarfs ev
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by deepnet 10y ago
These seem so similar in shape to Native American totem poles, could there be a stylistic influence, or a tradition of coastline mapping in the Americas ?
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Being cool is a big selling point. IAP and Ads are not 'cool' for users or reviewers. Maybe this success needed a the lack of Cruft and Crud.
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FBI broke into your house to prove you were commmiting a crime. FBI broke into your firefox... FBI keeps all citizens at risk because it is convenient to them that there is a major flaw in the most common doorlocks. Specific circumstances,
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by deepnet 11y ago
He did his time. That he wrote a biography, toured as an orator and was immortalised by Rhys Evans were self conscious acts. Working with terrorists is unforgivable, the troubles were bad. Marks seemed genuine and tells it well, he was afte
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by deepnet 11y ago
This robot will be inherently stable, which is a good start. A clever underslung chassy approaach to balance. Knees higher than pelvis is inherently stable under load - ( akin to spider and beetle legs ) - this makes that useful mechanica
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by deepnet 11y ago
replace/ Youtube & DRM /with/ Youtube DCMA & DRM
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I argue that the secret deals between the big labels with Spotify and Youtube rip off the artists just as much as before. * They are trying to reassert control over distribution by shutting down those who won't pay what they want (groo
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by deepnet 11y ago
There is more money if the 98% monopoly cut is removed. I cite Drummond & Cauty's The Manual, how to have a number one and make a million quid * as the KLF they did just this, repeatedly & using pseudonyms. That was in the &#
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by deepnet 11y ago
I beg to differ, my last sentence suggests compulsory licensing to solve this. Pay musicians just like radio & libraries from the existing media taxes. This would allow all modern expression and access.
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Nice catch. Isn't The Guardian is now based in the US, since GCHQ ground up some of their computers ? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-relea...
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by deepnet 11y ago
Isn't The Guardian is now based in the US, since GCHQ ground up some of their computers ? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-relea...
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by deepnet 11y ago
I used VRML to render in realtime, 1994-99, using low end video game cards (overclocked) that output hi-res video, full screen Cosmo Player, record live to tape. Retakes were trivial, frame rates were 100fps interlaced to video, silky movem
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by deepnet 11y ago
> These days In the past struggling musicians were handed cash by benificent record cartels. /s In the past the struggle was to even get any distribution or publicity, radio play was sewn up so artists accepted terrible terms from t
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by deepnet 11y ago
So in a bar he gets a Movie recomendation, send a SMS to his home server which dumps the stream, rips and burns it to a plastic disk, ready when he gets home. If he can't code hire a dev, $200 should suffice. I found the problem in the
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by deepnet 11y ago
Is anyone working on self-driving bicycles ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT3vfSQePcs "Daisy, daisy..." sings HAL while pedalling...
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sql's mysqldump CLI command locally or phpmyadmin > export produce a text based db backup in SQL and version that file in git. If it is a huge site split the tables into separate files but 1 file is pretty good for most medium s
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Also Snowden, Chomsky & Greenwald discuss privacy, terror, Panama & Apple/ FBI. https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...
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David Cameron's position is tenuous on this hypocrisy. The OP downplays it, the Cameron family fortunes derive from a major tax avoidance scheme for the wealthy. Ian Cameron's Blairmore Holdings partnered with Panama's Mossac
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Jim All Khalili's BBC documentary on Islamic Science's Golden Age & the Rennaisance is illuminating on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9eLxDm7mrE
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First contact may have infected that continent with virulent European pathogens. Recent discoveries suggest the Americas were vastly more populated but wiped out by viruses. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive&#

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