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by deveac 13y ago
>Microsoft very publically bumbles their consumer products, but their enterprise division is doing well AFAIK. MS is surprisingly well rounded regarding where its revenue comes from. More so than I had assumed reading a lot of the repo
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by deveac 13y ago
Hubski is an excellent, if small, aggregator. I buy into the philosophy that following quality users/posters yields better results than following a topic sorted by upvotes en masse. I know there is plenty of debate to be had there for
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by deveac 13y ago
If you haven't already, I'd recommend reading some of Camus's political essays, -most notably 'Letter to a German friend.' That essay in particular is breathtaking in its sheer emotion and morality, and while not co
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by deveac 13y ago
>You are on to something but it seems that american exceptionalism was there from the very beginning and before it was a global superpower Maybe 'global superpower' wasn't a metric early America used to inform its (yet u
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by deveac 13y ago
>Things have always been grim. The crows are just coming home to roost in America. Why do you think so many Indians and Chinese people are doctors or engineers? I think the crows are coming home to roost for America in more ways then
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by deveac 13y ago
>If the NSA wants to track you, there's far simpler ways than asking Apple to build a new product feature than can be disabled. I don't know...letting a plethora of private entities collect and aggregate user data for easy ac
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by deveac 13y ago
Thanks Sharlin, that was not only instructive on the terms, but a great read as well. Now I understand precisely why my uncle can always ride is raked Harley with no hands far longer than I can on my stock bike.
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by deveac 13y ago
>The profits from the lab-made diamonds flow into the holding company owning all those mines. I considered this too, but then I thought of buying a stone from another company, but realized that paying the same inflated prices for an es
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by deveac 13y ago
>Don't take things people say prima facie. This deal was just announced, and we don't know enough to say that we shouldn't take Bezos's words at face value. His plans for the Post may be taking it digital, turning i
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by deveac 13y ago
Serious answer: A) Apple may not have "unlimited" resources: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/12/apple-announces-leopard-delay... http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/0
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by deveac 13y ago
I guess the point that I'm trying to make is that this does not appear to be the case based upon the source you cited.
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by deveac 13y ago
When researching lab-made, I found them to be 70% - 80% of the cost of nats across the board. My jeweler told me that (at least for the brand he carried) DeBeers bought the company that had the technology and patents for creating them in th
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by deveac 13y ago
Thank you for the link 300bps. Edit: So this seems to speak to a bit of what the main link was talking about. This extension of the exclusionary rule doesn't speak to whether or not omission of first cause is lying (under the legal def
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by deveac 13y ago
I think it's important to realize that what constitutes a lie in a legal framework under oath is often completely different than several of the myriad definitions of lies found in popular culture as well as lies that are civilly action
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by deveac 13y ago
They weren't necessarily lying, -just omitting the cause prior to the traffic violation. If the traffic violation as primary cause was never challenged, they wouldn't technically be taking a position on the origin often. They&#x27
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by deveac 13y ago
>The "anything that good hackers would find interesting" line is not a free pass. Exactly. Which is why I referenced the FAQ which states that most political discussion is discouraged and articulated precisely how and why t
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by deveac 13y ago
>In fact, this site has been embarrassingly bad about the technical issues of surveillance, for reasons ranging from gullibility to capriciousness. Poor analysis by some of the users (there are a lot of non-technical commenters on here
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by deveac 13y ago
Your point isn't clear. I don't believe I ignored anything, and where I was responding to the poster and the discussion, I quoted him/her so it would be clear what points I was responding to. If you have something specific to
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by deveac 13y ago
>We have simply discussed the surveillance scandal enough. There's just nothing more we can say or do that will matter right now. The opposite is true. For too long the minimal to zero reporting these issues have received in the m
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by deveac 13y ago
>I would like a small list of materials that my representative could read that make my case much better than I could. Honestly, I think it's fine to just take your pick of reasons why you are not happy and convey that. You don&#x2
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by deveac 13y ago
>Wow, how kind of them. How about we stop politely asking our Manufacturer Overlords to stop their destructive activity in 4 years and instead get legislators do their job and ban their use immediately? Sadly, this solution is probably
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by deveac 13y ago
The recent House vote to remove funding for the metadata collection program was much narrower in scope, and failed to pass. The good news is that it failed to pass by a slim margin. This will probably fail to pass as well. My hope is that i
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by deveac 13y ago
I understood it that the initial attack vector required the target device to be unlocked. Once the malicious code was installed, the attacker could then gain complete control, including passcode unlock.
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by deveac 13y ago
Great illustration of the modern safety engineering we read so much about. I defy anybody not to cringe hard at that first cut of the Bel Air's cabin disintegrating on impact. Scary stuff.
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by deveac 13y ago
Very true. I'm just glad I wasn't on my motorcycle. I've been rear-ended three times in my life (car all three times). It doesn't matter how defensively you drive, -you can't eliminate all of the risk from other dri
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by deveac 13y ago
>This was in a "cheap", "plastic" 2006 Hyundai Accent. This brings back memories of high school. I was driving a massive boat...a Pontiac Parisian station wagon (thank you grandpa). I was stopped at a light with a c
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by deveac 13y ago
>I don't think there is a lot of support in favor of Snowden in USA, don't be confused by internet activism. This is spot on. Most people here don't even know his name. To the ones that do, he is "that guy that leak
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by deveac 13y ago
>That the previous commenter claimed to be a "news junky" and then admitted that by news he means the mass media Absolutely nowhere did I say, or even begin to imply that. In fact, I explicitly called out the mainstream med
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by deveac 13y ago
I'm not sure. Over the years just kind of casually observing the placement and layout of the stores, it seems that they are maximized to be easy to access by the morning rush crowds as well as the lunch and after work rushes. Also, a p
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by deveac 13y ago
For the most part, we as Americans didn't actually ever read the Patriot Act, and we didn't get to vote on it. Our representatives that we elected before we ever knew 9/11 would happen voted for it in a climate that made it p

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