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by exarch 12y ago
>systemd and Upstart are both a large improvement over the System V init scripts. Userland utils like wget depending on a specific init package is a large improvement over sysvinit? Nope.
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by exarch 12y ago
>There is definitely something really off here. It's almost as though, by treating criminals so harshly as we do here ("tough on crime" is a popular slogan for politicians), that instead of reducing crime, we reduce our so
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by exarch 12y ago
>And if this is a Dead-Man's-Switch gone right, why are they advocating the use of BitLocker and searching for random Linux packages? One possibility is that they did it this way specifically because it's legally compliant with
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by exarch 12y ago
Nope. I'm using ownCloud now on a VPS. Dropbox worked hard to lose my business, and I hate to see hard work go to waste.
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by exarch 12y ago
I have a question: How do you feel about working for a company that employs a war criminal on their board of directors, and that lied to the public about its collusion with the NSA over PRISM and other warrantless surveillance programs?
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by exarch 12y ago
Shame on you for supporting a company that does not respect your privacy, lies to you, and puts a torturing, Constitution-destroying war criminal on their board of directors.
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by exarch 13y ago
Very dated perceptions. We know now, for example, that those who stammer and struggle for words often simply possess brains that are more full of information, rather than possessing less efficient or organized ones. In a knowledge economy b
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by exarch 13y ago
Thanks for the paste. Fuck paywalls.
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by exarch 13y ago
Taboos are alive and well among the scientifically literate. If you don't believe me, just check out the cognitive dissonance in this thread.
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by exarch 13y ago
Fair point.
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by exarch 13y ago
"I must admit, though... when compared to the cartoonish patriotic jingo-fied violence of the 1980s, where Rambo and the A-Team defeated countless enemies in settings that always felt like a walk in the park... perhaps the torture thin
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by exarch 13y ago
Your premise that Season 2 was "full of torture scenes" (it was nothing compared to Season 4) is false. And anyway, the producers of shows like this (i.e. those with messaging deemed advantageously pro-establishment) are rewarded
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by exarch 13y ago
What a great show, and so relevant to this day and age. In terms of cultural commentary, it's every bit the equal of Roddenberry's best.
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by exarch 13y ago
Yes. During season one, torture was a rare occurrence and was depicted in a rather morally ambiguous fashion. During the middle few seasons, heroic acts of torture featured on nearly every episode. Remember also that producers of these show
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by exarch 13y ago
"But is it propaganda? to me, it was more a way to please the audience." That, or it's purely coincidental that "24" debuted following disclosure of Bush's torture programs, and "Person of Interest" d
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by exarch 13y ago
Information wants to be free. Eventually, everyone who wants to know will know how to build a CNC machine like this, without any interlocks. If we've given up on growing up as a species, and now believe that humanity's only hope o
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by exarch 13y ago
Shh! Stop giving them ideas. Before long, being amidst an Occupy Wall Street type protest will result in your laptop shutting down.
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by exarch 13y ago
>How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury? Yes, what he did clearly meets the statutory definition of perjury. He's still employed by the government because our officials, elected a
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by exarch 13y ago
We already know why cancer rates increase with age: cancer is a result of several cumulative cellular mutations. Obviously, the chance of these mutations all occurring in any given cell increases with the number of cell divisions that occ
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by exarch 13y ago
>If I work for a Mafia boss, you know, take care of his house so that he can be comfortable and safe at home, am I supporting to the cause? In an ethical/moral, if not a legal, sense: yes. Absolutely. >If a German citizen was sup
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by exarch 13y ago
>Unprofessional because we put the government's fault onto an employee's fault. Let's take a secretary. I suggest reading and considering Hannah Arendt's famous work, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banal
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by exarch 13y ago
They're selling an ancient laptop at a premium because they installed Coreboot. They haven't addressed any of the problems with proprietary firmwares or backdoored chips. RMS has been recommending the Loongson Lemote for a long ti
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by exarch 13y ago
On the subject of the camera/microphone activity light and how it isn't possible to bypass, I'll just leave this here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
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by exarch 13y ago
>The situation described in the article would require coordinating a lot of data together. Do you think the federal government cares more about protecting your personal data, or their own top secret data? Edward Snowden was able to singl
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by exarch 13y ago
Most businesses fail. Yet, we still do our best to encourage the formation of new ventures. We hail the small businessman as a hero. We don't lament him as a frivolous dreamer, even though purely based on the odds, that's what any
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by exarch 13y ago
Complicated puzzles full of red herrings, medieval European literature references, music... this sounds like the work of 1057.
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by exarch 13y ago
If they're honest, probably something akin to, "solidified lava is hard to chisel up and replace with pavement".
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by exarch 13y ago
More than one university tried to recruit me before I'd even started high school, based on the results of an SAT test I was asked to take in 6th grade. I didn't go, but mostly because no one offered a full-ride, and my family was poor and
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by exarch 13y ago
I think the key here is that school is actually obstructing, not aiding, the "years of study". Extraordinarily gifted people can often be autodidactic - very good self-directed learners. When that hunger for knowledge exhausts the ability o