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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I was glad to see the oft forgotten, and correct view in my judgment, Aristotelian position that infinity is never actual, always a potential. The number line is open-ended not "going to infinity" as the flawed modern approach put
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This is the system we have and it needs to run its proper course. If the Supreme court won't uphold our rights then obviously we have a serious problem. This has not happened yet. The other alternative is if the Supreme court rules spy
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> Sure get a law in place, No, you don't get it. Getting that law in place is exactly what they want because it avoids the Constitutional challenge. Obama and company must sense that there is a lot of opposition to the spying, so
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Cargo Cult Mentality.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
We don't need a law. These programs are a violation of the constitution. What Obama and his cronies are trying to establish is the govt's unlimited power of surveillance. If this passes then it implicitly accepts the premise that
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Can we grandfather in people with at least 5.6 years of HN participation? Okay, I happen to have only 593 karma point but I've been around for a while, 5.6 years actually.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Snowden is not being treated as a traitor as they had hoped but as a hero for revealing NSA dragnet surveillance programs and sacrificing his life for his principles. He is now perceived as an expert on how to circumvent these NSA programs.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This is a tacit admission that Snowden is winning the battle for public opinion. They must be scared.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> Governments must act to restore trust. IBM believes governments should take the following actions: He forgot the fourth and most important bullet: The US government should stop violating the 4th Amendment with dragnet surveillance prog
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I think the lesson here is not that Apple is overly cautious but that everyone needs to make sure that your important usernames and passwords are documented for your heirs to use when you die. Have your lawyer or trusted friend keep a safe
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This study was actually of humans, not mice but I too am suspicious of the results. Unless they locked these humans up in a cage like a mouse for 20 years and then fed them specific and controlled diets, the results are dubious. Self regul
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> To be able to put ink onto a piece of paper and have every other human on the planet willing to work for that paper: It is immense power, immense control & it is being abused. I would argue that giving politicians and the banks acc
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The idea that life is futile or pointless or absurd has a long tradition in western philosophic thought, however it is rests on a fundamental error and is a dead-end. I won't go into the technical details but, no, I do not subscribe to
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> It's hardly in doubt that we need a large source of clean energy. From one of my nuke profs, depending on how fusion is achieved its not all together clear that it would be any cleaner than fission. Something like 16MEV neutrons a
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I don't think you really know what ad hominem means.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This and the Ariane 5 first test flight failure are a must read for any practicing engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Notable_launches
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
You lost all credibility by citing Cringely. Here is my rebuttal to the oft repeated lie that the operators were just guessing or acting irrationally. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=993984 Here is my HN rebuttal nearl
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> medical training taught me to question everything... Certainly this has value but the ability to question everything in an intelligent way is not generalizable. By that I mean that the training in med school includes a huge context of
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
It has been my experience that doctors make horrible businessmen. I think it is the medical school training that encourages over confidence in their abilities, even outside their domain, and a dangerous reluctance or inability to listen to
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
A little late to reply but... my clients are using XP for web access and email. So its just a matter of time before they get infected via an unclosed security hole.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I have a lot of clients still running XP. I have warned them that once MS stops the updates, the bad guys can examine updates for Vista or Win7 and see if the security hole exists in XP. I am guessing that with an April cutoff XP will be un
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
With secret courts, secret warrants and secret gag orders this does nothing to address the issues. Who's to say that MS won't receive a secret order to turn over access even to servers on foreign soil? I think this is the right r
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
The NSA has no credibility and even lied to Congress as a matter of policy, so why should we believe them now? This is all part of the Snowden smear campaign, like the 60 Minutes "news" report.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I was hopeful when Mayer took over Yahoo that she could turn the company around. However, with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irritating ads with zooming cars and flying coke cans, my hopes are starting to fad
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
> I have not argued, as you allege, that Mr. Snowden is a hero. I have stated that history will decide. This is moral cowardice and political pragmatism at its finest [1]. There is no "history" to decide anything only people wh
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
I agree, point #1 comes straight from Gendlin and should be attributed.
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
This seems like a pretty bad ruling to me. The implication is that you have the First Amendment right to only speak the truth. So how long before we have the Ministry of Truth to adjudicate that question? Let's not forget the Federali
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Sam Harris said it better here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3JzcCviNDk
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
Here is a quote from RSA rep Hugh Thompson after explaining his "disappointment" with the cancellations; "Security has risen in the agenda of almost every company and every government in a way that we've never seen befor
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by dmfdmf 13y ago
If we want to talk historical parallels a better one is the invention of the printing press and the invention of the internet. The printing press destroyed the Catholic Church's social and political power at its peak. The internet has

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