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by dobbsbob 13y ago
A Syrian surgeon in Edmonton has been doing remote surgery in clandestine hospitals he set up in Aleppo and Northern Syria for a year now. He uses Skype and there are multiple cameras set up. http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch&#
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Yep, exactly. The Zetas cartel for example, do not necessarily import & export themselves. They are simply a gang of thugs who move into an area already teeming with drug smugglers/dealers, and extort them for taxes. Since these dr
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Maybe in Mexico they do this. Here there are investors who buy up a dozen houses through shell corps and hire one grower who sets everything up, and is paid a lot of money. The grower then hires people to maintain and protect the grow usual
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Used to be less risky now they slam you with interstate trafficking charges which can climb to 10+yrs whereas getting jacked on the street and losing $50 doesn't sound too bad in comparison.
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It's called Alibaba. I haven't checked in about a year but I recall finding MDMA precursors, Meth precursors and bulk Opium for sale on it.
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It's also a mis-perception to assume the hood is where all the gangsters are, a block outside the poverty stricken areas here the gangsters are suburban kids from affluent neighborhoods who are just as violent when it comes to protecti
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Al Jazeera had a good story a while back about migrant workers in South Africa being unable to send money home to Zimbabwe because of huge fees for small amounts, and they have to have ID which costs their whole paycheck
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Somebody needs to do a best practices for pseudoanon OpenPGP like being careful not to upload your key to a keyserver in the clear, unmasking yourself. Not using any identifying info while generating. As an example look at political or blac
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
made it to level 33 then failed horribly as the game thought I was typing a different word, since there was like 100 characters on the screen. wonder if I can script every alpha character per second and cheat :P
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they still use this phrack article in universities, it's in the lecture slides for 6.857 MIT Computer & Networks Security. http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2013/files/smash-the-stac...
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Timely post, considering the insanity I was just handed by my campus Social Justice society on my way inside the student union building. It's full of newspeak, and openly calls for the suppression and censorship of speech, literature a
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Christopher Hitchens has a few hour long talks recorded on youtube about his book 'Why Orwell matters' and explains what gave him that kind of insight. 1984 was widely distributed in the Soviet underground and those who read it co
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
"5 eyes alliance" countries are neck deep in domestic spying, it appears they are their own independent spy service, accountable to no country and all collaborating to avoid each other's laws. Impossible for any of those coun
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Actually, the intent is to terrorize. You are utilizing systematic violence to coerce an entire population for political reasons, and deliberately targeting or disregarding the safety of non-combatants to achieve this goal. There also isn&#
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
I have to aggregate it from everywhere. For example, Le Monde diplomatique, Der Spiegel, New Yorker Magazine, Al Jazeera, The Spectator, New Statesman, any publication that actually prints names so you can check the bias of the author, or l
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
There's a reason none of the economist articles have writing credits. It's because nobody would normally care what a 20something hipster thinks about markets and politics, and believe they are receiving wisdom from experienced ec
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
According to this article you don't follow those rules either
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"Plebiscites are “referenda”, people’s votes, in which an authoritarian ruler invites the people to answer an often ambivalent, suggestive question, which he formulates himself. Using such plebiscites, a ruler bypasses and ignores his
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Since they haven't had a trial you have no idea if they were rounded up cab drivers or terrorists. Since their trials will now be show trials and not allow lawyers to question coeced statements they made under torture we probably won&#
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Napoleon used direct democracy to make himself dictator its always been a tool of tyrants, and the referendum questions manipulated
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
I live a block away from this machine and won't be using it because of nonsense biometric data harvesting. Why do I need to scan my ID, picture and fingerprints to trade a small amount of bitcoins? I will continue to use the Russian gu
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
I have the same laptop running debian. Even runs small VMs ok and has survived multiple liquid accidents and dropping
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
I bought mine off ebay, there is no duty on smartphones just 5% GST
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Nexus 4 is only $249 for the 16G version Surely some are on craigslist or google may still be selling them directly Good phone to make custom Roms for or for building AOSP
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
media also has a hand in sanitizing war. they censor the images so stacks of mangled corpses arent stuck in your head when they should be. unbelievably my fearless leader uses a WWI memorial that reads "never again" to promote new
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This places some of our greatest resources into a closed box not available to the general public.
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His team created Skein and it was a NIST finalist for SHA3 so he obviously can audit code. He also I believe has a position this year at a university for a few months to work with students and their graduate projects in crypto engineering.
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by dobbsbob 13y ago
Article title is wrong, these are Litecoins not Bitcoins. This might pay off mining 60LTC per day and hoarding them. The guy who started Litecoin now works for Coinbase, which may adopt Litecoin and will no doubt start a gigantic speculatio
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Political theatre. New guys will be even worse, and can stall investigations pretending not to know what is happening hoping the calls for inquiry disappear
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This is almost exactly the same system as Interac in Canada. Will work well until the fraudsters figure out they can steal with it then limits will happen. Wonder what the merchant fees are and if they seize accounts for receiving an arbitr

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